The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14
THE STATE

ne CITY council has de-
claed 70 install street lighting sys-
Geraldine-A modern motel build-
ing, costing $4,000 has lust been
opened here.
Llbby-Supervisor Smith of the
hootehal forest reports all fires un-
der his supervision under control.
Geraldlne-This city will vote. Oc-
tober ~, on issuing $4,000 in bonds
TO purchase the local water plant,
Malta-St. Mays canal into Milk
river has carried nearly 800 second
feet of water all summer, is the asser-
ton of R. M. Srall.
Glasgow-A $4,000 apartment
house is to be erected here Nv Henry
Jensen, building contractor. 1t will
De Completed December l.
Galata-Robert Siven and a team
OF horses he was driving were killed
and his wagon demolished when thew
were hit on crossing by fast mail
train.
Baker-Ten cars of machinery are
on the way here to be installed in a
plant for the manufacture of carbon
black. 1t will produce about 5000
pounds annually.
Bllllngs-Mrs. Hilma McKimm has
received word that her husband, a
former Billings man, has been killed
while fighting with the Canadian
forces in France
| Stevensville - After putting IN
100000 cans of peas and 5000 gal
Ions of pie cherries, the seasons run
of the Bitter Root cannery at Bass
| Snl1r has fo o1ncn
Virginia City-The Diamond O"
outfit has paid $4,000 for the
George fash ranch of $500 acres
grade cattle and 100 horses.
Pop1ar-A contract has been
awarded G. H. Kelley of Kalispell to
install city water works. The plans
call for standpipe 100 feet in height
with capacity for 100000.
LeWistown-Former Congressman
and Mrs. Tom Stout are making a trip
to Washington by automobile. From
Montana their schedule was over the
Yellowstone trail to Chicago.
Plentywood-William d. Frawley,
we'll known northeastern Montana
printer, has purchased the Weekly
Optic at Omega on the Weyburn-Leth-
bridge branch in Saskatchewan.
Stevensville-A log house to cost
$4,000 is being erected on the Ford
and Hollister ranch, owned by a
Toledo auto manufacturer and just
ice Of the New York supreme court
Helena-County attorneys through
out the state have received a letter
from Attorney General Ford urging
them to prosecute all auto owners,
who have failed to register their cars
PlentyWOod-For throwing their
infant from train near Snowden,
Fred Pierson and wife are held in
the county Jail. The infant died a
few hours after being found by sec
ton men.
Plentywood-A general movement
has been started among business men
| in towns along the brentwood
branch of the Great Northern to take
advantage of the Sunday mail service
recently inaugurated.
MissOu1a-One thousand sheep
were burned to death in the recent
forest fires, a herder losing half of
band of 1000. Hundreds of trout
were cooked alive in mountain
streams through the fire district
Helena-The assessment of tele-
phone and telegraph companies in the
state has been raised by the state
board of equalization from $S5 to
$500 per mile on copper wire and
from SIS to $40 per mile for iron wire.
Butte-Recent tests show that
some Butte milk dealers are violating
the law. One concern is said to have
placed personalities in cream and
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analysed at the state college labora-
tory.
Billings-Bidding was brisk at the
auction sale of ul-tlloted land on the
coded strip of the Grow reservation
and nearly all of the 100000 acres
offered by the government was pur-
chased. Buyers came from all over
the northwest.
Culbertson-Several cases of an
thrax have been discovered in the vi
entity of Dooley. They are believed
to have originated through germs
brought here from the southland by
wild ducks and left in the marshes
and lakes in the vicinity of the in
fected district.
Laurel Grading on the branch
incline of the Northern Pacific from
| HeSper TO RapelJe has been completed
to within four miles of the latter
place. 1t is expected that the rails
will be laid and the track ready for
operation in time to haul this years
crop to market.
Great Falls-James W. Sherwood
of this city has been named to repre-
sent the Montana and Wyoming dis
trict of the northwestern division of
the United States food administration
through which wheat will be pur-
chased. Headquarters of the division
are in Minneapolis.
Stanford-James Billy was dragged
to death while moving field of
wheat for hay on his farm south of
town. 1t is thought the team began
to run while Mr.. Billy was on the
ground, and he tried to turn them
into the fence, but they ran past him,
the sickle bar knocking him down and
the guards catching in his clothes