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a n n - > & V > 'VOLUM E X W IL L TR Y ROSEN RYE W. D. Jones, of the board of county . commissioners will this year put in a small plot of Rosen Rye as a trial in this county. Rosen Rye has prov- • en verjj successful in Canada and ranks well in Montana. The two dry land sub-stations at Havre and Moc casin report quite favorable in its yields. This. rye will be secured from registered seed fields and will be known o be puna and -free from \mixture. More rye should be grown in this county as it is one crop that you can depend hpon in dry years. Ten or twelve acres of rye will always be -found helpful either aB a hay or -’¡grain crop when others fail. Ten acres of rye means practical chop in surance. POULTRY CULLING Six meetings were held the past week through the county on poultry culling. These meetings were not well attended but those who did come showed very much interest in the work. Due to these meetings twen ty-four farmers will cull their flocks -and records will be kept as to results Those cooperating in this work are Dry Forks, Frank Miller, Roy Estis, Mrs. Dave Anderson, Mrs. Geo. S. Therrien; Porter Bench, Mrs. Nick Wallenstein, Mrs. Geo. Porter, Mrs. ~H. J. Moon; Burton Bench, J. L. Le- Desky, Mrs. Allen Gamble, Mrs. Os car Piper, John Edwards; Collins, Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Chris Hoer- man; Power, C. G'. MacDermott, W. \E. Dally, Joe Lehnerz, J. E. Prater, Frank Battsm, Louis Hart, Nick Ludowissi, Nick Paulus, C. Down- house and A. W. Schultz. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hyne, of .Spokane, are visiting at the Frank Hynes home. Edwin Anderson motored to Collins .last Saturday. Mrs. A. O. Peterson and Carolyn, who have been visiting here for the past few weeks, left Friday morning ffor Glacier Park. Miss Evelyn Peterson spent Satur- -day at the C. Lindseth home. Rev. Enstoerg will conduct Norweg ian services at the Lutheran church •on Sunday morning, August 19. Rev. Hougland, of Hingham, Mont, will begin his work here in October. Miss Josephine Hynes returned home from Spokane last Friday. Miss Elnora Lindseth spent iast week in Great Falls. The Ladies Aid will meet at the O. S. Forseth home on Wednesday, August 23. , Miss Helen Midcalf of Spokane is visiting at the DeRusha home. Mrs. F. Hynes was a Milwaukee passenger to Great Falls last Thurs day. She went for the purpose of ■consulting an eye specialist. Several of the Bench people attend ed the lecture which was given by B. K. Wheeler at the court house in Chofceau last Monday evening. Mrs. O. Lindseth and Mrs. T. Han .son were Brady visitors last Wed nesday. A large crowd attended the lecture given by T. 6 . Larson at Farmington Tuesday evening. The dance which was given afterwards, was enjoyed by all. . “ Mr. and Mrs. T. Hanson and Oddie Lindseth spent Sunday berrying nea: • the Teton. Losses to the lumber and wood working trade .amounting to ten mil lion dollars through degrade of lum ber by sap stain and mold were re cently estimated by the U. S. forest service and the bureah. of plant in dustry, based on a survey, ofe th southern pine and hardwood fields. The survey is preliminary to-a study to be made by the forest products laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, on sap stain and molds as they effect the wood industries throughout the* United States. Price reductions based on blue stain degrade have varied from $10 to $27 per M board feet in the sash and mill work field alone, according to figures pbtained in the survey. In thè cooperage industry the annual loss due to blue stain is estimated at $800,000. The prices receiver for stained sap gum lumber were de creased in amounts varying from $1.50 to as high as $15.00 per M board feet. Continued calls made by manufacturers upon the forest pro ducts laboratory for suggestions as to means of controlling stain indicates that the probleip cannot be solved by any method now used. Further details of the stain and mold problem in every branch of the wood-using industry are now being gathered by the forest products lab oratory by means of questionnaires. The facts so collected will provide a basis for a broad study in cooper ation with the various associations of stain control methods in all stages of the manufacturing of wood prod ucts. Both dipping and air season ing methods will be studied. It is anticipated that this work will assume major importance and that the demands on the laboratory will be much greater than can he met from the governments funds avail able. The active financial coopera tion of manufacturers affected by sap stain troubles will be needed. ' CHI HAILED OUT Several thousand acres of grain on the second Fairfield bench were de stroyed by hail Monday night and Tuesday morning. The storm was fifteen miles long and fx-om one to four miles in width. On many farms near Sun River and Power the ci-ops were entirely wiped out while Tues day morning's stoi-m brought havoc on the higher land.. At Sun River in addition to the grain loss the grow ing crop of alfalfa was completely destroyed. The greater damage was on the high land because harvest was much farther advanced on the lower sec tions and part of the crop was in the shock. Near Ax-raington it is report ed that haii stones were a foot deep. At Power the affected area embraces neax’ly 2,000 acres, second Faii-field and Sun River between 3,000 and 4,000 acres. Some insurance is known to have been carried in all of the places struck by the storm but most of the unfortunate farmers had no insur- ance. J. E. and W. L. Hodgskiss left Wednesday for Helena as represen tatives of the Choteau Masonic lodge to attend the grand lodge meeting. Patriotism and Business \ xE.yery good citizen at this time should do his share toward strengthing the Federal Reserve Banking System which our govrnment has cre ated withv^s billion dollai’s of resources to stand back of its number banks and all their depositors You can coikvibute directly to the strength of this system, and\t the same time secure its pro tection by depositing your money with eus, since part of every dollar goes directly into the new system, where it is always ready for you when wanted- Thts is a suggestion for prompt action. HRSÏ NATIONAL BANK OF C H O TE A U CHOTEAU, TETON COUNTY. MONTANA. AUGUST 18, 1922 NUM BER 6 A n o t h e r S t r i k e P o s s i b i l i t y DONT WORRY 'BOUT <SO//s’ ,- BACK TO SCHdOL;eODI§! ITÇ QUITE A VIRILE VET- SOMETHIN' MIGHT HAPPEN! /AAYBE THE TEACHER'LL* 4 m s - AU TO CASTER.-- E LEÏÏ OF 3 Last Saturday evening Govex-nor Joseph M. Dixon talked for -two hours to one of the largest assemblages that ever turned1 out t a political ad dress in-Choteau. The .American Le gion Pavilion was filled to capacity, with many moi;e listening from the outside. Residents of Dutton, Power, Fairfield, Bynum, Farmington, Aga wam, as well as Conrad and Valier were present, in fact, the total was more than 600. Governor Dixon’s message was rather a surprise and was one that the people of Montana do not hear often, and keen attention was paid for two hours. The strict attention intersperced with applause, - showed that the governor had both the inter est and sympathy of his audience. He discussed tne tax situation in Montana .and urged cooperation in problems now confronting the slate. He told how the farmers and stock raisers pay 48 per cent of ihe taxes, as well as Jiow the taxes have grown by leaps and bounds within ihe past decade, during which time 200,000 new people have come to the slate to farm. ILs also told, that his ad ministration had saved $142,000 in one year at the state prison as wed as various sums at other points. He discussed the inheritance tax which was thoroughly explained in his first message.to the seventeenth legislative assembly in which he rec ommended the passage of the tax. His recommendation is as follows: One of the most equitable forms of all taxation, and so recognized in all modem codc-s of tax laws, is an in heritance tax, graduated according to ihe amount of estate left by the de cedent and differentiating between the direct and collateral heirs. It is ti-ue that we have a so-called inher itance tax law in Montana, but in ihe light of modem systems of taxation now in use in nearly all ihe slaws, our inheritance tax law must ha\e been included as a joke. Under the law in our .neighboring state of Utah the state received from the estate of E. II. Harriman alone about $875,000; Last year Wisconsin collected from inheritance $1,115,000; California $6,000,000; Massauchetts $4,306,607; New York $21,259,640. 1 especially commend to your immediate atten tion the Wisconsin inheritance tax law.\ He then told how the oppos ition in the senate resulted in a law under which Mrs. Murray’s inlieri tance of millions • of dollars escaped with a paltry $150.00 in taJtes, The governor told how a Butte mine that, turned out nearly $4,000,000 in metal production escaped ail taxes under the net proceeds tax law and paid only a $1.00 license, the check for which he exhibited to the aud ience. He then explained why tax commission is imperative in Mon tana, stating that he is a member of 22 state boards, and that ihe other members of the board of equalization are equally busy, and that none of of them are tax...experts, hut that a tax commission could get at the equitable solution of the tax problem. He next pointed out the gasoline tax and told hi3 audience how the coal mines of the state escaped tax ation, and of the revenue that the state had received oven from the small coal tax that the senate had allowed him to have. Advocating a tax on gasoline for road building be VILI TIE BYNUM L. Q. Skelton, state bank examiner, C. S. Hidel, state engineer, and T. B. Weir Helena attorney, were at By num Monday in the interests of the Bynum irrigation project. The state bank examiner, attorney general dnd state engineer constitute the irrigation district bond commis sion and their duty is to make an examination of irrigation projects be fore bonds are issued for -the purpose of determining the feasibility of the project as well as the maximum amount of bonds that can be issued under tins state law. Bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 will be sold and with this action completed 30,000 acres of land in this county will be watered in 1923. The present capacity of the reservoir is 69,000 acre feet and when the con struction work is completed the ca pacity will he increased to 106,000 acre feet which will be sufficient for irrigation of half as much again ter ritory- This one of the largest ventures ever undertaken in Teton county and credit is due Phil I. Cole who has been working on it for some time. The value of this project to Teton county can hardly be overestimated. Wednesday Ranger Henderson, who is camp fire permit officer in the Sun River- closed aera, arrested John W. Cunningham, L. F. Davies and J. L. Eastwood all of Fairfield for l/uilding camp fires without permits in viola tion of Regulation T I sec E of the department of agriculture. They were arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Leo. G. Murphy of Augusta and were released under bonds of $100.00 each. The entrance to Sun River canyon is posted and permits may be obtained from the forest ranger in charge or froiS Mrs. Allen at the Allen rancli The decision of the Railroad Com mission regarding a cross-over be tween the railroads at - Choteau has been rendered, holding that, since there was no testimony offered by merchants of Choteau,. hut only by residents at points north of1 Choteau along the C. 'M. & S.; P. ’ Railway, as to shipments of hay'to points on the Great Northern north of Power, there was not business enough originating at Choteau to justify the cross-over, and therefore it is denied, but, as to hay shipments for points north of Power on the Great Northern, it has been arranged that instead of paying freight from Choteau to Great Falls and then back to Power, such ship, ments shall enjoy a freight rate equivalent to the distance from Cho teau to Power, the same as if the hay went direct from Choteau to Power on the Great Northern. - This week the county commission ers fixed the tax levies against Teton. County property for the year 1922 as follows: General fund .— ..— .............. 13.00 Poor fund ........... 1 ........ .................. 1.25 Bridge fund _________ .75 Bond sinking fund ...... . ....... . ...... 6.00 Bond interest fund .1 ______ 6.00 Land classification fund. ............... .25 Insect pest fund .... . .... ............ . .50 High scool maintenance fu n d ..... 4.00 Hig school sinking fund ........ 1.25 Total Teton county fund ____ 33.00 Road fund ______ 5.00 General school fund ____________ 6.00 City of Chofceau ...... 18.00 STATE FUNDS General fund ........................... 3.50 War defense fund ...................... .30 Veterans welfare fund ............... .075 Educational bond fund ........ _ ........ 70 Live stock commission fund ____ 1.00 Live stock bounty fund ........... 1.50 State Live stock sanitary fund __ 1.00 County Assessor Gleason’s report shows that “property valuation in Teton cobnty has depreciated $5,000,- 000 this laat year in an effort to keep our county on an equal footing with other counties and to avoid paying more than our just share of state taxes,’’ nevertheless, the levy for the year is 8 and 7-8 mills higher than for the year 1921, the 1921 levy be ing 24 and 1-8 mills while the 1922 levy totals 33 mils. While some people seem to think the depreciation of around $5,000,000 will change the classification of the county, we have been informed by the assessor and county clerk that such is not live case. Merrill and Giles Trescott. returned Monday from Wolf Creek where they spent the summer. Do you know that in the early sum mer a buck deer’s antlers grow at the rate of half an inch a day? Do you know that trees a fool in diameter are cub through in less than a week by a half dozen beavers? Oo you know that a caterpiller every day eats food amounting to several times its own weight? In “ The Four Seasons\ you will s&s these and many other wonders of nature. You will see the brown jack- rabbit turn white in winter. You will see tadpoles evolve into hugh bull frogs and the woodchuck frozen stiff during his winter hibernation. You will see the buck deer lose his spreading antlers in tho spring and grow new ones the following autumn. TTho “Beggar Maid,” a 2-reel gem, will also be shown at the Royal Theatre Tuesday, August 22nd, under auspices of Woman’s Club. Child ren’s matinee at 3 o’clock, evening show at 8:00. Prices children 10c and adults 25c. Don’t miss seeing “The Four Seas ons” and “The Beggar Maid” at the Royal Theatre Tuesday, August 22. Don’t forget a matinee and only one evening show. Prices children 10c and adults 25c. Given for benefit of the public library. 3 and 8 o’clock. gave figures on the large sums col lected by other states under a similar tax which was paid by men who drive care over the roads. The.crowded condition of tho state institutions was next taken up, and the urgent need of revenue to care for the blind, feeble minded and deaf children, the schools and colleges, the asylum and reform school was shown to be imperative. “I r.m your temporary governor, these are your affairs, this is your government, these are your institu tions, the problems presnted to your attention are >our problems,” lie said. The governor told his audience of the progress he has made in saiing public money, in reforming ihe loose system of state government prevalent in Montana for so long, in equalizing tax budrens and assured them he would make further improvements if assisted by them. Governor Dixon speaks in a mod* orate reasoning spirit, and all of his remaries minimize the opposition to his policies and the bitter attacks upon him that have been broadcasted white li£f has been trying to empha size the problems of the people. The audience, after hearing the governor’s talk, were very generally of the opinion that liig administration is very conservative, and that he needs the public to back him in his program. fc= Lazy Hollars Dollars merely safe are not performing their natural function. They are not working. They are not doing the owner or the world -any good. Moreover, most hiding places thought to be safe are decidedly unsafe. Not only thieves, but fire or other unforeseen happenings may rob you of your wealth. Saving Is Using Dollars saved are safer! And they are constantly working to earn more for you. They are constantly working for the good of the whole community. Consider this. We pay you for sa\ ing. And while you are saving, your money is never out o f reach, It is always ready for you and easy to get when you need it Start with us today, dollar will do i t ® ® i * Tib Sst'VO If&iunr a m i M a k e WITH T H E CITIZETSTS S T 4 T E B A N K OF CHOTEAU. M O N T A N A S A F E D E P O S I T B O X E S F O R R E N T ' .
