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The Melstone Graphic (Melstone, Mont.), 22 Dec. 1911, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86075007/1911-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
Melatono LA Situated on the Stir Bend 01 the Musselshell Mier in tho Famous M MELSTONE, MUSSELSHELL COUNTY, MO HUSBAND DESERTS. WIFE AND FAMILY Leaves Home to Find work and Fails to Show up Again A very sad ease was brought to , the notice of Melstone people Thursday morning when the stage • P' arrived with Mrs.' James Carlon and two children, destitute and .without funds. Carlon, who has been holding a laim near mosby for some time .,.left home three weeks ago to look for work, as he claimed, taking the last $2.00 the wife had and spent it for drink, leaving the wife and chilhren to shift for themselvs. W. H. Mosby, a near neighbor and old pioneer in this .section, seeing how things were in that home, •\took them to his home where his estimable wife made them comfor-. table for the past three weeks. Mrs. Carlon not having heard from her husband, decided to come to Melstone and look him up. She t telephoned to Musselshell where they informed her that he had been there but, had loft for parts unknown. The woman, not knowing what else to do, made it known that her husband had deserted !ter ( and left her penniless, Jack -La- raver, bartender . at thlvlirent . wediately started around Win and had soon gathered about $9.00 in cash and some new 'alto6 for the children. They were sent to Roundu!) to be Cared for by the county. The officers aught to hunt the fellow up and compel! him to support his family. RAILROAD NOTES Night Machinist W. J. Fleshman •i having a well drilled on his place southeast of town. Shorty t.ilouthower machinist helper at thoroundhouse will visit a few weeks at Beloit Wiscomain. .,‘ Mike Piit and Crrist Nicolls who have been working at the round house have gone back to Bulgaria The silk train ran into No .18 passenger train at Odessa Minn. Sunday killing 14 people and in- juring many. Engineer Boltz got in with 2137 all right Monday after his flying trip' from) Miles City. Boltz is a swift engineer all right hut since that famous trip the boil 9i makers have been busy waking repairs. Jack Oox has the sympathy of ail his fellow workers at the round house in not being able to get a leave of absence Christmas week. Cheer up Jaok ,we've all decided to do double shift so you can get away in thh spring. Wedding bells harmonize better with spring blossoms and song birds any way. FOR NOSEOLAGS WEARERS. • Here is an original suggestion to everyone who wears nose glasses and has trouble keeping them on during the warm weather. Get some pow- dered rosin, dip the cud of your fin- ger in the main, then rub ort the : small parts of your glasses that come !next the nose and your glasses will $.eler come off until Tett take them. • MAKING RUGS . IN THE ORIENT Women and Girls Dethe ) Weaving and Methods and Patterns Are Traditional. For ages reaching back into the mists of antiquity, weaving has been the work of women, thought the mcict. , ern factory of the west has brought about changes in this respect. •\In the unchanging east weaving is, with few exceptions, women's work, In the interior of Asiatic Turkey and in Persia the patriarchal system still exists and the sons bring their wives home to live. I have known as many as 35 persons to live iii 'one dwel- ling,\ writes Mrs. Eliza Dunn in her new hook, \Bugs in Their Na- tive Land.\ \The mother-in-law is queen of the household and every morning assigns to each woman and girl her task for the day.\ Methods of working as well as patterns are traditional; according to the same author, and designs are peculiar to special families or tribes and be- come so familiar that the older work- ers produce them from memory. .The art of tying in the yarn has to be learned very slowly. The younger children are allowed to tie- in only one solid color on the plain background, but when a girl be- comes fairly expert'. she is allowed to make a whole rug t and traces of iedividuaality may he looked for le her weaving. The ,twe.slasses• Iiirldsb 'and rieraila\ 'acre d'hi. 1 tinguished by the kind of knot, in which they are tied, the Oldordes, or Turkish, the Senna, or Persian, knot. The number of knots to the square inch is one of the tests of value of a modern rug, and the fact that more :an be tied to the square inch in a Persian than in a Turkish rug ac- counts for the greater fineness and r.onsequently greater costliness of the former. HE IS TIRED OF TIPPING Experience of Returning New Yorker Drives Him to Safety Razor and Asparagus Farm. A New Yorker who had volunta- rily absented himself from the only town in which life is worth while came back and revisited his usual haunts. Going into the barber' shop he was greeted at the door by a maiden of tender years, who threw open the means of entrance with a gracious air. He tipped her. A youth hung up his coat. and collar. lie tipped him. The barber opplied the lather end fed him with gossip worthy of his famous prototype who held the noses of the great in Sa- vonarola'a .day. Ile got his tip. Then came the, boy who held his coat and the boy who brushed him off, each to be mollified with the one unctuous application that soothes all wounds. As he started to leave, the poodle leaped into a chair by the loor and held up his two paws ap- pealingly. 'The gentleman haa since bought a safety razor and is now dickering for an asparagus farm in the wilds of New Jersey. Mayor Gaynor of New 'York has this to say about walking: \Observe nature. When you come to a barn, yard go in and see the pigs and fowls and the cows. Climb a fence now and then and go into the fields and look at the crops or the cattle. I know of no place where there is more philosophy than in a barnyard. You can Acorn much from animals. Within their circle they know much more than we do.\ a •PATRONIZ ADVER hell Valley Wher,o*Farms aro Among the Best in tho Northwest NA,' FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1911. ERS Help Them who lp the Paper that lp You 0 Melstone wants m houses, ,more residence* 4 factories. We have:-Ge business d some al Store, One GRicery Store, Ti% Hotels, Four Saloons, Roomi llouse, Pool Room, Two Physi ,. s, Drug Store, Livery Barn, aft Black- smith Shop.' By lookineObrough the paper you will notiee Oat these business Bums are - WI week soliciting -your patronage'ithrough the columns of the °lap*. Now renders, show that you arefteosters, by throwing your trada.. to the merchants who advertise' in the ,. home paper. kis to youltinterest to do this for the papee is the , - organ fo - hich you look Oen you want a boos 'tor a good wotOspoken to the public when it comtearound election time; It is thei.': means whereby outsiders find but the 1 fertility of the soil and tie pro. ductiveness of your la . 1 thus raising it in value. If youdiave A public affair of any kind :we are here to make it and itli' cause known; But we can't live ,•on air and atmosphere any more than you, we must have somethingr -pore substantial; You help thelive mer- e** R110,adver4itse antrAtekare, doing all they can to ttrodiote our little city by giving them your trade, the advertisers help us and we help you both, not once in a while, but regularly, week in, week out, fifty-two times in a year, we proclaim far and wide the opper- tunities of Melstone and the Musselshell valiey. FIRE MEETING At a meeting of the tire depart- ment last evening an assessment roll was prepared according to the property each citizen holds and the money is to be used to put up a building in which to house the chemical engines. This is it public movement in which every one should take an interest by paying the assessment promptly so that the building can be started soon. There is no telling howisixm a tire may break out and with the engines stored in the freight house unpack- ed and behind other storage it would be utterly impossible to get it out before it had wiped out the town. The Milwaukee Land Company has donated a lot on which the fire building will be erected. This is a town necessity and each and all should reepond. \ ---- C. D. Prather from down the river was here Tuesday getting a load of supblies. W. H. Searl of Lodge Polo beught supglies here this week. The Creseent Orchestra will give a dance in Hartloy Hall Christmas , night. Just a few copies of our Christ- mas issue of the Graphic Jolt, call and get one or more and send to a friend this week. • , , Several of our County officers Were in litelstone Wednesday night and Thursday. While here Cout;ity Clerk Dralle inspected scales and found them to be all 0. K. ' $2.00 PR YEAR. FAIR SIZE GATHERING AT MUSSELSHELL MULE IS SURE OF HIS JOB To Be Retained as Mainstay and Backbone of Army In Spits, ,of Modern Motor Trucks. Major General Carter, reporting on the lessons learned from the mili- tary maneuvers in Texas, declares that while motor trucks have been found available in transporting army supplies over passably good roads through country ordinarily smooth the old reliable mule is the boy for use when it comes to mountain climb- ing and packing trails. The mule, therefore, will not be abolished, but will be' retained as the mainstay and backbone of the regular army, the power that can always be relied upon to have the bread wagon on hand and the camp equipment in reach when the day's fighting is done and the army is ready to eat and sleep. The mule is not much to rave about for speed, and does not rank high in a beauty. show, but for patient toil and dependableness he there sevim days in the week, uncomplaining, faithful .and efficient. New kinds of arms and ammunition may he adopt,- ed ; changed methods of fighting, marching and campaigning may come into vogue; improvements in forts and in rations may be invented or discovered, but there iir• nothing new, changed or improved in the army mule. He is the same yester- day, today and in . the nest xar, t 'ante ''atbSetritely idtfthmpro able produce of the ages. He van only be abolished by the adoption of that universal peace for which we all hope and pray, but which none of us really expects in the near future. And then the army mule will not be abolished, but only transferred to the corn field and the cotton patch. Here's to the army mule. Long may he kick and pull. POWER OF GROWING PLANTS. Time layman would scarcely emaci- ate great strength' with so delicate and fragile a thing as maidenhair fern, yet if its roots have not sufil- reient room they will break the pot in which the plant grows. Blades of Qrass will force the curbstones be- tween which they spring up out of their place, and in single night a - lop of small mushrooms has been known to lift a large stone. Indeed, plants are on record as having brok- m the hardest rocks. The island of .1Idabrn. to the northwest of Made- zascar, is now becoming smaller lirougli time action of the mangroves :het grow along the foot of the cliffs. l'hey eat their way into the rock in ill directions, and into the gaps thus formed the waves force their way. In time they will probably reduce island to pieces. \GONGS WITH(YUT WORDS.\ Mendeissohn's \Songs Without Words\ are said to have originated in an idea in a letter sent to his mister, whom the 'composed loved most devotedly ? He wrote: \I wish I were with you; but as that is im- possible I have written a song for you expressive of my wishes and flIciaghts.\ Then followed what many conclude was the germ of the \Songs Without Words.\ AGAINST PRINCIPLES. \Here is a beautiful painting in oil full of opirit.\ \Couldn't think of . taking that to a temperance house. I want we iv water colors,\ Some of the People Not Satisfied to go to Extra Expense 0 The sugar beet meeting held at Musselshell Wednesday afternoon was largely attended but we believe much more enthuaiasin would have been displayed, had it not appear- ed in the course of the lecture,that the farmer would have to go to quite a lot of expense before he would be ready to raise his beets for market. The factory does not encourage raising beets without irrikation nor until the ground has been tilled for two or three years and alfalfa raised thereon. This, with the homeateador who has not very much capitol is almost impossible for by the time he pays for his plowing, hauling, shrinkage etc. his profit is small. In order to rotate the crops as suggested ho must of course be at considerable expense until he has gone over tho entire acreage. Irrigation is out of the question just now. In the summer, the sea- son when it is needed, the river is MOJA always dry. There are places where dams could be build to hold surface water but not stifilcielq Absher News from The Village Boosters , A. B. Tolley is working on hie ditch. Earl Dunn is breaking some horses for W. B. Cooley now. Mrs. El T. Webber was a caller at Ababer one day this week. Mr, and Mrs. A. B. Tolley were callers at Abaher Sunday. B. A. Bradley is busy hauling lumber from upper Carpenter creek Mr. Chandler of this place was a business visitor in Roundup last week. Mrs. B. A. Bradley and daughter were in Melstone on business last week. Earl Dunn and C. C. Curren were business callers in Melstono Saturday. John A. Harris of this placo attended M. W. A. lodge at Mussel- shell Saturday night. Mrs. Leach who is stopping at, the C. W. McClain ranch was an Absher caller one day last week. Frank Carpenter, who was re- ported as being 'quite sick last week is now able to be at work again. W. C. Grant, our prominent, rancher and stock grower of the west end of the gumbo Hat was in Absher one day last week. Miss Gladys Pfaff who has been staying with Mrs. C. M. Jacobs of Musselshell arrived hero a few days ag6 to spend the Hollidays with her aunt Mrs. J. 0. Abetter, C. C. Curren is staying on his place now preparing to move his shack. Carl says he does not be- - lieve in staying in one placo too long, Bill Spendiff of Musselshell was aeon in our city Saturday with the County Stirveyor for the purpose of running out some roads. But suppose it is all a fake like it line, tom for the past years,
