Big Timber Pioneer 1918

              The Big
Timber Pioneer
•iWJMK XXX,  NO.  ?
BIG TIMBER. SWEET GRASS COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1918
PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR
BELGRADE A THIRD
'exceptional cui9ine ability. Misses
lOlive and Ardi'h Sell served the guents
1 at the table     At   ihe   wedding   party
VICTIM FOR L0CAI5:ct;;heco„':rweru,heho,toffriend8
■    Both   jrroom   and   bride     are     well
P4SII Y OVER ' ^ndwn in tne c,tv   and   enjoy   a   wide
i popularity.     For   a  nnmber   of yeart
j Sell has been  manager  of  the  imple-
I raent department of the   A.   W.   Miles
% j company stoie at Big Timber.     For   a
FIRST     HALF 'time he was en8a**ed in Livingston with
i the same fir<n and with h.a brothert w
! D. Sell, who is manager of the Livings-
nlj Pa«time| For Home Boys- ; ton implement department.
.j'JOKS HAD WON
n>\VNSKND AND THREE
FORKS
;ame
•( KlU'.  K
<n,
; nrt e
r/.eman to Have a Hard
Contest
krade High School basketball
,rh heralded after haying tak-
»asiir« of   the   Townscnd  and
Miss Nugent, now Mrs. Sell, proved
her capability for four years of service
for the Miles Lumber and Coal com-
pany, and her adeptnuis as a vocalist
at concerts, entertainments and musicals.    She was also  an   active   worker
"PATRIOTIC" COUNTY DADS
SOAK YOUR UNCLE SAM
Sheriffs and County Clerks Draw Salaries and
Per Diem as Members of Draft Board-
Sweet Grass Officers Clean.
:k*
teams, paid Big Timber  a 1 in the Methodist Episopal church.
lg-,,-,1 lasi Thursday night to   teach   the
erchants the fine points of
{tSie g»m«'. but after the Sweet Grass
liivf..* h.vtl .-n«*nt forty minutes of a rather
v. fhtinu basket flipping, the viri-
r.>»\*«T, reaay to admit their inferior-
,v 1 h* count after the struggle stood in Big Timber
M IT against the pretenders.
i'ne aerial attack of the local team
fiSb.Ti'i! with Foster Colvin flipping in
mtial counter of the contest,   with
Many splendid presents were given
to the couple as tokens of the sincere
best wishes of friends. Following the
party *.n their honor, they departed on
number 41 for a short trip west. After
February 1, they will be at their   home
^ in an a minute gone. The feai vas j
.iled by brother Jack with an ab-
•->mt«Mj toss .for two more points,
M^tly followed by ''Ron" McDonnell
feiipith <? juicc^asful foul throw. With
Ssae vo'W.i standing 5 to 0 against them,
Farmers Will Fed
The hctae Tax law
Bozeman, Dec, 27.-A large majority
of the farmers of the  country   will   be
affected by the   new   income   tax law
and those who have   not  been   in   the
c?:- of \i,a visitors threw a field goal, j habit   of  keeping some  sort of  record
UfU-.''s act peeved Foster  Colvm,   of   their   buisness     transactions     will
v> irre".   three shortsjfor sn additional   find it extremely difficult to prepare an
{Hunts.  At this jurcture Ron McDon-  intelligeut statement as to their Income
l: r-aJtv. two more free   throws, while  during the past year.    So says Prof. E.
r Belgrade neutralized this ad-   L. Currier of the department   of   farm
management at the Montana State college, who declares from aow on,   farm-
tHUf with a couple of the smme   var-
These scores again had   the   de-
•i ■
ir
^jfred effect and the Timbenties pushed !ers will find it absolutely   necessary  to
keep some records of their receipts and
expenditure*. Fortunately, Professor
Currier says, the records that it will be
necessary to keep are simple and may
he kept by almost anyone.
Under the income tax law every un-
married individual who has an income
of $1,000 or more for the year 1»17 is
required to make an income statement,
and every married individual who has a
net income ot $2,000 or more is required to do tlwjiAine.
Asto Drowas Three is
River Near Ksscda
ir count to 26 at half time,   while the
ers wer« making their tot*l of 11 for
same period.
h»- second half was a duplication  of
' ~rst  in   that the locals  continued
•wccesaful   heaving,   undismayed
the stand of the visiting quintet, the
ye of the   foimer  affixing   25   more
nts to rheir first half total, while the
were   only   abU:   to   annex  six
rker* tifter recess.    Jack Colvin and
Iter Lyons   played   prominently  in
*c«»rw^ of this period, each   collect-
five .-uccesstul throws,   while   Ron
bonne:! and   Albert   EgeJand  were
ru:n«»ntRl with their   slashing  style
Ipfi'nse in breaking up the   visitors' I
nsr. I
§1|1h' ra^ultof the game ww aoleasant
hh" id the many adherents   <jf   the
1 nvi-, and already there is  a   spirit
nco*K3gement and reaultant predic-
sbout the ?i>CHt   camp   that   Boze-
.   r;mner-up   hi   last   year's  state
nament and ~ho with four veteran
ers on this year's team will meet a
thy foe   in   the   local   speed   boys,
n they come to the local gymnasium
e 11th of the month to add another
to their already long list.
lager of Miles
Store Takes
Bride
vir.gston Enterprise: Within a
Jy setting of palms, Sheba grass
id&i.sss, ldisa Myrtle Nugent, one of
r:immetit young women of the city,
married to Mervin Sell, formerly
ivingito i, at the home of the for-
l*s parent* at 3 o'clock last night.!
«»eni at the wedding were relatives
e bride and groom and intimate
ds. !o whom .in elegant dinner wit
wards served in honor of the
pcoj.Se. The ceremony was
brand ).-y Rev. J. G. Ross,
e bridal couple, well known in
r.^slon, took their stand beneath a
py of S'leba grass which came to
ptx, adorned by daises. On either
and til the re»r cf the setting
large jalms which rendered an
iic nnr befitting effect for the
Ti e bride, clad in a select
of .silk ever white satin was given
e gr«>?m by her father, S. W.
nt. Miss Iola Bel! Palmer carried
ing ir. * large white HI? and pre-
it W. I). Sell, a brother
om we ted a best man. and
1 Hea:<: &» bridesmaid.
tcorauu-is in the dining  room emu-
the u.-rristry of the unique  parlor
in wiiJ:h the couple   were united.
Igeneni; color acheme tieay red   an d!
pn tif h')!!dav hue.    Present  at  thej
Missoula. Dec. 30—Mr. and Mrs. M.
S. Kupliks and their six >ear oid son
Frank were drowned in the Missoula
river on the outskirts of the citv this
afternoon, when their autombile slipped
on the muddy river road and rolled over
the bank into the swollen stream.
Fout other sons, the oldest 16 and
the youngest 3, were saved. F. J*
Sti-ikney, a farmer, waded up to his
neck in the icy water against a terrific
current to save the baby of the family
and immediately went in again for the
father. The baby was revived, but the
father was dead when taken from the
water.
The accident occurred just west of
the city, where a much-used road skirts
the river, which is now almost at flood
stage because of heavy rains. The
Kupiliki had started down th* road,
but found the mud so deep that they
decided to turn back. The father
hacked the car to ward the bank in order
to turn.| He went to* far. He had or.)y
one suras, and before he could set the
brakes th* machine had slipped oyer
the muddy bank iuto the river, which at
this point is swift and deep.
Charles, the oldest son, had climbed
out of the car before the turn was
Attempted. Fred, 10 yeara old, jwaptd
as the machine began to slip. Tbeee
boys shouted frantically for help, and
H. A. Balfour, a farmer, reached them
ia time to save eight-year-old Henry
by thrusting a long pde within hie
grasp. *
The father and mother and the two
youngest children were swept away,
however.
Stickney, whose   farm   is   nearly   a
quarter of a mile down   stream,  heard
the aJaouU for help and ran to the river
In time U wade naif way  acroae  in   a
Miss i shallow spot   There he caught   threa-
j year-old  Oscar,   dropping the uncon
Montana Record-Hera Id. Much
dignation was expressed today when it
befame known that members of several
connty exemption boarda, in addition to
drawing their regular salaries as county
officers, also put in claims to the government for compensation for services
rendered as members of the draft
boarda. There was task in Hekna today of taxpayers demand!** of the
county commissioners that they institute suit ta recover of the county| officer! the amount of the salaries paid
them by the county during the time
that they charged the federal government for services.
Governor S. V. Stewart and Adjutant
General Phil Green an ttated that they
considered the charge* made by county
physicians for services on the county
boards were perfectly proper, inasmuch as the saUries paid county physicians do not contemplate that their
time shall be exclnsively occupied with
county matters. Governor Stewart
added that a county physician who is a
member^of the county board called upon him and asked if it were proper for
him ;to charge the government for his
services. The governor told him in his
opinion it was proper.
Sheriff Ed Majors defends his claim
he put in to the federal government
upon the grounds that Adjutant General Greenan told him it would be all
right
General Greenan when asked about
the matter, countered with a query as
to "who got the money?" He added
that the government furnished him
with blank claims that were tent to all
members of county exemption boards,
and it was Hot they themselves to deckle whether ov not they should charge
the government for their services.
The published statement ih» *H«riff
and county clerk of Silver Bow charged
for their service was erroneous. They
were not members of the county board,
and whatever help they rendered that
body was not charged for
The report made to the war department  by   Adjutant   General   Greenan
shows the unit  cost of administering
the draft law was   highest in   Gallatin
in-1 county, $12.2416 per man.
Clark ranked next, with a unit
Lewis and
cost of
$1} 0207, Missoula third, with a unit
cost of $10.5767, Butte cityj fourth,
with a unit cost of $10.2361 and Silver
Bow county fifth, with a unit coat of
$9.5646. The cheapest unit coat was in
Phillips, $.03 a man and Blaine next
lowest, with a unit cost of $.0425 per
man.
Reports from the several countiea
relative to pay of board members are
itemised as follows by Adjutant General Greanan: Where no reference is
made to an officer, he made no charge
for his services: >
Beaverhaad-Sberiff, $420.
Big Horn, Blaine, Broadwater, Carter, Cascade, Custer, Dawson, Fallon,
Granite, Madison, Meagher, Mineral,
Musselshell, Phillips, Powell, Prairie.
Sanders, Sheridan. Rosebud, Sweet
Grass, Toole. Wheatland. Wibaux,
Yellowstone, no charges for services
made by any members of the local
boards.
City of Butte-Mayor, clerk and physician, $416 each.
Carbon—Sheriff and clerk. $360 each;
physician, $60.
Chouteau—Sheriff, $540; physician,
$84.
Deer Lodge—Physician, $480.
Fergus-Sheriff. $460; clerk, $360;
physician, $400.
Gallatin—Sheriff, physician and clerk,
$440 each.
Hill-Sheriff, $264.
Jefferson-Clerk, $61. $0.
Lewis and Clark—Sheriff and physician, $968; clerk, $296.
Lincoln—Clerk, $180; physician, $300.
Mieaouia-Sheriff and clerk. f§16;
physician, $696.
Park-Sheriff, $420; clerk, $520; physician, $152.
Rav&&    ?by*n-^ $148.
Riehland-Physician, $64.60.
Silver Bow—Stephen Kelly, chairman
(sheriff did not act on board), $560;
Frifik Ketiiy (county ci«rk did not act
on board), $316; Dr. Peter Potter, $435.
Stillwater-Clark, $216.
Teton-Sheriff, $321.
Valley-Sheriff and clerk. $136.
hoods' demands it was learned the raii-
wav workers had decided not to press
their request for a period of at least 30
days or until it is seen just what the
railroad situation would be.
A plan under consideration for handling railroad finances is the formation
of a government corporation under the
director general cf railroads to buy and
market railroad securities.
The railroad war board today directed
the operating committees of eastern
railroads with headquarters at Pittsburg to remove immediately to Washington to sit here with the board.
The railroad brotherhood chiefs already have assured the presideut that
under no circumstances would the? tie
up transportation while the wage question was at issue.'
Railroad executives here today ex-
praaaing their feeling that th« transportation systems never ivill go back into
pnvate handa. and gave two reasons:
First, tbey do not believe the stockholders will agree to it with revenues
fuarateed under government operation
and, second, they believe that the formation of a continental railway will
make it impossible to go back to the
old competive system.
Eastern Mak Ban
Gnaaag War Rear
Minneapolis, Dec. 27.-Local mills
began grinding "war flour" under the
new government regulations desigr.ed
to save 16,000,000 bushels of wheat ir*
the present crop year. Under thnae
regulations, which provide for the use
of 74 per e^nt of the wheat berry in-]
stead of but 50 per test, two grades of
flour will be eliminated and the output
will be listed as war flour of first and
second grades.
The change resulted in a sharp reduction in bran prices, and a drop in
Ue prices of other by products also is
expected.
Several milling companies, including
two large concerns, were compelled to
auapend operations temporally because
of lack of proper equipment for grinding the new flour.
Members ot the food administration
nulling di/ision said that because of the
large aupplyjof flour now or the market it will be some time before war
flour reaches the consumer.
GIBSON RAILROAD
REACHES RAPEUE
RAILS LAID   FROM  HESPGR   iNTO
l'HAT TOWN MONDAY OF
LAST* WEEK
NO TRAINS UNTIL SPRING
Ballasting of   Road   Cannot   be   Done
UntiirThat Time-Waat Rapelje
Shows ia Bnsineas
Railways Hare Passed bto the Haids
Of the UaM States fatrwrn*
of
scious child on the bank, where   neighbors gave first aid.
»-
A fter Twesxy-Fasu Years
' Ed McConnell, the well known black-
! smith of Melville and this city, left Sat-
Washington, Dec. 28.— The railroads
of the United States paaaed into government possession at noon today as Secretary McAdoo. designated by President Wilson as director general of railroads, was delegating to the railroads
war board the task of operating them
for the present
The war board, comprising five of
the country's foremost railroad executives, who have been in supreme
charge of the roade for the last nine
months, was catted into conference at
11 o'clock to discnas plane for welding
all transportation lines into a single
.government operated system. They
left the treaaury department two hours
later under instructions to continue
their fuuetiona and to submit immediately a plan of operation to the director
general.
Tonight Mr. McAdoo iaauad his first
formal order designed to spaed up
freight movement, Ukfrapfcing all
railroad presidents and directors instructions to move traffic by the most
convenient and direct routes. At the
same time he ordered thesa to continue
operation of their lines in oanformlty
with the president's proclamation patting them under government control.
There was no indications tonight
wbethar Mr. McAdoo intended eventually to displace the war board with an
organization for the duration of . the
war. It waa made clear, however, that
it will continue to function unt"l the
director general dedices that a vS^tter
system can be devised.
The order that freight move by the
most expeditions routas open the way
for a pooling of traffic imposeible heretofore by reason of statutes designed to
prevent the practice by carriers operated under private direction. It take*
from the shipper the right to route hit
freigntjaa he wishes and leaves to the
railroad traffic manager the task of
sending it moat directly and where
there ia least congestion.
Although Mr. McAdoo does not believe a complete unification of all rail
systems can be brought about overnight even with legal restriction* lifted,
he expects meaauret taken under government control will remove soma of
the obstacles that now prevent the
rapid movement of freight Member*
of the war board were requested to
study the situation and report on any
meeeure* to relieve congestion they
think might wisely be put in force.
U&TreipiIl
OMhws
Easfltyes dmmi Ftr
'< urday night for bis old home in
iganS after   an   absence   ctf  24
Michi-
yeara.
worked with
EajriePaes. Dec. 30-At leaat six
Mettken outlaws were killed in a fleet
between bandits and United State*
troop* and Texas rangers Saturday at
San Jose, Mexico, according to a statement today at military h*arlqaiirter*.
The Americans croated into Mexico on
the trail of Mexican cattle thieve*.!
There were no American casualties.      '
After the bandit*, who  are  said to
have numbered 50, were put to rout the
Washington, Dec. 29.—The railroisu*
have definitely refused the demand of
their organised employe* for 40 per
cent iacreeae* in pay and have turned
the responsibility entirely to the government.
'The railway executive* here today,
in letting their decision be known,
made iio concealment of  their feeling
K.ry a:id linner were Mr.and Mrs.
Wucision, Mrs. J. Swingley. Mr.
Mrs. ^  W. Palmer, Jr.,   Mr.   and . Daring the past season he
W. 1). Sell, Rev. and   Mrs.  Rosa, 'Sektnan & Peterson ot this city, m*Xm&^^nriioltoTi*^X. i
Mr ar^ Mrs  Nugent ; hi* money and took advantage of it to i The purauit of a  hot  trail across   the 1 toward government ownership and made
"" .   .    'go back and sec if there had beee any: horder followedla serie* of raid* on th«ij cietr they   felt  the  public   and  the
wcottr*! dinner was   prepared   by  chingt, in ^it native town in a quarter !?,Vr,,!gLw wJ,lch  *  ^«  ^^^Ittockhokier* would demand it.
A, 0. EbhD. an intimate friend of of a ^im.   He will make an extend-' ^'beJ^o^ !    At the *ame time it  became  known
8>rw5* ^K» wa* called upon for  bar ed visit ' Rio Grande. ! the railroad* had refused the  brother-
that government  operation  H a step
Seketire Draft Cafe
Gs Orcr to Fesnurj.
Des Moines, Dec. 27.—Orders issued
today by Provost Marshal General
Crowd sr affect all deferred percentages
of tne first army for which "there will
be no more ;formal call before February 15."   Crowder's message  follow*;
"It ha* been decided there will be,no
more format call for deferred percentage* of the present quota before February 15. While boards should, until they
have enough men finally classified in
clan* 1, send forward promptly men
•elected under the old regulation* to
make up deficiencies in call* already
made, the result of this decision will
be that we shall be able to give the
benefit ot the new classification system
to all men whose order numbers are so
late a* to place them within the deferred percentage* of the present   call.
'"Calls will, however, be made very
shortly under the provision of section
No. 149 for the special claas of men
there mentioned.'1*
Section Na 149 relate* in the ' induction "into military service of technical
and other expert* and of registrant*
highly skilled in some special   lines of
ONLY A VOLUNTEER
New why didn't I wait to be drafted,
And led to the train by a band.
Or put in a claim for exemption,
Okl why did 1 hold up my hand?
Way dWt I wait for  the   banquet,
Why didn't I wait to be cheered.
For drafted man get all the credit.
While I only VOLUNTEER ED.
Hut nobody gave me a banquet,
And nobody said a kind word,
The puff of the engine, the grind  of
the wheel*
Wa* all th* goodbye that I beard,
faenoff to the training r* sap anetied
To be trained fee the neat smlf year,
And in the shunV fuiasjttsn,
I waa only a vomntear.
But perhaps aeeae day m the  future.
When my little hoy sits on my knee.
And asks me what I did in the Great
War,
As bis big eyes look up at bm
1 win have to look back in those eye*
That at me so trustingly peer:
And tell him I wasn't drafted
1 wus only a volunteer.
—Exchange
The completion of the laying ot rails
to Rapelje on the Gibson branch
ofthe Northern Pacific, insures the
running of trains into the latter town
next 'year. Ballasting of th* road
must first be dene, and frost will not
permit that work at present. However, the following from tb«» Billings
Gszette insures a branch line part way
next year, anyway:
"With the completion ot the work of
laying steel on the new branch of the
Northern Pacific* into Rapelje| and the
issuance yesterday of the first
edition of the Rapelje Adyocate, ih*
town's first newspaper, residents
of that thriving metropolis of the future are looking forward to an era of
prosperty and rapid growth, according
ing to W. J. Soderlind, cashier of the
First National bank of Rapelje, and A.
K. Smith, rtianager of the Lake Basin
Mercantile company, who are in Billings today.
"The Northern Pacific Lake Basin
branch reached Rapelje Monday when,
the contrat tors finished laying rails
from Hesper into our town,' said Mr.
Soderind. 'However, there will be no
traias operated; over the line until next
spring because of the fact that the new
road cannot be blasted untii the frost
leaves the ground. Engineers however,
expect tc start erection of the Rapelje
depot n?xt week and a part of the telegraph system of the branch has already
been completed.''
"Both Mr. Soderlind and Mr. Smith
expresaed their pride at the fact that
while Radelje is one of the newest
town/ in the state, it already has a
newspaper. They stated that the first
issue of the Rapelje Advocate was to
be issued yesterday. H. P. McPher
son, formerly of Irene, S, D., is editor
and publisher.
"Business has been extremely good
in Rapelje,' said Mr. Smith. 'When
casting up my acconnts ow business
done between December 1 and December 19, I found that ve had dona $1,9 4
more business in that period than during the corresponding period a year
ago."
"Mr. Soderlind stated that while his
bank was started in July, the deposits
dnring the first four months had grown
from nothing to $40,000. The business
institutions in the new town to date
comprise two lumbeF yards, a hardware
store, three general stores, two banks,
a garage, a hotel, a newspaper office
and print shop, an implement store,
the building for which is now undor
construction. Messrs. Soderline and
Smith stated that three grain elajatora
would be constructed at Rapelje next
spr.ng.
Res' Crsst Csmtaas
Drive Kg Success
The Red Cross Christm** membership drive ha* itroved a complete success, and when all returns are in and
lists checked up the campaign commit
tees declare that Swoet Grass county
has again done more than. might be expected a* it* patriotic duty.
Nearly complete returns show thsr*
arc 676 name* enrolled in the county,
which added to   the  118   memberships
from the County   High  School make?
7*5 Christ**** memberships.     To   this
•umber is aoxM 200 or more old  memberships that will hold over from  1917,
making -noroximately the 1,000 alloted
thia comity at a maximum number.    It
i* expected! that etortly after the pub-
tic schools open in the new building, th*
[whole school   will   be orgsnized   in a
Jonior  Red  Cree*   Auxiliary,  whkh
will add another 200 or more members.
Several rwrai schools are   inquiring of
the Chapter School committee how they
may organise fee Junior RtNl Cross.
At some future time perhaps the
number of memberships in each *uxii)
lary can be published. The story of
self-secrific* and labor required to enroll many of the nara«s In the rural
communities, the horseback n&>s and
drives through the scow *»d hitter
cold, can never be told; but the enthusiasm and energy put into the Christmas
membership drive is only ose more
demonstration of the spirit at. horn*
that is backing our boys who h«v* gone
to fight for our country, and the patriotism that know* no limit •are   victory.