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. ï r - • > . V VOLUM E X I I CHOTEAU, TETON C O U N T Y, M O N TAN A, OCTOBER 17, 1924 NUM B] Although conditions have beep un favorable for com growing during the past year, the business mien of Button are still convinced that corn is here to stay. They have made ar rangements to put. on the Second Annual Corn Show at that place Oc tober 25th. » During the afternoon there will be speaking on the “ Selection of Seed Corn” and also placing by the judges. .The following is the list of pre miums offered: CLASS I. For the best 10 ears of any dent. First, box of apples; sec ond, $1.00; third, ribbon. CLASS n. Best 10 ears- of white flint. First, Box of apples; second, $1.00; thii-d, ribbon. CLASS III. For the best 10 ears of mixed flint. First, box of apples, second, $1.00; third, ribbon. CLASS IV. Best 10 ears * 1 * * * yellow flint.' First, box of apples; second, $1.00; third, ribbon. CLASS V. Best 10 ears of pop corn. First, .Box of Apples; second, $1.00; third, ribbon. CLASS VI. Best 10 ears of sweet com (ripe). First, box of apples, second, $1.00; third, ribbon. ' CLASS. VII. The longest 6 ears of corn. First, box of apples; second, ribbon; third, ribbon. CLASS VIII. For-the ear-of com having the most number of kernals. First, Box of Apples,1 second, ribbon; j third, ribbon. CLASS < IX. For the best essay written on. Corn. By the grade school within a radius of 8 miles of Dutton. Essay not to xceed 500 words. Judg ing to be based on > cover design, neatness, grammar * and material in article! ' First, $2.00; t second; $1.00; third, ribbon. CLASS X. For the best, gallon of Great Northern beans. First, box of apples; second, $1.00; third, ribbon. For the best display of gallon of navy beans. First, box of apples; second, $1.00; third, ribbon. Most of the corn of the county this year has not matured. If, your corn is not perfectly ripe, do not hesitate in making an entry. We want the show to be as large as possible in order to show what can be done on a very adverse year. ELK HUNTING SEASON IN LEWIS • AND CLARK COUNTY NOT , CHANGED Supervisor Myrick of the Lewis & Clark National Forest states that lie is in receipt of a letter from the state game warden, Mr. C. A. Jak- ways, to the effect that the Fish and Game C6mmission does not have the power to open the elk season ns was recommended by the various rod and gun clubs. 'Their powers are limited to opening the season on areas that are closed and can not change the dates for hunting. Mr. Myrick stat ed that there seems to be universal opinion that the season should be extended in that part of the Lewis ¿c Clark Countv Jying within the Lewis & Clark Forest but to do so it will be necessary to take it bp with the senators and representa tives from the counties concerned and have them bring the matter up at the coming session of the legisla ture. Mrs. Meltzer and Mrs. Parker were visitors of the first and \third grades last week. Sberbunig Morse and John ircene, Jr., were on cue. sick ust Iasi «' cok .'\ \ a he arsi giade pupils na\o oeen reading in tueii*- primers several weeks and have been doing hue. Nora Jacobson entered Jie first grade last Monday. This makes a total enrollment oi forty-two. Mrs. Monlcman, Mrs. Cn. e, 3upt. Saylor and Mrs. Smith were viMtors of the second grade last week. Freddie Saylor was azsent aii, last week on account of illness. Harold Maranette' has moved to Great' Falls to attend school. Robert Bates entered the third grade Monday. He came here -from Great Falls school. Dolly Gordon was absent last Week. Her tonsils were removed. She is a pupil of the fifth grade. Evelyn Willis and Fredona Walker were absent last week from the sixth grade. Mrs., Bateman was a visitor of the sixth grade. Gordon Holmes of the seventh grade hasn’t missed a word in spel ling since school started. \ Rulhie Moore and Johnny Sulgrove of the same grade have only miss ad four words which is a very good record. , Agnes Talifson and Evelyn Upman were the highest pupils of the sevent grade in penmanship. The seventh grade pupils wrote a dramatization of “America” and Gor don Holmes had the best., Grace Allum, Julian Stenson and Charlie ^ColiOg ¿ire absent from thè eighth grade on account of mumps. Last week the seventh grade and eighth grade f<jf-tball team played the freshieh. The score was 34 to 0 in favor of the freshies. Our team consists of: Johnny Sulgrove, Gapt and Q. B. Gotch Jacobs, R. T Morris Talifson, R. H. George Loomis, F. B. Tommy Moore, L. T. ' Arrali Moore, U. G. Gordon Holmes, C. Billy Bateman, R. T. Johnny Conquergood, L. H. Frank Gordon, R. G. John Mozer, L. E. Pete Peters, R. E. Mrs. Bateman visited the eighth grade Friday. The eighth grade pupils who have received 100 per cent in spelling since shcool started: Waneta Price, May /Morgan and Christine Sulgrove. The next highest are: Johnny Peterson, Julian Stenson and Grace Allum. DISTRICT JUDGE We, supported Janies Sulgrove of Choteau for district judge at the pri mary election, and he won. We are still in favor of hiselcction aB judge. We believe him to be one of the re publican candidates that ought to receive the support of every law re specting voter in the district, whether republican or democrat. That he has all of the necessary qualifications for a good judge no one can deny. Statement of Condition of FIRST NATIONAL BANK forGoverffior ,, Do you know our old- time .friend and. counsellor,- J. E. Erickson, of Choteau, Montana, is the .outstanding,figure in the Treasure State today? is the fact, and we are proud TifTt. Honest as the is'.long and' scorning the use of political, bunk such as Dixon- has been peddling for (the past four years and more, Judge Erickson reaches tlie hearts of the people by meeting them on common ground and sug gests the remedy that must be applied to relieve us from polit ical slavery and bankruptcy. Judge Erickson came to Cho teau, a young lawyer seeking a location, inl892, and the fol lowing year became identified as one of our citizens. In 1897 he became county attorney of Teton county, which at that time included all of the territory now in Teton-, Toole, Pon-’ ' dera and Glacier counties. \He served in this capacity for four years and, after retiring for a couple of years, was again' elected to that office, which he filled at all times with credit to himself and to the advantage of the community. Later he became Judge of the 11th judicial district, including Teton, and Flathead counties and found it necessary to make his headquarters at Kalispell. He continued as our judge until Teton was included in the 8th district, and, although we ha*’e had good judges ever since, we have missed Judge Erickson in our community. In 1898 Judge Erickson married Miss Grace Vance, a resident of Choteau, who was the republican candidate for county superintendent in 1894. Judge Erick son loves work and about 1914 resigned from the bench and took up the harness/again as county attorney of Flathead county. - He prosecuted a man accused of murder over there and the defendant brought forth the novel plea that he could- not have a fair trial in Flathead county on account of Ihe personal popularity of County Attorney Erickson, so die case was removed to Sanders county where Judge Erickson dem onstrated that his ability warranted his popularity, for he promptly convicted the defendant. W e feel that Judge Eiick- son will be remembered in his old district on election day. Let us honor him and after his election let us join hands in gratification that we at last have had an opportunity to elect one of ourHOME BOYS to the office of chief executive of this state. adv TO THE ELECTORS OF TETON COUNTY = = = = = ^ 1 tuttifie ui aibuacl o050 -maest-Jill c’ -i r . .— - » A l oi yovy.UD. a ae it . trips to CoiÄusM t>\) iu- A- aimeiu, 41 to iJenüro>% 5x 'ta'ifl o ,T > y - * T T / -v ^ r r ' A T T J k X At Close Of Business June 30, 1924. RESOURCES ' LIABILITIES Cash in vault and • Deposits -......... ....... . ----- 296,694.00 in other banks - ____ 120,603.64 Surplus and undivided * TJ. S. Liberty Loan Bonds 55,831.97 profits — ......... ......... 11,670.22 County warrants^ real * Capital stock ■— - ...... — 50,000.00 estate, etc. .2 ....... .... — 31,832.84 Lotos and discounts _ 150,095.77* Bower aud ail the' others resulteq\-ihi-5| no tmug nothing t all except the- c o i ^ j lecuon oi mneage and the. ppportuirtyf the commiscsionevs allowed 'these bills avails nothing ana even if the* ■, sheriff had legal advice that ' hi*. collections he la \ must make such. Mack aia-ieuis in tne Choteau .-xCiouiia praising the efficiency and economy ot our present sheriff, but it columns iiaeit witn bare praise, oni>, ana quotes no figures that throw ug.it on the subject. The ’ sheriif’s jiig.nai buis are all on file m the -„urn, cioiKo omce and tlfe Acantha! could make such ,.ouiu oe surprised, perhaps, it it ex- still liable, for he ..nnueu uimm outs aud learned what! charges at nls peril. The supreme .a .u ouj puotic recoru and open to j court of Montana removed an ofiecer examination o> anyone interested, atiiough he ad acted on the opinion.’ iiie siieuii has no riant to charge [ of the attorney general of the state I .•mongo e..ccpi xvnon m. lias papers i in fixing his charges that were found. -u. seivi^j jasued oy the proper ..luhoixty, out these oills show that ».**_ in cabin sheiiujs a law unto hiui- j«.. amt has proceeded with count- ui.coi.gatioQo ’ •whenever busi- n.ss 1.1 ouiciVfiiic slack or political i.mposes call lor his presence away i/oni mo county seat, and lias collect ed uii,cage for every one of them. rJu. u ¡g lue 2 a months of liis service uic slienu has uhaiged and collected ior these unwarranted investigations the sum of $2347.90 as mileage on 23,497 miles claimed to have been to ge unlawful. The sheriff draws a. .salary of $187.50 per mouth and hia full timebelongs to the county. Law ful provisions, however, is made for expenses incurred by him is serving procesh, but the law does not author ize him to act oahis own will and pile up mileage whenever he takes a no tion. The amounts collected by him, ’ outside of the-Jaw for the 21 xnonthst service averages $111.80 and cornea out of the pockets of the citizens who have to work themselves and not'the county for what they get. There haa ' traveled by him without any papers', been a custom, not warranted by law m his hands for service and which I to allow theshheriff his actual expense “investigations” have resulted in no | in cases where am emergencf exists, arrests. Those covered by legitimatesuch as a murder or some other ser- mileagc are not referred to, in this J 5°us crime, but no such emergency article. For instance, his bills show > existed in any one of the cases re-» that he charged and collected fon ferred to. Suppose it were proper to trips away from Choteau as follows: | Pay the sheriff his actual expense in h & ' $358, \ THE KLAN ISSUE •! trusted to do the right thing. The The erudite AL denies that there is rt.ca.utna aeeiares that we nave at- a Klan issue in this county, and no tempted to raise the question of re wonder, for when he helped capture; ana racial prejuuice. Like the the republican organization for the i ostrich, AL hides his head and for- ' Klan he thought the issue was won j gcUJ luat uis posterior looms large. 1 and nothing remained but to gather j qqie question of religious and racial j in the spoils. Everybody knows that prejudice is the diet of the K. K. K. I the Klan organized in this county j and ¿as been worked for all it is some time in the late winter or early , worth, and then some. We have sug- spring, and ‘‘it was to laugh\ to see ge3ted that a dangerous condition ' the way they ducked round back may result, but we begin to see that ! alleys coining and going from their, th3 whole thing is a farce beyond the i «Konvoolations.” It was a case ofj possibility that some may gain of- ' pussy foot all summer, but no sens!- j fice by its use sub rosa, while others ble person was deceived, neither is , gather in the initiation fees and dues, anyone deceived as to the prelntj How gallant of AL to shield himself condition. We do not deny that many j and his, chronics by hiding behind j good citizens were interested in the) estimable ladies, hoping tha t their ; propaganda of the Klan, for such chicanery will not be discovered. The To Dutton, 61 trips To Collins, 17 trips To Bole, 29 trips. To Fairfield, 50 trips To Spring Valley, 20 trips To Pendroy, 41 trips To Bynum, 19 trips To Biaeicleaf, 15 trips To Agawam, 14 trfips To Farmington and Spring Coulee, trips. To Power, 51 .tri^s..,^ ^ To T. L.xGap, 10 trips.. ; To Great Falls, 13 trips. To Teton River, 14 trips. To Sun River, 13 trips. To Conrad, 3 trips. All without papers or any other authority than his own “hunch” that his own personal economy need ed mileage at tlie public expense. Many ofthese trips were on what be chooses to call \booze investigtions,” although he often made charges for general investigation of conditions” at certain places, whatever such an “in vestigation’’ may be. As a result of the 61 trips to Dutton, with some more trips added, a horse stealing calm was tried last February at great expense to the county, and an ac quittal was the reuslt. No other ar rest was made there of any import ance, but, finally, one of Van Wert's men men a bootlegging arrest and also an arrest .for gambling, both rr'ce itly. There you have the result of the 61 trips to Dutton with a these cases, and allow him 15 ‘miles J to thegallon of gas, $1 per day for upkeep of his car and a 50cent dinner each day of the 255 days covered by* the 23,479 miles collected for, then we would have $391.50 for gas, $25 5 for upkeep and $128 for meals, total ling $774.50, whereas he collected j $2347.90, leaving him as pure velvet ' over and above any possible legal | chuL?e the sum oC 51573.40. Upon a $ proper ^proceeding being brought all | of the $2347.90 must be refunded to j the county. We suggest that' it is j high time for the taxpayers to pro- ; tect themselves from office holders, 1 who, through Ignorance carelessness or greed fatten themselves at the .ex pense of the public and a<s a remedy for the present condition we earnest ly recommend J. 1». Collins as the right man for the right place, for his . honesty and ability have never been questioned. He has had a large ex perience as a deputy sheriff ^nd as ■ under-sheriff and no one need fear that if elected hewill fail in efficien cy, economy and the fearless dis- . har.ce of his duties. •*■>! >->• - up and let tlie public know just what they do stand for. As la AL ns a Klansman—to use the vernacular of Orifice it. Tatimer, m-es'.dem of ihe Midnight Picture- Corporation, “la you is, os is vou aint?’’ Nita Naidi, Patsy Ruth Miller, George Fawcett, and Matt Moore are the feature^ players in the new Para mount picture, “ The BreakingPoint’ * produced by Herbert Brenon from llie novel and play of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Cyril R-'ng, Charles A. S.tevenson, John Merkel, Julia Faye and Edytlie Chap man play in support. At the Royal Theatre Sunday. WANTED:—Girl at fhe trail House. New Cho- Chieken dinner election night Pvtliinu orders. Come. by* i A Noble Ambition The ambition of this institution is to jus tify the coniiednec 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 eheerMly given to those who desire seasoned and well-reasoned advice. $358,364.22 m m m m propaganda is always deceptive and the spirit of tbe. American peopl0 is to give an alleged panacea a trial, but your average citizen takes a turn* bfe when he learns the. -truth, and Acantha article convinces us that the Klan Influence is being exerted to 'ts full capacity in order to hoodwink the public. Poor shrinking violets— how. modest they are, the clean Citizens State Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA f Capital, Surplus and. Profits over $6.5,000l0Q ' .\./flirti-' X *- ‘Pf
