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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
7
Montana deputies at Butte courthouse petition county commissioners for a wage increase from 237.50 dollars monthly claiming the pay cannot sustain living costs. The item notes broader state concerns including employment office status, fare hikes, sugar hoarding trial outcomes, and local incidents.
The Monidah Trust sues the city of Livingston and Louis Terwilliger for 150000 damages claiming a June 9 1919 publication damaged its water plant business by urging connections to a new plant and declaring the plaintiff’s water raw.
Billings reports an 80 day extension of the reduced freight rate for Montana livestock shipped to Texas New Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma for feeding and returned to Montana. The extension pushes the rate expiration from July 1 to August 1. The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered daily car returns to Northern Pacific Great Northern and Burlington to ease shortages.
Commissioner Cato Sells defends continued federal supervision, notes citizenship push, land patents, and self reliance among Indians. He cites rising deposits, farming, stock raising, and wage earnings, with education gains and reduced dependence on rations.
After 18 hours of deliberation the jury failed to reach a verdict on Maud Ball charged with misappropriating funds from the O B and S M Parham Sheep company. Six jurors favored conviction and six favored acquittal. The case will be retried in the fall term. Two counts were dismissed and Ball released on bond. Ball testified that Parham knew of the embezzlement. Parham denied her claims.
Helena lawyer Brown must sue the state in district court to recover 431 003.55 for legal services to the state board of equalization last year. The state supreme court denied his petition for a writ of mandate directing the state auditor to pay the sum.
The new American theater in Harlowton is now open marking another step in local development. The cost of construction was about $100,000 with a modern facility designed to meet communal needs and provide an amusements venue on par with much larger towns.
In Bellaire Ohio two youths called at Annunzio Marchesi’s home claiming her husband owed 54 dollars in income tax to Uncle Sam. She paid the amount. Now her husband pursues the bogus federal agents.
Poultry specialists in the United States department of agriculture recommend a seasonal method to rid hen houses of mites and lice. Vacuuming and sealing the space, lighting sulfur and kerosene or wood alcohol saturated material in an iron vessel, then airing out fumes after several hours, followed by dusting each bird with insect powder or tobacco dust, and repeating after a week if needed. Ensure no stray fowls enter untreated and repeat as necessary until pests are exterminated.
For growing chicks a liberal supply of sour milk is best and should be kept before them in an open dish. When sour milk is fed, dry mash beef scrap can be reduced by half. Provide plenty of fresh water, especially in cold weather, and clean water dishes daily.
Farmers find profit in poultry by selling surplus males and older hens when they outgrow usefulness, supplementing income beyond market eggs.
Farmers note that geese are strong foragers even when young and will gather much of their own feed if allowed to range. They consume grass vegetable growths and live on bugs and worms found on pasture.
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