Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-15
THE STATE.

merce has been organized here.
Cascade.-A campaign is on here,
with the sanction of the mayor, for
the suppression of punch boards and
slot machines.
Billings.-The bank clearings here
for a period of three weeks were
nearly $10,000,O0O in excess of the
anne period in 1915.
Conrad.-With a huge Christmas
tree erected in the center of the town
a community celebration will be held
in the open Christmas eve if the W a.
Their permits.
Missoula.-The Women's club and
the w. G. T. U. are opposing the pro-
posal to hold a stampede, or wild
west show" here next July on the
ground that some of it's features are
inhuman.
Great Falls.-The municipal park
board is making preparations to take
over and open to the public the Mo-
rony na%tatorium, erected as a mem
orial in one of the city parks.
Missoula.-The Sixth Rotary club
to be established in Montana has
been organized here with 16 charter
members. The other clubs are at
Anaconda, Great Falls, Butte, Lewis
town and Billings.
Missoula.-The city limits of Mis-
soula are to be extended to include
a two-block park given to the city
by a land company. The chamber
of has offered a prize for
the best design for laying out the
park.
Helena.-Mrs. Amelia Kirschbaum
- AHaoNhor oaynty go tho firct q N
ever convicted in this county of cattle
guilty of stealing three calves from
w. J. Cockrill of Meagher county
last April.
Helena.-The state railroad com
mission has denied the request o.
the railroads operating in Montana
for an increase in demurrage rates
basing the refusal on testimony tina
they did not collect demurrage il
all cases.
Havre.-Fifty pupils in the rura
schools of Hill county who have beer
neither absent nor tardy for ST,
months have received certificates o
merit from the county superintend
ent. Only two maintained that pacv
for a year.
:, Butte.-Residents of this city he \
! started a boycott on milk since tn
price went to Is cents a quart an,
the consumption has been cut nearl,
in half, according to several dealers
Local dealers are daily expecting
, boycott On eggs as we'll.
BOzeman.-The appointment of
l market specialist and farm org" n
izer for Montana has been authorize
by the federal office Of markets an
an expert will be named to the pos
shortly, according to F. S. Cooley
director of the State College exensio
department.
Great Falls.-Peter Macdonald
, who came to Montana in 1879 an
4 was a resident at different times c
D Fort Benton, Butte and Great FALL
is dead. He served here as count
: and city jailer and as constable. H
was formerly a member of he Cana
dian Mounted police.
!, Great Falls.-The bakers of tn
> city have abolished the five-cent loa
Helena-Transportation furnishe
by the state to students on their wa
to and from the institutions of tn
> University of Montana is advocate
y by Chancellor E. C. Elliott. He Ell
y Inmates the cost at $1,000 to $1,000
I a year.
b Butte.-"Sign that divorce con
plant and I'll kill myself" said tn
husband of Anna Boraticki, who ha
followed her to an attorneys offic
When she had written half her nam
Boraticki drew a revolver and pulle
back the hammer. The woma
. rushed into his arms and the alto
ney tore up the papers. 81 know h
loves me, and it's all off," said IL
woman.
Havre. = The secretary of IL
chamber is making a campaign
get the farmers of Hill county
subscribe for the controlling int
= est in the stock of the proposed Fla
! Fiber Products company. The pla'
is expected to return them a 10 p'
: cent dividend every year and to flu
: nish them a market for all the fla
straw they can raise at a price n,
: lower than Sc a ton.
= Butte.-Chilean copper mines an
: nitrate deposits are being worlse
u day and night in response to heay
war orders, according to H. r. CIR
ham, superintendent of the Brade
Mining company of Rancagna, Chill
who has been in this city inspector
e the mines of the Anaconda Copp,
Mining company. The production
S curtailed only by the lack of shiI
ping facilities, he said.