The Ronan pioneer., 1917-11-09
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signed.
Terry-An athletic club is being
organized here. 1t will equip gym
nasium.
Conrad-Drilling for oil has been
of here.
Medicine Lake-Farmers living at
McCabe have formed a federal farm
loan association.
Popular-Bonds for $4,000 are
to be issued to for the installation OF
a municipal water plant.
Bozeman-Marvin l.. Haskin, a
Shields valley rancher, who came to
Montana in 1866, is dead.
LewistoWn-John Mumm of Pend
Teton, Ore, has purchased the War;
Beebe ranch Of $50 acres at $10O per
acre.
Medicine Lake Sheridan county
this year produced flax seed worth
about $8,000,00O or about 100000
bushels.
Geraldine - Bonds for $31, 500
have been voted for the purchase and
improvement Of the city water sup
/ ply system.
Missoula-Adelore Lafrinire, a 15-
year-old boy, was frozen to death,
while hunting near Potomac in the
Blackfoot valley.
Missoula-Mrs. Emma Groll and
daughter, Gladys, have completed a
journey of 2,150 miles from Missoula
to Elgin, ILL.,, on horseback.
Helena-State Fuel Commission
er w. j. Swindlehurst says the Mon
tana coal operators have all agreed to
sell at the government price.
ntywood-Damage to the extent
Of $4,000 was done at the local
creamery by fire. About 1000
pounds of butter was melted by the
heat
Roundup-Machinery for a 100
barrel flour mill to be erected at
Kalitan, a few miles east of here, has
arrived. Operations will start the
middle of November.
Lewistown-C. M. Ransower of
Occur d'Alene, Ida, has purchased
the John Mayberry ranch of 500
acres at $32 per acre, the total con-
sideration being $4,000.
Great Falls-The Montana Gas
Traction company, capitalized at ST.
100000, has been incorporated, to
build gasoline engines and assem-
BILE them here.
Billings-Shorthorn breeders from
all over the state exhibited at the
State Shorthorn Breeders associa-
tion's annual show in the Midland
Empire Fair auditorium.
Livingston-John Smith, Jr., liv-
ing near Emigrant, shot a deer at his
ranch home, while standing at the
kitchen window. He says game is
plentiful in the mountains.
1 Springdale - Mattresses employed
at Hunters Hot Springs here put or
overalls and harvested a large fielt
of potatoes, when the proprietors
found it impossible to secure help.
Plentywood-Throu the death o
a grandfather at Watertown, S. d.
Robert Melved, aged so years, who
has conducted a shoe repairing shol
here for the past year, has inherited
s9,S6O.
Billings-Directors of the state Y
M. G. A. organization elected at the
state meeting are G. M. Miles, Mile!
City; e. G. Day, Helena; DR.. E. o
Sissons, president of the State uni
versity at Missoula; and Ed O'Neil
of Kalispell.
Stevensville-Contr have beer
let by the Union Ditch company, the
Etna Ditch company and the Webfoo
Ditch company for the construction
of large concrete irrigation dam il
the Bitter Root river, 10 miles soutf
of Stevensville.
Billings-A banking and office
building to cost 100000 is to be
erected here by the Merchants Ma
tional bank and the Merchants Loar
company. 1t will be seven stories
in height and fire proof. A two-story
building is to be torn down to make
room for it.
Big Timber-Work of transcrib
ing the records, covering the lan(
taken by the new county Of Wheat
land from Sweetgrass county, has
commenced and in conjunction with
it new set of abstract books is be
ing made for company recently or
ganized here.
Lewistown-Creame in thi!
part of the state have a surplus stocl
owing to reduction in consumption
due to the conservation agitation
The chamber of commerce has in
QulIeQ OIL FOOu AuMlllSLfdlOf HoOV
er asking for some instructions as tt
the disposition of the surplus.
Billings-Sugar prices in Montan;
will remain at their present level ant
there will be no sugar famine in thi'
state, according to j. F. Logan, as
sistant secretary of the Great West
ern Sugar company and in charge o
the sales department of the Montan;
plants at Billings and Missoula.
Big Timber - Prospectors are re
ported to have uncovered a paying
ledge Of silver, gold and lead ore II
the Crazy mountains 25 miles from
! here and a company has been organ
lied by Butte, Billings and Big Tim
ber people to mine it, with the inten
tion of using motor trucks for trans
} porting the ore.
Lewistown-Rev. G. c. Cress o
this city, state superintendent o
Baptist missions, has just received
notice from the Carnegie Hero com