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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
2
Pike Creek Red Cross rooms on Wednesday August 28th were staffed by Ellen Clark Lena Kinnick Mrs Brown Battrick Crook Fisk Stillick Lindstrand Clark Fisk Rogers and Kildow.
The narrator William Pearce of Grass Range Montana describes owning two Ford automobiles. He recounts experiences with both vehicles including maintenance, performance, and trips taken around local areas.
Four native males aged six to eight years are advertised for sale, weighing about 1150 pounds, with harness. Price $800 with half cash and the balance in one year. Also offered are a John Deere stand plow with eight shares and a John Deere wagon with box, all nearly new. Contact H. W. Roberts, Grass Range, Montana, August 22, 1931.
A Davenport set includes a leather dining table with four chairs plus a sanitary couch and mattress.
A war dispatch honors the runners on the firing line for dangerous duty and sacrifices. It recounts Private M A Treptow’s final race toward the battalion, halted by a machine gun as he carried a diary vow that America shall win the war. Treptow, an Iowa boy, pledged to work save endure and fight as if the outcome rested on him alone.
A collection of German and Allied opinions on the war’s progress. Salsmann argues against surrender and imagines a global German spread if available resources had allowed. Frand furter Zeitung questions German strategies and fears Foch crossing the Rhine. Reports cite massive Allied and German losses, dwindling German morale, and growing Allied prisoners and artillery captures.
The Fergus County Fair plans promise the greatest fair yet with large displays of agricultural products and live stock. A Canadian trench demonstration by soldiers from France will be a highlight, alongside music, cinema, dancing, and war veterans nightly. Organization Day on Sept 16 sets livestock in by evening, Boys and Girls Day on Sept 17, Live Stock Day on Sept 18, Liberty Day Sept 19 with grand rally, plus racing and judging daily as Fergus County aims to “Over the Top.”
The last month births listed include Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Craig on August 4 and several others. Notable entries cover Mr. and Mrs. Wm Beedie August 10, Mr. and Mrs Geo Asbury August 12, Mr. and Mrs John M Fettit August 17, Mr. and Mrs Mart Futrell August 18, and ends with Mr. and Mrs Elmer Grindy September 1 a girl.
Chamberlains Cough Remedy ranks as a top medicine for coughs colds croup and whooping cough with pleasant taste. It has years of use and broad favor among mothers and families including Wm Scruby of Chillicothe Missouri who praises its safety and lack of narcotics while treating both adults and children.
In Fergus County Montana the School District No. 185 trustees convened September 3 1918 to authorize issuing eight coupon bonds totaling 3750 payable over 20 years at 6 percent. The sale on October 3 1918 will be for cash to the highest bidder with bids must include a 152.00 check. district retains right to reject bids and seal. Bonds for two school sites and furnishing two school houses.
Department of the Interior Lewistown Montana issues notice that John A. Moore of Forest Grove Montana filed intent to prove up his homestead claim No 032638 for section 29 and 32 township 14 north range 22 east to establish final patent. Witnesses are Joseph L. Collins Carl Schwartz Paul Fuersteau Harry Holmes all of Forest Grove Montana. Protest deadline October 7 1918 before R W Blake Grass Range Montana.
Notice is given that registration books for the general election on November 5 1918 will close October 5 at 6 pm Electors may register at the County Clerk's office at the Court House Lewistown Fergus County Montana or appear before a Justice of the Peace or Registry Agent between 9 am and 5 pm Wheaton County Clerk ex officio registrar Fergus County Montana
London experts estimate German casualties in killed alone have surpassed two million and may near three million based on a study of published German and Allied loss tables as of August 29.
The article notes massive wartime output by U S plants. On a June day about 27 million cartridges were produced for the government. For the week ending June 29 daily rifle production averaged 10 142 of Enfield and Springfield types. Spare parts for Russian rifles were also made. Since entering the war the Ordnance Department reports 2 014 815 584 cartridges 1 886 769 rifles and 82 540 machine guns produced. Current cartridge output is about 15 million daily.
A brief critique notes that some men are enormously important and regulate others while boasting. It argues they are fools and that society is too polite to tell them so. The piece uses sharp irony to expose vanity and power.
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