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an rrn Emit n r rit f o i tan i Historical .• lgrr REACHES MORE SANDERS COUNTY READERS THAN EINY OTHER PAPER _____• THE SANDERS COUNTY LEDGER, VOL. 14; NO. 26. THOMPSON FALLS, MONTANA, THU:ZSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918 THE INDERENDENT-ENTERPRISE, VOL. 3, NO. 14. MAKE PLANS PLANS FOR BEATING PLAINS MASS MEETING MONDAY EVE- NING APPROVES CAM- PAIGN COMMITTEE EXPECT TO RETAIN COUNTY SEAT Speakers See No Reason for Change and Criticize Activities of War- time Troublemakers and Agitators. That Thompson Falls does not propose to sit idly by while the peo- ple of Plains walk away with the county seat, was very evidently the sentiment at the large gathering of citizens at the Rex theatre Monday evening. An audience of more than 100 townspeople listened to the short talks made by several speakers, and at the conclusion unanimously ap- proved the appointment of a com- mittee to take charge of the cam- paign by which it is hoped to defeat the move. The meeting was presided over by J. C. Eisenrnan as chairman, with F. E. Brown acting as secretary. A. S. Ainsworth, H. A. Abernethy, F. L. Austin and S. G. Skulason were called on in 'turn to express their sentiments regarding the proposed change, and their arguments against it met with strong approval by the listeners. The speakers pointed out in emphatic terms that there is no reason which would justify the re- moval to Plains, and that patriotic considerations should have prevented the effort at the present time. Some attention was also paid to reports concerning the character of the citi- zens which have been circulated about the county as an excuse - for making the fight and 25 an arr.-on-wad to obtain signers for the petition. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that the odds were against the success of the effort, and that it would only result in a great waste of money, time and energy by the neighboring town, and compelling a similar waste here. This does not mean that there is any over -confid- ence and that the campaign will be made in a haphazard manner. It is expected that the committee will arrange its program in a way that will leave nothing undone which will contribute to the defeat of the envious rivals at Plains. . A meeting of the committee will be called shortly to effect an organi- zation and commence its work. SKULASON INJURED IN FALL Thompson Falls Attorney Found by Roadside in Serious Condition —Thrown by Horse. S. G. Skulason, Thompson Falls attorney who is a candidate for the republican nomination for county at- torney, was badly injured Friday night by being thrown from a horse. The accident occurred about two miles east of town as he was riding out to the Murray ranch. He was found soon afterward by Wick Hart- man and Alton Preston, who were re- turning from Eddy in an auto, and was taken to St. Luke's hospital where for several hours he hovered between life and death from the wounds on his head. The cause of the accident is rath- er a mystery, as the horse lie was riding was considered quite gentle and safe. The injured man has not been able to recall how it came about but his clothes and the nature of his injuries show that he must have been dragged a considerable distance. No bones were broken, however, and last reports arc that he is resting quite comfortably with every prospect of complete recovery. It is consider- ed wry fortunate that he was found promptly, as much delay would have undoubtedly proved fatal. FOR REPRESENTATIVE I desire to call the attention of the voters of Sanders county to my can- didacy for the republican nomination for State Representative, and solicit 'your support at the primary election. If 'chosen for this office, I promise to do all within my power to pro- mote the welfare of my constituents and pledge 100 per cent Americanism in all matters relating to the winning of the war. J W. GLADDEN, Perma. - FINE GIFT FOR DAIRYMEN --- -- Willow Glenn Farm Will Present Bull Association With Animal For Its Work. The dairymen who have associated themselves in the organization of the Pioneer Bull Association have re- cently received an offer from the Willow Glenn Farm at Anaconda of a registered Holstein bull. The ani- mal is to become the property of the association free of charge, if the of- fer is accepted, and will be used for breeding purposes according to the program of the organization. The offer came as a complete sur- prise to the members of the associa- tion. They already have twcr ani- mals and were corresponding with various breeders in regard to the purchase of a third when the prpposi-1 tion was received. The, only thing that might possibly stand in the way of agceptance would be the breeding of the bull, but the Willow Glenn Farm is known to keep an unusually high class of stock so it is practical- ly certain that any animal offered would meet the requirements of the association. The Willow Glenn Farm is main- tained by the A. C. M. Co. and the offer was made through the courtesy of Daniel Arms of the Blackfoot Development Co., who called the of- ficial's attention to the efforts of the Sanders county ranchers to raise the standard of their dairy herds. It is taken by the promoters of the bull association as a recognition of the value of this plan of co-operation, and such practical support is very encouragihg to them. Another thing which confirms the believe that they are on the right track is a letter recently received from the president of a sinailar or- ganization in North Dakota, who says: \This association has been operat- ing for over ten years and has prov- ed a complete success in every way. \It started with a few good bulls purchased • by the farmers co-operat- ing...and .the entire_ A.N.d.s.. were _cora,. posed of scrubs. \There are 12 members of the as- sociation at present and each mem- ber owns from 25 to 50 registered purebreds. The grades have been practically eliminated. bur cattle are tested for tuberculosis twice each year and great care is taken to keep the herds free from disease. \I use a Babcock test on the milk from each cow each month, and about half of our cows are entered in the Holstein-Freisian advanced registery, with good records on sev- en, 30 and 365 day tests.\ It ,is believed that just as good re- sults_will come from the local_asso- ciAtion when once it has had time to prove itself, and in that event it will be a valuable asset to the ranchers who are taking advantage of its op- portunities. SEEK FUNDS FOR BABIES Thompson Falls Women Will So- licit Support For Children's - Home. Next week the women of Thomp- son Falls will make a canvass to raise funds for the support of the Montana Children's Home at Helena. For a number of years this work has been done by the society:s own rep- resentatives, but war conditions have made it necessary to bring about a change, and the result is that each community is now aske4 to arrange its own campaign. Thompson Falls people generally are well acquainted with the excel- lent work the society has been do- ing, and have been kontributing free- ly to it. Since this country entered the war there has been an increase of nearly 100 per cent in the number of children to be cared for, and con- sequently the need for funds is much greater than heretofore. It is hoped that a. generous sum will be realized to help take care of the little tots who are without other means of sup- port. Your Wheatless Days By Raymond Almon Wolff in Colliers' Weekly barley or rye ox potato flour when you cct a sack of white flour. l u ti t t o buy re be any white flour for you The mixing of the white wheat flour with substitutes will be done scientifically at the mills, before it goes into the sacks, instead of in your kitchens, or the kitchens of the hotels and restaurants yOu patronize. Ter, will be no wheatless days and wheatless meals. You won't have to wonder 5 whether everyone is living up to Hoover's requests. You'll know. This new flour isn't coming . beL cause you have failed Hoover; it is a way of killing two birds with one stone. First, it will permit of more exact calculations in building up the reserve of two hundred million bush- els of wheat which Hoover wants to have on July 1, 1919; second, it will save you a lot of trouble and red tape in doing what you have proved yourselves absolutely and happily willing to do, and what it is as im- portant as ever that you should con- tinue to do. Reduced to figures, here is what you made possible: We sent to our allies, in the fiscal year 1916-1917, 259,900,000 bushels of cereals and cereal products. In 1917- 18 we sent 340,800,000 brish'els- 3n increase of 80,900,000 bushels. And in the first year our ex- ports were all out of surplus— in the 'second we raised just enough for our own normal demand, so that it was only by reducing that demand that we were able to feed our allies. You have to think over these fig- IIITS before you can appreciate what you made possible! In 1916-17; out 5 of a surplus of something like 200,- (00,000 bushels (we had a world's record wheat crop, you.remember, in tie*, previous harvest) we sent over ? And jam what arc 7 .11i srit 331,100,000 bushels of wheat and 2, - - called upon to do? 300,000 bushels of rye—vvhcat and In the first place, the crops of 1917 were, in general, bad. - That was true of the whole northern hemisphere. In the face of the inevitable reduction of crop areas, directly due to the war, nature herself seemed to fight for once on the German side. So that the demands upon you had to be in- creased, proportionately, as the result of crop failures. Herbert Hoover wrote to the President in July that for the fiscal year 1917-1918, ending July 1, the total nutritional produc- tion of the country was between, 7 and 9 percent below the average for the three previous years. That does not sound particularly dramatic or serious. But—the statistical genius of the Food Administration smiled sadly when I said so to hint \Well he said, \I'll tell you what it means. If that nutialonal produc- tion had been 15 per cent below the average, nothing under heaven could have saved our allies in Europe from famine and disaster. The war would be over—we would be beaten!\ NOSY that we have turned the cor- ner, it is permitted to tell how nar- rowly we skirted the edges of disas- ter. In July, 1918, there were less than. 10,000,000 bushels of wheat in the United States --in storag,i, in tran- sit, anywhere. We were within ten days of being out of wheat. We came to the new harvest with that slender surPlus! Apd normally we carry over 60,000,000'bushels of wheat for seed alone. We have never be- fore, even in years of blighted crops, carried over less that 100,000,000 bushels of wheat into the new har- vest. We are going to take no such chances in this coining year. To be- gin with, a bumper crop is in sight. The crop of 1918 looks safe. Bar- ring disaster now unfore'sTeable, Hoover will have a great /tore to work with. Already plans are being made that will end all uncertainty. There has been time, as last year there was not, to make things easier for you. You can't look for white FOUR -MINUTE SPEAKERS bread this winter: But you can look for something that, all things con- sidered, ought to please you even more.As I write, Herbert Hoover has just landed in England. And he has gone to try to peer/Pet certain plans and, arradrtnients that will standard- ize bread and flour for all the allied world—that will result in your eat- ing Victory loaves and pies and cake made from a standardized Victory flour that will be the only flour used in any coOntry of the allies. . If Hoover's plan goes- through, you won't be obliged, any longer, to buy Schedule of Those Who Will Ad- dress Theatre -Goers on War Topici. Following is the schedule of Foul -- Minute speakers who will address the audien?es at the Rex theatre dur- ing the se' i two, weeks: Sunday, Aug. 25—A. S. Ainsworth Tuesday, Aug. 2711. A. Abernethy Friday, Aug. 30—F. L. Austin. Sunday, Sept. 1—T. A. Bruner. Tuesday, Sept. 3—A .S. Ains- worth. Friday, Sept. 6-11. A. Abernethy. \Food Will Win the War—Don't l a certain -amount of .. corn. meal or Waste It!\ Do you remember how, just about a year ago, that slogan first struck your eye? You do, of course. It's. never been very much in the background since then, either. Now it is -time for a report. Has food won the war? What has it all come to, all the saving you have done? Has it been worth while? Well, the i ikar hasn't been won yet. You still 'Eave that to do. But, on the word of the Food Administration the way you have backed it up, the way you have saved food, has pre- vented the war from being lost. Win- ning it remains; in this next year that task still lies before you. But it ought to be .easy to do what Herbert Hoover will ask of you now. Be- cause—what you have done has been so tremendously worth while. It has helped so much. It has given you such a definite part in the war. I wish everyone in Araerica could hear the big Food Administration building in Washington humming with the praise of what America. has done. Your ears would burn, mad- am and sir—and particularly you, madam. This is what one man— who knows what he is talking about —says: \There's never 'been anything like it in history. Here was a people that had never known want, that had nev- er experienced famine or anything remotely resembling it—a people that had plenty within reach of its hands every momemnt. We asked the American people to do voluntar- ily more than any other people had ever been asked to submit to under compulsion. And the American peo- ple made good! They have saved more voluntarily than any country in Europe has done under the most stringent compulsion.\ • Now, just what is it that you hav rye being the prime breadstuffs. In 1917-18, when, as a result of' a sub- normal crop and what was almost a corn blight, we sent 131,000,000 bush- els of wheat—and every bushel of it you saved! We sent 13,900,000_bush- els'' of rye, so that there was an in- crease of 7,500,000 bushels of the prime breadstuffs—all saved by you. Moreover, since those figures were tabulated, 10,000,000 bushels more from our scant 1917 crop have „reach- ed our allies—so that we actually Sent more wheat out of our savings_ in this last lean year than we sent out of our abundance the year be- fore! And ne also spared 10,000,000 bushels more to neutrals who faced starvation unless we helped them. It isn't wheat alone. We have built up a surplus of bacon and ham \over the -re\. For the first time since 1914 our allies have that comfortable feeling that conies when you know that if something happens to the de- liveries you can scare up a bite in the ice box and on the shelves in the closet. In 1916-17 we sent to our allies 2,- 166,500,000 pounds of meats and fats, ----which means all sorts of meats and meat products, canned and powdered milk, butter, cheese, vegetable oils, lard, etc. And in 1917-18 we sent 3,- 011,100,000 pounds—an increase of 844,500,0110 pounds. That increase didn't come out of vastly increased production either. It represents what you didn't cat—it represents your meatless days, your abstention from bacon at breakfasrr'sall your self -denials and sacrifices in the way of foregoing fried potatoes and ex- tra pats of . ..butter! And next year you will send even more. • . The Food AdministrafiOn, playing affectionately rvith figures, turns up all sorts of little statistics. For ex- ample ,it says that from April 1, 1917, to April 1, 1918, we sent enough food over there to ration completely more than 21,000,000 men—and to give them, at that, an excess of protein and fat. Before the war we used to send enough to France, Great Britain and, Italy each year to ration about 6,000,000 men. We mused to send, on an average—this was before 1914- 153,260,963 pounds of bacon a year to the ,western allies. in our first war year we sent 490,523,133 pounds Was it worth while to heed that line the good hotels had all last winter on their menus: \Please do not order bacon\? -Was it? We used to send 3,004,537 pounds of fresh beef—in our first war year we sent 235,368.478 (Continued on DIMS I) 4 3 1411 411 3 3 3 3, 3 3 3 3 if II 3 RED CROSS NOTES U it ti 13 II it ti /4 3 it VI DOnations received this week were: Mrs. Clyde Swain, $1.00; Mr. Kunes, 50c. Mrs. Al TIolunan donated a finish- ed quilt top and material for the back. SOLDIERS VOTE TO MAKE DELAY COMPLETE RETURNS ON GEN- ERAL ELECTION IN DE- CEMBER. Five pairs of socks and one sweat- ers were received from Whitepine this week. Mrs. Dubia presented a box of apples to the workers Wednesaay. , They were very much enjoyed.. About 15 pairs of socks were turn-, ed in Wednesday. We hope sonic of the soldiers won't get cold feet. Harvey Corley, one of the boys In this month's draft, donated the use of his sewing machine to the work room. Aprons and caps can be purchased ready-made for $2)0. Orders for same 'may be placed with Mrs. Mary part in the election. Grandchamp, who will attend to for- This law, which was passed by the warding them. NEW OFFICERS WILL BEI DOUBT Candidates Will Not Know Whether They Have Been Elected Until Last Minute Before Taking Office. The Red Cross is asking for dona- tions of games in good condition for use in the convalescent homes which are operated in connection with the' army base hospitals. All Many of t4ie candidates whose names will appear on the ballots at the general election will not know whether they have been elected or defeated until nearly the first of the year. This is because of the fact that all of the returns will not be available until the last SatprdaY in December on account of the new law which permits the soldier to take extraordinary session of the legisla- ture last minter, provides that all qualified voters who are in the mil- itary service or actively engaged in some such branch as the Red Cross or Y. M. C. A., shall be furnished with ballots• and that the same will be counted as legal votes if reedy - such games as checkers, chess, domi- prior to the fourth Monday in noes, playing cards and picture puz- ee l zlcs, as well as phonograph records December. will be shipped if left at the work The method of pitting this law in room, effect is somewhat as follows: The workroom committee has Within five days after i'he primary - adopted the credit system by which election the county clerks Yill com- each lady is given credit for the pile a list _from the registration books 'of all who are known to be engaged 'number of hours she works for the in the service, and forward same to the secretary of state. From these lists the secretary of state will make up a register of all who are entitled to vote under the law, and secure information as to the addresses front whatever source it is available. As soon as the results of the prim- ary- election arc. canvassed and the names of those who are to be voted upon at the general election are de- termined, the ballots will be made up and printed. This must be done within 10 days after, the primary elec- tion. The speretary of state will then notify the county clerks of the number of absent voters for which ballots arc required and One -.official ballot for each such voter will be forwarded to the proper address through the adjutant general's office. The ballots will be returned after being properly voted to the secretary of state. If they are received more than five (lays preceding the election they will be forwarded to the county clerks to be given over to the judges in the 'proper precincts and counted just as are the ordinary absent votes. If received on or after five days pre- ceding election and before the first Monday in December, they will be retained by the secretary of state ,until the state canvassing - board meets, when they will be opened and counted, anti the results transmitted to he various county boards to be added to the total vote. Ballots received between the first and fourth Mondays in December will be canvassed in a similar man- ner on the latter date, when final re- turns will be sent out and the final result of the election will then be determined. The county boards are permitted to proceed with the canvass of elec- tion returns as formerly and may an- nounce the results that are found, but the final determination cannot be made until the last reports from the soldiers are sent in from the state canvassing board, -which will be on the last Monday in December. ( The county boards most make their final canvasses on the last Saturday in December. The act specifically provides that technicalities or informalities shall not invalidate the election or cause rejection of these returns, and that the provisions are to be liberally construed so that the purpose of per- mitting the soldiers the right of suf- frage shall not be thwarted. In cases where the results of the regular voting are very close', the ones affected will not lse able to rest easy until just belore the time comes for the successful one to sake office. Red Cross. When 32 hours have been recorded, she is entitled to wear a Red Cross emblem on her apron; 72 hones entitles her to add a similar emblem to the front of her cap. When 128 hours have been completed she nifty -a service stripe,- two inches long and one-half inch wide, made of some red material, on the pocket of her apron. WAR SAVINGS CONTEST Montana State Fair Offers Free Trip • to Two Ladies Selling Most Stamps. A free trip to the state fir is of- fered to the two ladies who sell the greatest niimber of _War Savings Stamps in is contest wriich is now being held. The conditions are set forth in a circular handed ius by County Director D. H. Near, and are as follows: All contestents shall be over 18 years of age. They shall file written notice of their intention to enter the contest with their county direcor. All sales shall be in cost values as certified by postoffices or other atith-u orized agencies where stamps may have been purchased by contestants. Contest will close September 5th at 5 o'clock p. To the contestants selling the greatest amount there will be given a free trip to Helena during the State Fair with all expenses paid, provided the winners selected will enter the state competition for which prizes will be given as follows: \Var Savings Stamps to the total matur- ity value of $500. To the county making the greatrist sales, $200; sec- ond, $150; third $100; fourth $50. All county prizes to be divided equally between the two representa- tives in the contest. In county competition the credit ; • will be given for all new sales, also for sales representing payments up- on pledges, provided the contestants keep and file with the county direct- or record of all .such payments -on pledges. All sales made at the state fair must be new and additional sales to those already pledged. Each contestant shall present only her individual sales and shall not be credited for sales that might be turned over to her by ; some oppos- ing contestant. Arrangements will be made in Hel- ena for furnishing all stamps to the Contestants to be sold to the credit of their respective counties. Chap- erons and reservations will be pro- vided. WI) will represent Sanders coun- ty' \liver the top\ means that through intelligent and thoroughly organized effort the thing that is worthy of ac- complishment can be done. A mule can't get ahead while he is kicking. Neither can a man. C. M. Jeffery for Comity Attorney.' (Ads') •
