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Judith Basin County Press (Stanford, Mont.), 16 Dec. 1920, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053195/1920-12-16/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
• • 5, ' \..As t sie wesi•smevaseetaseser,vimn4ssw'etribrits•s•tH' • vers iT tlarietistetir l **-st•st•-• -,r, • -. • ' , • 's I • t „ ft * — aas Judith( Basin OPTICIAL PAPER OF JUDITH BASIN COUNTY. County CONTINUATION OP THE suatirotto WORLD. - Five Cents per Copy. Vol. 11. No. 43. $2.00 Per Year. STANFORD, JUDITH BASIN COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, DECEMpER 16, 1920. Officials Take Oath of Office Saturdy The formal announcement of Ju- dith Basin, county occurred last Sat- urday, December 11, it which time the new county legally came into ex - laterite, with Stanford as the perman- ent county seat. County officials who were sworn in and took office last Saturday are: County Attorney, John B. Muzzy; sheriff, C. H. Kelley; treasurer, Ed Bonstead; assessor, Ed - Hersey; au- ditor, Ethel C. Hirsch; superinten- tendent of schools, Emily M. Myers; clerk of court, Clarke Grady; public administrator, Mike Hogan; coroner, R. D. Thomas. Deptuies who gave bond and also took oath of office are: Murry Dein- ver, deputy treasurer; B. Aseman, deputy clerk and recorder; J. M. Croft, deputy assessor; Charles Gor- don, under sheriff,' and Alfred Ches- ter, deputy sheriff: At present the various offices are considerably handicapped on account of the non -arrival of equipment and supplies, but it is expected that the great majority of the items that will be most used at the outset will have arrived and installed in another ten days. The new cohnly will have an ap- proximate tax valuation of $10,000, - the teachers also expect to spend this Christmas at their homes and this will enable them to reach home be- fore the holiday.. . In order %that as few ditys as possible mat be missed from Fehool, it hits been 'decided that school will be In session next Saturday. This will give a Christians vaca- tion of two weeks, lacking two days, for school will open again on Tues- day morning. January 4. This open- ing date, will make it possible for both teachers and pupils to spend Christmas and New Year's at home. Fifteen weeks of the first semester will have been spent at the closing of sebonl next Tuesday, and a very suc- cessful fifteen weeks it hes been. The school has enjoyed an uninter- uptud sentlion with the largest en- t poliment in its history. The work to 1-1 reneral has been highly satisfactory t at e Farm Imans snd while there is alweye room for 000; $8,300.000 being in the portion writers and other supplies, although improvement many of these improve - taken from Fergus county and $1,- the clerk and recorder's office was menus are planned and the work af'- 700,000 in the portion 'taken' from kept fairly busy between arranging Stale farm lositie in Montane' have 158 applications were recommended ter the holidays A00(1 show better re ,, ulte and the School spirit should be greatly increased. A Christmas program, given by the XI high school music department, com- bined with some of . the grades, will clerk on the first day, that being a state license issued to H. B. Horn of Windham to peddle meat. No 'civil or criminal , actions were started on the first day and the clerk of the court contented himself by watching the others. The only sem- blance of business in his office.. was an application for a marriage license. but owing to the fact that supplies in this regard had not arrived the appli- cants were compelled to go elsewhere to secure permission towed. Neither was there any business in the ober- Cascade county. Various' estimates have been placed on the sum to be due the old coun- ties from the dew county when a generally supervising the unpack- totaling $671.000 and those actually s, closedanti este(' armoans settlement is made. According to ing of the supplies. in force for a total of $4.269,570, if. isl for $101.000, (luring November. In improbable that applications received addition the office has pending loans aggregating $171,000. In addition the --- • • office has loans for 2250,000 which lie Mk)ves to I exvistown have been approved but net yet re- ..ordee This gives the .office a total newspaper reports, originating at Great Falls and Lewistown, the new county will owe Cascade county ap- proximately $40,000 and Fergue coun- ty ;250,000. These figures, however, are taken to be merely a guess, as the commission appointed by Governor Stewart and composed of Rufus Po- land Of Lewistown,' B. F. McNair of Great Falls, and Verne Baroch of Hobson have not yet made a public announcement as to any of the val- uations they have agreed' on. It is said by those who are acquainted with the matter that the amount to be due the old counties will not reach any where near the estimated figures given in the papers and that if a fair settlement is made the old countless will actually owe the new county soy- tral thousand dollars. This fair set- tlement, however, deperds on the new county's representative on the commission and unleils he is there to deal for the best interest of the coun- ty it will no doubt come in at the lit- tle end of tho horn. It Is expected the commission will make an announce- ment within another two weeks. Saturday, and the . first day of this week, were largely spent in. arrang- leg the offices, enpacking type - Vindictive Raised at Ostend It aising the battered hulk of 11. M. 8. Vindictive. %%Melt was stink in Ostend harbor to block the Gorman CI -boats. The Vioinethe will b e towed back to England. This most unusual photogrupli shows the condition of the buttered vessel. - • Heavy Demand for umrk the lose of the school for the holidays. This program will he given at the City Hall on Monday evening, Dec. 21. Everyone is invited to at- tend. There will be no charge made. The Christnias program of the school modified in some respects • School Program on Monday, Dec. 21st The Stanford schools will close on Tuesday. December 21, for the Christmas vacation. The fact that many of the students of the higft school come from outlying districts and wish to be home before Christ- mas causes this day to be chosen for has been the closing of the school. Several of to cOincide with the plans for the big Christmas program to be given by the church at a later date. Monday evening's program will ho somewhat as follows: I (a) Sacred Overture—Fillmore. (b) Flower Bell Walts--Fl. Ascher. 1st High School Orchestra. II Trials of Christmas Shopping. Grammar Room Girls III Christmas Lullaby—Brahms. II, S. Girls' Quartette—A. IV Class Sludy—Starbuck. H. S. Orchestra. V \The Toy Shop\ Primary Room, VI Community Sing. Jingle Belie— Joy to The World. Selections. . VII \The Night After Xmas.\ Ilarvey Donnell. VIII (a) Little Girl- --Clark. (hi \Mr. Alphabet's Holiday\ Girls' Quartette (hi IX Cornet Solo—Misere. 'llownrd Waddell X Dialogue—\No .Presents. \ Grammar Jtoom Boys. . (a) Christmas Round. • th) !My Night. H. S. Chorus. - the office.and attending to the filing of records. The auditor also had 'her hands full checking invoices and Skelton Files First Document The first document to be filed with the county clerk and recorder of Ju- dith Basin county was a deed by Robert Skelton, 'Jr. The firat mort- gage was filed by the. Montana Bond and Mortgage Co. of Great Falls. During the first half day of the coun- ty's operation 31 instruments were tiled and at the close of business Monday evening a total of 41 legal filings had been accomplished. Increased to the point where the state land office Is practically jauttnped with the rush for new loans panding now will be ready to close within 60 or 90 days. A. Whipple, slate land agent, said that his department (lid the greatest business daring the month of November, 1920, since the farm loan law was enacted. Agents of Mr. AMisirexaminad property of 175 4ppi t‘iihr , for loans, whose ghtstracts Or title - had already been approved by the attorney general's office. Of those examined 17 were rejected and for loans aggregating $302,300. ; Sidney Miller, register of state of :421.000 in farm loans pending. In addition to these loans there are !rt the attorney general's office up- pr,entions for loans totaling $150,000 I r il ii . hich the titles Are befog emu*. 411. These applIcatione bring the mill for farm loans peending to t571.000. Geyser Merc L Ii.' C. White of Buffalo ehose to rep- resent Pergfis county in the state Senate when Judith Jittain county was created. Mr. te the .. hold -over f . oi atop , wore Fewzu s con nte igg4 wag' RECted front Ms •t*.tf/Itnce at Buff- alo. now in Judith Inithiecounty. The law prescribes that any officer duly elected to all office in an old county and him place of residence IS included In territory included In a new county, (_, • the offieiai has the right to choose , which county he wishes to serve in. One license was issued by the existence in order that a clear record Entailing a loss - which is estimated I use of chemicals by the, hand of , This is the case with Mr. White and at $70,000 or $75,000, fire completely; workers to keep the fir\ fro& spread-, he chose to still be senator Prom Fer- destroyed the plant Of the Geyser init. Considerable damage was done gum county. giving 'Since for a wena- Mercantile Co. early Friday morning. the Sief red building, which adjoined tor t to be elected front Judith Basin one of the leading business institu- the Mercaatle eetabnahment on the county, and has moved from his dons of that place. south, breaking in the root of a shed ranch near Buffalo into Lewistown to at the rear and cracking several establish permanent residence at rafters in the stain building. that place. The Geyser Mercantile plant con- Regarding Mr. White and his move elided of a nne-story brick building. to Lewistown. the Fergus County Ar- 90x120. Facing on Main str. et with gas has the following to say: a frame warehouse and implement Hon. B. C. White of Buffalo is the shed in the rear and immediately ab- hold-over senator for Fergus county butting the main building. It Wag and he will serve out his term. When erected in the summer of 1917 and was valued aty approximately $26,000. Stock carried at the time of the fire $ is roughly estimated at $50,000. The 1 87 Cost of ire, assessor's nor the treasurer's office, the first day being a blank to them. The Dirge numbe , r,,of fllivga 14 the clerk and'recorderlo oc(%ee. is flee to the fact that they had been accumu- lating for several days in order that they might' be filed in the new coun- ty, and in many instances documents were filed where it was necessary to wait until the new county came into might be had. • is known that several attorneys have eases ready to start and have only waited until the county was fer- tility organized in order that it might have jurisdiction in cases where the old counties would lose jurisdiction before the cases were finally disposed of. It is expected that many filings of this nature will be made in the next few days anti thst they will number sufficiently to warrant a court setting shortly after the firSt of the year. Stanford Wins Both Games The Stanford High School opened its basketball aeason ... last Friday ev- ening with a double header game— boys and girls—with Raynesford High School, winning obth contests. The girls' game was played first end proved to be one of the best con- tests of the kind ever played n a lo- cal court. Rayneeford has placed a girls' team in the feld for several years and enjoys the reputation of always baring a winning team. Stan- ford has played very few inter -schol- astic girls' basket ball games and none for the paat two years. This coupled with the fact that girls' bas- ket ball practice has been held for only two weeks made it look like a walk -away for the Raynesford girls. Jiowever, after the game had started the effects or the gymnasium work which the girls have enjoyed for the past two -months was apparent and they were able to come out with the long end of the score. The Itayneeford team excelled in team work and passed the hall ac- curately, but were weak on goal shooting. The Stanford girl's vic- tory Was due to the fact that only one or two attempted field goals were missed. The scoring was done as follows: Irene Livingston, 1. f., one field goal and , one foul goal; Mar- guerite Hughes, r. f., four field goals. For Raynestord, MISR Fish and Miss Haney, one field goal each. Score— Stanford 11, Raynesford 4. To date there have been some twenty girls out for biteket ball practice. Among these is to be found some excellent material and before the season closes Stanford should hafe fast- est girl's teamm in this section of the country. While the score of the girls' game was an agreeable surprise, the out- come of the boys' conteeet was what those who were acquainted with the local's ability expected. , When the first half of the girls' game closed Referee Harmon blew his whistle and the boys' contest was on. From the start both teams play- ed snappy, clean ball and while the score was rather one sided, the game was full of thrills and interest for the spectators throughout. Stanford started the game with the same team that made such a splendid record last year, Substitute Harvey Donnell fill- ing the * place vacated by the gradu- ation of Roy Waddell. These men held 'the floor throughout the first half and everyone played a splendid game. At the close of the first half the score stood. Stanford 17, Baynes - toed 9 Those in charge of the locals had decided to give all a chance during the game, so Ed Stucky re -placed Donnell at guard and later Jimmy Reich and Lute Musson were given a chance in the same position. Of the eight local men on the floor, Herb. Winner was easily the star, making nine field baskets, never allowing a shot to go without the necessary \fol- low-up,\ and playing the floor in pro - Continued on last mige. Fire Destroys The fir'g apparently started in the furnace room, in the basement, near the bark end of the main structure, and was , first discovered at about 1:16 o'clock by the crow of a freight train who' gave the alarm. The fire had not gained much headway by the time the firet arrived on the scene but the building was so completely filled with smoke that it was impos- sible for anyone to enter and nothing was saved from the large stock of merchandise. It le the -presumption that the fire .origInated from defec- tiye wiring, as when Mr. Evans, man- ager of the concern, and one of the first to arrive on the scene, made an effort to turn on the lights and enter the building it- was discovered that the lights had been destroyed as there was no response to the switch which was located convenient to the rear entrance. The fire first broke through from the basement at the rear of the building in the grocery department and In less than two hours and a half the entire structure had been consurned by flames and the walls collapse. No damage was done to near-by buildings, excepting windows being broken by the intense heat and the Geyser Mercantile was considered one of the beat mercantile establishments between Great Falls and Billings and will be an inestimable loss to the town of Geyser. It is said that insurance aggregat- ing $50,000 was carried on the build- ing and stock which, if true, would entail a loss of about $26,000. The Geyser Mercantile company is owned by A. J. Stough of Great Falls and Frank Culver and R. C. Friable of Stanford. The business has been under the management of Jasper Evans since 1918. The owners have not yet announced their intention of future operation, but should they de- cide to continue in operation at Gey- ser it is considered likely that it will be pn a much smaller scale. Explains Meat License Law In response to many inquiries re- ceived at this time of the year from all parts of the sfate, II. M. Shea, di- rector of the division of food and drugs for the state board of health, explained that all who offer meat for sale must have a license from the state board of health. Licenses, for which no fees nre charged, must be held by all who conduct a butcher shop or slaughter house. It is killing time on many ranchers and much meat IR being offered for sale by others than butchers. Mr. Shea explained the exception to the law, inbaided in a regulation of the board of health, permits farmers who raise and kill their own 'stock. to deliver quantities of notices than 16 pounds to each customer. No one, however, may buy and sell meat with- out a licenae issued by the ,state board. Any farmer contemplating the butchering of animals and the sale of meats in pieces weighing 16 pounds or more should send to . the State Board of Health at Helena at once, and secure a license. As slated above, the license does not cost any- thing. • Judith Bailin county begins to func- tion as a county Senator White will have established ut residence in Lewis- town. In fact he has already done so And has spent Use great Alp arthe Week In 'this cty makiri arrange- ments to move over. \It is fortunate that Fergus county is going to retain the, services of Sen- ator White in the legisinture. His long experience in that body Is a val- uable asset. It will alqo be remem- bered that Senattor White lent his in- fluence and talents to the overthrow of the radical element which sought to gain control of the state at the November election. His speech in Great Falls last spring soaked into the farmer : members of the organiza- tion before election and had a won- derful influence. He has mottle things in mind which he desires to work out during the coming Session of the legislature which will be of benefit to the real dirt farmers of Montana. the honest Interests of whom he has always regarded as a sacred trust.\ 13u. of Wheat The price of wheat is a daily topic of conversation and in many Instances' the rise Cr fall in the price of this commodity between now and the first of the year will mean a profit or financial ruination. 'The following article in the Judith Basin Fanner by P. V. Gordon is of special interest at this time and explains exactly the status of the Montana wheat farmer In the present wheat slump: \In Montana, the average farmer who sells on today's quotation, will lose at least 76 cents a bushel; that is, he will receive 75 cents less than cost (Or his wheat. For, according to figures just made public by the Oepartment of Farm Management of the Agricultural College at Bozeman, the average cost of producing Wheat iii Montanain 1920 was $1.87 a h \That figure IA based on the records of 144 farms In 18 counties of the state. covering a total production of 143.128 btothels. an average acre - yield of 10.9 bushels. The average acre cost, 'therefore, on a., total of 13,296 acres was $20.38. — These figures. being - averages, mean ef course, that the cost on s - Ajs dome htrins was considerably less than on others. On 2.1 per cent of the farms, for inetance, the cost was less' than $1.00 a bushel, whereas, on 2.1 per cent of the farms the Goat was more than $10.00 a bushel. Th saver- age cost on half the farms' was less than $2.24 a bushel. On the other half the coat was•Inore than $2.24 a bu- sliel. About 10 per cent of the farms showed, u cost greater than 81.74 a bushel. \Only three farms showed a cost of less than $1.00; 21 showed a coal of between $1.25 and 11.49; 16 between $1.76 and $1.99; 13 between $2.55 and $2.09; alld three showed a cost of ' more than $10.00 a bushel. All other farms show& a cost varying between $1 and $10 a bushel. \The farms which showed a high cost, recorded a relatively low. yield,; whereas those with a lower cost showed a higher yield. Two-thirds of the total production of 143,128 bushels were produced by farmers whose bushel -cost was less than $2.26 Only 1.6 per cent of the crop was pro- duced at a coot under $1.00 a bushel. Nearly one-half of the total was pro- dueed for less than $1.110 a bushel. \Clearly this means that farmers who harvested good crops stand to lose less on a bushel at present prices than those who produced poor crops. The acre loss, however, might show less of a spread, but it 'doubtless would favor the higher yields.' \It is plain that the low yields In some instances may have been Vat) result of unavoidable circumstances beyond the control of the grower. Drought may have ruined the crop, (all the farms in this study were' non -irrigated) or frost, hail or wind may have injured it. It is likely how- ever, that at least a few of thug farms showed a high cost resulting Continued on last page. 11 • • 4
