Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
THE STATE.

Malta-Marshall Simmons, wife
p%eater, was given go days in jail re-
Gently.
Helena.-Governvr Stewart has re-
turned from the east and the tenure
OF office of Acting Governor Burlin-
game Is at an end.
Havre-The December. records of
the Havre postoffice show an increase
of 40 per cent over December, 1915.
Butte-Ths is a week of prayer"
N Butte and all the Protestant
churches are holding revival services.
Dillon.-All public entertainments
were called off here for several days
on account of the shortage of coal.
The situation has now been relieved
by the arrival of shipments.
Dillon-Dillon has two banks, botf
old time institutions, but the extraor-
binary prosperity of Beaverhead
county has attracted outside capital
lists and two additional banks are ex-
pected to be opened here shortly.
Great Falls-A cheese IA feet and
2 1-2 inches in circumference and 8
feet and z 1-2 inches in height has
been on display in a show window
here. 1t is said to be the biggest
cheese eve in the state.
Helena-Several newspapers of the
state are agitating the division of
Montana into two congressional dis
%tricts. Both congressman are now
elected from the state at large, and
when Miss Rankin takes her seat,
both members of the lower house will
be residents of Missoula.
Observation-Disclosures of Missoula
are divided into two hostile camps
those who shovel snow off their side
walks, and those who do not. One of
the results of the controversy will be
an attempt to secure the passage of
a law which will permit of a munich
pality clearing the sidewalks of the
property owner who neglects to re-
move the snow, and assessing the cost
against the propertv of the offender.
Helena-The trustees of the Mon
tana Wesleyan university have invited
Rev. DR.. Leon H. Sweetland of Chi
cago to come and look over the local
field, with a view to becoming pres
ident of the institution. DR.. Sweet
land is pastor of haywood Methodist
Episcopal church, Chicago. The pre-
sidency of the school was vacated re-
Gently by Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Bovard,
who resigned to become presiding eld-
er of this district.
BiIlings-Billings is to have a new
parochial school, the gift of Mrs.
Kate Frat, widow of David Frat,
the livestock magnat '. Mrs Frat has
decided to the educational depart
ment of the Catholic church, IL lots
valued at $40 as a site, and has
signified her intention of providing
$4,000 for the buildings. David
Frat was an associate in the early
days of D. A. G. Flowerree, John T.
Murphy and George W. Cook.
Great Falls-For an attempt to
cheat the Great Northern railroad
company out of two hours work at
20 cents an hour, George Warner vas
fined $40. Warner was arrested by
a special officer employed by the
railroad after his foreman had COM
planned that he had marked up nine
hours for n day as time worked on
the repair track when he had given
the company only eve hours of his
time.
HeIena-Sportsmen of Montana
who desire to restock the old elk
ranges have their chance this winter,
according to Game Warden ]. D. De-
Hart. He states that all indications
are it will be IN easy matter to trap
live elk this winter, and the depart
ment will be glad to undertake the
work providing any applications are
received. It costs about $40 a head
to trap and ship an elk, and not less
than a carload-about 80 animals
is handled at a time.
Conrad-There appeared in a local
paper under the caption, "Teton
county 20 years ago." an item that
e. e. Leach was going to ship 5000
sheep from Great Fails to eastern
markets. The next day a man with
baggage already to ship stepped into
the newspaper office and asked where
he would be able to get an interview
with Mr.. Leech, as he wanted to go