The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-04-20
THE STATE,

Plentywootl-The lateness of the
season is delaying seeding.
Baker-A knights of Pythia.
lodge is being organized here.
Chinook-Many bridges across the
Milk river have been washed out.
Whitefish-The contract for the
new Episcopal church has been let
IeWistOwn-Lewist mercantile
houses have agreed to close at {
o'clock.
GlasgOW-The women of Glasgow
plan a campaign for the extermina
ton of flies.
Stanford-Fifteen carloads of set
tiers and their effects arrived il
Stanford one day recently.
Plentywood-The county commits
sions have appropriated $4,000 to fl
nance a war on the gophers.
Roundup-Only maple, ash anG
elm trees will be planted on Round
up boulevards in the future
Scobey-More than $4,000 worth
of horses have changed hands here
during the past few months.
Big Sandy-The Women's Civic
club will secure and lay out a tract OF
ground suitable for a city park.
Havre-Nearly 100000 acres of
land have been filed on at the local
land office since last December.
Roundup-Carli Popohluski, a full
blooded Cossack, has enlisted in the
local company of the First Montana.
Great Falls-William E. Chamber
lain, pioneer jeweler died in his
chair in his establishment a few DAYS
ago.
Acknowledgement have been
made for the holding of patriotic
mass meetings in more than 100
Montana towns.
chased two large tractors and will
put in 1000 acres of grain on his
farm west of Scobey.
LewistoWn-The chamber of COM
merce has decided to grow ten acres
of potatoes. The crop will be given
to local institutions.
Fort Benton-During the past year
the Chouteau county free library has
organized branches in II towns in va
rious parts of the city.
Havre-All employees of the Great
Northern. who enlist for the war, are
to retain their priority rights in the
service of the railroad.
Malta-The federal government
will let a contract for the repairing
of the Nelson reservoir on the Milk
river project April 25.
Whitefish-Mrs. Chin Lee How
ard, a white woman, has commenced
action to have her marriage with her
Chinese h11chapd opn1111nd
LeWistoWn-The laying of steel on
Winnett is to be completed as soon
as it is possible to do the work.
Glasgow - Recruiting details of
Company G, Montana National
guard, operating in the smaller
towns near here, have been recalled.
ROundup-Gus Johnson, mine mo-
torman, who had both legs crushed
in a collision died rather than per-
NIT the surgeons to amputate his
legs.
LewistoWn-Plans are being per-
fected for the entertainment of the
central group of the Montana Bank
ers' association, which meets here
May 26.
Roundup-Roy Endecott, Round
up carpenter, has invented a wire
cutter which fits on the end of a rifle,
and which he will offer to the war
department.
Malta-Among the new buildings
to be constructed Immediately is ne
by Verney & Wilson, to cost $43, 200,
and fine structure for the Malta
National bank.
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Willard just in time to save him from
death at the hands of an angry mob.
He had cursed the United States. He
was fined $50.
Great Falls-There are 1000 men
between the ages of Is and IS and
eligible to military duty in Cascade
county, according to the compilation
of the county clerk.
Butte-Joe Marvin. a we'll known
barber, husband and father of three
children, walked into an undertake
er's office, swallowed a quantity of
carbolic acid and dropped dead.
Valie,'-Miss Elsie P. Wagner is
the first "war BRIDE" She has be-
come the wife of Lieutenant Charles
E. Thompson of the Waller company
of the Montana National Guard.
HarlOWton-The Diamond F ranch
has been purchased by the King
Land company and will be subdivided
and sold to settlers. The deal in
volved consideration of 100000.
Great Falls-The commissioners
of Cascade county have appropriated
$4,000 for the building of the joint
county-forestry road between Mon
arch and Neihart. The federal gov
eminent will provide an additional
$4,000.
"Reminiscences of the Flat
willow bench country have sub
scribed to $4,000 worth of stock in