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o• •:, • VOL. 2. - \'\\-• - \*. • - • ; 77-z --- ;It; tire 2. ••• • , •\.• Joia 1 •• • '4/1% C z - 3,111. • GEYSER, MONT., AUGUST 15, 1912 st - - \ As -2o NO. 22 Saturday the Close Geyser Times Will Award Piano and Other Valuable Prizes to Winning Cortestants After almost three months of hust- ling on the part of several young ladies in soliciting subscriptions to the Gey- ser Times, for which they have been allowed votes in competition for the many valuable prizes offered by this paper, the dosing days of the contest have arrived and on Saturday evening the votes will be counted and the an- nouncement made that will declare one of the ladies winner of a Yaluable piano. Other prizes offered are a beautiful set of siverware containing 49 pieces, a ladies' gold watch, chain and fob, ladies' necklace, ladies' jewel case and two gold rings with turquoise settings. The ballot box will be opened at 10 p. m. at the First State Bank where the votes will be counted by the judges and as soon as the count is complete announcement will be made at the Geyser Hall. For the benefit of the many friends of the contestants who will he in town on Saturday night, the management of the Times will give a grand ball at the hall. 'Pie Crescent Orchestra of Stanford has been engaged to furnish music and everything r1 be One , to make the ball a success. Supper Nyall be served at the Geyser Hotel. Voting may continue up to 10 , o'clock Saturday evening. No votes will be accepted after that hour. Here is the schedule of votes as they have been running for the past few weeks and is positively the only schedule that will be in effect up to the dose ot the contest: New subscriptions and renewals - 1 year. $2.00 3.000 votes 2 years, $3.50 6.500 votes 3 years, $5.00 11,000 votes Each additional year after third at $1.50 _ _ 4.500 votes On every dollar back sub- scription 2,000 votes Heavy Hitting Wins the Game Raynsford Gets the Big End of the Score in Sunday's Game with Geyser By a batting rally that had the Gey- ser team rattled to a frazzle and which netted them 11 runs, the Raynsford Browns pulled victory out of almost certain defeat in the last two innings of play Sunday afternoon, the game be- ing played at Raynsford. At the end of the fourth inning the game looked bad for Geyser. Raynsford having 7 runs to 3. Catcher Dodge came first to bat in the first half of the fifth and , started a swatfest that brought in five runs, while the Browns failed th score M the last half. Then followed the same procedure in the first half of the sixth. Dodge again started the ball rolling by knocking a clean homerun with one hand. Eleven men faced pitcher Fish in that inning and seven rambled home before the side was re- tired. This brought the score up to 15 to 8, Raynsford having secured one in the sixth. Captain Proper, feeling that the game was as good as won. allowed Everson to pitch while he played second and G. H. Dodge was transferred fo first. Everson fell down on the job, the Browns starting a bat- ting ralley that looked bad, and Propei again took his position in the box for the eighth inning. But the Raynsford sluggers, headed by NIcInnis, started something that Proper couldn't stop, and before the end of the eighth inning eight more tallies %sere placed to their credit, making the score 19. In the last three innings pitcher Fish came back in the best of form and held Geyser to but one run, final score be- ing 16 to 19. While there was considerable e:-' citernent at times, the game as a whole was very unsatisfactory to all concerned. The strong wind favored the !mom! and discouraged the fielders. Not a! fly was caught outside the infield, onl account of the rough ground, the fielders merely chasing the balls that came their way. (Continued on page 81 Bad Plowing in the Dakotas & Montana liY P10F. TII0S. SHAW Much of the plowing that is done in the western Dakotas and Montana is nothing short of a menace to the immediste future of crop production, because of its wretched character. Some of the poor plowing is done by the farmers themselves, but more, much more is done by those who use power plows and do the work at so much an acre. Much of the work that those men do is simply wretched in charac- ter. No milder term will fitly apply to it. The land plowed is turned over in part by the moldboard plows and in part by the disc plows. The character of much of the plowing done by those power plows will be made apparent in the following demonstration con- ducted at Moccasin in the Judith Ba- s p i lce n a ,on the experimental farm at that July 25th. The occasion was the holding of a monster picnic of two to three thousand people at the farm. Two power plows were at work. One was a moldboard and one was a disc Plow. What was the character of the work ,done? The moldboard plow turned the sod over at depths varying from two to six inches. In some places there were two skips. Some of the furrows were thrown over quite on top of the furrows adjacent to them, thus making a crown of earth and a depression alongside of it. such as would call for great labor to put it in an even condition, and when so evened many sods would he on the surface in a way that would interfere with the harrowing of the grain crop that fol- lows. The disc plow had torn the sod into furrow slices of varying depths and lengths. Some of these lay with the grass side down and some with the grass side up. Some of them lay on the edge and they lay lengthwise and crosswise and at all angles. It could not be traveled over by man or beast without labored effOrt. And that was a demonstration, kind of demonstration power plows give, w plowing that is not I do not say that all done by power plows acter, but much of it it spoken of as rascall The ground that by the disc plow at If these are the s that those with hat must be the a demonstration? the plowing thus is of tbat char - is. I have heard was turned over Nloccasin would! he exceedingly difficult to pulverize. 1 fad to see how it could be done, ex- cept by using on it a very heavy cut- away disc and keeping at it until it was cut in pieces. Alien thus fined it will be covered with bits of sod that will not rot. It is simply too bad that land should be treated thus. The farmers themselves are in part to blame for such plowing. They should not tolerate it. If an agree- ment has been properly made, both parties should live up to it. If a writ- ten agreement has not been Made, such an omission is a mistake. Vhen a man agrees to plow land five or six inches deep he should either do it or go without a part of his pay. If such plowing were not tolerated it would not be done. But many farmers are too easily satisfied. \I hey too readily lis- ten to the delusion that three or four inches is deep enough to plow. If the makers of power plows are wise they will look carefully into this question. They do not know podi- a* that a prejudice is rising up in the minds of many against such plowing and against implements that do it. Should they not be more careful in making sales? They have an import- ant mission if they will only rightly . • • I fulfill it. Ihe help they can give in turning over the stiff sod lands of the, prairie is of very great value, but it should be rightfully rendered. If it is not, the day will come when there , power machines may be relegated to the junk heap. Ten Year Term for Geo. Ricketts Man Once Sent Up AIMS Cascade County for a Murder at Geyser, Is Again Convicted George Ricketts. who was convicted in Cascade county several years ago for the murder of a man named Hedges at old Geyser, was found guilty Satur- day of manslaughter for the part he played in the murder of Deputy Sher- iff Joe Biannin at Melville last No- vember, and sentenced by Judge J. Miller Smith at Livingston to serve ten sears at bard labor in the state prison. Ricketts was found guilty of aiding Mel Jowell, who killed Bran- nan and received a 22 -year sentence. .lowell was a witness in the trial of Ricketts last week and while being le - turned to prison in charge of deputy sheriff. jumped through the window of the passenger coach with another comic( to whom he was handcuffed, and made his escape. He has not jet been caught. Is it not a fact that farmers of the west are going a little too fast in the breaking up of their land? Would it not be be:ter in every way to break less land and to break it as it ought to be broken. Even in the present season whim Ii' was very favorable to growth the crop on well prepared land was vastly better than on that poorly pre- pared. In a poor producing year the difference would be vastly greater in favor of the well prepared'Iati! Is it not a good plan for the home- steader to break up much of his land with good brood mares? Is it not quite as good to break up part of it with mules? 1Vould it not be a still better plan to break up much of it with oxen? Oxen are good property to turn off for beef when we are done with them. Would it do any harm to turn the wheels backward or at least to slow Ice Cream for Sale Ice Cream served by the dish every Sunday during the hot weather. MRS. MINNIE SE1FRED Credit Will Be _Allowed For Residence on Homesteads Un- der Three -Year Law. Just as Under Five -Year Law Washington, August Repre- sentative Pray said today: 'There seems to be an impression that under the three-year law credit for residence will not be allowed before the date of entry for the reason that in its first clause section 2291 as amended states: 'No certificate. however, shall be given or patent issued therefor until three years from the date of such entry,' and in presenting this question to the com- missioner of the general land office, my attention was directed to the fact that section 2291 as it stood before the recent legislation, began with exactly the same clause, excepting the word 'five' in lieu of 'three.' as it now stands. \The commissioner has ruled in this matter that credit for residence and cultivation before the date of the entry will be allowed hereafter, as heretofore, through the act of May 4, 1880 (21 Stat., 140). which extends to home- stead settlers this - privilege, therefore allowed to pre-emption settlers with the, understanding, of course, that the credit for residence before the date of the entry is not allowed in a case where the land during the time . in Atkin WAS CoVe 7 red \%. the \ another claimant so that it was not subject to a valid settlement. \As it appears that t.e local land offices may be adjudicating . cases on principles other than these, the com- missioner stated that he would furnish them with insrructions in the premises and assured me that no necessity ex- ists for additional legislation on the subject. - Notice When your watch needs repairing,, leave it at the Purdy Trading Co.. at Geyser, who will have ii done for you promptly and well. All work guaran- teed. PURDY TRADING C #214•1173., 4,0vAsukwierrwm.yowsw,..p- YIPANY Comforters llere you are! The nicest, softest and most comfortable comforters you ever saw, in light and dark patterns, and large sizes, each $1.50 and $2.00 Blankets in fancy cotton and gray and white wool finish from the Shepherd Mills, good, full sizes and nice soft finish. Prices from $1.50 to $2.50 each. Pillows in fancy striped tick, made froth all new chicken feathers, thoroughly renovated, crushed and dusted—an exceptional pillow at $1.00. Bed Spreads Crocheted bed spreads, -scalloped and cut corners, large sizes, in nice fancy patterns and very good quality —sold regular at $3.50—we are now closing them out at $2.50. • HY NOT make the night warm and comfortable? Don't be in lack of bed- ding to keep you warm and comfortable in the cold nights. We are prepared to meet your de- mands at any time in that line with a good selection of comforters, blankets, sheets, pillows, cases and bed spreads. Our prices arc so reasonable that it pays to buy these goods ready made than to make them your self. We also carry the best quality of materials to make them from, so we are able to suit you any way. Give us your order now. • Groceries We have just received a • shipment of the famous PURDY ingleheart Swa n sd OW 11 TRADING COMP'Y Prepared Cake Flour— in packages. It has no equal for all kinds of pastry. Try it once GEKST, R MONTANA • and you will try it again. Groceries Now is the time to buy peaches for canning. A new fresh supply of nice choice peaches just ar- rived and the price is only $1.00 a box. Buy now! • Tickings in a good variety of qualities and patterns; prices ranging from 15c to 25c a yard. Oriental Robe Prints Washington Turkey Red and Pacific Draperies in fancy patterns and fast colors, prices 10c to 15c yard. Pillow Cases From the Mohawk Valley Cotton mills; torn and hemmed; size 42x36; an excellent value for 20c. Bed Sheets Exceptionally large size. 81x90: a very good liv and soft finish, for fi5 cents. Ready-made Towels in big % ariety of qualities, sizes and price: plain and Turkish bath travels, ranging in price from 5 to 30c. Knit Wash Cloths u ,„,i soft for the face: size I 1 6 for 25, - ; Dish towels Sc. each. PURDY TRADING COMP'Y „ GEYSER, MONTANA
