The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-08-24
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

A heavy hail storm, accompanied
in some places by fall of snow, oc-
CURED recently along the Great Nor
thern line from Chester and Shelby.
One hundred recruits have been en-
listed for the aviation service since
announcement came that that divi-
sion of the army service would again
be opened to Montana young men.
Since the declaration of war by the
United States against Germany, the
Billings recruiting station of the Unit
ed States navy has furnished approx
mately 1000 recruits.
United States Surveyor General
Henry Gerharz of Helena has been
notified that he has been honored by
the war department with a commission
as captain in the engineer section of
the officers reserve corps.
Statistics compiled by w. J. Swindle-
hurst, commissioner of labor and in
dustry, at Helena, show the divorce
rate of Lewis and Clark county is the
highest in the state. One out of every
four marriage in the county is a fail
ure.
Charles Battersby, who was recently
arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal
Hickman of Helena as Stacker, was
exonerated in a Billings justice court.
]. B. HEREFORD was the complaining
witness. At the hearing Battersby
produced his wedding certificate made
in London, England, in 1904, giving
his age as 20 years then. Thus he
established his age as SO, which is
above the draft limit.
Five horses belonging to Henry
Steven of Scobey were instantly killed
in his barn recently by a bolt of light
ming.
Excellent progress is being made in
the double-tracking of the Great Nor
thern line between Columbia Falls and
Whitefish. A crew of $50 men is EN-
plOyed on the work.
Brooding over the fact that his name
was among those called for examina
ton for service in the first increment
of the draft army, Otto Burden, 26
years old, of Big Horn county, placed
the muzZle of a shotgun beneath his
chin and pulled the trigger. His head
was blown to atoms.
Out of $50 registered men notified
to appear at Great Falls for physical
examination in one day, only II re-
ported.
At meeting of the town council of
Poplar an ordinance providing for a
system of waterworks was passed by
q good majority. This means a $685.
BOO bond issue to finance the project,
and active steps will be taken at once |
toward having the system constructed.
That the 100000 breeding ewes
that it is estimated will be sold this
fall by sheepmen could be disposed of |
to farmers in the east and south, if
feasible plan for marketing them
could be formulated, is the opinion of
Supervisor J. B. Seely of the Helena
forest, who asserts that pres
ent calculations provide that the ami
mails be slaughtered.
Actual construction on federal aid
.oad projects in Montana will not be
started before next spring, but in the
meantime all the red tape and other
myriad details will be disposed of,
laid Paul Pratt, highway engineer of
he state highway commission, who
las just returned to Helena from an
Of the roads in Yellowstone,
Big Horn, Rosebud, Custer, Prairie
nd Wibaux counties.
Holding that the ordinance fixing
n annual license fee of $40 upon each
axi operated in the city is an ordin-
nee adopted for the purpose of pro-
ucing revenue and not for police reg
Iation, Judge Leslie of Great Falls
rdered that Frank Flibotte have the
elief which he sought in his injunc-
ion proceedings instituted against the
ity of Great Falls.
Civil and military authorities clash !
d for the first time in Montana since
ne war began when the military au-
lorities at Helena refused to release
} sheriff a man charged with horse
tealing, but who has enlisted since the :
LEGGED commission of the crime.
The First National Bank of Nashua
as opened its doors for business in
he structure that has just been erect 9
for its use. The new building is
mong the finest bank establishments
/ that part of the state and adds ;
realty to the appearance of the :
,wn.
Through her attorneys Mrs. Worden
idow of the late Frank H. Worden
ut Bank banker who was killed when
s auto was struck by the fast mail
ain last spring, has brought suit
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