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■vSSí (VOLUME. XI IV.- CHOTEAU, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, MARCH 7, 1924 STATE'S FUTURE I LOOKS BEUCHTE in Montana’s bolstered by His confidence future prosperity the assurances of financial and political leaders of the country, ■Dr. 0. M. Landstrum returned to Helena Monday evening from a two month’s trip through the east and to the Panama canal. Business men and bankers President Coolidge by procla mation Wednesday restored the rights of American citizenship to all deserters from the army and navyq during the three year period between the Armistice and the formal ending of the .vorld war. *>■.!*»*•• The proclamation, issued up- * --------- . i ---- > £ast 9i the. Mississippi, he de^jj on the recommendation of Sec_ rclared, .-are keenly interested ifijfetaries Denby and Weeks, af- . Montanans welfare, find appear fects in nowise those who de. -anxious to get behind any move 'looking toward the re-establish- ment of industrial and farming \.conditions \here. A The administration in Wash- •ington> he learned, is particu larly willing to co-operate and .to enact such legislation as will ibring relief to this state in its present stress, which Dr. Lan- ' strum believes has passed the high tide of adversity. Asked regarding the oil scan- ■dal, Dr. Lanstrum emphasized his confidence in the justice and sterness of ^President Coolidge that any wrong-doer would be •summarily dealt with. FORMER M ONTANANS •PLANNING TO RETURN “ They -are all loyal to Mon tana and most of them want to come back.” , This was Harry R. Cunning ham’s summary of the attitude of. former Montanafis Who are in California. Mr. Cunningham who was in California recently in connection with the business of the Montana Life Insurance company, of which he is vice president and general manager told the Helena Rotaiy Club Wednesday noon of the impres sions he had gained in the \Na tive Son state. Mr. Cunningham spoke at the Montana picnic held at Syca more grove near Los Angeles. He met many people whom he had known in the Treasure state, and many of them told him that they planned to re turn to Montana as soon as they Oould. serted in the face of the enemy or at any time before the ar mistice, and does not remit or commute the courtmartial sen. tenances of those who deserted after the Armistice and prior to the technical ending of the war. The president acted to rJear up a situation whereby under the law those who deserted af ter the fighting ceased suffered the same loss of citizenship as these who left the military for. ces during the war’s prosecu tion. The war was actually over on November 11, 1918, but all who desertedafter t hat date and before the last proclama tion of peace on November 17, 1921, were deemed under the law voluntarily to have relin quished and forfeited their rights of citizenship, as well as their rights to become citizens, and to be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit underJthe .United States or of exercising any of tHe nght- of American citizenship. NUMBER 35T# OREST SERVICE NEWS NOTES! L ■4 TEACHERS’ MEETING The dates of the teachers’ meetings which ar eto be held in different parts of the county during the coming week are as follows: Power, March 10th. Fairfield, March 11th. Choteau, March 13th and 14th Miss Brandt, state supervisor of rural schools, and Miss Alice Calberg, representative of the Palmer system, will be here to assist Mrs. Saylor at the meet ings. From Great Falls comes the news that, within a 10-day per iod, six farms in the vicinity, of Choteau and Fort Benton .have been sold to farmers from the Kansas corn belt. They say that the land they have farmingin Kansas has become so valuable that they can no longer afford to use it for grow-, ing'coffi. -There is joyful i n surance in that statement that Montana is going to be very carefully looked over by a most desirable class of farmers from the middlewestern states many of whom will no doubt invest.in land and come here to live. Montana cannot expect to people all of its ‘waiting lands in a year, or in two years. lit will take time. Many farmers in the east, who would like' to come west must themselves dé vote a year or two to prepara tion. They are not the sort of people who can jump out over night, neither does Montana want that class of men on its farms. Every settler who conies well-equipped to handle a Mon tana farm is a forerunner of others. His letters to his old neighbors are bound to bring some of them, sooner or later. The Great Falls dispatch indi cates that we are getting what we must need in selective land sdillemfent at'this -time, whicly Prof. Williamson was reen gaged to be principal of the Te ton county high school for the next two years at a meeting of the high school board held last Archie Murchie of Dutton was a visitor in Choteau the be ginning of the week. Among other things he declared himself a candidate for the republican Tuesci.-^, evening. nomination for sheriff of this county. As a platform he de- .clares that strict >>con.onr* viff be his watchword, if elected, and that he will enforce all o: the laws in a lawful inarmin'. The Ladies’ ard party, Auxilian* ve ill dance and on the oven nr, o' amv ; Till. Cards ivom 8 TO to • 1 und dancing ihm on. he give a supper is a start. In March there is to be a land settlement congress in the state capitol, which will be at tended by citizens from «‘very section of the state, and repre sentatives of farm, business, fi nancial and transportation in terests. No doubt out of that gathering will come some excel lent ideas for the upbuilding of this state, and it is to be hoped as well, some co-ordinated move ment for the successful realiza tion of the plans that may be laid. Montana was never in a more formative period than at pres? ent and it is one which prom ises a golden harvest, if the proper seeed is sown in select ed soil at a propitious time. STRAIN EROS. SELL CATTLE Statement of Condition of 1 I M F A deal bus been closecl by Styain Iìroiber.s for thè sale of 344 head of ,iock cattic* to Irvine c; Pendio. Sj-o- ' ì . i ’. h - < oninnssion ucripany. ìt vas ,, ned Tee: cl.iv by \V. U Strani, ì.res- ■ì( , ni or thè ima or Sirain Brow:>-:s. i\. ■ collo will be' deli\c-r'-il Clinch 13 . and h Ih thè intrntion of thè i'irr- -ii..sor • lo r.lìi;> a porticn of ìhe lot lo Po'.‘¡land and to disposo of ila re* indev in ¡.inolierà wuhin ila- ‘-irte. The cul'e sold covnpo- e <-n •:•> 1orci t ieri n niì nov bj Strain !’• ;i ■ rs on thè ii'Ti’s ranch proporti • n ar Clicteau Disposai or\ th< ¡ 1 -' i.1 • as dorili« A n;-on as a restili of <!«“ • • e * c.ni;y ti-} ul leu- thè ¡casini r'i o\ thè cfrrpany’s farmi-, with ili' rs t rxnr'r-' » T » r • M •> • f ■ « m /* » • KJi. u i t U i i - r - v ; At Close of Business December 31; 1923 É i replica s! '-*> i ..n-'ìir- I; fc; The ■- ' ’ -i 5 dairy - r.?.c!r o Ranger Howard of Lubec has been in town since Saturdey conferring with the local Offi ah, ’• ~ * The Sun River Livestock asso ciation held its annual meeting ill the supervisor’s office last Saturday and discussed the handling of cattle on the Sun River range for the coming seas on. •- The following officers were elected for the grazing season of 1924: T. Clark, president, Frank Salmond, vice president, Carl Madson, secretary treasur er, Advisory board: T. Clark, 0. S Brus^srd p.nd 333x1 Y gq .^61 • Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Myrick gave a very pleasant card paity Monday evening for the forest service employees now in town. A summary of the game con ditions on the Lewis & Clark national forest shows: 650 deer, 3,525 elk, 25 moose, 515 mount ain sheep, 490 mountain goats, 100 black bear, 16 grizzlies, 750 coyotes, 18 lynx and 33 mountain lions. It also shows that last season 416 hunters killed 187 elk, 21 deer and four black bear. It is estimated that 65 elk, 70 deer, 50 goats and 50 sheep were killed by predatory animals. Compiled reports from all of the national forests in Montana and Northern Idaho show the Lewis and Clark as ranking first in number of elk gold mountain sheep and third in mountain goats. In the low-' est number of predatory ani mals the Lewis and Clark gets sixth place out of a total of 26 national forests. On July 1 Montana will re ceive $64,889 and Idaho $114,- 764 under section 8 of the Fed eral Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, according to an nouncement made at the office of the district forester at Mis soula The act provides for an ap propriation of $10,000,000, $1- 000,000 per year for ten years, which amount is apportioned among the states according to the area of national forests and value of forest resources. With this latest apportionment, Mon tana will have received a total of 8622,483 and Idaho a total of $988,114. Twenty eight states in which national forests are located wholly or in part, will share in the distribution of tin se funds, as will also Alaska and Porto -o. These moneys are ex pended only uncter eooperali' e agreement with state- anti -\itb local authorities, and rhcukl not1 b confused with road buir'! c j funds provided by claer act/ for I use on roads and trails within 1 the natkmal forests. Thin up- I portionmeut is the last but ore of what Is commonly known as the fwal die- From reliable sources comes the information that the World, War cost the United States forty | year billion dollars, enough qrdinar- The glee dub has begun prac- The teachers’ training class ': will go to Fairfield agian thisp ily to run this country for forty years. We have paid eighteen billion dollars on the debt, leav ing twenty-two billion dollars yet to be paid. Against this debt we have notes from foreign nations for about evelev billion dollars, leaving, if this was paid or secured, ten billion dollars more debt than when the war began. It looks as though this country paid her share of men and money from which we have yet to realize any substantial or material benefit—except, of course, we saved our country. $50,000 PAID FOR FARM N EAR BENTON tice on the “Gypsy Rover” the operetta that will be given this, month. * i- T‘ The high school will give a program at Parent-Teachers meeting on Thursday, March 13th. Teton girls played two games last week. The following score was the result: Teton 27, Cascade 8. Teton 16, Ursline 29 Spring has surely come fo r seniors, juniors, sophomores anrf freshmen are shooting marbles- PUBLIC SCHOOL The deal standing out as one of the most important land sales made in Montana in the last de cade, the Sam Spencer ranch, embracing 4,000 acres on the Teton river 80 miles north of grade Great Falls, was sold Wednes-1 holiday Friday ror day by Mr. Spencer to John Knowles of New Bedford, Mass, for a cash consideration o f $50,- 000. Independent of the land, 400 head of cattle belonging to the ranch and the property’s full complètement of horses and other equipment were purchas ed by*Mr'. Knowles^ the total transaction involving approxi mately $70,000. The cattle were purchased for $35 a head. Mr. Knowles will immediate ly take possession of the prop erty and it is understood that L. E. Erickson, a former employe ;f Mr. Spencer and in recent years a livestock operator in the Glacier Park region, will be as sociated with Knowles in the operation of the ranch, but not in the- proprietorship. Purchase of the ranch by Mr. Knowles was completed Wed nesday after negotiations had been under way for several weeks. Mr. Spencer left for California two months ago and returned from there last Mon day to close up the deal. He stated Wednesday that he will make his permanent home in Great Falls. Jennie Jacobson of the third grade left school Tuesday. She will attend, school in the country. W illiam Yeager entered the 4thi had a quarter* being the least tardy and absent last month. The following pupils are absent from the seventh grade on account of sickness: Fred Swanson John Mozer Houston Peters The eighth grade has finished their story on weeds. Kenneth Pike was absent Monday* and Tuesday. f There* w<V? a Parcnt^Teachqr' meet^- ing Monday.' The following program: - was rendered: Solo, Miss W ilt Dramatization— The Brahmin, the» Tiger and the Jackel. Madge Looney* Lawrence Taylor, Maro Butchart, Erm a Young, Margaret Stephens* Maybelle Peterson, Helen Redmond. Violin Solo, Elizabeth Green Dramatization— Uncle Rain and. Brother Drought. Julius Mozer, Mar garet Morgan, Leslie Burns, Phyllis— Kach, Edwin Butcher and Norma: Tennant. Violin Solo, Ann Eckford Song, Third Grade Drill, Girls’ Gym Class Lullaby,Third grade Folk Dance, Girl’s Gym Class The Ladies Guild will meet with Mrs.. C. J. B. Stephens on Thursday, March 13. James Snyder, who went to Mayo Bros, hospital at Roch ester, Minn., for medical treat ment. is >‘‘M3-»vtC'l to be gelling along nioV. ------------------------- a ---------------- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ö RESOURCES Cash in vault and in other banks ................128,753.57 U . S. Liberty Loan Bonds 30,300.53 County warrants, real estate, etc. —: ....... -25,433.17 Loans and discounts ........ 169,100.33 LIABILITIES 1 'epos*,Is ............................... 2 U 2 , « 93.3*1 Surplus and undivided . profits .............. ............. 10,854.29 Capital stock .......... .. .......... 50,000.00 353.647.60 3o3,647.60 *\v -•-V* t i p r '• V * ’ 1 / « * i \ dc” ■ i e d o ‘ i j COtU't bv i Higgins *u. t Cl I * ' , O il'll ) ]-:•** i run: '■ \n- ' - \-f 'plica or • y • Ì n r«f* Spoi-are i’'m u « ry r^i1 02 cal i- the r > ut-ing made up all ex- ied j *> ,tks ' j ::.o:i 1 ~r() The ambition of this institution is to jus tify the conficanec 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 cncerfullv gr seasoned and veil C j ., >• Jut. Oil CC .IV j on to those who desire •reasoned advice. ,'Ov the vitro.'' j rtar.c1 Shoo ?/ ' v o r -orco Vies grant i “ Thirty 'd \i* in the district judge ■edge Greene to Ceo. ¡court reo om Carrie Higgins j V . E. Logan, who. add his ¡interests in'the Cash Store to jWm. Howard, expects to leave i next week for California where j he' will probably locate finds a suitable location. if he -inn came m d *vhen the nidge ;v ;/ d rctyled, “ Thirty ;.wv.n’ years oitV’ said i’ e “ Weio you not in this fix e yearsagoV” “ I think I vas your honor.” “And didn’t you tell me then that v-- were thirty years old?” “ I think it quite likely, xo.ir honor” i said the woman, wholly una-; bashed, “I am not one of tlio.3e women who say one thing one day and another the next.” $ m zens State Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA Capital, Surplus and Profits over $65,000.00 Ch ,-b ..-V
