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;V 'C ÌV ’*: ' ■ y H E L E N A Stt 'HsiÓH^tí Sòòltìtjr . •>', \ .VOLUME XI' ' CKOTEAU, TETON COUNTY, M OîfâiNA, DECEMBER 21, 1923 . NUMBER 2 4 W E L L K i l l M l ¡ B E T T E R F l l C I A t : o i e s s m u r a r A. deYoHg, proprietor of the Sterl ing Cjigar Store and Pool Hall, died .Saturday, December 15, 1923. Mr. deYong had been ailing ft.-' some time. J , The deceased was bom in St. Louis 'Missouri, August 30, 1872. ‘ On No vember, 1892, he was married to Miss Mary Burket at Webster Groves, bom, Joe,' the well known young ar- ¡Bst/of this city. In November, 1899, Mr. deYong re moved with his family to what was then Indian Territory, and is now in cluded within the boundaries of Ok lahoma, and for the greater part of his sojurn there was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1914 he moved to Big Timber, Montana, but tarried there only a few months and- on July 18th, 1914, removed to this: ,©lty where he resided until his death, E U S E F O R E S T F U R F Billings, December 19.—A plan of federal tgrm relief which it is claim ed will put the farmer on a sounder financial basis than he has eLojoyed for a number of years, was evolved at a meeting of representatives of the four spring wheat states held in Minneapolis, and which was attended by W. A. Belvidge, president of the Montalna Development Association. The plan is the one originated by President John Lee Coulter of the North Dakota agricultural college and the program was unanimously adopt ed and endorsed by all the represen tatives present, among them several western governors. The program for the four states, of Mojntana, North and TO CHANGE THE South Dakota and Minnesota, calls Mr. deYong was a member of th e ;f(m the distribution of $35,000,OOt) by Masonic lodge at Bartlesville, Okla- f-be government equally between the four states, the money to he used in the purchasing of cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens, and other livestock. No one farmer is to be allowed more than- a $1,000 loan, says Mr. homa and the W. O. W. at Dewey, Oklahoma, and the U. C. T. at Louis ville, Kentucky. Services were conducted at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. Culbertson j s eividge, according to the terms of reading the Episcopal service. The j pian. Security for the loan will body was then taken to Great Falls, | j,e t]ie stock itself and its progeny where on Tuesday Rev. Christopher Keller of the Church of the Incarna tion conducted Episcopal services. The Masonic service was held at; the and the loan will extend over a period of five years with interest atsix per cent. It is planned to introduce a bill in congress at the present ses- grave. Interment» being made in the sjr)n f 0r this purpose. Highland cemetery. Besides his wife and son Mr. de Yong leaves five brothers and two sisters.. “The,entire purpose hinges upon the proposition th^t the farmer must grow his ow^i living on the farm,” says the president, \During the war the government called for the rais- Wasbington, Dec. 19.—Nearly 36,- 000 owners of cattle, sheep, horses, swine and goats received permts to' graze stòck on, the ranges within the national forests during the cal endar year 1922, according to the tabulated’ statement appearing in thè annual report of the chief of the for ési service to the secretary of agri culture. Altogether 6,861,690 sheep, 1,915,-' 113. cattle, 69,640 horses, 39,889 goats and 1,888 swine grazed on the for ests, exclusive of. animals under six months of age which do not require permits. These numbers were frac tionally below those for 1921, primar ily because of stock sales to reduce indebtedness, plus the inability ot many stockmen to meet the grazing charges which forced them to hold their stock on thier own premises. Leniency S|hown in Payments Forestry officials of the United States department of agriculture, the chief forester’s annual report states, continued the policy of dividing the payment of grazing foes in order to assist all classes of stockmen using the national forests and every possi ble leniency was shown the stock- mien wtho were unable to meet their grazing payments, both for 1922 and for the previous year. One of the leading changes in the VERIFY WORK During recent years experimental .education has experienced a very rar pid'.growth, and there have been ex tensive developments in certain spec ialized directions. The fields in which this.-work has been larigely dene are th; einvestigation of the teacing pro cess: which characterize progress in curiate measurement of attainment in these school subjects, and the de termination of indivduai ability through tests of mental matuirty, intelligence and individual differen ces.^ T;he government used intelligence tests' to a good advantage during the lqie war and it has long been known that' they would be ofgreat value to school administrators for use in standardizing their work. The great drawback has been that there has no test extensive enough to cover the entire public school curriculum. J Tho Standard Achievement Test is intended to remedy this situation, as I Washington, Dec. 19.—Five western congressmen and three senators have been named o a special committee ,to work out changes in the grading\ of Wheat, to give producers of high grade wheat additional recognition on the markets. This pi an hgs been presented to President Coplidge and Secretary Wallace. Data JLs now be ing gathered and active work by the committee will be taken up the first of next month. Congressman Clague far às grades two to eight are con cerned. For these grades this test covers all the ground necessary for ordinary purposes of school or pupil measurement. The teacher situation in Montana makesN it necessary for the county superintendent to have some means by which she can standardize the work of the schools.. The fact that issuance of stock grazing permits was, xno8t'-of the teachers CQme from other tho decision to issue permit for a ten,8tates and iQ many instances 8tay year period, beginning with the Per-j onlyJ one year in a p]ace makes it mit issued in 1925. Of these ten- program December .A 18th, ■V4-. School 1923. 1. Orchestra. v 2. Song 1st grade. ‘3. Constitutonal convention of; the year 1787. . - . , 4. Song fourth a(nd fifth gradés. 5. Recitation, Jack Core. { 6. Solo, Robert Clarkson. 7. Health Playlet, sixth grgde. 8. Song. 9. Colored playlet, eightg grade, Dark Town Betterment Society. 10. Song, seventh and eighth grade Mrs. James Eckford was a'visitor of the third grade last week. Julius Mozer is sick and out of school. Charles Best of the sixth grade has blood poison gnd will not return to school until after New Year, f The fifth grade is working for the ' terially aid the farmer the first year best attendance this month. j and by the end of the fiveyears he The eighth grade gave a peanut' has retired his loan. hr,s the stock and its progeny paid for, • is making his own living on the farm, and has his grain crop receipts clear. “This plan of diversification would beeln by furnishing the farmer, first with his livelihood, and within five ..r>nrs bring him ta <3 point of per manent agriculture now enjoyed by farmers in these four states, outside the spring wheat area.” difficult to keep the schools on a standard basis. By means of the the. number of stock grazed W b o ; 3 ^ ^ A’cblevemeat tests it is „mad? at the end of any year if hec- • po^ Jble to .check the mental age of c^ssary to prevent ’ damage to the'j t]w ^ phyflical ^ ^ range, 'forest growth, or watershed, j,the progr£ s ia school, hereby gerv- and at- the expiration of the first five two;foM ptIrpi)ije; P e k i n g the years of the, periods reduction | ability. Qf the cbild and the ^ of be made to admit to the range new mg of more wheat and rye to the year permits however, reduction in near exclusion, of all other products -.and the .upward climb* of the diver sification., line was . T>,Ttr only'halted; but suffered a decided' decline;\ i3fn;ce the war., the buying power of'the farm e r. has , materially decreased in ternis of wheat per bushel price, while the diversification line Has just managed to hold its ovria. • “ It is estimated that for this rea son the average farmer who has been raising wheat in these four states, has been losing about $5.00 per acre each year since the war, orabout- $7.00 a year. In all this time, he has been purchasing, the greater Pgrt of the necesssary commodities to sus tain life, instead of growing them upon his farm. This, t s estimated costs him about $800 per year. “If he is allowed this government loan, making it possible for him to grow his own living on the farm, he saves $540 the .first year, oven if he retries bis logn at the rate of $200 each year tor four years. This $540 used as a working margin will ma- of Minnesota is chairman of the com -. mittee. the others members being Congressmatn Leavitt of Montana, Cooper of Wisconsin, Sinclair of N. D., and Senator Johnson of Minne sota, Norbeck .of South Dakota and Ladd of North Dakota. Leavitt Assigned Place In House Congressman Leavitt has been as signed to places on the house cohhlt- tees of irrigation of arid lands, In dian affairs, mines and mining, pub lic lands and railways and canals. Congressman Evains of the first Mon tana district Is on two of these com mittees, Indian affairs and public la/nds. Western congressmen are working on a planyto provide for the building of transcontinental roads in the mountain states under special pro visions of the road building act. A special committee headed by Con gressman Colton is working on the plan. Congressman Leavitt is the Montana member. shower for Prof. Ray Friday. Cecil Snider of the eighth grade was absent from schcfol1 Friday gf- ternoota. Mr. Moz^r was a visitor for a few minutes-. Monday, the 17th, of the 8th grade. } School dismisses at four o’clock on F r id a y night, and donk start ufritil Jan. 2, .1924. class A applicants properly qualified or to allow increases to owners of small hoards and flocks. The amount of this reduction, taken together with all reductions made for protection during: the <■ five-year period, .- will not exceed 10 percent of the permit num ber. - >■ Appraisal Work Nearly-Finished The range appraisal work which has been conducted for nearly two years' is practically closed, the re port announces, and the review of the; the teacher. J Mrs. Saylor' has- given these tests to practically all'of the schools of the county and reports some astounding results which will give room for much thought. An eighth'grade pupil in one school who .was 'twelve years and .three months old at the time of the teBt w asfound to have an -educational age of 15 years 9 months;- that is, he lias achieved what has beenfound to be; tho average for a child of fifteen reports, the harmonizing of various ; yeara, nine months. In the ;s;ame grade is a child of- recommendations, and final adust- yearg whoso educatlonal Ege i3 mont of; grazing fees in accordance |pps l than tWrteon year3> whose rea(i. with tho figures shown by the apprai- Jr/? altainmont ls u years n m0Qth3 JA C K IE COOGAN COMING IN \O L IV E R T W IS T ” There comes next Monday and Tuesday to the Royal Theatre a pict ure heralded as a“milestone on the highway of art,\ and which bears the highest recommendations in its own right. It is “ Oliver Twist’ starring that adorable child', actor * of the screen Jackie Coogan, produced by Sol Lesser, directed by Frank Llo/d, and presented by a company of the most distinguished screen celebrities including Lon Chaney, Gladys Brock- well, Lionel Barrymore and a' hobe more. / The picture is described 'as the most ambitious in which the juven ile star, Jackie Coogan, has ever appeared, and it is asserted that’ in it he has registered an appeal Uiat strikes the hearts of young and old The double header basket ball game with Conrad was well attend ed last Friday night* The Tetoa girls, played a very interesting gaine m-wf came out victorious after wounding; some and disabling ■ others- o f tb® Conrad team. The Tetoin boys, however, were not so successful. Althaiigh, they playet£ a good defendive game, the Cozens# team was victorious’. After the game delicious refresh ments were'served to the four teams by th domestic science department» The Teton high school orchestra gave: a demonstration of their marked abil ity: With the contributions made h y student body the high school was abie to send abeautiful spray of flower* for Mr. McNair’s funeral. Saturday the two basket hall teams went to Valier to play the return game. They arrived in safety and again the girls triumpthed over the boys. Thè Teton hoys played an esc-’ citifag ahd close game. Valier wxjo . by one point, th score beinb 15 to 15 in favor of Valier. Of course, after the game the Cho- teauites had ‘ to return home. Under the waachful guidance of Miss Med ley the girl’s team loaded themselves into the car driven by William U p - man. They started merrily on the: homeward journey; and traveled n i c e ly àslohg às' the^chauffeur could see the car ahead. But, being naturally slow. Bill Upman soon lost sight ot the car ahead and took another road which would have led him to Choteate had it rfeem followed. Since the-road, became tiresome, and the chaperon sleepy, th driver took another road. Soon the band of refugees a!nd their leader. Miss Medley, found themsel ves at Conrad. After another 10{ng and\tediops.■ midnight, ride-,.,the.car again drove 'into Coiyad. .Filially, b y some ,kind oPmVr&'cle, the basket ball tèàm, drived and Miss Medley arriv ed Choteau at Hire o’clock Sunday morning, entirely too sleepy to give an account of themselves. - , The Teton basket ball team vriflt play a game Saturdty, December 23» with Havre. ' MONTANA IS A. GOOD STATE..,.,., IN WHICH TO RESIDE First in' the production of sttverv\ and of all classes of picture patrons precious stones, maggnese and' Olees sal are now in progress. Ranges Should be Developed Colonel Greeley also points cut in with which to build' boundary and di vision fences, develop water and eradicate poisonous plants. “An ultimate expenditure of from and who fall3 a£ low as 10 years 7 months in language usage. In another school a child of 10 years 7 months was educationally 13 vf*f.rs 3 months. Some schools rank very high in some subjocts and fall below normal $2,000,000 to $3,000.000 will be need- Ja other8f possibly du‘e to teaching ed to obtain full use and economic methods. One school in particular Statement of Condition of FIRST NATIONAL BANK O v--. r - T t r v ' r r - i T J O r u i O i L A U A t Close of Business September 1 4 , 1S23 RESOURCES Cash in vault and in other banks ............. 87,215.14 County warrants, real ,-esía!'*' efe ... ............. ... 2:.198.42 Loans and discount ¡ ------ 199,561.17 30 i,977.73. LIA B ILIT IES D\ro\its ................... - .... 24-1.977.73 Capital and .surplus------ 60.000.00 304,977.73 O-, conscientious ’application of such scientific methods the schools Bhow rked improvement. as well as those that are not usually enticed to the theatrijJt is the ap peal of innocent boyhood through the medium of one of the greatest stories ever penned—Cfiarles Dickons’ “ Oli ver Twist.’’ The plot has been fol lowed with unusual fidelity, it is claimed, and the characteizations will satisfy the. most enthusiastic of Dickens’ readers. tricity, holder of the record for. thet production of oats per acre, potatoes •md hay, and second in a whole lot of crops, with coal, oil, copper, iron» zinc, gold, silver and precious stones pouring forth from her mountains an& plains and with agriculture gnd live stock production greater in value than the wealth of her mnes, Montana certainly is the land of a promising future. Henry Hammond and Siegfricdt Schmidt returned Thursday evening Judge John J. Greene j»nd children from Missoula, where they have been were in Great Falls the first of tb® attending college. week. returns from the ranges 'within the rnnkg h,gb ln arithmetic but as a national forests without, subjection j wb0j0 much lower in reading, thorn to drtnri'c-“ - ? .” report. de-| WhJ,e u wjn aot be possJb1e -ares,. “The urgent project which fin(] lhe couhty norm until all the have been surveyed and which should j paper8 arc corrccted we have found be pushe-J immediately will cost ap- jn iaagUagg most of the schools proximately $170,000.” are far below the test normal. How- DUITS-ROBERTSON ever' the nUmbe.r °f suPerior and ' ^ „ v~ . ,, • T xt normal children is- comparatively The home of lur. and Mrs. J. N. Robertson, 7 miles west of Choteau,, a^ e’ >, ' e . _ _ „ Much credit is due Mrs. Saylor for was the cene of a pretty wedding on ' , , , » - , , „ her untiring efforts and surely by the Wedneday evening at 8 oclock, w h e n _____. ____________ _______ their daughter, Olive Marie, was united in marriage to Mr.1 Hie Duits of Choteau. j Ainid the Christmas decorations, ( and in the' presence of a group of j friends, the beautiful ring ceremony was solemnized by Rev. Hgrry T. Stong, pastor of the Montclair M. E. Church of Belt. Following the cremony a bounteous and delicious wedding luncheon whs — r r r ^ r ------------ - — - ----------- . served. Those present being Mr. and Mr..,and Mrs. Duits will reside on Mrs. J. N. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. ihc Strain Ranch, vest of Choteau. Marshall King and family, Mr. and During tin past three vrnrs %ho Mrs. Harry Odenwald gnd family, four -daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ro- Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Burch, Mr. and W-i^sen lia'-e bein laarrc.i and jr. Mrs. G. W. Burch, Mrx \ '•> ibobert- instance the ccremonv was perform- oon and son, Percy, Mr. ana Mrs. Van cd by rtev. Harry T. Stcnr. Sc2iClq>enzioi, Mrs. Harry T. Siong. •' The former marriages being. Daisy Mr. Duits is a well known mil to Marshall King, May 13, 1920: .highly - esteemed young man.. Ho Pirdi? to George Carroll, February 16 |Came here from Illinois in' 1917. He '•921, and May to Harry Odenwald December 21, 1921. p 'E n d r o y c o u p l e m a r r y G. H. Sprinkle gnd Mrs. Genevieve i Friend of Pc-ndroy were married Fri- J fhv afternoon at the courthouse in; , Billings, by Justice of the Peace W il-. 1 am Gallagher. . > g ___________ fs a veieran of the World War. A Noble Ambition / The ambition of this institution is to jus tify the coiifiednec of its customers, to be trusted because of its good judgment, its faithful observance of duty and its financial responsibility. Conferences with the officers of this bank are cheerfully given, to those who desire seasoned and well-reasoned advice. * j s C itiz e n s S t a t e B a n k C H O T E A U , M O N T A N \ , Capital, Surplus and Profits over $65,000.00
