The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-23
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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he will enter the army veterinary corps
as a second lieutenant.
The annual meeting of the Mon
tana State Teachers association will
be held in Butte instead of Helena.
The dates, November 1928, remain
unchanged.
State Bank Examiner II. S. Magraw
has granted charters to the Lehigh
| State bank of Fergus county, capital
lied at $4,000, and to the Farmers
State bank of Conrad, capitalized at
| $4,000.
Carl Harloff, arrested in Butte by
Thomas Topping, United States immi-
grafton inspector, will be informed dur
ing the war at Ellis Island, n Y, a
presidential warrant having been is
sued.
Work has been started on the $780,
900 steel and concrete bridge of the
Northern Pacific over the Yellowstone
river on the Shields river branch of
the road
On account of the increased cost of
living, firemen of Helena have peti-
toned for an increase of SIS a month
jim their wages The present wage is
500 per month.
The 163rd infantry, formerly the
Second Montana regiment. has left
Camp Greene, at Charlotte, n. c.,
where it has been training for several |
weeks, and arrived ut an unknown des-
tination.
Montana officials of the Oregon
Short Line railroad have been inform
ed that news and confection vendors
will shortly be discontinued on trains
of this road. The railroad war board
has decided that space is too valu-
able on trains to permit the operation
Of news agents.
Beginning November % and contin-
hing for three days, the fifth annual
vocational congress for high school
Urls will be held at the State college
It Bozeman. Addresses will be made
~ talented women who have made
successes of the various vacations that
re open to women.
Scarlet fever cases in Helena now
lumber 40. A number of patients
ave been dismissed. The public read I
ng room at the library has been re-
pened for adults. DR. E. A. Johnston,
ity health officer, believes there as
considerable improvement in the sit
alton.
A number of Montana dairymen are ,
etiring from business because they
annot operate at Il profit, on account
the high price of feed and grain
t present, according TO State Dairy r
W. H. Fluhr. T
Livingston reports say the exodus of s
k from the Yellowstone national park
ward Gardiner and the great Yellow |
one valley to the north has commenc- T
|, and rancherS in that section are
building large stockades h
)out their stacked wild hay and al
lfa to prevent the antlered herd from n
lting up the stock feed. il
The Butte Independent, a weekly n
lper published and edited by J. B.
has been held up and de-
ed circulation, for the time being N
rough the mails. A recent issue
ntaining an article dealing with the $,
suit of the New York City cleo ec
On is the only issue at present af- >,
cted, it is said. a,
Miss Edith Colby, the newspaper TT
oman who is serving a 12-year term !"
the state prison for the Staying of
c. Thomas, has been denied a new 4,
ial by Judge Theodore Lentz in de- tie
lrtment No. of the district court at
issoula.
At the recent meeting of the state sc
ghway commission held at Helena, =
was decided to build a road from
elena to Glacier Park station, a dis
nee of 81 miles, giving an opening ci
ross the Rocky mountains in the nj
nth. This is one of the most i'm Sc
rtant pieces of road work to be un-
rtaken by the commission next year u
len $3,500,000 will be spent for road tn
)rk.
Jim Romeo of Meaderville was ar. or
sted by Deputy Game Warden Pill pc
g for having had five deer in his re
at one time. Romeo claims 20
at four other men were with him
len the five deer were killed. ~
pc
Roman has heard the whistle of a
ilrOad locomotive for the first time =,
lie Dixon-Polson branch of the Nor -
ern Pacific is now complete to =
man and the first train has been a. q,
n over the rails. ~
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Over 1000 national army soldiers
rect from western training camp
d enroute to an Atlantic port, pass
through Montana recently over the IN
,rthern Pacific WI