The circle banner., 1917-08-10

Billings furnished more applicants
for entrance to the second officers
reserve corps training camp, which
opens at the Preside on August 27
than any other city of the state on a
basis of comparative population.
Thirty-five Billings men enrolled as
applicants.
The United States marshal's office
at Helena has been informed that civ
ilian guards have fired several times
on men attempting to set fire to Pol
ley's lumber mill in Missoula, where
an /. w. w. strike is in progress.
Nobody was hit.
Unable to get men, farmer near
Helena has hired a 16-year-old girl
at 81 per day as field hand. She
has made good" with the plow and
is the best worker he ever had, her
employer says.
The summer school at MissOula
State college has closed a most sue
cessful term, the attendance being
much larger than ever before.
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J. L. Sprinkle of Chinook has sold
his wool at 62 cents. The clip is one
year will go very close to 250,OOO
pounds.
Edwin B. Craighead, associate edi-
tor of Missoula newspaper, has en-
listed in the Second Montana infantry.
He is a son of DIR. E. 3. Craighead.
former president of the University of
Montana.
Var has abolished the summer va
caLlon period at the two principal
branches of the University of Mon
tana, the state university at Missoula,
and the state college of agriculture
and mechanic arts at Bozeman.
Large numbers of bidders are ex-
pected to be present at the Billings
landoffice September 4, when approx
mately 100000 acres of the ceded strip
of the Crow reservation is placed on
the market at auction. The acreage
comprises practically all the remain
ing land Of the ceded portion.
More inquiries for farm loans from
the state are being received at the
state landoffice than ever before.
Two cauSac ara acciunad ono +l,o oe
fective advertising that has been
given the law through the press and
at the state auction sales, and the
other, the crop outlook is changing
more farmers into borrowers.
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L. S. Croft, for the past two years
a deputy under United States Marshal
Joseph l.. Ashbridge, has resigned to
enter the United States secret service.
He will leave soon for Washington.
D. c., where he will make his head |
quarters for the next three months, |
to being assigned to a |
definite duty.
Military Service" is the title of a
new course of study which is to be
given this year at the State college
1T Bozeman and at the State univer-
'ity at Missoula.
How many trunks should a man
,wn? That is the question that is
)othering Livingston baggagemen who
handled % trunks and II suitcases
belonging to ]. X. Davis, Philadelphia
'apitalist, who arrived there on his
way to Yellowstone park
Bernhard J. Paulson of Helena, an
dvertising man formerly with the In
Harvester company, has
een appointed assistant secretary of
he Montana State fair to succeed Will
lam l.. Kelley, who went to Spokane
S land examiner for the federal
arm loan bank.
Four hundred of the 800 men in
1ontana who made application to at
end the second officers training camp
ave been notified by Examining Of
lSCI L. -. SldIh Wil6Te anu Wnen |
} appear for further examination. The
90 not notified are deemed not fitted
Dr. commissions.
Weekly crop reports of the county
agents for the week end
lg July %, made public at Helena, in
icate that conditions have not i'm
roved since the previous reports. In
0 section of the state is there any re-
ort of rain sufficient to break the
routh and be of any beneficial effect ,
} the crops.
The government is seeking bids in
ontana for 2,500,000 pounds of straw
be delivered at the training camp at
merican Lake, Washington.
Mrs. Minerva Otto, wife of a Lake /
asin farmer, is dead and Edward B.
ingman, Columbus real estate man
i'd banker lies in a hospital with
actured leg as the result of an auto b
obile accident three miles west of
llings. .