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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1918
Page
5
Corporal Filip Konowal, a Canadian soldier who has recently returned from France, is awarded the Victoria Cross for killing 62 Germans without assistance.
A Montana officer in France censors letters and cites a boy named Bill who claims to have sunk 12 submarines and seen 50 submarines destroyed after a dramatic Atlantic crossing. The letter exaggerates wartime experiences and aims to shock the writer’s mother, highlighting youthful fabrications in war correspondence.
O M Gerer president of the Farmers Society of Equity in Bitter Root valley says the apple crop is valued at 180000. About 150 cars have shipped with at least 50 more expected. Each car averages 1200 to 1300 dollars. Net per box at least one dollar, plus 25 cents handling, totaling about 35000 dollars in salaries paid locally. The Equity society handled 40000 boxes sold in New York Wisconsin Minnesota and North Dakota along with 2500 cherry crates 400 berry crates and several tons of vegetables. It serves as a clearing house for farmers seeking markets.
The food administration orders larger turkeys for Thanksgiving to curb underweight birds. Licensed dealers must not buy hens under eight pounds or toms under twelve pounds before December 7. To save cold storage for army supplies, dealers should stop purchasing turkeys for Thanksgiving after November 16.
Reports include Private Lauritis Sorenson as a German POW at Limburg and a ruling allowing construction up to 25000 dollars. Powell county nurse Mark Fitzpatrick dies after nursing influenza patients. Rainbow Hotel in Great Falls hires first woman desk clerk Helen Bailey. Deer Lodge banker W W Smith dies of influenza and pneumonia. Surgical dressings halted at Montana Red Cross. garments for relief work urged. Everett Roberts recounts capturing seven Germans before being gassed. Grave robbing at Highland cemetery reported with $80+ flowers stolen. Musselshell county aims to form a seed growers association for pure home grown seeds. Three deaths in Great Falls from arsenic fumes at a zinc smelter. investigation underway. Bozeman penalties levied on Billings sugar dealers by food administrator. Nitro powder plant labor pulls attract Montana workers. Havre freight office sees large whisky shipments ahead of prohibition. bottles routed via Canada with high earnings per trip.
Farm bureau demonstrators praise sunflowers for ensilage as superior to corn. Reports show sunflowers yielding two to three times more forage per acre, with college tests showing similar feeding value. In one irrigated farm sunflowers average 34 tons per acre vs 11 tons for corn, and dry land districts welcome the crop most.
Farmers can bid to sell straw to the government by letter or wire. Bids must state grade, quantity, and F.O.B. price at loading station, addressed to Chief Forage Department, F. and F. Division, Quartermaster Corps, Lytton Building, Chicago. If accepted, a wire will confirm and give shipping instructions.
Judge Lamb declared the anti premium law unconstitutional in Silver Bow county's challenge to collect $66,000 in licenses. The Lutey brothers from Butte initiated the suit, likely heading to the state supreme court. The measure targeted trading stamps and other premiums, requiring licenses and penalties for violators.
Driver Harry B. Albert of Ambulance Co. 29 in France writes donors of the Glendive First Aid class about the ambulance sent to Dawson county boys. He notes 4500 miles driven without accident, comfort for wounded comrades, and the government's delay in delivery, with hopeful WWI era sentiments.
Dozens of Milwaukee railroad steam engines are deadheaded westward among lumber and iron cars. Their era as rulers of the road is ending as electricity replaces steam on the western division, signaling the decline of the once mighty locomotives.
Middle aged or young men not subject to draft urged to earn money selling hardy Montana nursery stock including fruit shade and ornamental trees to write for Oregon Nursery Co. Orenco Oregon. Also promote ozone products with bold claims.
Advertising copy discusses thinness as caused by starved nerves and promotes nitro phosphate as the best supplement to supply phosphoric food elements. It claims rapid weight gain and health improvements, including reduced nervousness and sleeplessness, with a caution that it should be used only by those seeking to gain flesh.
Milwaukee engineers direct spruce forest railroad work on the Pacific coast with plans to haul long loads along the new routes. The project advances through forest lands as construction continues under Milwaukee oversight.
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