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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
1
Local merchants warn customers who fail to patronize nearby businesses as money leaks out of the community to mail order houses. They urge support for town shops to sustain local employment and vitality.
J M Blomquist of Scobey Montana travels to Minot to confer with contractor J McDougal about relocating the town to align with the Plentywood extension. Seven camps are at work on the branch and trains may run this fall. Scobey would be two miles from the new line terminal.
Editorial warns that many tramps may carry serious illnesses and that quarantine rules are poorly enforced. It cautions readers that a traveler at their door could come from a town with smallpox scarlet fever or other contagions and notes laziness to work and wash feeds microbes.
Glasgow extends cordial invitation to Saco and vicinity for July 4 and 5 events. A baseball tournament, Curtian School aviator Professor Brown cross country flight, and the first Northern Montana Chaute qua Association meeting with speakers Cook Bein and Clarey are planned. About 1200 dollars budgeted for aviator, band, prizes. most events free with small admission for two sports and entertainment.
Eighteen stock subscribers elected officers including five directors J H Atwood as president Al Shaw as vice president Urmey Armstrong as secretary and James J Riley as treasurer The Saco Co operative Association adopts capital stock of 50000 with 250 shares at 200 each One hundred shares will be sold now Montana law limits subscribers to one share per person The piece discusses cooperative principles and farm producer benefits with S. F. Cooley cited as State Leader of County Agriculturists.
Chapter 109 of the laws of 1918 authorizes county commissioners to pay part of an agricultural instructor’s salary from general funds with the rest supplied by the state experiment station and federal sources. Instructors will coordinate with the USDA and experiment station, promote farm enterprises, marketing, and educational plans, and serve as leaders for farm communities.
North Dakota pure food officials report most concentrated canned chicken soups sold nationwide are largely rice soup not real chicken soup. Tests by Prof I I Ladd show high water content and mislabeling violates laws. Analyst Leon A Congdon compares food values, suggesting butter beef cheese bread and apples yield far less value than chicken soup.
Mothers mistake common worm symptoms for digestion and illness. Peevish, fretful children with bad breath and colicky pains may have worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer, a pleasant candy lozenge, expels worms, regulates bowels, tones the body, and makes children well. Sold by druggists or mail. Price 25c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadelphia and St. Louis.
Favorable weather Sunday produced strong scores in the weekly shoot. Geo. Steele topped the list with 22 points tied for the year’s high, followed by Geo Richardson 21 H S Eline 16 W E Bridgham 15 Mack Blue 12 FE L Wallace 14 W Chapman 19 J Hall and others.
Harris Andrews and Vireid Parris wed in Glasgow last Sunday evening with Rev Baer officiating. Bridesmaid Lillian Siehultz and best man Adams Kyle attended as the couple plans a western honeymoon amid mountain scenery. Mr Harris is a prominent local businessman and the bride a popular young lady. The Independent force joins friends in welcoming them home.
Advocates urge Congress to ban calf slaughter to curb meat prices. Eminent physicians nationwide would testify on veal unhealthiness and testimony would be submitted during a planned crusade. Leaders claim calf slaughter inflates meat costs and jeopardizes the United States’ status as a meat producer.
A rising belief takes hold that Interior Department efforts will align with long standing reclamation projects in the west guiding relief for settlers dependent on government plans announced years ago.
Old men and women seek a safe gentle laxative and Dr King’s New Life Pills are praised as prompt and easy for the aged. Price 25c and recommended by all druggists.
Boston June 18 reports wool trading remain spotty with prices low. Montana wool has sold up to 20 2 1/2 cents and Ohio clips up to 23 cents as manufacturers buy little while awaiting tariff legislation outcomes.
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