The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-09-14
| News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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The Montana Deaconess school al
Helena has opened with an enrolment
of so students. More will arrive later
Receipts of Montana grass fed cat
tie are falling off slightly on the east
ern markets. The big percentage OF
the shipments is beef steers.
A heavy rainstory near Lewistown
has put the ground in fine shape for
fall blowing. Aside from this it sub
dued threatening forest fire on the
south fork Of the Judith.
Attorney General Ford has written
every county attorney In the state ask
ing them to press autoists who have
failed to pay state license fees. The
offenders, it is said, are numerous.
The town of bingham is now in
corporated, the decision to incorporate
having carried at the special election
by big majority. City officials will
be elected at an election to be held
soon.
| The government of the United States
has offered Lewis and Clark county
| a 2O-mile roadway that cost SIS, 900,
for nothing. The roadway lies be-
tween Gilman and the Sun River diver
sion dam, mostly on government land
which is soon to be opened to settle
ment, and was built for hauling ma
terial to the dam. The offer will be
accepted.
Mrs. T. J. Walsh, wife of United
States Senator Walsh from Montana,
who died in a Baltimore hospital, has
been buried in Helena. Senator Walsh
and his daughter are now at their sum-
mer home on Lake Mcdonald.
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Because of the recent illness of
Chief Justice William L. Holloway,
the setting of cases in the supreme
court beginning September 10 has been
cancelled and continued to October 2.
w. J. Mcmahon, editor of the Liv-
ingston Enterprise, has been requested
to appear before the exemption board
of District No. 1 and support charges
made by him that injustice was being
done by the board in passing on indus
trial and agricultural claims for ex-
emption.
The Society of Montana Pioneers
has concluded its annual meeting at
Livingston. F. D. Brown of Phillips
burg was elected president for the
coming year, and Anaconda was Sc
lected as next years meeting place.
A new girls dornitory to take the |
place of the present Mills hall is the |
plan of Montana Wesleyan college au-
thorities at Helena who have started a |
for the erection of a $4,000 |
building.
Governor Stewart has returned from
where he attended a con-
ference on methods of handling the 1.
w. w. menace. He announces that |
there will be no special session of the
legislature.
Billings has contributed funds to
purchase two kitchen trailers to be
sent to the battle front. The trailers
will bear the name Billings, Mont"
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State Senator Thomas Hogan of Bill
ings, who is also a federal bank ex-
miner for the Spokane branch, is sore
y disappointed at the price fixed by
he president for wheat, inasmuch as
means less than 81 for all Montana
wheat. He estimates that every BUSH
j of wheat raised In Montana this
ear will cost So, and furthermore that
he spring wheat states of the north
rest should have been paid as much
s were the central and southern
tates.
The agricultural agent of Yellow /,
tone county predicts seed. corn will
e scarce and the price high next year. ]
lie advises farmers to conserve their
upply for home use.
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More than 450 men have been sent s
rom Great Falls to fight the flames I
1 the forests since the forest fires {
roke out in the mountains. There s
ave been as high as 100 sent in t
ay and on one occasion a special train 7
as chartered to get them to the scene S
lore quickly. e
One hundred and twenty-seven young s
len in Yellowstone county have been c
ertified as slackers by the local draft f
BARD because they did not appear for d
hySical examination. n
David Groach, O ranch hand, has 81
cen picked up near Billings while O.
andering aimlesSly on the railroad m
acks. Some time ago he disappeared II
ON Cody, Wyo., and was found after NJ
, had spent three weeks on river O,
land where he had subsisted OH Der r.
es and roots. r,
Plans are being drawn for the new
dentistry building to be constructed
the Montana State college at Boze-
an to replace the building destroyed y