Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-19
MONTANA BRIEFS

died recently.
Great Falls has raised a fund of
$3.50, 900 for a Young Mems Christian
association building.
A very heavy rain fell over northern
part of the state Sunday, approaching
c~loudbursts at some points.
The president has nominated John
T. Murphy postmaster at Boulder and
Anna G. Hough postmaster at Bridger.
Glendive is enjoying a small building
boom and as a result virtually all of
the laboring men in the locality are
employed.
The death of Miss Eva Larabie was
conveyed in a telegram from Paris,
France, Sunday to Mrs. S. E. Larabie
at Deer Lodge.
The Lewistown chamber of COM
merce and the Driving club have CO.
operated upon a plan to have a stock
Judging contest and ace meet Sept.
II and Is.
Miss Katherine Brabston, instructor
at the college at Columbus, Miss, has
been engaged to take charge of the
Latin department at the high school at
Lewistown.
Sunday was flag day, the annivers-
airy of the birth of the flag. The
grand lodge of the Order of Elks de-
creed that every Elk lodge shall cele-
brate the day.
Arrangements have been perfected
by the recently organized chamber OF
commerce at Glendive for the estab-
fishing of a market place and the des-
ignation of a market day.
Fourteen years ago marked the birth
of the city of Harlowton. With the
present outlook Of a heavy wool clip
and amost prosperous year for the
dry land farmers, it's future looks
o. K.
The reclamation service, under au.
thority of the secretary of the int
. rior, has closed several important con
tracts for work and materials for gov
. eminent irrigation projects in this
! state.
The county commissioners of JET
ferson county have appropriated sou
for the state fair exhibit this fall, ant
appointed James A. Jergenson O
q Whitehall to see to the securing o
space and gathering of exhibits.
The interstate m commits
sion has suspended until Oct. 13 tn
proposed increased rates on transpoI
tation OF mixed carload shipments o
cement, lime, salt, plaster, roofini
pitch etc, from st. Paul and Dulutl
to this state.
Unions of Butte will take nc actio
t. in regard to the dismissal of schoc
teachers recently by the school boart
ID although it is charged that the dismi'
Ie sal was the result of the teachers a.
Or tivity in connection with the schoC
teachers union.
- Frank Lockerty of Wilkesbarr'
Pa, was shot and killed by a trapgu
at a shack two miles from Homestea
- neal the Great Northern railway tract
h The trap was set by John K. Jensel
a homesteader, who claims he 81
~ the trap for robbers.
The jury in the district court
le Hamilton, before whom Jack Russ
I'D and J. M. Swango, of Missoula wei
le tritd on an appeal from a justiI
court verdict, found Russell guilty
TX using fish berries to catch fish an
imposed a fine of $3.50.
~ The forest service has completed
40 map of Montana which includes a
the rivers and shows the boundarie
y of all the forests in district No. 1 TIL
map was made for the purpose
keeping a graphic account of the TO
est fires in the section of the countr
Albert G. Hauser, a prominent mi
rs ing man of Libby was drowned
Is Granite lake, Is miles south, Satu
day night. Hauser, accompanied |
his 13-year old son, was fishing on ii
OF lake in a n va canoe about 20 yart
on from the shore when he fell into Il
Oh water.
as
,Iv Shearing in the locality around Tw
10 Bridges has been completed and tt
an growers are hauling the wool to tow
90 Nearly all the wool vas sold last wi
al ter at prices ranging from 1914
as 16h cents. Had the growers held o
,er they could all have received from 2
he 8 cents better prices.
ne Over 1000 men, with many team
as are now employed by the Milwauk
~ road at the depot grounds and tt
'as minal in this city and along the Ii
lps from Lewistown to Great Falls, rus
ing things for the installation Of re
ular service between the two citi'
now set for the first week in July,