The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-06-02
ISSUES PROCLAMATION DESIG-
MATING JUNE 20-URGES
GENERAL OBSERVATION
ENJOINS STATE TREASURER
Hills Files Appeal Bond in Attempt to
HoId-up First Issue of Farm Loan
Bonds-Women of Woodcraft
Pay 100000 to State.
Helena.

~. GOOQ ROADS DAY was Set apart
at the last session of the legislature
in the bill drawn by Senator McCone
of Dawson county. The governor says
in his proclamation:
1.-The highways of a state are so
intimately related to the life of its
people that any improvement wrought
in the system shows directly in bene-
fits accruing to the community af-
fected. Because of this fact and of
the widespread realization of it, the
movement for better highways in Mon
tan is spreading with gratifying rap
idity.
Good roads make for more pros
porous community, and, what is even
more to be desired, contented peo-
pie.
Out of desire to bring the gospel
of good roads more directly to the
people of the state grew the bill en-
acted at the last session of our leg
islative assembly, providing for the OBJ
servance of one day each year as Good
Roads day.
In keeping with the provisions of
the statute, | earnestly urge that on
the day named our citizens contribute
of their labor, of material or of mon
ey, in such manner as will conform
to the spirit of the law and therefore
result in great and lasting pleasure
and benefit to our people.
THE cause is one worthy of our
earnest endeavor, and it is to be
hoped that Good Roads day may in
this year give the greatest impetus
to the movement that promises so
much of permanent good"
Treasurer Enjoined.
Upon the filing of the appeal bond
in the sum of $4,000 by George Fl. Hill,
State Treasurer w. c. Rae was enjoin-
ed from distributing the 100000 re-
ceived from the Women of Woodcraft |
for the first issue of farm loan bonds. |
The matter was to be heard on its |
merits.
If the court upheld the validity Of |
the loan, the money was to be paid to |
26 farmers, whose holdings range |
from 10 acres to / $3.50, and aggregate |
$500 acres, making the average loan
per acre 81. The law provides loans !
cannot be made exceeding so per cent J
of the productive value" of the lands.
West Point Exams Held.
Thirty-six young men, between the
ages of 10 and %, members of the Mon
tana national guard, were to come to
Helena to take mental examination,
the three passing the examinations to
be appointed by Governor Stewart to
West Point. The governor has been
notified that under recent federal
law he may make the appointments
from members of the national guard,
but those eligible must have been in
the guard for a year. The examina-
ton in Helena were to be preceded
by physical examination in the home
town of the applicant. The Helena
examination was to be conducted by
State Superintendent Davee and Chan
cellor Elliott. The three fortunate ones
will also have to pass mental and
physical examination before an army
board at Vancouver barracks, June 6.
Fruit Slightly Damaged.
In spite of the backward season and
the frosts of the present month, the
apple crop of Montana will be IS per
cent. normal, according to M. l.. Dean,
state horticulturist, who stopped off in
Helena enroute to Great Falls. Mr..
Dean says that in western Montana
some frost and freezes have occurred,
and where the trees were in blossom, J
some damage was done. But in that
section, as a general rule the frigid
temperature tended to thin varieties
that should be thinned, leaving the
crop there, little short of normal. In
some sections of Montana, though, APP
pie trees suffered considerably
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Governor Is Candidate.
If there has been any question
whether Governor Sam V. Stewart
would be a candidate for governor
at the coming state election, it was
when he filed his declara-
tion of intention to be such candi
late on the democratic ticket
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To Tax Mines Profit.
A thousand petitions are being sent
put of Chinook, in Blaine county, for
the purpose of having initiated at the
election in November law imposing
y license tax Of 6 per cent on the net
profits of the mines in Montana. The
expectation was that there would be
secured by June / a sufficient number
1f signatures to submit the law. Ac-
,ordihg to the statement accompany
ng the petitions the proposed license
AK will produce $1,500,00O the first
vear of its operation