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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1917
Page
7
Montana launches a statewide drive to raise 90000 for the Y M C A to support army camps and cantonments. Charles Puehler directs county chairmen as funds fund reading rooms recreation and home like surroundings for soldiers.
State board of hail insurance will pay losses after county treasurers report hail insurance levy totals. Chairman E. K. Bowman cites Attorney General Ford and notes about 70 percent of premiums must be paid before losses are certified. Losses this year run about 360000 on 250000 acres with 40 cents per acre coverage. A potential 350000 surplus could fund next year. Farmers might assign claims to banks at small discount if needed.
Proper field leveling improves irrigation by removing high spots and filling hollows. A plow and scraper plus a homemade wooden leveler create a smooth seed bed, enabling uniform water distribution and potentially higher yields.
Silver Bow county leads in signed pledges of heads of households for food conservation with 11 000 pledges and the state quota of 112 000 pledged. Director Sam D Goza reports about 70 000 pledges signed and expects 90 percent of the quota, noting urban areas show strongest participation.
Montana youths at Camp Lewis endure a strict daily regimen aimed at physical fitness and military discipline. They rise at dawn and follow a full schedule of drill, meals, and lake swims, despite limited comforts like no pillows and mineral shortages. Their hard work earns them a solid reputation among comrades back home.
A jumbled classified listing from Montana includes dining at the Club Cafeteria in Great Falls, farm land loan offers from Judith Basin and Lewistown firms, livestock loan funds from Beppett Terrell in Billings, fur store updates in Minneapolis, developing and printing services, a Brainerd Studio entry in Havre, and Montana dry cleaning and alteration services in Great Falls.
For sale big parcels in Montana and Alberta. Listings include 3820 acres near Carter Montana with 200 cultivated, winter wheat, fences, a shack and granary. 400-acre farm near Great Falls with 90 cultivated at 35 per acre and machinery. Alberta CPR lands trip with farms from 11 to 20 years. 10 000 acre ranch subdivided into 160 acre tracts with 6 percent interest ten-year terms. seven sections of land with water and grass at 7.00 per acre with 2 6 cash and balance in 10 years.
Central Montana Banches Ofiien Hingham Havre Cut Bank claim to be Montana’s greatest land merchants and the largest exclusive food organization in the west with a bold motto If there is a land we would be sell.
A new 200 candlepower lantern used by the army on the border emits a light equal to twenty lanterns and runs 15 hours per fill. The second is said to cost only a quarter cent per hour. The Acorn Brass Mfg. Co. in Chicago offers this free to readers via camper, hunter and motorist audiences.
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