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VOLUME NO. 21. POLSON, LAKE COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930. NMBER 21

SCHOOLS IN COUNTY M1EORGANIZED FOR THE YEAR

Most of the smaller country schoolsopened their doors on Tuesday of thisweek, and all those which did not willbegin their work next Monday morning.Following is a list of the schools and

the teachers for each one:District 19-South Moiese, Cynthia

Campbell.District 22.-Elmo, Ruth Benedict.District 24.-Proctor, upper grades,

Edythe Lanway; lower grades, GertrudeEly.

District 28.-Arlee, Frinelpel, R. A.Felker; high school and dredge, Flor-ence Wingate; 8th and 7th„ Aria Hol-den; 4th and 5th, Mae Hendrickson;2nd and 3rd, Ida Cosner; 1st and 2nd,Charlotte Mitton.Cheri°, Principal, R. J. Hill._ English

and Latin, Virginia Enyeart; highschool and grade, Jewel Powers; 7thand 8th, Glenn Dorsey; 5th and 8th,Mildred Beck; 3rd and 4th, Joyce Rob-ertson; 1st and 2nd, Inez Calkins.

Pablo, Principal, Orrin P. Kendall;5th and 6th, Ethel Price; 3rd and 4th,Clara McKnight; 1st and 2nd, HadenRobertson.Ronan, Principal, F. B. Polley; Eng-

lish and Science, Bessie B. Marble;Commercial, Martin Connelly; Latinand English, Elizabeth Frye; Mathe-matics, Clara Diffels; 6th grade, AlfredGrandchamps; 7th, Mary O'Hara; 8th,Adatf Sands; 5th, Mary Eckstein; 4th,Esther Borgardts; 3rd, Nee Doris Ross;2nd, Mary Lemire; 1st, Lydia Borgardt.

St. Ignatius, Principal Homer E. An-derson; English and Latin, Grace B.Mortensen; Science, Thelma TaylorShadoan; 8th grade, Nora C. Smock;

7th, Dora G. More; 6th and 5th, AmeliaButterworth; 4th and Music, GertrudeKeyes; 2nd and 3rd, Alice Jarmer; 1stand 2nd, Frances Jarmer.Round Butte, Principal, Harry D.

Dyarman; 5th and 6th grades, LouiseWilbur; 3rd and 4th, Alice Christian;1st and 2nd, Adeline Beaver.

Hillside, Upper grades, Hills R. West;lower grades, Florence Howes.

Valley Creek, Clara Cowman.D'Aste, Mary Hurley.Ridgeway, Nimble Johnson.North Moiese, upper grades, Nellie

McKnight; lower grades, Maggie Sim-MOD&

Glacier View, Letts Miller.District 32, Ferndale.-Upper grade*.

Sylvia C. Feeler; lower grades, MaidieM. Feeler.

District 35, Valley View.- Uppergrades, Marie Peterson; lower grades.Pauline Bloomburg.

District 38, Dayton.-Ruth B. Quinn.District 41, Rollins.--George Siderius,District 42, Loon Lake-Esther Her-

man,District 40, Sunny Slope.-Matgaret

Anderson_ Safety Bay, afre,„ MaudeWemple.District 52, Green Mountain.-Mrs.

Lenore Holman,District 55, Reservoir Valley.-Mrs.

Hilda N. Warlett.District 57, Spring Valley.-Philip S.

Black.District 65, Big Arm.-Mrs. Ida Rude.District 67, Garcon Gulch.-Philena

Faucett.District 73, Swan Lake.-Ethel Bur-

ton, Salmon Prairie.-Alleen Lehti.

STUDY DAM SITESFOR RESERVOIRS

Consulting Engineer A. J. Wiley ofBoise, Idaho, was on the project lastweek to study and advise as to the suit-ability of reservoirs of the project whichare listed for early construction. Theseare the Twin reservoir for which fundsare now available, and the Lower Crowand Pablo reservoirs for which it ishoped that funds will be available fornext year's construction. The test pitsthat have been made at Twin and theLower Crow reservoirs gave a good op-

portunity to study the undergroundconditions.Mr. Wiley considers the damsite on

Crow creek safe for the construction ofthe reservoir to a capacity of 9000 acrefeet and that the water supply will beadequate to fill this reservoir each yearwithout taking from the supply to any

of the other project reservoirs. On ac-count of the sandy nature of the sotiat Twin reservoir, Mr. Wiley proposesthat the canal be bnilt to take waterInto this reservoir and that *Arial bemade of the site to about- one half ofthe proposed maximum capacity bemade before building the embankments.This work can be done this fall andwinter and the embankments built lateIn the spring of 1931 if the reservoirshold water without excessive loss. There

seems to be no question as to the feas-ibility of raising the dam to increase the

storage in Pablo reservoir.A survey party has been working for

the 'past week at Jocko lakes where sur-veys are being made to determine Me

possibility of diverting the waters of

Placid creek into these lakes and using

them as reservoirs to hold water for

eitner the Jocko or the Mission Valley

cilvizions of the project. Following the

completion of this work this party will

make a study of the possibilities of tak-

ing water from upper Swan river into

Post creek above McDonald lake.

A structure crew is finishing the

headworks of the new Ronan lateral

and an excavating machine is working

toward Ronan running 24 hours a day

Tne big dragline has just completed ex-

cavation on the ennepipe Feed Canal

and a concrete crew is building two

large drops and doing other work to

complete this canal.Mr. Barry Dibble, consulting engineer

oi. electrical matters has completed his

report of the project electrification aid

returned to Portland on the 30th. Mr.

C. J. Wells, resident engineer, will lay

out the work on transmission lines and

le ready for construction whenever the,

work is approved.Chief Engineer H. V. Clotts completed

his inspection of the project and re-turned to Washington on the, 20th of

August to be there for the hearing be-

fore the Bureau of the Budget which

began on the 25th. Supervising Engi-

neer W. S. Hanna and Irrigation Dis-

trict Attorney Harwood left on the 21st

for the Blackfoot project.

One thousand men are fighting for-

est area in Washington.

MONTANA INVITEDTO 4-H senooL

The International 4-H Training schoolhas extended its first invitation tothe Montana 4-1i club office to senddelegates for the annual training periodwhich will be held at Springfield, Mass.,September 7-20, advises Charles Potter,state club leader. Ruth Osborne ofBozeman and Melvin McPheeters ofKalispell have been selected to repres-ent Montana.This is the first time Montina has

been invited to send delegates to thisschool and the international scope ofthe training makes the invitation a sig-nificant one for 4-H club wort here, inthe opinion of Mr. Potter. This year38 states of the United States and six 'provinces of Canada will be represented.The training school is an outgrowth

of Camp Vail, one of the 4sif club div-isions of the Eastern StatAls Exposition,Springfield, Mass., where delegates fromthe thirteen north and middle Atlanticstates meet annually. It is financedentirely by Horace A. Moses, Springfieldwho at one time was a poor farm_ boybut now is a prominent paper manu-facturer and engaged in many othereducational and business enterprises.The purposes of the school as laid

down by Mr. Moses are: To perpetuatethe ideals symbolised in the 4-H in-**nit, to provide an international meet-ing place where the leaders of the clubmovement may gather and exchangeIdeas and develop standards, and toprovide training of older club members.The activities at the school include

lectures, discussion groups, demonstra-tions, field trips and general campduties.The two Montana delegates were sel-

ected through a comparison of the re-cords sent in by county agents for theoutstanding members of their counties

LARGE CROWD AT LABOR DAYCELEBRATION

The third annual Labor Day cele-bration at Ronan was all or more of asuccess than could have been hoped forby the people of that city. Thousands,from every section of the country werethere to help make the day the grandsuccess it proved to be. Those in chargeof the affair had arranged to feed acrowd of five thousand but long beforesupply of barbecue meat was exhausted.Church folks managed to feed the over-flow.The sports program in the afternoon

was entertaining and was carried eut asper schedule. Two big dances in theevening wound up the day's activities.One of the big features of the Oro-

gram was the giving away of a Ford 'car by the Ronan Garage oompany.Stanley Scearce of Ronan held thelucky number and won the car.The Labor Day celebration at Ronan '

attracts a large crowd each year andIt is the intention of the people of thatplace to increase their activities until 'it is the big eeletwaticn of the entire'northa estern part of the state.

ATTORNEY GENERAL RULESJOHNS IS A CANDIDATE

There has been more or less s-sion since it was announced that erJohnson Was to leave the city, as to howould Jig the democratic candldat forthe ottfee Of county attorney. edemocratic central committee hevacancy caused by the ofMr. Johnson by appointingIt now appears, from the heattorney general, that Mr. otbecome a candidate for the onthe democratic ticket at the-this fall, If he is to be •fall tor the office of county hewill be compelled to rim as alt e-pendent.Mr. Johnson asked the a

seal for an opinion on the mathe followillg is in answer to t et-ter of Mr. Johnson, together witktheopinion of the attorney general: 7

"At the primary nominating e onthe names of Mark H. Derr and verC. Johnson appeared as the Dim ticcandidates for the office of count* at-torney. The election retultedi

at-the

election of Mr. Johnson, who re-

signed as the Democratic cand forthat office, and the Democratic alMAIMIttee, in due form, ap r.011er to fill the vacancy thinT1 Mr. Derr prohibited from ha hisrutine printed on the Democratic etfor the general election by the s-ions of Chapter 67, Laws of 1"I am enclosing herewith a copp an

opinion of this office rendered r.Shelver of Livingston, in which isheld that a candidate cannotafter receiving the nomination; end forthat reason there is no vacancy in yourcounty for the office of county &Nor-ney which can be filled by the countycentral committee, and it becomes un-necessary to answer your question,

"My Dear Mr. Shelver.-You haeire-quested my opinion on the foliatingquestion: Where a person files on theRepublican ticket for the office ofcounty clerk and recorder and receivesthe nomination, can he resign or with-draw and thus create a vacancy amongcandidates to be filled by the countycentral committee."This question has never been passed

upon by your supreme court. However,the question has been presented to thesupreme court of Nevada, under stat-utes almost identical with ours, in thecase of state ex rel Donnelley, chairmanvs. Hamilton, ill Pac, 1026, and in hold-ing that a candidate could not resignor withdraw after receiving the nomi-nation, the court said.

" 'The learned district judge took ahuman view of the case, and was of theopinion that 'where the party realizedthat his condition of health was suchthat he was unable to make either acampaign for himself or a campaign inassistance of the patty, It would seemthat he not only could resign, but thatit was his duty, as occurred to Col. Eddyfrom the letter presented to the Re-publican committee,' and that 'the af-fidavit that he would not resign is arequirements of a declaration of fealtyto the party on the part of those re-ceiving at its hands a nomination.' Wethink these are considerations of policyor expediency for the legislature, andnot for the courts and that the answero the question presented depends uponthe act and intention of the legislature.If, under the language or policy of thestatute providing for primary elections,It appears that the legislature intendedto prevent the withdrawal from theticket of candidates after they had beennominated by the majority of the vot-•era of the party, the court cannot mod-ify the statutes and make any excep-tion„ and allow candidates to withdrawunder particular circumstances or fordeserving reasons when the legislaturehas intended to prohibit withdrawalsand has not made any exception forspecial cases in which they may be al-lowed.'The statute requires, by section 5,

subd. 4, that each candidate upon fil-ing his nomination papers, make an af-fidavit stating, among other things,that he is a duly qualified elector. 'andthat if nominated he will accept suchnomination and not withdraw, and thathe will qualify as such officer if nom-inated and elected.' The candidate hadfiled that affidavit with his nominationpapers preliminary to having his nameplaced upon the primary ballot, and hereceived a majority of the votes of hisparty at the primary election. It isprovided in section 24 of the primaryact that: 'The person receiving thehighest number (of votes) at a primaryelection as the candidate for the nom-ination of a political party for an officeshall be the candidate of the party for

such office, and his name as such can-

didate shall be placed on the official

ballot. voted at the ensuing election

Section 27 provides: 'Vacancies oc-curring' after the holding of any pri-mary election shall be filled by theparty committee of the city, county,city and county, district or state, as thecase may be.' There is no provision inthe act in relation to withdrawals, ex-cept the one to which we have referred,by which it is required to be stated inthe affidavit of the candidate filed withthe nominating papers that if he. isnominated he will accept such nomina-tion and not withdraw."The intention of the legislature con-

trols the courts in the construction ofstatutes . . ."Counsel for petitioner urges that the

candidate may withdraw because it isnowhere dirctely stated in the act thatthe petitioner may not withdraw. It isoften held that the purpose and spiritof an act will control the letter, but thewording and recto" ments of this stateindicate the inti.,1 Jr of the legislature.In the absence oi direct statementthat he may or may not withdraw, wefeel limited to a construction of theprovision that the candidate shell statein the affidavit 'that if nominated hewill accept such nomination and willnot withdraw. "The requirement of sucha declaration by the candidate, regard-less of whether it must be made underoath, indicates that the legislature in-tended that he should not be allowed towithdraw, and that he should keep andnot repudiate the obligation exacted, forsurely, if it were intended that heshould be allowed to withdraw, and thelegislature made any reference in thead, to withdrawals, we must concludethat, instead of requiring an affidavitfrom the candidate that he' would notwithdraw, a provision would have beenInserted allowing such withdrawal, or,If it were intended only to require amoral obligation or one to show goodfaith, the candidate would be requiredto make oath that he did not intend towithdraw, leaving him free to changehis mind and withdraw. The statuterequires the candidate to state in theaffidavit 'that he affiliated with thesaid party at the last preceding generalelection, and either that he did not votethereat or voted for a majority of thecandidates of said party at said next.preceding general election, and intendsto vote at the ensuing election, and thatif nominated he will accept such nomi-nation, and not withdraw.' As he needstate only his intention as to how heshall vote, but must swear positivelythat he will not withdraw, a distinctionis clearly expressed, and it is evidentthat the legislature intended to requireonly a statement of his intention as tohow he will vote, but an unconditionaland continuing assurance that he will

.n,ot withdraw. This means, eyen morethan would 8 bare statement ifi thestatute that the candidate shall ript beallowed to withdraw, for it is reinforcedby the requirement of an agreementunder oath on his part, and this swornobligation not to withdraw amounts tomore than a mere promise that he willnot have his name taken from theticket. To hold that the requirementIn the affidavit of the candidate thathe will not withdraw implies that hemay withdraw would be as inconsistent,and as contrary to the apparent pur-pose of the statute, as to hold that byproviding that a witness shall take anoath to tell the truth, it was not in-tended by the legislature that he shouldbe required to tell the truth. We. can-not discredit the legislature with the

belief that the obligation was imposed

with the intention of having it re-

garded only as a moral promise, with-

out legal effect, to be lightly ignored by

the candidate as he might desire, and

at his instance by the courts. We must

assume that our lawmakers, selected bypopular vote as representative citizens,

are honest and high-minded men. and

that they do not purposely waste the

time of the legislative session in passing

Idle, useless, or noneffective enactments,

and that they would not impose such

an obligation upon candidates for of-

fice without an intention of having it

observed. It is evident that this pro-

vision was inserted in the law for a ben-

eficial purpose, and so that a candidate

would not be allowed to trifle with the

public or the voters of his party bywithdrawing after he had voluntarily

become a candidate and received a ma-

jority of the votes, and the state has

been to the expense of a primary or

other election.""The reasoning of the court In the

above case is well founded, and I be-

lieve the decision would be followed by

the supreme court of this state. It is,

therefore my opinion that a candidate

cannot resign after receiving the nom-

ination and that tin vacancy could be

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JOSEPH SCANLON ELECTEDREPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN

Following the state convention ofSaturday, Montana's state central com-mittee prepared to fire the opening shotsof a militant campaign from offices es-tablished in the Lalonde building. Sep-arate adjoining quarters have been es-tablished for the use of Judge Albert J.Galen.Joseph D. Scanlon, editor of the Miles

City Star, was elected for the third timechairman of the Republican state cen-tral committee at Satladay night's ses-sion of its biennial state convention. C.Tom Busha of Great Pans, formerly ofthe veteran's bureau at Fort Harrison,was re-elected secretary of the commit-tee. Joseph A. Hanlon of Billings,promient sheepman, was named trees-urere.The nomination of Scanlon as state

chairman, made by J. W. Schnitzler ofEroid, was unopposed.In accepting the post, the veteran

Miles City editor appealed to membersof the party to vote a straight ticket,pointing out the state had consistentlyelected Republican state officers givena heavy majority to the presidentialcandidate and yet had switched to theDemocratic ticket for governor andUnited States senator.The platform was presented to the

convention by the Chinook publisher,H. B. Brooks, chairman of the resolu-tions committee, and adopted unani-mously without alteration.In summary the flatform states:"We believe that the time has come

when our public officials should con-sider Montana's interests first andabove all. To that end we demand pro-

tection in home markets for home pro-ducts, construction of our nationalwaterways, support of the farm board,justice to our working men, fair treat-ment of our Indian citizens, care forthe veterans, taxation relief and single-hearted devotion to Montana's inter-ests by all officials."The keynote of the resolution was,

"Montana's interests comes first."One plank favored liberalization of

the state workmen's compensation act;another suggests the state take actionrequiring the state highway commis-sion to establish a satisfactory mini-mum u wage scale for all state highwayrk.

The party pledged itself to continueadvocacy of federal aid highways andto urge the state legislature to enactlaws "best calculated to enable us toreceive the full benefit of federal aid inroad construction."Joseph M. Dixon, who is here from

Washington spending some time at hisvilla on Flathead lake, was in attend-ance at the meeting at the Placer hoteland was one of the principal speakersfor the occasion. In part be said:"It was 34 years ago that I first met

with the Republicans of Montana andwith few exceptions, I' have met withthem in convention every two years. Ingazing through this splendid gathering,I visualize the fates of such old leadersas Colonel Sanders, Senator Carter, C.P. Powers, Richardson and Stoddard."Two years ago the people of the

United States elected Herbert Hooverto the presidency by the most tremen-

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WORK PROGRESSINGAT PQWER SITE

Mr. Tornquist superintendent of thePfleonix Utility, stated yesterday thatthey had about one hundred and fiftymen on the payroll in this city. Thework of building the camp is progress-ing rapidly, with a number of carpen-ters at work. The ground for the campwas put in shape some days ago and thefirst building to be erected will be aearehouse, and this will be followed bythe permanent buildings and the cabinsfor the men with families. They areputting in their own water and sewer-

age system. The big transformers havebeen loaded and are being taken to thepower site, ready for use when the linefrom Thompson Falls is completed. Mr.Tornquist said he expected the energyto be delivered at the site by the tenthof this month. This is five days ear-lier than was anticipated when - thework was started.The old swinging bridge has been re-

Paired and two more added for the con-venience of the men at the site. Thecontract for the ties for the railway hasbeen awarded to the Spaberg Lumbercompany and they are having them cut,ready for delivery. The Pheonixhas done considerable work on the high-way leading to the site, but at the pres-ent time they are undecided as to theroute that will be taken. It is possible

that they will follow the railroad from

where it crosses the highway and againthey may choose an entirely differentroute..The pole line from Thompson Falls

has crossed Irvine Flats and will soonbe. over the big hill west of town. Itwill cross the river below the site.When asked about schools for the

children wbose parents will be at thesite Mr. Tornquist said they would inall probability have a school there-thatthe company would put up the build- cumd•ing and the district would equip it and Many of the old teachers are return-

hire the teachers. !ing this year, with the addition of sev-eral new ones. Following is a list atthe teachers:

Principal, J. U. Williams; English,Neva Mae Webb; Smith-Hughes, JamesS Nevins; Commercial, Grace Ede; La-tin and English," Marion Alexander;Science. Forrest F. Rowe; Social Science,Mary Hayes; Home Economics, Gwen-dolyn Davis; Eighth Grade, Ella Ham-merness; Seventh Grade, Olive Bird;Sixth, Thomas Case; Music, DeloresPage; Fifth, Agnes Hannon; Fourth,Hannah Strom; Third, Lillian Hepp;Second, Verna Higgins; First and Sec-ond, Elizabeth Parrick; First, DorisHarbert.

FARMERS OF MIDDLEWEST TO VISIT HERE

This week another contingent offarmers from the middle west will visitthe Flathead. They will arrive in Mis-soula the latter part of the week and onFriday they will be entertained at theShoemaker ranch near Arise. On thefollowing day they will visit the lowervalley and will stay at Ronan Saturdaynight. On Sunday a number of menfrom this city will be called upon tomeet them at Ronan and escort themover this section of the valley. It issaid that this place will be the end ofthe trip.Last year, about this time, a number

of Iowa farmers visited the Flatheadand they were taken over the countryand were entertained by the Chamberof Commerce. So far as is known, we

I did not get one of them as a settler forI this section of the county, and we axenot informed that any of them locatedIn the county. If they did it was in theijewer valley. We have a number oftrial estate men in Poison who would be:willing and ready to show prospectivefaettlers what they have for sale, butthey do not want them fed up on realestate by Bill Larson before they arriveIn Poison.

POISON SCHOOLS TOOPEN NEXT MONDAY

'ANN IS CAPTURED IN CANADA

George Vann, who is wanted in Flat-head county for the murder of Mr. andMrs. Oscar Henderson and Fred P.Smith, at Stillwater Inn. 16 miles westof Whitefish, was arrested at Crow'sNest, on the boundary line between Al-

berta and British Columbia and was Itaken to jail at Pernle, wheer he IS

being held for the sheriff of Flatheadcounty.

After the shooting at Stillwater Inn.Vann, armed with a high power rifle,took to the mountains and WAS firstseen When he crossed the internationalboundary line at North Fork. It wasclaimed at the time of the /hooting thathe was an ex-service man, but investi-gation has shown that such was not thecase, and also, that Vann is not hisreal name. _a

W. E. Philtney. of the Montana Powercompany, spent the finit of the week InButte.

The Poison schools, both the ri teleancihigh school, will open next Mon-day morning. Since the ten mills addi-tional levy has been passed. the workof the school year can be successfullylaunched.A much larger enrollment of scholars

is expected this year. although no addi-tional accommodations have been se-

RADIO MATINEE SATURDAY, 2 PAL

Next Saturday afternoon. ClarenceTremper will hold his regular monthlyradio matinee when he will give a Ma-jestic radio away. He has arrangedwith Manager MacGilvra for one of thebest shows booked this season for theoccasion. "Show Boat." This is thefourth radio to be given away by Me.Tremper during the simmer.

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