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HilÇoticdi M a t y VOLUME X CHOTEAU, TETON COUNT Y ,'MONTANA, APRIL 27, 1923 NUMBER 42 p P J l i i P S M £ Calico Dance, April 30th. Clara Barton Memorial tree to to ^be planted in the Great Northern IPark at 4' p. m., May 8. The troy el to he used is the one Mrs. Harding •used in planting the Clara Barton “tree in Washington. , The first co'unty convention of del- -•-egates from all womens clubs of Te- - ton county meets at the library rooms at 10:30 on''May 8th. All women’s -club members are requested to he present. The object of the meeting ,1s first, to urge affiliation with the .state federation and second, to or- .ganlze into a county unit holding conventions semi-annually1. At one o’clock on May 8th, the .annual luncheon will be held at the Hotel Glenloyd. This is one of the .leading club affairs of the season. -After lunch the members will. partic- .ipate formally in the Clara Barton .Memorial tree planting at 4 p. m. The following are the standing •committees for the year: Finance—Mrs. E. J. Hinshberg, Mrs. C. S. McDonald, Mrs. E. J. Crary, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Mrs. J. W. Hentges, Mrs. James Eckford, Mrs. B. I. Packer, Mrs. L. E. Taylor, Mrs. Clarence Looney, Mrs. A. B. Guthrie, Mrs. Arthur Hirshberg, Mrs. Frank Oulton and Mrs. B. E. Rrjason. Park—Mrs. L. E. Taylor, Mrs. J. M. Baker, Mrs. H. T. Rhoads, Mrs. J. C. Taylor, Mrs. W. J. Roulston, Mrs. Ed. Logan, Mrs. C. J. Smith and Mi's. J. W. Oppie. Program and Year Book—Mrs. W. Howard, Mrs. B. E. Bronson, Mrs. E. H. Myrick, Mrs. A. B. Guthrie and Mrs. J. J. Greene. Library Committee—Mrs. Arthur Hirshberg, Mrs. T. H. Pridliam, Mrs. .A.deYong, Mrs. Stanley Foot, Mis. G. M. Coffey, ' Mrs. Harry Adams, Mrs. O. Joanis and Mrs. Edythe Say- .lor. Membership—Mrs. T. Meagher, Mrs. E. H. Myrick, Mrs, E. L. Jour- donnais, Mrs. P. I. Cole, Mrs. Denzil McDonald, Mrs. John Hall and Mrs. Jt. E. Nelson. Reporter for Acantha—Mrs. G. C. Core. Reported for Montanan—Mrs. J. C- '¡Taylor. All members are urged • to attend the sessions of the Camp for Mothers -July 23 to 26, held at the high school, -auditorium under the management of County Agent Clarkson. We especl- .ally recommend the lecture on nu trition to be given by Dr. Caroline Hedger of Chicago. Dr. Hedger is sent out by the directors of the Eliz abeth McCormick Memorial Fund and ahe is one of the leading authorities on nutrition in the United States. Also there will be lectures by the Extension Department on clothing, poultry, nutrition, home management and recreation. All Wome’na Club members are urged to be prompt at the club lunch eon at 1 p. m., Hotel Glenloyd, Tues day, May 8th. Club dues will be de linquent June 1st, Full program and \place for the Clara Barton Memorial service will be announced in next week’s paper. The public cordially invited to attend. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES (Harry T. Stong, Pastor) Morning worship at 10:30. Sunday school at 11:30. Evening service at 7:30. Choral rollersai Tuesday evening. Ladies Industrial Wednesday afttr- :noon. Prayer service Thursday evening. You will find good music and a very cordial welcome at bur church. We invite you to come and worship with us. S The cclanty agent has during the last week spent considerable time on the potato marketing problem. As much information on the markets was secured as possible and several offers were secured from outside buyers. The potato growers then got together and last week one car was loaded but. \ These were inspected by the U. S. and state inspector and were graded U. S. No. 1 Russets. So far as we know this is the- first car of No. 1 potatoes that has ever been Bhipped from Choteau.' Assistf/ice was given the -growers so that none but No. 1 potatoes would be shipped. With the high freight rate it is impossible to ship any thing else and get returns on the product after the freight is paid. It is highly important that the farmers of this section keep their product up to standard as it is by doing this that we will be able to sell our pota toes in th6 future. - Several cars will be loaded this week of which part will be from Fair- field. FARM PAPERS In the county agent’s office there has accumulated a large supply of farm papers that can be had by any one who will call and get them. If you are out of reading material call. DAIRY CALF CLUB Calves will be ordered this week for the dairy calf club at Fairfield. Ten orders are now in the leaders hands and it is expected that more will be ordered before the complete list is made up. VACCINATE CATTLE FOR BLACKLEG The county agent spent Tuesday on the Fairfield bench vaccinating cattle for blackleg. TO HOLD WOMANS’ CAMP JULY 23 TO 26, INCLUSIVE, AT CHOTEAU County Agent Clarkson informs us that Teton county will this year hold a'woman’s camp, instead of a boy’s. The camp Will be held July 23 to 26, inclusive, at- Choteau, and the equip ment of the county high school will be used as a piace to hold the camp. Each community _jwjll. be allowed to ‘send two -repres&ntatives, according to Mr. Clarkson, the names of these representatives to be sent to the county-agent not later than July 1. Meetings will be held by the women in the various communities early in June to select these representatives. The program at the camp will take up the various phases of home mak ing, and the special feature will be the talks of Dr. Calorine Hedger, who is considered to be the foremost' nutrition specialist in' the world. Dr. Hedger will talk each day of the camp and the people of thft county will be missing a rare treat if they neglect to hear her. . More information about the camp will be given out by the county agent as the program becomes more definite The camp will give a few mothers of the county an opportunity to have a good vacation, and to relieve them of any work at the camp, Mr. Clark son states that there will be no dish washing for them. Someone will be hired to do this work. PENDROY CHURCH NOTES (Harry T. Stong, Pastor) Preaching service at the Pendroy school house, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by the pastor. Those desiring to become members of our organization will be received into church fellowship. - ' 14 and 21 foot poles at Hirshberg’s. Statement o f Condition o f FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHOTEAU at close o f business A p ril 3,1923 Forest Fire Protection W e e k Fittingly Observed In City President Issues Proclamation and Local Forest Officials Put on Campaign and; Speeches for the Better Observance o f Fire Prevention W eek Hirshbergs Have Fine W indow Display WHEREAS, the preservation of ' our forests, federal, state and pri vate, is essential to our industrial and commercial life, to our strength as a nation, and to our individual well-being, and Whereas, forest fires, which are largely the result of carelessness or thoughtlessness, continue to do . great damage, threatening to de- ‘ plete and reduce our forests to a -• point at which they, can not long- . ' er serve the nation adequately as a source of timber supply or for . watershed protectloh and recrea- = tion, and Whereas, the annual observance of Arbor Day in the States, and the interest in fire prevention • whiclj has resulted from Forest : Protection week heretofore, have done much to awaken the people to the importance both of plant ing trees and of perpetuating the forests that are already estab lished. Therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the. United States, do urge upon the Governors of - the various States. to designate, and set apart the week of April 22-28, 1923, as Forest Protection l Week, and wherever practicable and not in conflict with State law - .or accepted custom, to make Ar bor Day fall within the same • week; and to urge citizens, ■ teachers, officers of public instruc tion, commercial and other associ- thought and effort for the preserva • thought ad effort for the preserva tion of the nation’s forest resorir- ces by conducting appropriate ex- -•erclses arid programs and by pub lishing information pertaining to - the waste from forest fires and ■ 'tvays of preventing or reducing such losses, in order that our for- •• ests may be conserved for the in estimable service of mankind. In. Witness Whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nirie hundred and twenty-three, and of the Independence of the Uditeci States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh. (Seal) WARREN G. HARDING PHOTO BY EMERICK By proclamation of President War-1 the country becomes more thickly ren G. Harding, the week of April 22 j populated. to 28, 1923, has been set aside as \Forest fires destroy more timber Fire Protection week, as will be seen j every year than is cut for market and from the proclamation above. the percentage of man-caused fires Local forest officials have prepared an elaborate and educative window display in the StorR of Jos. Hirshberg and Co., general merchants, a repro- has been increasing every year as the forest regions become more accessible and are used more extensively by Mr. and Mi’s. Nick Gerich and A. Kathman were businss callers in Choteau Monday. Mrs. Mary Johns left for her home at Ashuelot Monday, after an extend ed visit with her son. T, McGlenn of Choteau was among those in Agawam on business matters Tuesday. Dany Mahar and Johnston Mac- Kenzie both of the California test well autoed to Choteau Wednesday. He—Did you say you set the alarm? She—No, no, Otto Wagnild is orit on his farm. Mrs. A. Mitchell, for the past week house guest of Mrs. Geo. Wright, left Monday for her home in Geral dine, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson motored to Farmington and Choteau Wednes day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. O. F, Schaefer at tended church services at Bynum on Sunday morning. A very pleasant time was had by a large crowd of Agawam folks at the Pendroy dance last Saturday evening T. O. Larson of Choteau was a vis itor in Agawam Thunsday. Mrs. P. J. Reed and Master Jack were among those who attended church services at Bynum on Sunday morning. Martin Vlegen, T. Nelson and Henry Hanson rttumed Friday from their trip to the northern oil fields and report great activities in those parts. J. L. WHson, night driller at the California test well, has had every thing to himself ever since he upset the skunk last week while on his way to work. Danny Mahar claims that the one nice thing about being honest is that you will never be bothered by much competition. P. J. Reed accompanied by Mrs. Reed and son Jack motored to Great Falls Sunday afternoon. The Muddy Creek Cattle company have started the first bunch of cattle towards the mountains for summer grazing on Wednesday. I I S N O T E S Mary and Freddie Dutro o f Miss Steele’g room, have left school and gone to Fairfield. Alex. Truchot has gone from Mrs. Craig’s room to the country. Mr. Ray gave the 7th and 8th. grades the university standard test in arithmetic. A debate will be held Wednesday afternoon, April 25. The question is “Resolved that European Immigration into the United States should be- prohiblted for a period of two years.”' Negative, Helen Arnett, Lovina. Ward, Alice Haugen and Blanche Bennetson. Affirmatice, Eva Hirshberg, ■’ Kath ryn Dunn, Giles Trescott and John C. Salmond. The forest station program will be held after the debate. —Harvey Willis BERTH A JACKSON TO SERVE IN G R E A T FALLS BASTILE W OMAN TO SERVE 30 DAY TETO N COUNTY SENTENCE FOR BOOTLEGGING duction of which will appear in this issue. An auto lantern picture m a -1 tool for the settler in clearing his recreationists. “In the early days the most effective they are for the most- part tenderfeet that the campaign they have been putting on in acquainting the public with the danger of leaving fire is bearing results. “The forest organization is becom ing more efficient every year and the best testimony of that fact is that while the national forest area burned over in district one lastwyear was nine per cent of the average during the last fourteen years, with practi cally tbe average number of'fires for that period, the costs were reduced to 54 per cent for the same fourteen year average. “The national forests mean much to the people of the west and the revenues from the timber industry arid grazing permits amounted to over five million dollarg paid to the gov ernment last year. The forests are rapidly becoming the chief playground of tlie recreationist and their use for that purpose is to be encouraged and fostered, since there is nothing bet ter for man’s physical being than a few weeks of relaxation along some fishing stream away from civilization. It is these people, however, that have raised the percentage of man-caused fires to such alarming figures, since chine is also employed in the window to show a variety of fifty colored slides, the greater number of which were taken in the mountainous region Immediately west of Choteafi. A cut off log of Douglas fir occupies the center of the window and Hirsh bergs have offered prizes to the ones making the nearest estimate of its age. A boy scout ax will be the boys prize, handkerchiefs to the girl, a land was fire, it was also the after math of logging, and so long as the limber was abundant, these fires vere lightly regarded or considered beneficial. Public opinion inclined to the belief that in any case they were unpresentable, and until comparative ly recent years no organized agency for combating them had been created They have, therefore, for the most part, had free reign and even now 40 Mrs. Bertha Jackson was ordered. Monday to serve 30 days in the Cas cade county jail. She was sentenced recently in this county, after entering a plea of guilty to the charge of sell ing liquors, and commitment papers in the case were received at the Cas cade county jail Monday. She was acquitted last week in dis tricl court on chargcs of violating prohibition laws in Great Falls. The case marked her second acquittal on liquor law violations in the Cascade county district court. Shortly after the prohibition law went into effect in Montana, Mrs. Jackson was freed by a jury after she testified that the beverage she was alleged to have sold had been prepared from a receipt in a cook book published under the direction of a Ladies’ Aid society in a Minnesota city. Try a can of Florida grape fruit 40c Hirshberg’s. > RESOURCES Cash in vault .and in other banks - — ---- $115,279.15 County warrants, real estate, etc ............ ......... 20,889.06 Loans and discounts — 194,064.32 LIA B ILITIE S Deposits ............ $269,490.64 Undivided profits ------------------------ 741.89 Capital and surplus ------ 60,000.00 $330,232.53 $330,232.53 pair of sllh hose to the lady and a I,er cent of the forest area is without 'organized fire protection and 20 per cent only has’ a nomial protection, with the result that idle or waste forest land Is increasing at the rate of 6,000 Bquare miles each year. \The forest land included in the national forests of the United States is ow 156,837,282 acres, but this is only about one-third of the forest area, the remainder being privately, owned. The annual cut from the gold plated Gillette safety razor to the man. In an address delivered by Forest Supervisor Myrick before the local schools, he emphasiced the import ance of forest conservation and said in part: Forest Conservation a Vital problem “Statistics show that the timbered resources of the United States, which ^ only a few years ago were believed \ ber. During the 300 years since settement began, the forests have been reduced to one-sixth of thier original size and a few years more will leave little but second growth in trie southern part of the United States and the virgin timber of the j northwest will be largely depleted. The average per capita consumption of lumber in 1840 was 84 board feet, in 1917 it was 500 feet, and in 1920, 316 feet. The reduction in the com- sumption from 1907 to 1920 was fiot because of the increased use of other building material, for the demand for lumber was actually greater, but was the result of enforced economics, in that the cost at the sawmill of each citizen’s share of the lumber produced in 1920 w ub three times, that in 1890, but its amount was one-sixth less. \Tbe rapid depletion of trie nation’s forest growth has been caused by fire and wasteful logging, and wriile trie Iqgging/pperaUpns far the most part are. ow being carried on with the purpose of conserving the second (growth,* thereby having a second crop in the ways of the mountains and seem unable to conceive how a small camp fire could possibly spread and do damage that is laid at their door. The forest officials believe that it is largely a matter Of thoughtlessness on the part of these people and that all forests users will immediately give their support to fire prevention when once acquainted with its men ace. “The following six rules should be known and practiced by every man entering the forest “ durig the fire season: 1. Matches.—Be sure your matcri Is out. Break it in two before you throw it away. 2. Tobacco—Throw pipe ashes and cigar or cigarette stumps in tbe dust of the road and stamp or pinch out the fire before leaving them. Don’t throw them into brush, leaves or needles. 3. Making camp.—Build a small camp fire. Build it in the open, not against a tree or log or near brush. Scrape away the trash from all around it. Leaving camp.—Never leave a camp fire, even for a short time, without quenching it with water or earth. Bonfires.-- Never build bonfires in. windy weather or where there is the slightest danger of their escaping control. Don’t make them larger than you need them. 6. Fighting fires.—If you find a fire, try to put it out. If you can’t, get word of it to the nearest United States forest ranger or state fireward en at once. Keep in touch with the rangers. “The following quotation from Shakespeare could well be followed by every man: “A little fire is quickly trodden out Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.” to be inexhaustible, are rapidly disa-! ^ « o m i 1 forests will not supply the ppearing, and unlesB more protection ° eet*s of this nation and it is there- is obtained, it will not be very many i to™ to our interest to encourage tho years before this nation will be im- Individual and the states to porting, rather than exporting, lum- ^minister their forests lands in such a manner as to perpetuate the timber growth. The United States coopera tes in the protection of privately owned lands under what is known as the Weeks law which began m 1911 with an annual expenditure of $350,000 in eleven states, of which tne federal government furnished $39,000, for the protection of 9,000,000 acres. In liiZl it had been extended to 24 states for the protection of 150,000,000 acres at a total cost of $l,700,00o, of which the government furnished $125,000. This has meant a big improvement m the fire situation of the United States; but it is evident that some thing more drastic must be attempted to reduce the man-caused fires. This is better illustrated by the fact that forest, fires burned over 5bi4 million acres of timber in 45 states during i-he.flve years 1916 to 1920, destroying ?8B| million dollars worth of timber. This damage was the result of 106,- 318 fires, a large part of them being causqd by man. In 1920 22 per cent of the fires were man-caused. In 1921 they increased to--59 per cent, Available for* thé next'/generatiop, th e ® » d in 1922' weré . reduced '- t o ' 46 per fire ’hazard' has' been'* increasing as and the forest' service' is \hoping Citizens State Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA OUR DIRECTORS: * . G. M. Coffey , : : 7, P. H. Crossen George F. Miller Wm. Hodgskiss James E ckford We specialize in all departments o f Commer cial Banking and offer service consistant with safe banking. -v»>
