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1 - iKed—r4.4.1.1PePr- ,40 =.2 ay to in in- ter :he rill ur- BY, at 'tit -16 Judith Basin OFFICIAL PAPER OF JUDITH .BASIN COUNTY, Vol. 11. No. 42. $2.00 Per Yiar. 9unty Press CONTINUATION OF THE STANFORD WORLD STANFORD. JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. MONTANA, THURS AY, DECEMBER 9, 1920, omans' Club Takes, charge Seal Campaign The Chriatnfas Seal campaign I at all gruesome, 411t bough linked Ls now 601i - foil blast, and the lo- up with the dreaded word \Tu- .. cal Woman's club have taken the bereulosis;\ it is a greeting of _responsibility of distributing the health to people who : receive it seals in this community. A sup- in their holiday mail—a -message ply of the Seals have already been of cheer and happiness. The scoured and will be placed on sale Christians Seal does not -Stand for at ' the various business houses anything repulsive or gruesome. about town and then in •addition Ira, for the cure of disease ; the the 'club will \put out Soliciting making .of . strefiget: and healthier eoinmittecst to further -rush the children, the . 'prevention of ill sale of the seals. The seals sell health, are the .things which for one cent each and Judith Ba- should be the pause of cheerfull- sin county's quota is ten Seals, Hess, and for, these- things the per person. Christmas Seal -stands. Thu Seals .are distributed ,the . A penny may not be much, but saute as last year—for the benefit spent for a Christmas Seal it buys of the. 'State • Tuberculosis Asso- three things—a - thought of good viaticum, which receives 90 per health by the sender, a wish ,for cent of the proceeds, with 10 per good health to its reeipient, and tent going to the.National . Tu- a message of good health convey- berculosis Association. cd by the State Tuberculosis As - The Christmas Seal of 1920 is sociation to one who sorely needs a jolly, cheery looking seal, not it. Can a penny do more? American Legion Team Trims Belt, 19 to 34 Score' The American Legion basket ball team, Stanford Post No. 53; won . their secend: basket ball 'game this season Uta s t Saturday night when they met Belt qn the local court. Because of the feet that tome of the preliminary ar, rangpments were . not - made be- fore the game, the contest was late in starting. However, when the game did start it furnished plenty of entertainment for the Spectators. although little real basket ball was played. The Belt team were good, snap- pv players, their size being the only thing against them. Their team work was much better than that of the locals and had they been surer on their shots for bas - lets the score might have been different.. They came back strong in the second half and scored three baskets before' the locals\ get strung out. - The Stanfrod boys played a spas - erratic game. Once in a - while a play from signal -would be completed in record time and the ball caged without having been touched by an opponent, then again the ball would be lost inunediately after the tap front center and they would watch the visitors accurate passing until the ball reached the danger zone. The entire game was very rough al- thongh none of the fehls were in- tentional, and so the tos- could be learned the visitors were well pleased with the outcome. The fil score was Belt 19; Stanford 34. Belt's scoring was dime by Bache\ , r. f., four field goals-; G. Hubber, I. g, three field goal- For Stanford, Grady made seven field goals and two foul goan.; Henderson, r. g.. two field goals; Strout I. g., five field goals; Waddell, r. f. one field goal • Spalding, I. f., one field goal. Of- ficials.: Rollwitz, referee; 1 ,Vempf, scorer; Flitcroft, time keeper. County Officials will Take Office Saturday Morning Work has progressed rapidly during the past week in arrang- ing the city hall for a court house. The railings are all installed and the varnishing and kalsomining practically completed and it is expected the building will be in readiness for the officials Satur- day, on which day the governor will issue a prochunation formally proclaiming Judith Basin as a county and the officials will take their oath and take office. The only. officers which have hereto- fore taken office are the commis- eioners and the county clerk, who have been acting merely in a pre- liminary capacity id arranging de- tailfi for - the inauguration, of the county and the other officials. The lease on the hall was sign- ed Tuesday, exactly as agreed by the town of Stanford during the campaign, for one - dollar a year - The lease was drawn by the coun- ty attorney in accordance with in- structions of the commissioners. As the floor space arrangement lakes shape it is aeen that .the building will make a very com- modious court' house, convenient and.giving ample room for each of the offices. The scheme to separ- ate the offices by railings instead of partitions works out even bet- ter than anticipated and besides givinomore room and light tends for economy in office help and makes the building - easy to heat with the plan the board has adopted. Two pipeless furnaces will be installed and will heat the building with the exception of the attorney -'s room, whiCh will be heated by a stove. Steel desks were ordered some time ago, but will not arrive in time to be installed before the county is inaugurated, but are ex- pected hy the fit*, of the year. The typewriters, chairs and other ar- ticles of furniture were delivered Tuesday and more will arrive by the latter part `of the week, in- cluding many of the books and other stationery material, giving the officials all the essentials nec- essary to Start operations with. Few new counties are created and started off with better equip- ment than Judith Basin. The court house building is said to be more convenient .and adaptable for county purposes than that used by many of the new counties (Contiued on last ,page) BIBS. MYERS RETURNS HOM!S Emily M. Myers, county super- intendent of schools, completed the giving of teachers' exami ne tions here Saturday evening.Those taking the examinations were: Margaret Osborne, of Moeassin; Miss Hilda Callahan, Merino; Miss Emma Jud, Konen; Evelyn Leslie, Lehigh, and Mrs. Lyda Boyd, May Gray, Amelia Dester, Hattie Goy- im, Rollin Galt and Eino Auren of Stanford Mrs. Myers return- ed .to her home Southwest of Utica Tuesday. . ABSTRACTS -PICKING UP Miss Margaret Egan, of Great Falls, was in the 'ci13 7 Tuesday ar- ranging for the opening of the Judith Basin County Abstract company's office of which she will be the manager. Miss Egan has been employed by the Hubbard Abstract company of Great Falls in prepating the deity confiden- tial report for a number of years and severed her connection with that firm on December let to lo- cate at Stanford. Sorting Seized Narcotic Drugs Cpplat,tit. :kaidttrieltd Cononittee appointed by 111u tontinissioner of internal reveleic segregat. Ing narcotic drugs sent In from the vailous offices throughout the country. The unopened and original packages are turned over to the United state's piddle health service for use In government hospitals. The broken packages tout the adulterated drugs are destroyed. STATE'S POTATO CROP LARGEST IN YEARS Montana -raised 4,910,000 bu- shels of potatoes this year. com- , pared with 2,820,000 bushels last year, according to a report by F. W. Beier, statistician of the.Unit- ed States bureau of crop estim- ates. The yield an acre this year was 115 .1?osliels, the, report shows,1 compared to 60 bushels an acre last year. The weather this fallj has been favorable for harvesting4 the potato crop. More than double the amount; of flax raised last year was pro- duced this year, the report shows.' The yield in 1920 was 1,533.000 bushels compared with 697,000 bu- shels in 1919. Montana's corn crop was the largest in history, 3,759.000 bu- shels having been raisefl. The corn crop in other states also was ex- ceptionally good. With plenty of gram on the ranges late into the fall and hay 'plentiful the livestock situation is said to be better than it has been for many years. There is, no sale yet for surplus hay. Of all the producers in Montana the sheepmen are having the most difficult time. There is still no I demand for wool and not more, than 5 per cent of the wool yieldl this year has been sold. $72,000 STOLEN AT GREAT FALLS Seventy-two thousand dollars in securities, most of them not ne- 'gotiable, were stolen last- week from a safe. in the house of b. IL Hamilton, 'president of the Com- 'ocelot National bank of Great Falls, according to his complaint to the police. The securities included $7,000 woth of Liberty bonds which will be negotiable, but most of the (therm were registered stocks and instruments which cannot be dis- posed' of. The securities were in a safe which was not locked, according to Mr. Hamilton. No one was at hoots when the theft took place. ,MASSACHI/SETTS FARMERS LIKE MONTANA OATS Montana oats for seed havedis- placed the'Illinois and fosta Var- iety because of the increased pro- duction and : two carloads have been 'shipped to dealers in Boston for Massachusetts farmers, accord- ing to A. E. Barketneyer,of the Barkemeyer Seed and Grain Co. of 'Great Falls,wito said that while the seed market has been' very quiet here there are indications of ruch life on the Atlantic sea- board. Mr. Barkemeyer says the Mas- sachusetts farmers are willing to pay fancy prices for Montana oats find are willing also to pay freight on a 2,000 -mile haul. The Mon- tana oats produce 40 bushels to the acre on the same ground that the Illinois and Iowa varieties pro- duce 32 bushels. NINETEENTH BANK IN N. D. TO CLOSE DOORS Closing yf the Citizens State Bank in Antler, 13ptfineau coun- ty, dime to depleted reserves, *as announced this by 0. E. Loftin's, state bank examiner. This is the nineeteenth bank to close in North Dakota, since No- veinber 12. - Mr. Lofthus said' plans are un- der way for reopening time closed im.:tittitions• but none have re- Stkuretti business yet. the state industrial commis- sion, at a meeting, adopted a reso- lution authorizing time Bank of North Dakota not to honor checks or drafts drawn by enmity treas- urers unless the money is needed to meet urgent obligations. The commission supervises the bank. Although' an initiated law pass- ed at the November election has become effective, permits county treasurers to withdraw public funds from the Bank of North Dakota, the industrial commis- sion took the position that the law is not retoactive and does not give .the treasurers authority to draw diit funds deposited prior to Dee. 2 except for the purpose of I.:eel ing obligations. Payment on two drafts an the Bank of North Dakota by treas- urers of Logan and Norton coun- ties was refused by the bank. ARMY MULE, BORN AT VERDUN, REACHES U. S. Washington — Mlle. Verdun, just a Plain army imile, who was born under fire at Verdun, has arrived in the United States as a fitowaway• Mlle. Verdun was brought to this country by the _14th United States Field Artillery %Odell violated the rules of the war department that no animals were to be bought back to the United States. She is the mascot of the regiment. Mlle. Verdun, ficmon , after her baptism of fire, marched ten miles under her own power with her mother, who was the wheel mare of the crackerjack battery of the Indian Head di- vision. • FOUR MEASURES ARE PROCLAIMED LAWS Acting Governor W. W. Me , Dowell haft issued a proclamation declaring four - of eleven feasures, sobinitted, at the election on No- vember 2, as laws of Montana and declared elected candidates ,for state offices receiving the highest number of votes. • The new laws which are now in effect are the constitutional amendment providing for the dis- position of interest on school funds, the $5,000,000 bond issue for the maintenance of ,the high- er state educational institutions, he 1 1-8 mill tax levy 'for the ate schools and the law creating county boxing commissions under which boxing exhibitions may be held in the state. 5 Cents Per Copy. Chester Appointed • to Under Sheriff Job This week Sheriff C. 11. Kelley aimoinfeed that he had appeinted Alfred Chester to the under -sher- iff position and that Chas. Gordon of Utiea would be his deputy. 'rime under 7 sheriff is ennsidered the most important appointment in the county and it has been the (wise of ,considerable speculation SS to who the sheriff would choose. - Comity Clerk II. U. Brownleee also announced that lie had ehoseit B. Aseman of Raynesford as his chief deputy, and that his son. II. U. Brownlee, ,Jr,, would be a elerk and Miss Ester Hogan of Moeas- tsin would be, the stenographer. Mr. Brownlee stated Tuesday that these three would compose his to met' for the preselit, although he expeeted to add another clerk as stain as„ work in his °thee mm - ('emit a t Other appointments, which m edplete th o e list fr the Present, pounced' are: J. M. Croft, deputy and whielt have gr e a dy b ecn n _ assessor; James Parker of Gey- ser, deputy elerk, of the court, and Murry Dolliver, deputy trees- mir i em :; kcording to County Clerk Brownlee, the officials Will take . office Saturday and immediately put the comity lo functioning. Thia is contrary to other an- nouncements that the eounty would not open for business until Monday, the 13th. It is expected the entire official family will have arrived . by Friday evening and be ready to lake up their duties. on Saturday Mornmiimg.. . Will Vote on Banner County March 29th The Commissioners of Chou- tenti county, before whom the pe- titions were heard for the crea- tion of. Banner county, last Sat- urday ruled that the petitions in behalf of the Banner eounty pro- posal .were sufficient irr every re- spect and set March 29th as the date to vote on the ;»•oposition. -According to S. B. Noretitt, who was in Stanford a short time Sat- urday evening, ,enroute to his home at Denton from Ft. Benton where he tool kyr' in attendance at time hearing, the petitions and boundary lines,were paased on by the board exactly as presented by the proponents of the new county, with the exception that three in- clusio» petitions were allowed. The \Coffee Creek\ withdrawal which was planned to aquae!' the scheme by withdrawing territory in such a shape as to disqualify time proposal, was disallowed by the commissioners. Mr. Norcutt stated that the hearing went off smooth and, nice and that there 0 was little diffieulty iii overcoming the objections offered by the miti- divisionists. His only worry now that the • commissioners have passed favorably to- time poposi- tion is that the legislature, whOli convenes on January 2nd, may pass legislation which will effect the county division law now in operation and thus cause the pro- ceedings to this date to be of no effect and necessitating the filing of new petitions, f04 was the case on two occasions .when Judith Basin county was being created. Banner county is to be consti- tuted from the southeast portion of Chouteau eounty and the north- western part' of Fergus county, having an area and valuation far in excess of that required muncher the provisions of the eounty di- vision law and will embrace the: towns of Denton, Housime, Coffee Creek, Geraldine and Square Butte. Denton -and Geraldine are the s li e k a e t l . y candidates for the county Would Provide Federal Aid to Assist Education Considerable interest is taken in Montana educational eireles in the Sinith-„Towner bill which will come before the short session of congress this winter. The bill is large in its scope and provides for the addition of . a -seeretary of Education to the president's cab- inet and an appropriation of one hundred million dollars to be used as federal aid to states for specific purposes. A synopsis of the bill follows: The Snmith-Towner bill provides for the establishment of a De- partment of Education with a secretary in the President's cab- inet. It declares \that it shall b.> the duty of the department of Ed- ucation to conduct studies and in- vestigations in the field of educa- tion and report thereon.\ It states specifically that \research shall be undertaken in (a) illiter- acy; (h) immigrant education; (c- school education, amid especially rural education; (d) physical education.' including health education, recreation and sanitation; (e) preparation and supply of competent teachers for the public schools; and (f) in such other fields as in the judge - I ment of the Secretary of Educa- tion. may require at and study.\ . Such research with respect to education is analogous to the work width has been carried' on thy the Department of Agricul- ture for more than fifty years in the field of agrieulturia study and investigation. The bill also provides that lime Federal Government shall en- courage and assist the states in tlit promotion of education by an annual appropriation of one in in dollars, which Khali be expended for five specific pur- poses: (1) for the removal of ill- iteracy. Seven million five hundred thousand dollars; (2) for th.e Am- ericanization of foreigners, seven million five hundred thousand dollars; (3) for physieal educa- tion, health and sanitation, twen- ty million dollars; (4) for the training of teachers, fifteen Mil- lion dollars; and (5) for time par- tial payment of teachers' salaries the promotion of general edueiw tion, especially rural education, and the equalization of education , al opportlinities, , fifty million dollars. •• CHURCH *nig . Sunday school at 10 a. preaching at 11 a. in. and 7:30 p, m. . Attendance at Bible School, 90 class collection $2.85, largest col- lection was by, Louis Spady's class. The Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. Myrick on Thursday af- ternoon at 2 :30 p. m.; Mrs, Eugene Bayles will be the leader. The attendance again was fine Sunday night. --REV. II. A. BROWN, -Pastor TO OPEN -ABSTRACT OFFICE 9 . Mrs. M. C. Peters svas in the city Monday making arrangd- moors to open an abstract office. She expects to be ready to open for business Saturday, to be ready for any business that might bo transacted the first day the coun- ty will .be in operation. Mrs. Peters recently sold out her ab-, street office at Lewistown, which she 'conducted for a number of years. She is much pleased with the prospects Judith Basin county offers in her line of work.
