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a. $1; 41 0 tan rb A'ol. 10, No. 50. $2.00 Per Year. COMMUNITY CLUB MEETS SATURDAY ortb. STANFORD, FERGUS COUNT Y, MONTANA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920. place rod has plenty of fine tyater with a well only 53 feet deep. On the Keating place Mr. Berrington dug a well 36 foot deep that now has seven feet of water in it. The people of NIerino• bench got in touch with Mr. Berrington through his ad in this paper, • IN MEM : ORIUM The heartti 01 huh iv reaiden't of Sanford and eommunity are Si: ddened and bowed by the patiti- ing of a friend and neighbor. M1'3. W.' It. Henderson, who !going east with the hopes of ben - he would have a cheese factory in F.M. Ales, who Sari he is from efiting her health which had not operation here within sixty days Lewistown, \in the Judith Bus- been the I. est. In September she af;1'n• a sufficient number of cows in,\ but whose home We arc told entered the Oakes Home in Den - had been contracted. is farther out of the Basin than ver remaining one year. Since If possihi, J. P. Hart, of Power, is Lewistown, has been spread- leaving the home she has resided will he secured to talk on situ- ing some very sorry tales at the in Denver so she could be near flower eultitre. i Chicago stock yards. According medical assistance. Everything Come and join these discus- to him the \prairies\ of the Has. possible was done for her by her sions and help plan for a big in are literally strewn with the faithful husband, mother and sis- meet hug in Matadi. dead bodies of horses, cattle, and ter, but in spite of her brave I :sheep. :fight and prayers of loving S. II .BERRINGTON GETS i The condition of stock in Mon- friends her strength gradually WELLS ON MERINO BENCH tana is bad enough without such gave away and (10(1 opened the lexaggeration, but we think most Stanford Water Witch Secceeds of our stockmen will manage to Where Many Others Have live through the balance of the Failed . i winter somehow, and the Chicago market will continue to receive The subjeet for diseusaion at the meeting of the Stanford Com- which is now ordered out, as it inanity Club Saturday afternoon brought too much work. paased - away at Denver Friday will Le the cheese factory. Mr. (Netting, January 30, at eight A. M. Embey, of Great Falls, has DROVERS JOURNAL o'clock. Mrs. Henderson left been asked to be present. . Mr. PRINTS WEIRD STORY Stanford one year ago last June, Embey is the gentleman %tit° said • Merino Bench has long been noted for its dryness, even before the amendment to tihe national eonstitution made such a condi- tion compulsory. Wells are few and far between. E. C. Tanberg drilled 1240 feet and found , no water, and Mr. Finfrock went down 250 feet with no results. I vi Water was as elusive as the oil which is to make Lewistown the 1 cause of the fiat that Edna Hen- derson lived. She helped to raise the average. It was a privilege to know her. Iler example and goedness is an everlasting plant that will flourish in many hearts; her influenee will last beyond the Sunset Gates of - heaven to allow this thought : •' In the way of her spirit to enter. rightousness there . is life; and in We longed so much to keep her , the pathway thereof there is no but her „work here was finished death.\ and God called her home and she I She leaves a husband, father, rhiptnents of prime Montana willingly obeyed his summons. mother, and sister to mourn her steers for a good many years to The world is better today be- ' going. A loriend. come. The Journal naively adds the following paragraph to Ales' ato-I ry: \The Judith Basin is a size- able farming and ranching dis- triet located hi Fergus county.; central Montana.\ We recently overheard part of Two million acres of the finest ! \ a conversation between one whom land the sun shines on is fairly , we know to be opposed to irriga- oil center of the world. sizeable tract. Finally S. S. Berrington, the , I lion end a couple of ranchers. St aim ford well man ( and baseball ' Don 't forget the Pa renCileach- fan) was employed. Ile chose a ers Aaaociation Friday afternoon. spot about 150 feet 'from the Dr. Diamore will give a lecture at 1240 foot well on the Tanberg this meeting. IGAT1 ••• ..11•••••••••••••••••••• HEAR E! • The Pythian Sisters Masque Hall which was postponed from January 24 will be given.at the City Hall Saturday, Febr. 14th There will be a costumer from Great Falls in attendance. TICKETS, $1.10 Per Couple SUPPER AT MIDNIGHT • C,TiCa p.00000000000000000 00000 0 0000.0000* • CI 0 OCO 00 • 6,YDI • •1••••••-•••• SPECTATORS, 250 . 00000000000 Credit is the measure of business char- acter and achievement. Business development is ex- pressed by the. measure of confi- dence which men have in each ot tier. We have we are the fidence in 11$1, confidence in you and product of your con - We have rendered exceptional sorviee. to the Stanford communi- ty in the present exceptional _ times. We do our utmost for our patrons in rendering efficient banking service. • Basin State. Bank Stanford, Montana Capital $20,000.00 Surplus $10,000.00 .noonon 0000 onnononnonon nnn on- , noon , 00nnon no n- (bie argument against the project many acres that can be included . in the distriet. The average value of all crops on h•rigated land on government projects for 1918, the latest avail - was that \a million dollars would able figures, was $65 per acre. be nearer the eost than $750,000.\ What would N'011 Ir`Stitllate the 11V• 5 Cents Per Copy affected by the drouth of the past sands of farmers who have been TEAM HAS EVEN three years immediate work. 1 , Drouth would have no terrors1 after irrigation had become gen-! crud.\ , — The Stanford town basket .ball There will be no field deputies 1 uponyou • .. a eat. u I day mght they Advice to Taxpayers to on theii• trip last week. On Fri- . t cam played in and out of luck played at Broad- (t!tant \' I t ! \ ila m \ ' h(e)tt:t. ' 611;1(.1.elnlittitairi P' llfse • vitclo P lai: 111101111slt• turn or il l l iel 'o t i o u' lllake It c°! 1 \ a score of 69 to their opponents own .asse ss 'l view and stieveediat in piling up th y ' \ 1 \g\ , • \ d \ II th \ most venient for the taxpayers 1 t • vill N. iteinimn. ihe undefeated precious 'jewels of humanity. i lt open offices at the following t ea m. was only able to beat wits glorious to know her and 00 pOill$8 fill' a limited number of it, ill 01111VieW by 8 !mink, so neeord- numbered among her friends. days during the month of March: , : tog to the dip- Stanford should We are sad and lonely when Moore, Straw, Buffalo, Hobson, • have won from them Saturday. we think that we will look upon al - moccasin, Benchland, Windham, They did have tutu heat en up 1101' hive no more here on earth; Lehigh, but this we know ----that she. Is fee Creek, Danvers, }Edger, W . I m - ,Then ,it her th, ipr,,,,‘'s eye - Stanford', Denton, Col- to the last eight minutes of iday. happy and Ad rest, and her going fred, chriatir .. , ,, ut noy, Valentnie, : , , , yignt nee/tine much improved Or will be an inspiration tor 'Us to Winnett, 1 I -4 ' - lltwi ll° w• , (1 , 1 *. t M s 1 he Stanford boys beeanie eare- it \ a P\ s , s as slit' hits I ms ; smi • . Range, Forest Grove and l ime less, for a dezen or fifteen fouls Tee witittows 01 . 11e1 - 80111 were °rove. opened that all the glory . of tir You will be notified by card . at i went, down to &feat, 25 to 16. . were- called on them ;hid they 1111iV01'80 might beautify it. 11 • N .h e wit\ I n n\t w e d\Mr\ you to K t \ The floor at Belmont was a little take emnfort in our sorrow with in your assessment, but ,,. . \ Y\ too close to IL ,•ei I ing for t he have changed your address . siner I : St milord team. W lien t he re- • last year, kindly inform this of -I, i turn game IS played we eonfident- flee which town is most conven-' 1‘ , expeet a , idrerent resuli. ient foi• you. Anyone eon give in his as:eminent at the iuisessor's office in Lewistown, and we re- quest all owners orlarge tracts to r_ BREAK ON TRIP CHURCH NOTES Chureh is open again for the do so, coming Lard 's Day. SUIlday 11' it ahould be impossible ler School at 10 A. M. Preaeldnat you to reach any of the above 11 A• M. and 7:30 M. The towns in the month of March,! third Commandment- -ii kindly write this office for blank profanity—will be the subjeet for list and same will be mailed to SundaY 1 4 11 1. You at onee I The monthly meeting of the N a m a l so reques t ever y tax. elders and truatees will be 'Hums - payer to classify his land, giving day night. this week, at the the number of acres and value Manse. The new birthday bank thereof, and have ready a coin- Sunday Sehool is to reeeive plete inventory of his personal,the number of pennies equal to property; in order to facilitate your ave. When the bank is full The othei• was that before any- eraw . pee aere for dry land the woric• !the mone,y will he . sent fOr 1101110 thing was done we should get ii- fanning! Probably $20 per acre All assessments must he in by and Foreign Missions. . rigation experts here to tell its about our soil, climate, etc. The objector said: \Suppose they go a sorjous shortage of water, the 0— ahead and organize theh• district average per acre on irrigated and then find it is not feasible. *id was $24.93; the average on what could they do?\ dry land hi that section was $5.37. would he a high figure. On the April 1. A. T. Miller, Co. Assessor Milk Rivei• project this year, with Rey. H. A. lirotvti, pastor. These arguments have been an- gwered so many times, and 80 ful- ly, that it would seem that at least on these points there should be noamisunderstanding. The cost, of the Valleer project was $40 per acre. Their storage costs them more per acre than the estimated cost of storage for the Stanford project, and they have only one and a. half acre- feet reservoir capacity, while we would have over two and a half. Their 'district is 75 miles long and they must carry water 35 miles in flumes before they begin to use it. The Stanford project would have only fifteen miles of main canal and about fifty miles of lat- erals, which would put the water,Great Falls Tribune. within a half mile of the highest] Mr. Winter states that Alber- point of every forty in the pro- ta farmers have become converts ject, and the farthest . tract irri- to irrigation during the past three gated would not be more than ten years. Land in that province miles from the reservoirs. This which is not yet under irrigation all spells economy in construction has brought little or no returns and we will wager the amount of during that time, he says, while our income tax that the cost will on irrigated lands, farmers raised he nearer $30 than $50 per acre. three crops of alfalfa and timo- The second objection is just thy last year. • what the friends of irrigation are New land which is located in trying to overcome in the only the irrigated districts and which feasible way—by organization, of was plowed for the first time in a district. A thorough investiga- December, 1918, and seeded to lion of theprojeet in all its phases flax, produced in 1919 the heav- is going to cost some money. Who iest crop of flax ever raised in shall pay it? We think a levy of Alberta, declared Mr. Winter. a few, cents per acre on the land \Three crops of the best alfal- which might be benefitted is the fa raised in the northwest is a fairest way. Did you eVer try' to regular occurence now for irri- raise a thousand dollars by popu-I gated farmers. From two to four lar subacription? If you have: tons of alfalfa is raised on au you know that this Method ! aere of irrigated land, which is would not be practical. But if I selling, in Alberta at the present the district is organized the corn-i time for $42 per ton. At this missioners of the district can or-, rate, a couple of 1401180118 1111Y8 fot• der this work done and pay for it the farmer's land. with warrants Which have the! Before the land was irrigated same standing in law as school it sold at from $12 to $22 per district warrants. The commis-!aere. The other day, a friend of aioners can issue warrants up to mine near Lethbridge, sold his 15 pet' cent of the assessed value- 'irrigated, improved farm for $125 tion of the district, but only a per aere. This land has only been very small part of this amant mider cultivation . a few years. would be necemary. If these in-; \Colebridge limited six miles vestigations should show that ii'-, from Lethbridge, raises what is rigation on this project was not considered the lineal, hay in Can - feasible or advisable the district would be diasolved by petition to the district court, aftei• all indebt- edness had been paid. We do not think there is any desire to force anybody to putt water on their land if they do not wish to, alt hough it majority could do it legally. In our opin- ion, 1111y0110 W110 can come tinder the ditch and does not take ad- vantage of the - opportunity is making 0 big mistake, and one that he will regret when it is too late. There will be miter •far only a certain number of acres, and there are at least four times as and the . work would give thou - • The priees paid for irrigated land are usually at least double the pm -ice of adjoining dry land pFmms the cost of the water; % and ; the Market is iilways good for ir- rigated land. Some of our ferment think we ;ire possibly too ftir north to irri- gate. Perhaps the following sto- ry 'from Alberta will help con- vince them: That Montana will make no mistake in opening up irrtgation projects tit once is the opinion of H. S. Winter of Lethbridge, Al- berta, district superintendent of the Canadian Western Natural Gas. Light, Heat, and Power com- pute. Ltd., in an interview in the Iola on irrigated land. \What is known as the Leth- bridge Northern project is now muter way. This is a$5,000,000 project - and will open approxi- matelY 200,000 acres of land to irrigation. . The Canadian Pacif- ic and the Canadian government are both back of the project and ere assisting in the financing of ihe Work. \With irrigation in Montana, this state • would become one of the, principal farming states in the union. It has plenty of water available for the projects The First National Bank and , The Basin State bank beg to notify their patrons that on and after February 16, 1920 they will be open for the transaction of business the following hours: From 9 A. M. to 12 °Via& Noon, and from 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. Frank Meredith, Cashier First National Bank. Raymond E. H. Bhison, Cashier Basin State Bank, •••••••••••••••• •••••••••••• FIRST NATIONAL BANK NEWS VOL. 1 STANFORD, MONT., FEB. 5, 1920 - NO. 60 1 Use care in endorsing the cheeks which you bring to the bank for credit or to hue cashed, See that the endorsement is ex- actly the same as on the face - of the cheek. if your name was misspelled when the cheek was written, endor , T it the same way, writing it again underneath with the eorrect spelling. $ $ $ $ The most diffieult and without a doubt one of the utmost import- ant things thet a Illfill must learn in order to be successful is this: Cooperate with others. NO man ean win the- genie alone. A. J. Stough, President R. D. Taylor, Vice President Frank Meredith, Cashier J. F. Pieper, Asst. Cashier Let's do everything we can to make this community an ideal place in which to live. Let's buy at home and sell at home and be good neighbors—we will all prof- it by it. $ $ Often two heads are better than one in solving business prob- lems. Whenever you feel that the experience of our officers will prove helpful in solving youtat, put your problems up to them. $ $ $ $ Always remember we are inter- ested in you in more ways than simply taking care of your bank- ing needs. We are not only bank- ers—we ale your. neighbors. Your biliousness. interests are ours. Your prob- Laughter is the best brand of lems ours to help solve. pills on earth. Laughter strikes $ $ $ in when it comes from without, Service has built this bank. end instantly •eoines to the situ' - Not the usnal service which a face when it starta from Withitaa bank renders its customers, hut Laughter penetrates. unusual service—doing more than You may laugh because you are we are expected to do; doing the happy, and you may be happy be - thing better and quicker than cause you laugh. It is the one W11K expeeted it would be done. thing Where the cause is the ef- You ean find out -.-all about this feet and the effect is the cause, unusual kind of service by aim- Any man can be a millionaire of , ply opening an account here. good cheer. * $ $ $ LAUGH The diaphragm beats a tatoo on the stomach when you laugh. Every time you let go it good, heal ty laugh, this diaphragm pops tip ,ant down on your liver, and helps to drive away the very thing that gives you the blue*--
