The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1931, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931 , THE GUMPS—HAPPY IN LOVE ET THE FACTORY GO SMASH — * LET UNCLE BIM BREAK POOR TOM - WHAT DOES IT MATTER -SHE AND TOM LOVE EACH OTHER \ THEY WILL ii \\ FIND A WAY — fl K : bacon - TOM DEAR= 3 REST — \ R eae You \ JUST WANT TO CALL ene ‘ EVERY MINUTE = AND ‘TELL YOU HOW lag. fe XI | AM IN: LOVE WITH YOU ‘tT hati AGES SINCE | SAW you LAST NIGHT, AND YOu LOOKED so HANDSOME - ERE WITH YOUR SITTING HI PICTURE BEFORE ME = AND YOu ARE THE QWEETEST= THE MOST WONDERFUL, MAN ‘ON EART! pa T AM_$9 KG)ER FiRst Kiss- 2” FROM TOM= LAST NIGHT HE TOLD HER THAT HE LOVED HER CLASPED HER IN HIS. BIG STRONG ARMS = HENRIETTA is HAPPY ° IT- LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURE G AND tog U.S Pat. Of. Conyrisht 1981 by The Chicago Tribune. Mexican workers clipping sheep on a west Texas ranch. 6,500,000 TEXAS SHEEP GIVE wi oe consowtine, Yu rate COLON oe 50,060,400 POUNDS OF WOOL NOUR PROPOSITION OF THE | HURRIED TOO MUCH. BUT | Animals Clipped by Mexican| Local Scout Troop SHALL 00 MV SF a RIGHT, BEST WITH SIR WALT. AND IMPRESS. HUMPHREY WINDSOR =| UPON SIR HUMPHREY _ FOR NOU IN LONDON, THAT A SALES MR. WICKER. AGREEMENT ASSOCIATING WINDSOR CHAIRS AND WICKER SURELY. LORD HOBOROUGH 1S ONE, THE DUCHESS CF WENT, ANOTHER, SIR OLNER WUGGAM, THE SAFFRON BUN B MAGNATE YOU KNOW. |/} JUST TO MENTION BN THE way, I'D LIKE TO KNOW AGAIN WHO THOSE ENGLISH ASSOCIATES OF NOURS ARE WHO You /§ SAID WOULD BE INTERESTED IN TAKING OVER A LARGE \ PART OF THE STOCK. | INCORPORATION OF THE EVERN 'DAN'S DELAY MEANS SKEEZIX BRAZILIAN FORESTS\ WASTED POTENTIAL BUT | AN GOING To BE INCOME. THE IRON OUT OF TOWN FOR A TIME “GY 1S HOT. AND | WON'T DO ANYTHING ‘Dy DEFINITE UNTIL | RETURN. Crews at World's Largest Primary Market Texas, %.—One San Angelo, July hundred Mexican shearing crews have |; finished removing the fleece from 6,500,000 west Texas sheep, and the first of a 50,000,000-pound clip is m: : ary William ‘Tillotson, William — Mote, } ing from this city, the largest primary ih e, Uy, wool market in the world pee, George Brittin, How- YB, ‘The ‘present wool clip . Robert McCurdy, and = All are high point winners 4 I) aa = j ‘st conducted in their troop. ih } yy 4 4 rt 4 around 18 cents a pound, pl H value of the spring clip at a/ $9,000,000. 8 a This wool 1s being sold from 30 In Number Since 1920 ‘i a wool houses in the state, and buyers from 25 eastern wool houses are bid- ding in competition for the clip. Agents from the National Wool M: Shearers are hired by captains, who get eight to nine cents a head. Of this the shearer gets half, the rest car, in company with Rev. Floyd Lo- On Black Hills Trip Nine members of ‘Troop 6 of the Bismarck Boy Scouts left Monday by ll Reid and Alfred Rannald, 's camping trip in the Black he party are Dayton Shipley, North Dakota farms increased from 77,690 in 1920 and 75,970 in 1925 to in 1930, according to a bulletin acres of hay of all kinds were cut with a production of 2,362,585 tons. FRECKLES AND HIS FRIEN Getting Nearer! MOM’N POP a Fair Enough! FURNITURE 1S RIGHT NOW A GREAT OPPORTUNITN. keting corporation, Federal Farm by the Bureau of the Census. 1 - seve ~p-— ‘3 Board Co-operative, are seeking con- in the state include: 20 to GEE: I Hope THERE } aN! yueT THINK... YEAU... AN’ NOBODY To YES, MEBBE THIS 1S BEB ( DOES THAT AVEAD OF igfigus signments for the vast cooperative 0 to 99 acres, 1,351; 100 16 6000 FISHIN’ WWE WONT HAVE Cau UP TOUS AND SAY! “Sey JUST A DREAM. IT DO Like TH Seog ell | pool that organization is formi 641; 175 to 259 acres, TICIPATING 1] 5 aT TMS LAKE af 176 teat 1 Gat ihe Geane eo 7 us ETS S ¢ Ve A Bis | while railroad and steamship re; 9 acres, 33,450; 500 TUE VACATION y KEW ANYBODY TELLIN’ 7 OR 00D A DREAM? THERE'S SOLA | sentatives are soliciting shipments. or wen ives, || 20 20ST Le TO Us T wasn ouR YOULL. BE LATE To ScHoa.. BE TRUE AN' WE 'A LAKE! Look! Boy! ] Competitive Bidding Oe EL 0,105 were op- ” || FISH ALL L WANTED, } caps aN’ wash HOT Dog! 1 CAN'T ANGHT ALL WAKE UP ISN'T IT BEAUTIFUL J! DIAMOND, i Much of the wool is being sold | ¢rated by owr by managers, ‘We Bovs 5 2D Bevieve IT! AN’ FIND OURSELVES « ] Sparietin’ IN JUST ABour 4 through the warehouses. There buy- | 84 Land in state ONCE... BOY: OUR NECKS...L . ete oe TMaT's IT, a ers go for sealed bid sales. ‘They take | {rms decreased from 36,214,751 acres CAN HARDLY METCH A MILLION SAY Tie 1S RI There | ) samples of the wool, write their bid | im 1920 to 34,327,410 acres in 1925, but AWAIT UNTIL Fish, 1 Bet! ee Z E er (a on a slip of paper and hand it to the | iMcreased to 38,657,894 acres in 1930. ney = : GOING TO BE —— “s | sales committee of the warehouses | V' e a Cel gee 2 oer BE ON { which consults with the ranchman sed from $1,488.521,495 in an INGSTON' WAN j Who owns the clip. ‘The bids are then | $1,020,103,052 in’ 1925 to $951,225,446 in wen lls) ata Dp | either accepted or rejected. +19 ue of farm implements and SUMNER PLACE... WHEN Tue { ‘The warehouses will handle about |™achinery in 1930 was $18,743,521 Ho Boys 70 per cent of the entire clip of the | Compared with $76,631,015 in 1925 and WELL... state this year. bes 186,865 ane 4 = > WOULDN'T BE ARRIVE aring crews fur- ‘rops were harvested in North Da- j tree, Mesican shearing cfews tuep | kota from 21254,660 acres in 1029, a5 TMRILLED AT at tus | business on Texas ranches. Modern | Compared with 19,877,232 acres in 1924. f.svcn A pera shearing is done by machines with The total for 1929 includes 9,969,370 = IACATION | $ motors that transfer their power into | ® of wheat with a production of “TREAT § LAND !! a clippers held by the shearers. An ex- 988 bushels; 1,735,461 acres of } pert Mexican can clip about 150sheep 2's threshed with a production of a Gaily while the west Texas record is 31,174,936 bushels; and 1,338,961 acres Ia H 205 sheep. . of flax threshed with a production of a 5,616,087 bushels. In 1929, 2,887,540 | going to the captain, who also owns the shearing machines. How Shearing Is Done The shearing of sheep begins under the stomach, goes to the neck, thence to the head, shoulders, back and tail ‘When the sheep is shorn the ranch- One pound of gold can be pulled; into a wire more than 700 miles long and sheets can be beaten from it less than one-two hundred and fifty thou- sandth of an inch thick. IN, BLEASE ' Your SS SPOIL EVERYTHING SS “ NOW, HOW DO You Ligé 'T WHEE-0-0- YOU LOOK LIKE A BATAING QUEEN | WHERE THE -THE -A.--- ' BA-BEE ! lop FIGURED ON A NEW KITCHEN STOOL DID Vou GET MONEY ? GOT MRS ROACH TO TRADE HERS FOR ANELL IT'S LAKE THIS -.. WHE wa) - WHY, L FIGURED TE was ENTITLED TO THE MONEY we IN OUR BUDGET..REMEMBER ? WELLWHEN]] SAVED BY a, THE TRADE -SEt ? man who owns it places a past brand The surface of the earth contains AUNT HANNAH'S CHAIR - . on its almost naked body and 55,000,000 square miles of land and counts it. | 141,000,000 square miles of water. As the wool falls it is picked up and tied by a “tier,” who next hands the | fieece to a packer. The packer tramps the wool into sacks, from 200 to 250 pounds of wool to each bag. In March advances are p: There is work for the cr January through June, the months being April, Mz nd June. Shearing was delayed this season by heavy rains throughout ranch country. The average crew will handl 60,000 to 80,000 head of sheep a year. In another month the wool season will be ended, the banks of the south- | west will have added deposits and the sheep men will have little to do until shearing time next fall. the bout “i poeta The value of farm crops produced in Ohio in 1930 was 29 per cent less than in 1929. | Stickler Solution ; O@@ O© G2 ©® By aranguig the numbers 1 to 9 as shown above and then multiplying them you wll get 5568 un both cases—which 1s 1934 more than the multiplication total of the onginal problem. ¢ | SIDEGLANCES - - - By George Clark _ “Pear shows a SALESMAN SAM We CAN'T STRT OUR LUNCH WITHOUT YOUR. WIFE GU22— WHERE 1S SHED po i Say, if T'4 gone into business and worked this hard, BA be president of some steel! corporation.” OH, SHES CLIMGBING- Some 0F THE HIGH ROCKS AROUND THE_IDEA! AND Net THER. OF THEM HAVE COME TO MY Rescue / — OH!’ so THER ofRe! MISTAKES , NOBODY WOLD NOTICE. BECICE THEN, AL GO CRAZY THE MINUTE THEY RE You