The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-07
THE STATE

MOOre.-A coal mine has been
opened near the Stone Barn ranch.
st. Ignatius.-Flathead lodge, No.
112, A. F. & A. NJ, has ben INSTALL
ed here.
Havre.-First steps have been
taken here for the organization of a
choral society.
Roundup.-A Musselshell County
Soldiers Protective association has
been formed here.
Helena Jeremiah w. Farrell of
Joliet has been named federal inspec-
tor of explosives in Montana.
PlentyWOOd.-A tract of 5000
acres north and east of Poplar has
been opened for demonstrating.
Lewistown.-Mrs Isabelle Bean, a
pioneer of the Judith Basin, where
she had lived 35 years, is dead here,
aged II.
Roundup.-A California company
has announced that it will drill five
wells in this county to explore for
oil.
Butte.-Charles Jacket, for years
superintendent of the insane asylum
at Warm Springs, and pioneer of
Montana, is dead.
Billings. AN organization has
been perfected to see that Red Cross
society is formed in every town in
Yellowstone county.
Billings.-Shepherd has home
guard, organized to protect the ele-
vator at that place, which is we'll
stocked with wheat.
Misunderstanding for oil is to be
started soon on the Edgar Potter
:~, hoc iY of tho mort horn
end of Shields valley.
Helena.-Arrangem have been
made for county clerks and record
ers to issue the licenses to those who
handle and sell explosives.
Roundup.-The Milwaukee rail-
road will spend $4,000 in improve
ments here. Included in the plans
are designs for a new freight depot.
Lewistown.-The local lodge of
Elks has equipped complete ambu-
lance, which is now east and ready
for shipment to TIE European battle
front.
Harlem.-The Harlem citizens
electric lighting system is expected
to be in operation soon after January
/. Machinery for it has been shipped
from the east.
Stevensville.-A2O cotton refrigerat-
ing plant is being installed in the
plant of the local cooperative cream
cry and it is expected it will be ready
for use March I, 1918.
Billings. $500 Frank H. Hitchcock,
former postmaster general, who is
interested in the development of oil
prospects in this vicinity, is spend
ing some time in this section of Mon
tana.
Wibaux.-A business block to cost
$50, 900, with stores on the first floor
and Masonic lodge room on the sec
ond floor, is to be built here. 1t is
expected the lodge room will be ready
February 1.
Roundup.-A perfectly fossilized
specimen of leaf of some tropical
plant was found in the Newton mine
near here by j. D. Newton. 1t has
been sent to the geological collection
at Bozeman.
Havre.-A rich ore strike is re-
ported from Pine Creek in the Bear
Paw mountains, 26 miles south OF
here. Six samples show gold, silver
and lead to the value of $500 per
ton. One sample ran high in cop
per.
Helena.-The case against c. r..
Huppe of Billings, charged with prac-
ticing law without being admitted to
the Montana bar, has been dismissed.
Huppe, who was a lawyer in Georgia,
has sent for papers necessary to ad-
init him to practice his profession in
Montana.
Livingston.-James r. Briscoe, the
| first white settler t. cultivate land
in the Yellowstone valley, is dead at
Chico from dropsy. He settled be-
tween Livingston and Gardiner in
the early days and his estate includes
several sections of rich farming land,
which includes the first tract farm
ed in the valley.
Helena.-F. r. Wilson of BOze-
man has been named member of
the state board of architectural eX-
aminers to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of G. c. Oehme OF
Billings, whose resignation was
forced by the Billings "Third Degree
committee" which alleged that he
was pro-German, a contention that
Mr.. Oehme denied.
Helena.-The child welfare divis-
ion of the state board of health has
made arrangements TO 1ufnlSn DlItA
certificates on request covering the
10 years, during which they have
been kept. The value of such certifi-
Gates has become apparent through
the recent draft, furnishing absolute
proof as to persons age.
Bozeman.- are being per-
fected for using dead timber in the
canyons about this city for fuel in
case of further coal shortage. SUI
pervisor r. E. Bodley of the Gala
tin forest has visited the Bear can
yon to estimate the amount of dead
timber there which could be used in
Bozeman. Dead timber in Middle
Creek canyon also may be utilized.
Helena.-No attempts are to be
made to reform taxation In the
United States during the war If the
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