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lIJ A Volume XXXIX Ne 49 FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE IS NOW AVAILABLE TUPLE A OFFICE ANNOUNCE URGENCY OF GETTING AP PLICATIONS IN BEFORE PLANTING TIME Federal Crop Insurance can be attained from designated agents Md county AAA offices accord to announcement made this week Application must be signed before the crop is planted or be fore the specified closing date Insurance is being offered now an wheat in Roosevelt county The elosing date is April 10 1946 or year planting time whichever eames first Triple AAA officials say Farmers like other business ten must take risks Some risks cant be avoided But there is no laager any need to gamble on the weather and other natural haz ards which may damage or take your wheat crop Insurance against natural haz ards is now available for the busi ness f farming Allrisk Federal Crop Insurance at nonprofit rates will guarantee a return from the federal Crop Insurance is back ed by Uncle Sam who pays the operating expenses Every penny of premium is set aside to pay crop losses Crop insurance protects against crop damage from all natural caused The contract covers up to specified per cent of your nor mal
Coutona During the week under review the only signi ication change in the con dihlns surrounding the cotton market has been the appearance of Eiglish and Continental spinners as large buyers of actual cotton Sales of spot cotton in Liverpool since Friday the 13th inst are estimated at 54000 bales as against 43000 bales for the preceding week This icreaie in the demand for actual cotton is attributable to a disposi tion on the part of spinners to give inore credence to the reports of crop damage on this bide the water The result of this increased demand for cotton has been to stimulate pri ces and yesterday the high water mark for the week namely 8 27 for January was reached On Friday last January contracts sold at 8 19 but mnder liquidating sales induced by the lack of speculative demand jfr cotton prices gradually receded until on Monday the 16th inst enlee were made at 796 Snite that time however Europe appears to have awakened to the fact that perhaps after all there is more truth in the reports of crop damage then they have heretofore be willing to acknowledge This fact is evidenced by their increased purchasea
Shows only a small part of Canada and western part of New Brunswick. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered, according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York." Includes inset of southern Florida. Copy imperfect: Water damage and losses along fold lines. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Blue line print. Includes index map. Annotations in ink, pencil, and colored pencil on some maps. LC copy imperfect: Title page torn vertically along left side, front cover wanting, rear cover badly damaged, all maps significantly faded. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: John Carbonell Acquisitions control no. 2007-107
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters Lawrence Bros of South Gardiner have sold to Boston par ties Crocker township for 110000 It contains 20000 acres and is said to be one of the best spruce tracts in Maiue today It is particularly well situated being bandy to either water or railroad Law rence Bros bought this tract of land three years ago for 40000 and have therefore netted a profit of 70000 and their original investment has paid them a dividend of over 50 per cent each year Lightning struck and wrecked the roof of Charles J Treworgys lumber mill at Ellsworth Falls June 14 The 15 men in the building were shocked by the electricity three men being unconscious for some hours The lire which followed the bolt was extinguished before much damage was doneThe Congregational clergy men of Hancock county in conference at Bluehill June 14th adopted resolutions condemning the flagrant violation of the marriage contract and the deplorable in crease of divorces iu the State The adoption of the resolution carried with it the agreement that clergymen of the conference should not solemnize marriage where one has or both parties have been divorced_Samuel Bryant a prominent citizen
founty Correspondence Deferred from last weekJ 1 Thayer of Belfast ere idayState Lecturer oliire at Victor Grange buiar1 veiling June 3dMiss i as arrived home for the lieasant reception was 1 Mrs Beebe at the par lay evening About one resent The evening was ntercourse and singing r mi were servedMrs seriously ill Mrs It i t last is in town Memo 1 observed at the M E miber of veterans were f ip u m arrived home from 1 i siia_Iapt W CHard days last week with his ids barge the George charging coal in lrovi J lieagan and Mrs ted relatives in Winter i Mrs Mary Smith enter i nb May 20thGeorge me sick with asthma 1 the Misses Maud and uikfort were the guests last Saturday and Suu i rusts here last Saturday did a lot of damage to frud trees Mrs Mary Ilufns I land man called in Stockton Springs II Clarke have gone to j _selden Clarke has l where he lias employ i Clarke visited her j 1 in Butter City Sun il and Raymond How n Bucksport last week j i has returned home j he lias had employ rant visited friends p
THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch
6 all sorts _A11 Ships Huns Damaged Now in U S Service Despite all the efforts made by their crews to render them useless nearly a hundred formerly interned German ships are now flying the Stars and Stripes in the service of the United States navy says the March Popular Mechanics Maga zine It develops that although the Huns were convinced their vandalism made our use of the boats impossible the navy has not only managed to repair all of them but has done the work so skill fully that in no case has failure or weak ness since developed Fire extinguishers were filled with gasoline incendiary prep arations made and gauges reversed Steam pipes were plugged by disjointing them driving in slugs of solid brass and then concealing the work by renewing the connections Meter Which Registers Telephone Calls A recently invented telephone meter described and illustrated in the March Popular Mechanics Magazine is designed to prevent errors in charging calls and t make the service more satisfactory to the subscriber in other respects Being of comparatively simple construction it can be installed in the signal case of a coinoperated telephone with slight alter ations The device comprises two
Gillem Plan For Integration Of Negro In Postwar Army In Motion PARTICIPANTS ON CBS PRO R M IN OBSERVANCE Oh I i RO newspaper WEEK 1eft to right Bill Slocum CBS Director Carol Brice contralto I who sang with her brother Jon athan Brice at the piano Dowdal n Davis advertising manager ol j THE CALL and chairman of Nh GRO NEWSPAPER WEEK who spoke on behalf of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Associa tion Don Maker announcer and Neal Scott manager and husband of Miss Brice__ California Editor Wins 500 Willkie Award For J ournalism MRS VIVIAN C MASON WINS 17000 DAMAGES PHILADELPHIA ANP rhe I nited States District court for Philadelphia last week award ed Mrs Vivian Carter Mason 17 00 in settlement for claims against the Pennsylvania railroad in a case pending since 1943 when rtio sutiered severe injuries in the Labor day wreck of the roads crack Congressional Limited in which 70 were killed and scores injured She was represented by Raymond Pace Alexander Airs Mason vice president of the National Council of Negro Women was traveling alone on the 75mileperhour express be ween Washington and New York when the wreck occurred Accord ing to evidence presented
GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE n U BOLE BdlUr S WARDEN UUlfW LEOVAJRD llOllBMI n niBHL lluaiw EDITORIAL PAGE MR WILSONS FIRST SPEECH President Wilson hit the nail squarely on the head when in his Columbus speech the first made on his swing around the circle he said that most of the derogatory statements made about the peace treaty were made by people who have not read it or who have read and did not under stand it It is a fact that the republican politi cians who have opposed the treaty and the league of nations have muddled the public mind in re gard to both of them at every possible opportun ity The presidents first speech was a clear and straightforward discussion of the issues at stake and they are tremendous The principal thought of the men who have devoted months of their time to drafting the treaty is to make Ger many repay in so far as it is humanly possible for the damage she has done for the terror she spread over the world for the blood she spilled for the homes she ravished for the industries she destroyed for the farms and the towns and the
mstikt eonr Judie Albert Besafimm taMsts ion of court in Polson Tuesday June sth 1951 and the following proceedings were had The actions for damages Annie Hatt and Lomay Matt vs Jorgen K Hanson and Mrs Jorgen K Hanson were dismissed by the court with prejudice as fully sett led Vivian Jewison was granted an absolute decree of divorce from Harry Jewison on the grounds of wilful desertion The plaintiff was also awarded custody of the one minor child A property settlement was agreed upon by the parties John Wagner was granted a de cree of divorce from Tillie M Wag ner on the larounds of extreme cruelty A decree of absolute divorce was granted to D D Caffrey from Jessie L Caffrey on the grounds of extreme cruelty The defendant was awarded permission to resume her former name of Jessie L Wood worth In the matter of the petition of he Board of Commissioners of the Mission Irrigation district for confirmation of the validity of pro ceedings had relative to the Amend story repayment contract between the Mission Irrigation District and the United States of America the motion for additional time to file bill of exception was refused by
Page Six x J JBVMns Harry Pugh McClure WNU Service CHAPTER I Slap bang bumpteybump Kath leen Maguire smothered an eloquent Damn A rear tire had gone flat and was smacking the pavement with loose rubber It was no more than she expected The family se dan was on its last legs Nothing could do it any good except to jack it up and run a new one under it And a fat chance there is of that muttered Kathleen attempt ing to steady her wabbling vehicle But she had been hitting a smart pace and the pike was badly worn as full of holes as the sedans dilapi dated roof With a little wheeze and a groan the car slid off into the ditch to the right and coasted gently half up the other bank where it hung precariously poised on two wheels in the thick tangled under growth of blackberry vines and dog fennel She had been to the country for flowers Because they were cheaper than hothouse products On the front seat carefully balanced beside her to keep from damaging their tender tips was a bucket full of purple irises She had thought it a bril liant
Harlem Rod and Gun Club Plan Extermination Campaign The Harlem Rod and Gun club is planning to initiate a new pro gram in the extermination of mag pies and skunks this year accord ing to Frank McCollum Bob Thron son Cully Dolven and Frank Or lando It has been noted that this year the skunks and magpie popu lation is quite high and they have been doing a great deal of damage to pleasant and duck eggs mak ing the count of those birds very low So if these predators want eggs the Harlem club plans to give them a real feast In order for the pro posed program to work the aid and assistance of farmers and ranch ers is requested Country people having an extra dozen or so of eggs are asked to bring them in to Dons Pharmacy of the Harlem Dry Cleaners and receive in ex change the same amount of treated eggs which contain a poison These are then to be placed in the farm farm or ranch vicinity in ditches culverts or any place that skunks or magpies might inhabit The poi soned eggs will be colored with a dash of paint so that
FARM NEWS BY PHILLIP E OLMSTEAD McCone County Extension Agent Communications School to Be Held On Feb 11 and 12 in the MeI morial building in Circle we are mg to offer a school on Com munications This is something new in educa n Wt all communicate with h other by voice hand or ex pression Many times we try to get a point n ross nJy to find that we still are not being understood This Communications school is unusual in that it locates our every day breakdown in Communica i We have room for about 30 in i twoday school which will be anted by Burl Winchester As ai Director and Art Jacobs Extension Supervisor We invite those of you who would like to learn how to Com municate with people better If interested let me know by Fcti i so we can have enough table space lined up Sawtana Good for Sawfly S wtma wheat is a newly re mmended solid stem wheat re sistant to Sawfly damage It has the following character II Sawfly resistant late matur ing with good yields under favor able conditions It medium tall in height beard th good milling and baking
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