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VOLUME XI CHOTE AU, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, MARCH 21, 1924 NUMBER 37 Was hington,. M a r.; 18.r—The ’ house today, passed the soldiers’ i bonus bill.' 1 The result indicated there are votes in the house to override a presidential veto. The vote, came after 40 min- ' utes’ debate under rules requir ing a two-thirds majority and barring amendments. The vote was 355 to 54. The margin over the neces sary two-thirds was 82. 4 Ais sent to the senate, the bill provides for .paid-up 20 -year endowment policies and cash payments to those veterans not entitled to more than $50 in ad- ' justed compensation. The adjusted service credit is * figured on the same basis as in the old bill, which twice passed the house, $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for over seas duty, the first sixty days of- service not counting. The two measures passed pre- * viously provided for a similar caah option upon payments, ad justed service certificates, a form of deferred payments; vo cational training or farm and home aid. The first time the senate failed to act on the bill. Two years ago it was passed by * the senate, and vetoed by Pres ident Hardinug. The house possed the bill over the veto but the two thirds vote necessary for this action fell short-in»-the senate. * Chairman Green of the ways and means committee brought the new bill ups today under an agreement for suspension of the rules. This action automatica- * lly limited debate to 40 minutes except by unanimous consent for an extension, and prevented the offering of amendments. A two thirds majority was nec essary for passage. ^ In computing the value of the insurance policy, one fourth of the amount of adjusted service compensation due a veteran is added and the policy is then val ued at amounts of insurance 4 which such a sum would pur chase at his age in accordance with accepted principles based upon American experience ta bles of mortality, with interest at 4 per cent ' per year com- < pounded annually. The maximum policy would be worth about $1,900 if the maximum of overseas credit '-was due and about $1,400 if the maximum of credit for home service was due. . All enlisted men and women DEMOCRATS MEET .IN STATE CAPITAL Democratic candidates of the state met in Helena Tuesday under the call for the state cen tral committee which included in its announced business the election of a member of the democratic national committee and a committeewoman for the state. The fact was quickly made plain that committeemen were not as much in evidence as were candidates, who assumed charge of proceedings and guided the affairs along usual channels. Resolutions which had been prepared in advarce, the finish ing touches having been put upon the party declarations at at a meeting in the Placer Mon day night, were ready for sub mission. Going into session at noon J. Bruce Kremer of Butte was unanimously reelected national committeeman from Montana. Mrs. R. R. Purcell of Helena national committeewoman for Montana declined reelection and Mrs. John S. M. Neill of Helena was elected. The only real discord of the meeting was when resolutions were offered endorsing Wm. G. McAdoo for the presidency. The delegates refusing the en dorsement. Dr. H. J. McGregor and Judge John Greene attended from this county.- Ladies new neckwear a t HIRSHBERG’S. Life in the west, not the wild and wooly west of dime novel fame, but the real west of today is pictured in Hoot Gibson’s latest Universal special, “The Ramblin’ Kid,” which comes to the Royal Theatre next Friday and Saturday. Star of innumeragle film plays of western outdoor ad venture, Gibson faces entirely new situations in “The Ramblin’ Kid.” It is a remarkably hu- nan novel, written by Earl Wayland Bowman, and adapted to the screen by E. Richard Schayer and directed by Frank Sedgwick. ifid officers up to and including the rank of captain in the army or marine corps and lieutenant n the navy, first lieutenant or first lieutenant of engineers in he coast guard and past assoc- ate surgeon in the public health services are made eligible for he policies. Statement of Condition of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHOTEAU Close of Business December 31,1923 D E N I S U R I THIS SEASON Washington« March 18th.— The general agricultural out look for 1924 indicates farmers are undertaking a'normal pro duction program, the’ depart ment of agriculture announced today. Agricultural production this year, the department said, Will still be attended by difficulties arising from high wages and other costs, loss of farm work ers and the general disparity between prices of farm and ur ban products. The wheat situation was de scribed as'showing some tend ency toward improvement with the market continuing some what more favorable for pro ducing spring than winter wheat. Spring wheat growers report intentions to reduce their acreage 14 per cent below last spring planting. Notwithstanding that there will apparently be fewer ani mals in the» country to be fed next winter, com growers re port intentions to increase the acreage 3.2 per cent, and in the corn belt proper, to increase it 3.5 per cent. Intentions to plant other crops as compared' with last year’s harvested acreage acreage were announced 'as follows : Oats, 7 pi’ cent increase, bar-, ley 9 per cent ' increase ; Irish potatoes 2 per cent increase; sweet potatoes 16 per cent in crease ; flax seed 54 per cent in crease; grain sorghum 6 per cent decrease; tobacco and rice same as last year; peanuts 19 per cent increase, and tame hay 4 per cent increase. .Washington, March 8 th. —A constitutional amendment pro viding that newly elected presi- denfs'fand congresses shall take office.(|n January following their eféction was approved today by thé .senate. • - ;In ^addition to advancing in auguration day from March, 4 to th&third Monday in January new congresses would meet reg- ülarîyfin January instead of the Decehrber following. The ¡senate vote was 63 to 7, 16 -more than the necessary two thirds^ those voting in the nega tive ' including Senators King, Utah,- and Reed of Missouri. The'author, of the proposal was senator Norris, republican, Nebraska. RESOURCES Cash In vault and in other banks _______ .128,758.57 U. S. Liberty Loan Bonds 30,360.53 County warrants, real estate, > etc. ___________ 25,433.17 Loans and discounts ____ 169,10%.33 LIABILITIES Deposits ---------------------- 292,793.31 Surplus and undivided profits ----------------- 10.854.29 Capttal s t o c k -------- : ____ 50,000.00 353,647.60 353,647.60 The third grade children have made a sand table, representing an emmigrant train going west. Anne Eckford has been ab sent from school on account of sickness. Helen and Henry Kregness of Bole have entered the fifth grade. Carl Peters of the fifth grade is in school again after a few days sickness. Rose Kish returned to the fourth grade after a few months absence. 1 Lloyd Nelson, John Lawrance and Julian Stenson are absent from the seventh grade. The fourth grade have made a very interesting sand table. The children made most of the animals and Indians, j Ruth Martine is in school again having been absent with a sorained ankle. Thora Kregness of Bole en tered the eighth grade this week. Mrs. Arthur Hirshberg and Mrs. Ed. Hirshberg visited the third grade this week. Jack Wilson, who was con victed at the last term of dis trict court ' in Pondera county on a charge of horse stealing and sentenced to serve one or two years in the penitentiary, escaped from the sheriff of that county last Saturday night and is 5 still at large. A TEXT AND A MAN . “I do not propose to sacrifice any-innocent man for my own welfare, nor do I propose to re tain in office any unfit man for my own welfare.” Calvin Coolidge thus offered a text .worthy of any man that ever lived. Lincoln could not have- taken a stand'' more sub- dime. Washington would have found, it impossible to reveal strength of character more clearl^. Could anyone?.. There is-the text-as plain as an old shoe, its meaning-easily-under- ; stood and its strength that of a mountain. Calvin Coolidge is a big man. He is a bigger man today than he was before he said this. Plainly, he is not a tool in the hands of the republican chief tains who are nervous about the chances of the party to win the election this year. They would sacrifice Mr. Denby or anyone else if it would improve those chances. They put the party beforQ right in this case. Calvin Coolidge might lose the nomination at Cleveland be cause of the program he has outlined, or he might be defeat ed for election if nominated as a result; but he will forever have the esteem of his straight thinking fllow citizens, and he may value that as an even great er reward for the protection of an honest principle.—Sioux City Journal. Radio tubes at Hirshberg’s. Farmers of the Burton bench will discuss Canadian Thistle control on Monday afternoon, March 24th, at Farmington, with the idea of putting on a systematic eradication program A. J. Ogaard of the agronomy department a t Bozeman will ad dress the meeting on the meth ods of control and outline plans used in other communities of the state in carrying out such work. Last year the farmers of this bench presented a petition to the board of county commis- oners which was signed by practically every farmer on the bench asking for the enforcing of the weed laws of the state and the appointing of a weed commissioner. Canadian thist les have never been eradicated by legislation nor never will be and they can only be cleaned up by persistent community effort. If the farmers of the Farming- ton community show by attend ance at’-,this meeting that they are interested in this project plans will be completed at that time for a systematic eradica tion program. Miss Mary Rucker left for Great Falls Tuesday. Geo Wright attended to bus-, iness matters in Choteau Tues-- day. Hector Cooper and Bernard Nelson were business callers Inr Dutton the first of the week. Mrs. Nick Gerick and daugh ter, Barbara, visited with rela tives in Great Falls this week. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wagnild md Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Schae-’ fer spent Sunday in Great Falls' H. M. Gillick, superintendent )f the Northern Montana Divi sion of the Milwaukee, and pari ty, were in town on official\ business Tuesday. . Mr. and Mrs. P. J..Reed en-i joyed last Saturday evening at, the J. Barnes home playing Mah Jong, after which a dainty, lunch was served. >' ■ John McDonald spent Tues day in town on business. He having returned from the west coast just recently. John Kramer left Thursday* for Great Falls where he has obtained work with the city. It would be easier to sympa thize with Senator Walsh in his indignant resentment at impu tations of wrongdoing in his re lations with Mr. Doheny has he not; more than any other man, been the originator of the pres ent campaign of assassination that besets the whole country. The letters in question are certainly as innocent as ar.y let ters relating to oil and address ed to Mr. Doheny coaid well be. Senator Walsh takes occasion in one letter to ex nr ess an admir able standard of conduct for a public official. Had not the character assassins of the sép ate, Senator Wheeler in partic ular convicted Mr. Daugherty of high crimes and misdemean ors upon evidence just as ab surd and nonexistent, no one would give a thought to such irrelevant matter. As it is, Senator Wplsh finds hiifisoif a victim of the very hysteria which he has done his utmost to create.-—New Yor* Tribune. Exams are again over and now for the beginning of the end—the last quarter of this school year began |ast Monday morning. The senior normal training girls have gone to their respec tive schools where they will be teachers for the coming nine weeks. The play, “The Gypsy Rover” given by the combined glee clubs was a decided success, and was heartily enjoyed by all who at tended. Parent-Teachers’ was held in the high school building last Thursday evening, and after a musical entertainment, the girls played the alumni in a game of basket ball. The high school girls won by a score of 30 to 2 . The St. Patrick’s card party and dance given by the ladies' auxiliary at the K. P. hall Mon day night was largely attended. Seventeen tables of bridge and five hundred were played until' I midnight when a!’ dainty “lunch, was served. After lunch > danc- iing wasdield until -2 a. m. All ¡present report an enjoyable .time. Get our price on stock salt. HIRSHBERG’S. Clara Kimball young’s latest- photoplay, “The Hands of Na- ra,” is a screen version of the highly successful novel by Rich ard Washburn Child, the noted' fiction writer who is the present United States ambassador to Italy. This picture, the most pretentious which the brilliant star has yet done, is coming to the Royal Theatre on Wednes day and Thursday. “The Hands of Nara” in its novel form, is excellent motion picture material. It is full of dramatic action, thrills and sus pense, and the picturized ver sion is even more gripping. Mr. Child has provided a variety of incidents that abounds in color ful situations and sharp char acterizations. A Noble Artibition ^ The ambition of this institution is to jus tify the confiednec 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 ¡■ éé IAMNSÉH ¡H H M M fe flN í H Citizens State Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA Capitai, Surplus and P rette over $65/600.00 M ' T , •> f
