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The Sanders County Independent-Ledger (Thompson Falls, Mont.), 18 July 1918, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86075282/1918-07-18/ed-1/seq-3/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
4 SANDERS oourrir INDEPENDENT-LEDOER TEMPLETON HIGH IN \Y\ WAR WORK HAS CHARGE OF ASSOCIATION'S ACTIVITIES FOR FIVE DIVI- SIONS OF ALLIED'. AILMY Montanan Also Represents lc. M. C. A. on \S. 0. S.\ General Staff in France, Which Is Extremely Res- ponsible Potion and Is Comilider; ed Great Dannction. Herbert A. Templeton, general ma- nager of the Rogers -Templeton Lum- ber company, which has nearly 60 line lumber yards scattered over Montana, is one of the busy men in France these days, having charge of the Y. M. C. A. work for five divi- sions of the allied armies in France. Templeton went to France some six months ago to help out in the \Y\ service. For several weeks he Herbert A. Templeton, who is in charge of Y. M. C. A. work for five divisions of the allied armies In France. was somewhat uncertain what his duties would be, but finally was given a job as secretary of a hut up toward the froth lines. Next his re- sponsibilities were increased to the extent of being made field secretary of a division, which has from eight to 30 huts. His executive ability was promptly recognized, and a few weeks ago he was placedjn cha of five divisions, with more than 100 units under him, ettuh unit or hut being in charge of r. secretary. The Y. M. C. A. system in France 13 described as follows: Each Y. M. C. A. place is called a hut, no mat- ter whether it is a big building for several thousand men or a little dug- out up near the front. Each hut is in charge of a secretary, who may have from one to 10 assistants. There are usually about 20 huts to a divi- sion, and the divisional secretary hag assistants, such as religion secretary, athletic secretary, business secretary. Then come the field secretaries, who have charge of from five to 10 divi- sions. Then comes the Paris office, with the general officers of the as- sociation in charge of all the field work. There are upward of 600 huts in France. Templeton has also had the honor of beinç appointed representative of the Y. M. C. A. on what is known as the S. 0. S. general staff, which is composed of officers of the allied armies and representatives of the Red Cross, Y. U. C. A., 3C of C. and other organisations doing war relief work. The S. 0. S. general staff has charge of matters not pertaLning to fighting, but having to do with the welfare of the armies in the field. It is presided over by the general rank- ing next to General Pershing. THE SERVICE FLAG Dear little flag in the window there, Hang with a tear and a woman's prayer; Child of Old Glory, horn with a star; Oh, what a wonderful flag you are! Blue is your star in its field of white, Dipped in the red that WAS born of fight; Born of the blood that our forbears shod To raise your mother, The Flag, o'er- head. And now you've come, in this fren- zied day, To speak from a window—to speak and say: \I am the yoke of a soldier -son Gone to he gene till the victory's won. \I am the flag of The Service, sir; The flag of his mother—I speak for her Who stands by my window mad waits and fears, But hide; trent the others her unwept tears. \I am the flag of the wives who wait For the safe return of a martial mate, A mate gene forth where the war god thrives To save front sacrifice other men's wives. \I am the flag of the sweethearts true; The often nalhought of—the sisters —ton. I am the flag of a mother's son And wini't some down till the vie- tery's west\ Dear little flag in the whidow there. Hung with a Mar and a woman's prayer. Child of Old Glary. bora with a star; ditik, what • weaderfal ljag yen are! OLD BARWICK, MONTANA'S FORST CAPOTAL, DREAMS AWAY, STOLL UNCHANGED BY TINE Slightly off the beaten track of traffic in these modern days, 'nestled down in a canyon between two tower- ing mountains, lies Bannack, first capital of the great state of ,Montana and the grave of many a man's youth and fortune, as well as the starting place of many of the great fortunes credited to the sands and quartz veins of the Treasure state. The old town still stands, changed but little in the 60 years of its check- ered existence. The same straggling street extends down the gulch front- ed by log buildings masked by \two story\ fronts and, could a moving picture company be induced to stage a picturizatibu of the romance of the old gold days, the town would serve as a setting without a single change to help out the atmosphere of early days. Scenes of Early Days The old buildings, now used for other purposes, have resounded to the click of spurred heel and the thump of the miner's boot. Small heels have tapped the worn boards of the cabins and the 'clink of gold has sounded on the old deal tables that still stand in some of the desert- ed cabins. Gold dust has trickled through unsteady fingers just behind the panes of dusty glass and lives have been snuffed out In the twink- ling of an eye on the street which winds down the center of the town anfl loses itself in the maze of foot- hills which lead to the open country. Romance and the flavor of the old west still cling to the old mining town and it is not so many years since one could see, sitting in the fading twilight of a summer evening, old gray -bearded men, youths in the days of '62 and '63, who lived again in memory the days and events of 50 or more years ago. Neglected Cemetery Back of the town, just off Hang- man's gulch, of road -agent fame, lies the old graveyard, almost forgotten and falling to ruin with the passage of years. The old headboards lie prone on the ground, their lettering faint and almost undecipherable, telling of the names and dates of forgotten people who came west with the mitage of gold beckoning then) on to oblivion. One reads \Nellie New Mills and Mines Changes have come to the old min- ing camp with the passage of time. the town and to see the scenes of the raids of the storied Plummer and hi s baud of outlaws. A good road Historic Old Banaack Oity Paget, age 22, shot April 22, 1864,\ and wonders who Nellie was and where she hailed korn, who caused her death and if some one in the eastern country is still wondering what fate met a sister or a sweet- heart. She lies there, forgotten, a link in a chain which helped to build the splendid state that now exists and, though her part may have been sordid, it helped to build as surely an that of the millionaires of today. The old placers are no longer worked and in their places are modern mills and mines. The population is not increased much, but new faces have taken the place of the old-timers who have passed over the great div- ide, and still the t, vn itself stands as it has stood since its founding, a relic of the old west. Tourists visit it oecaidenally to look at the graves of the road agents who are buried on the hill hack of leads from the park -to -park trail to the old mining town and the dis- tance is only 30 miles from Dillon, where the park -to -park road taps the Butte -Salt Lake trail. The time will come when Bannack will be a sight- seeing point for tourists fr. In other states as well as the citizens of Mon- tana,. who have had occasion to spend the day in the oldest mini•g town ia the state and the seat of Montana's first territorial government. WORE FIRST GOLF \PANTS\ IN BUTTE BOB SHORES, HEAD OF BIG NEW YORK PUBLISHING HOUSE, INTRODUCED FASHION But the Irish Millers So Little Un- derstocskR*Solame tiAt He Iliad Seven Fights in a Block and a Alai and Licked a Policeman to Back His Convictions. In a fine brown stone office build- ing at 225 .Fifth avenue, New York city, are the offices of the Robert J. Shores Corporation, publishers of fiction. The Shores corporation, while one of the more recently estab- lished publishing houses of the met- ropolis, IS not a small one, its fin- ancial statement showing a paid up capital of $500,000, no indebtedness excepting current expenses and a remarkable profit -making record. It publishes popular fiction of all sorts, but specializes in mystery stories. Some of the leadiag fiction writers of the country are reaching the pub- lic today through the Shores corpora- tion. At the head of the Robert J. Shores Corporation is, as might be surmised trona the name of the concern, Robert J. Shores. Aid Itoliert J. Shores, who is a dignified appearing young as, still in his early 3e's, was a Montana resident some dozen years ago and is very well remitabirred in Bette, Hel- ena and Great Falls, where he lived at various times In Montana they used to call him Bob Shores. Me was by lastiact, traisi•g and prefereace a newspaperman, and being possessed of mach wit and a facile style of put- ting hie impreesions of men and eveata oa paper, he I dded at times to the gayety of the state. Bob Shores is the son of A. J. Shores, once chief counsel for the Amalgamated Copper Company, and one of the most brilliaat attorneys who ever argued a case in Mombasa— or out of it, for that matter. The elder Shores has re•eatly retired from Chadbourne & Shores, one of the best known firms of corporatioa attorneys in New York. Nia piase In the firm was takes by Will Wal- lace, formerly of Helms, another em - 'seat lawyer who has made his mark in the eastern business world. For some months prier to the retirement of Mr. Shires, the firm name was Chadbourne, Shores & Wallace, as Mr. Wallace became a member com- paratively recently. This firm hand- led the legal business of the great Gould interests; •Is• some extreme- ly weighty affairs having to do with contracts between various of the al- lied governments and American arms manufacturers. Part of this year was spent by Mr. Wallace as assist- ant attorney general of the U•ited States in remelt)* -with the alien enemy situation in New York. The retirement of Mr. Shores from the firm compelled Mr. Wallace to leave his war work and return to private practice. But to return to Bob Shores, the publisher, and his Montana works and experiences. Probably the thing for which he is beet remembered is his book written at Butte and en- titled The Story of Willie Complain. It was a parody cm Mary IlacLiaite'n The Story of Mary MacLane, and the satire expressed in the Shores vol- ume made the whole state laugh while the world was hailing Mary MacLane as a IleW genius—a sort\' GO EASY ON \BULL;\ THE SOLDIERS NEED IT VifORSE THAN II DO, SAYS CHARLIE SSELL A Load of Durham \Makin's\ Charlie Russell, cowboy artist, has , smoked nothing but Bull Durham for 40 years. Ile started rolling his own when be hit Montana at the tender age of 14, and he has been doing it ever since. Some weeks ago announcement was made that the government had taken the entire product of the Amer- ican Tobacco Company's plant that is makiag Bull Durham, and that no more Durham \ntakin's\ world be forthcomiag for the trade after the supply in the hands of the jobbers had been exhausted. Russell was Wormed of this condition by the to- bacconist from who he buys his Durham and cigarette papers. female Edgar Allen Poe. Bob Shores also edited a \colyum\ in the old Butte Inter -Mountain, and so spicily did he write, withal, that many prominent people of Butte formed the habit of eagerly scanning Bob's column on the editorial page before they could sit down to dinner with good appetite. Bob bad to leave Butte for a week or so occasionally till things cooled off after some of his expoees of: high life among the Butte four hundred. And then Bob got to playing the papers in bigger cities. New York and San Fraacisco knew him. He mice was paragrapher on the New York Sun when that paper was at the height of Its fame editorially, and that was conceded to be a fairly hefty job for a youngster in his early 2e's. Bob might have bees werking on the Sun yet had It not been for the fact that he found so many other things to do beside work. Life was a good deal of a Joke to Bob in three days. He considered that labor was all right in its place, but that It never shmild pep allowed to interrupt say ananement or enter- tainment that the day or night might bring forth. So he wore a sort of Joni's:anodic groove from coast to coast and from the rock-bound reefs of Maim, to the paha-fringed beaches of Florida. Many city editors saw Bob come and go and congratulated themselves en having something out of the ordinary in the way of news and feature stories while he dialed under their roof treen, for his work was always clever and individual, and not infrequently spectacular. New he Butte Bob Shores' name should be given \You'd better lay in a supply of Durham,\ suggested the tobacco man. \Get enough f a ydar, any- way.\ \No said Russell, in his slow way of talking. \I guess I'll just take a Couple of packages, as usual.\ \What's the Idea?\ inquired the tobacconist. \You don't smoke any- thing else, and we won't be able to get any more after what we have oa hand is gone.\ \Well\ replied Russell, \they say they can't get enough Durham for the boys over in France. I wouldn't filet just right with a big bench of it in the cellar and knowing that the fellows in the trenches were hungry, a place in the history of Montana, If for so other reason, because he wore the first pairt of golf knicker- bockers ever seen n the state. was in Butte when IJtte was a tough camp, and taro and htud poker were far. far better kn, 1 6wn games than golf. Bob had t ,golf \pants\ and the courage et h14 coavictions, so one summer afteraoon he domed the knickerbockers, cut in the most ap- proved fashion by a New York taller. and wandered forth with a golf club to knock a ball around a bit. The Irish miners and the gamblers of the camp were quite impressed by Bob's costume. He had seven fights in a block and a half and claimed he won three of them. •ne of the latter was with a policeman of Celtic dos- oeat who appeared to be under the impression that lob's golf \pants\ ceastitnted a breach •f the peace. A Butte sporting editor referred to the incident the following morning an - der the heading \Breeches a Breach of Peace.\ But finally Bob eschewed the newspaper game, and a few years ago established a publishing business in a modest way. From this with re- markable rapidity has grown the big book waking concern of which be to- day is the head. Three Pounds Sugar • Mouth Three pounds a month is the maxi- mum sugar allowance per capita per month, according to an edict of the state food administration. Consum- ers are espoc,ially required to reduce this allowance to two pounds wher- ever possible. for a \Bull\ smoke. No, I'll Just take my two packages, and whet' that runs out I guess I'll have to learn to smoke something else.\ Russell couldn't help smiling to himself, however, at the thought of the roar some of the old time cow- punchers would put up if they couldn't get Durham for their mak- ings. \If a puncher couldn't get but two sacks of 'Bull,' \ he remarked, \I'll bet I know what size sacks he'd like to have put up for him,\ and to illustrate, he made the above group ii clay. \That's about the way that pun- cher would look leaving McNamara' & Marlowe trading post at Big San- dy.\ he said. NEW AMBULANCES HAVE ; HOT AND COLD WATER Ambulances containing hot and cold running water and lighted with electricity are being installed by the Anaconda Copper Mining company at its works and mines at Anaconda, Great Falls and Butte. These new ambulances are Cadil- lac cars and cost more than $5,000 apiece. They will be on duty at all times and will he invaluable la get- ting badly injured men to the hos- pitals in quick time, at the same time giving an opportunity fer first aid werk along the route. The cars cos- tal\; two first aid beds for the injur- ed to be carried upon. Get $180 For Deserter The Red Cross Chapter of Miles City, Most., will receive $61) for cap- turing Marshall Serrano, a deserter ef a New Jersey training camp. On coming te Miles City, Serrano claim- ed to be withent means and stated that he had seen service in the trench- es in France. After producing faked uredentiali he was given $18 by the Custer County Red Cross Chapter where he made a decidely pro-ger- man speech before women workers Immediately after making theme *e- ditions utterances he was arrested, and the money given him was re- turned to the Red Cross in addition to the reward of $50 which is paid fdr the capture of deserters. TO GOZA SUGAR SPELLS TROUBLE SAM IS POOD ADMINISTRATOR OF LEWIS AND CLARK THESE DAYS And After All Kinds of Confusion and Delay Ha Learns that Permit from Bozeman Is )Not Now Necessary; Applicants Merely Sign an Affi- davit Now. Sugar? Just say \sugar and Sam D. Goza, county food adminis- trator of Lewis and Clark county, jumps 40 feet sideways. Sam was quite well acquainted in Helena and Lewis and Clark county before this food conservation got started and, incidentally, was hung around his neck so far as that county is con- cerned. But his calling list is grow- ing by leaps and bounds. On this conservation dope he is on conver- sational terms with more ladles, these strenuous days, than he had any idea had residence thereabouts. They hall him on the streets, and they call him up at the office, and not in- frequently they ring him up at home for the purpose of unburdening them- selves of their tribulations. Sugar About what? Sugar . ia always the pressing subject. Here it 41, they tell him, right in the midst of the season for preserving, and they are unable to get supplies of sugar to preserve with. The government has asked patriotic householders to can lots of stuff for next winter's eating, so that other food commodities may be dispensed with and sent .to the armies and allied people over there. they say, and now, they ask, why don't the government fix a way to get the sugar before the stuff is all gone? And Sam, he admits it all, and tells the cossplalaasts that they can get all the sugar they need for cau- sing by applying to their grocer and signing a certificate. But they swot, they aver, be- cause one grocer says he hasn't got the sugar, assailers says certificates can be issued only on individual per- mits from the Bozeman office, and so on. Modified Order This has been going on for sev- eral days, so finally last week the county administrator laid down a barrage un ihe Pozemaa office, with this Jesuit, that the original order, necessitating individual permits after application has been made to that office, is modified to the extent that it is unnecessary to obtain such per- mits; all that is necessary is to ap- ply to a grocery and sign an affida- vit that the sugar -25 pounds is the limit to a purchaser at one time—is to be used solely for the purpose of preserving fruit, and the sugar will be forthcoming. But this does not by any means end the chapter of troubles the county food administrator has on his hands. Several and sundry persons engaged in baking stuff, and in sell- ing sugar, have not yet been favored by the Bozeman office with permits on which to replenish their fast-dwia- dling supplies. Call Up Goixa These call up Mr. Goza every half- hour or so, and he admits—almost— everything they say, and peddles kind hearted sympathy, and concludes by suggesting that they \blow the can off\ the Bogeman outfit for the de- lay. Which they do not do, for ob- vious reasons. \Even if they are sending the per- mits up here by messenger afoot, he ought to he here by the end of the week at the very latest,\ he assures the troubled ones, vs an extra plug into the gloom -dispelling works. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Meantime, finding the grade get- ting harder every nth:tate, Alfred At- kinson, federal food administrator for Montana., skidded, and kept going until he lit somewhere in Califor- nia, where he hopes the climate or something will soothe his jaded, rack- ed nerves. Kush of Work The trouble and delay which is confusing the sugar situation appears to be due to a rush of work in the office of the national food adminis- trator, brought about by the collision of a lack of sugar supplies and an excessive demand Jest now because of the preserving season throughout the country, and this pressure is, of course, felt in all the state adminis- tration offices. But the modified order is expected to relieve the strain considerably. It Is pertinent while on the subject to call attention again to the regula-' Gone affecting the wale of sugar for domestic purposes. aside from can- ning. The sale limit is five pounds within a five -mile zone of which Hel- ena is the center, and 10 pounds out- side of the zone. The real basis, how- ever, is a limit of three pounds per person for SO meals. His Name Dynamited Police officials of Butte are baf- fled by the myeterx surrounding the dynamiting of the home of E. H. Barrett, assistant superintendent of the Milwaukee railroad from Mo- bridge, S. D., te Avery Idaho. Two heavy charges of giant powder were exploded against the stone wall of the house, breaking all the windows as well as those in houses across the street. Co ONSAT PALLS. ININIVAUCWT.N narinassiserees of WEN\ ANN Sal= VANN WILL Iliniftt. MOIL 111111LOIMI 11102214 , 11 INIANININ, WIRE P1MINITTNA. IMAM VMS Offbeat ONI lot National Bra litt114 g
