The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
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PlentyWood.-Af federal farm loan
association has been formed here.
Havre.-Hill county has appropri-
ated $2,655.55 for the determination
OF gophers.
Roundup.--Many of the Roundup
mines are making arrangements to
increase coal output to capacity.
BOzeman. - Compulsory vaccina-
ton, to guard against smallpox, has
been ordered by the board of health.
Roundup.-A Roundup steer, the
property of Alex Voolfolk, sold on
the Chicago market recently for
$261.
Havre.-Hill county is growing at
a remarkable rate. The tax roll for
this year is $6S4,442; it was $751;
297 in 1915 and $203,916 in 1912.
Billings.-"Kink" Evans, lieuten-
ant of Muckie Mcdonald, was fatally
shot in quarrel with Frank Parker
at the Carpenter creek coal mines.
Big Sandy.-The six-year-old son
of Theodore Reike, homesteader, is
dead from scalds received when the
child fell into tub of boiling wa
ter.
Billings.-Gladys Ballard, former
postmistress at Vanada, Rosebud
county, has been acquitted of the
charge of having embezzled govern
ment funds.
Townsend.-Ben Kember, pio-
ty, travelling between Winston and
his ranch during the recent blizzard,
was frozen to death.
Butte.-Harry Galway, head of
the Red Cross in Silver Bow county,
says as the result of the recent drive,
the county's mem bership in the great
organization is approximately 1900.
Billings.-Wallis Huidekoper, vice
president of a local bank, and one
of the wealthiest stockmen of this
section of Montana, has been appoint
ed to a captaincy in the aviation
corps.
Lewistown. Thirty-five Lewis
town residents attended the Fergus
county Christmas banquet to Fergus
county soldiers at Tacoma. They took
their own chef and attendants with
them.
Fort Benton.-The Missouri river,
closed during the cold snap, is open
again, the recent chinook having
thawed the bridge of ice. 1t is very
unusual for the river to be open at
this season of the year.
Brockton.-There will be 100 flax
mills in Montana within the next five
years is the belief of E. H. Dabney
of the Lin-Dal Fiber company, which
has just completed the building of
new mill at Brockton.
Billings.-With the departure of
between 100 and 200 recruits for
Spokane recently the Billings army
recruiting office has established
record for 1000 enlistments during
two weeks In December.
Roundup. - Lieutenant Warren
Alexander of this city, recent
graduate of the reserve officers
training camp, has been appointed to
the staff of General Pershing and
will leave at once for France.
Hinsdale. - Henry McGregor, we'll
known rancher who has made his
home in this community for the past
II years, dropped dead in the post
office. Up to the moment of his death
he was apparently in good health.
Bozeman.-R. D. Sloan, an instruc-
tor of the state agricultural college,
has been appointed junior lieuten-
ant afloat, and will be assistant to
the chief engineer of one of the large
battleships. He is to report for duty
at once.
Lewistown.-Live stock shipments
for the past four months, from Fer
gus county, have been about double
what they were during the same pc
riod last year. Over 1900 car loads
of cattle were shipped east over the
Milwaukee railroad alone.
Butte.-The "fair price" commit
tee of Butte grocers have revised
the grocery prices downward, and the
I31 food dealers will conform to the
fixed prices, which will be published
every week. The campaign of profit
allowed the grocers will be about ID
per cent over wholesale prices.
Butte.-Nearly 800 Montanans
who are in the habit of spending the
winter in southern California, left
Butte on a special train, one day re-
Gently for Los Angeles. Several hum
dred more will leave in a few days.
The Montana winter colony in Cali
fornia grows with prosperity, and
will total about 1000 persons this
year.
Roundup. - Twelve-year-old Wal
ter Gordon, of Ryegate, was killed
under distressing conditions recently.
He was watering team of mules
and had the leading rope tied to his
waist. The mules took fright and ran
away, dragging the boy with them.
He was taken to Roundup for treat
ment but died short time after ar
irving there.
Malta.-A. P. Shellito, who killed
George Parker, a neighboring ranch
man. rode into Malta and surrender
ed himself to the sheriff's officers,
while deputies were looking for him.
His version of the affair is that Park
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