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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
7
Farmers under the state hail insurance law will pay a 48 cent per acre levy for 1920. E K Bowman chairman of the board estimates losses are small with about 2000 acres currently protected against hail.
District Engineer W. M. Spann plans a year round highway between Helena and Garrison with a maximum five percent grade. Survey will compare Mc Donald Priests or Mullan passes west of Helena to replace Priests pass. A second survey along the Missouri river from Craig to Hardy aims to shorten Helena to Great Falls by 18 miles and ease Sullivan hill. Construction hinges on a $15 million bond issue. Priests pass is criticized for winter closure and steep grades.
State board of health warns Montana residents to sterilize each new shaving brush in boiling water for at least 80 minutes after a Butte miner died of anthrax linked to a brush. Dr. W I Cogswell emphasized measures not to extremes, as investigations traced the infection to a shaving brush influence.
Butte faces a severe fuel shortage not seen since last November as local coal dealers report inability to secure enough supply for ordinary demand. Washington says no alarm and a December supply will suffice, but merchants doubt this holds locally.
Charles Wiseman, a 62 year old North Fork homesteader, marries Mary F. Brace of Kalispell. The wartime tale recalls how he circumvented age limits to fight in France, claiming to be 42 as he joined the troops.
Mila Haynes seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Haynes is at home with a painful left arm injury from a live rifle cartridge exploded while boys hammered it. The bullet traveled through the forearm into the upper arm. doctors expect no serious consequences unless blood poisoning develops.
Great Falls federal court trial centers on 160 acres twelve miles from Libby with Kootenai falls and a power site valued at about a million dollars. The United States sues Great Northern claiming the land taken as homestead land by the St. Paul Minneapolis Manitoba line is mineral land that must be returned.
Jack Hardy a twenty two year old former sailor living in a New York hall bedroom offers to sell the remainder of his natural life for not less than 3000 dollars. He intends the money for the woman who has been like a mother to him and says he is not legally obligated to her though his conscience urges a duty.
In bronze of Samuel P Cochran, grand inspector general of the Scottish Rite Masons, by Swedish American sculptor David Edstrom, to be dedicated in November at Dallas Texas. The statue stands a little over seven feet and rests on an eight foot pedestal of Tennessee marble.
A child, David, spent days at a seaside outing in Atlantic City. He returned with soaking wet shoes and socks, explaining to his mother that he had stepped in Atlantic City, a playful misinterpretation of the large water body.
An old friend notes the light tone creeping into business letters. Mr. Comrex explains that competent help is scarce and he aims to make the stenographer’s work more entertaining.
Feeders increasingly finish beef cattle at 10 to 20 months due to demand for small high quality cuts and rising costs. Advancements in breeding and feedlot methods enable heavier cattle with better quality to reach market at younger ages, though optimal marketing age varies by feeder.
Instructional note advises farming practice to prevent teat injury and pig starvation. It describes using nippers or sharp scissors to cut off tusks not too near gums and to slice the rooter to curb overfeeding by a fat pig. The tone is practical and direct for livestock handling.
The guide explains keeping lambs with dams until 3 to 5 months, then weaning to fresh pastures free of stomach worms. Weaners on breeding stock improve fall condition while ram lambs in the flock can complicate pregnancies. Leave lambs on old pasture briefly, move ewes to sparse pasture to curb milk, then shift lambs to fresh land once distress ends. Partial milking of ewes with large udders every three days until dry.
Officials of the United States department of agriculture say good breeders are good readers and vice versa and urge Bulletins on breeding feeding and farm management for the Better Lives Better Stock movement. The nationwide effort aims to improve domestic animals and provide dependable information to livestock owners.
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