The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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State Food Administrator Atkinso
has received word from Washingto
hat the sugar shortage is still Yer
acute. Through a misunderstanding
dealers and many customers in Nor
.ana had been notified that there wa
1Ow plenty of sugar.
The Butte Metal Mine Workers
1nion has voted to return to work. thu
ending one of the longest strikes il
The history of the city, and which
at its zenith, paralyzed industry an
proved serious menace to the gov
ernments war program.
| Bozeman is threatened by serious
apidemics of smallpox, scarlet feve
and whooping cough. The public
schools have been ordered closed unit
further notice. The general vaccine,
lion ordinance will be enforced a
once.
The thermometer recently registered
50 degrees above zero in Helena. Il
was the warmest December day in
}6 years.
Governor Frazier of North Dakota
mas declined to come to the cooper
ator's congress, which will be held in
Great Falls in February, unless he
is assigned to day different from
hat when Governor Stewart is to be
present. Governor Stewart announces
himself at a loss to explain the at
dtude of the North Dakota executive.
Gladys Ballard, postmistress at va
NADIA, Rosebud county, was found not
guilty of the charge of embezzting
government funds by jury in the fell
eral court in Billings.
The contractor has completed ZIG
miles of the At miles of hard surface
roads contracted for in Yellowstone
county. The county was bonded and
the contract let two years ago.
Two machines for knitting socks
and one machine for knitting sweat
ars will be purchased by the state for
use in the state prison at Deer Lodge
IN making articles for the Red Cross,
provided the material for the articles
will be contributed.
Word has been received in Living
,tOn that Mai. B. o. Johnson and
Lieut.. NJ. A. Farnsworth, formerly rail
.oad men of that city, who left the
United States with the railroad com
mission enrOute to construct the rail-
vays of Russia, are sojourning iii Hon.
lulu awaiting orders.
The state board of hail commission
RS is waiting for county treasurerS tn
emit for premiums collected. About
O county treasurers have sent in mon |
V TO State Treasurer Ray, and until |
he balance reports it will be impos- |
ibIe to find out how much is available |
o that losses of farmers may be set
led up.
The $50 reward for the arrest of de-
erters. men of draft age who have
yaded the selective draft law, being
0 cIassed. has greatly stimulated the
ctivity of members of the Butte po-
ce force. So far they are credited
18th having caught 13 alleged desert
RS. If all are convicted, the govern
tent will pay the policemen who made
he arrests a total of $3.50.
Old engines and cars that the North
IN Pacific discarded years ago are
aing brought out again and will be
ressed back into service as soon as
lev can be overhauled. The Living
on shops of the company are work
g hard fixing up old rolling stock.
A $4,000 fortune has fallen tc
mute Salverson, sheepherder, ac'
riding to o. B. Olson of Hillsboro
D.. who was in Billings in search
SaIyerson. The sheepherder was
Billings last summer and later went
Big Timber, where it is under
God he secured employment.
Joseph Vrooman, a teamster in the
nploy of the Anaconda Copper Min
q Co. at Washoe, in Carbon county
as killed in a runaway accident at
ION. Before 5 o'clock the same day
e company, through the state com
nsation act, had paid the widow the :
mp sum of .S3,3s0. This is believed
be the American record for quick
A $4,000 Christmas present was
,iled out by State Auditor r. G
land. in the shape of 500 warrants .
: the killing of predatory animals :
Ie state board of examiners recent =
authorized the payment of the s
inns, amounting to $1,000 with In L
est amounting to $432.S2.
Roundup and Absarokee telephone II
npanies have applied to the state s.
bic utilities commission for an in d
,ase in rates, and the hearings have
IN set for January 8 and 16, re p
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rhe 163rd infantry (Second Mon 70
Ia guard) has been moved from 6
MP Mills on Long Island to Camp y
rritt. New Jersey, according to let tn
s received in the state by relatives re
the boys in the regiment. The 90
lnge is much to the liking of the sol n
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