The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-03-23
THE STATE.

Carter-Carter is to have a new
hotel.
Billings-Billings BARRIERS have
asked for an increase of two and one
half cents per hour.
Galata-Seed wheat is selling for
So. Buyers from North Dakota are
here picking up every bushel they
can buy.
Malta-The drill in the Bowdoin
oil we'll struck pocket of natural
gas at depth OF GIG feet. The flow
was quite strong.
Billings-Beet growers are to re-
ceive an advance of SO cents ton
this year if the price of sugar re-
mains at the present figure
Townsend Six families, with
their household goods and effects,
have arrived here and will locate on
lands purchased in this vicinity.
Bozeman-Ole Johan JACOB Cor
nelius Jacobsen Holland, who claims
the longest name in Montana, has
wed Finger Berthe Berg OF Minneap-
olis.'
DentOn-Half a dozen new resi-
dences, flour mill, an elevator and
several business blocks will be built
here as soon as the weather will per-
| NIT.
Roundup-Nearly 600 final proof
certificates filed during the past year
will increase the assessable property
of Musselshell county by at least
| 100000.
| Bozeman-Montana comes in for
a generous share of the runds APP
propriated by congress to the various
| states for high school teaching in
agriculture.
Helena-Adjutant General Phil
Greenan, of the Montana National
Guard, says the Second Montana, reg
iment will be recruited to 1900 men
within 60 days.
Darby-W. R. Clifford, the Bitter
Root sculptor, has submitted designs
and models for the $4,000 monu-
ment to be erected at Cody, Wyo.,
for Buffalo Bill.
Roundup-This town boasts the
largest garage in the United States.
The garage contains a second floor
which is reached by automobiles
with an inclined plane.
Butte-Willis Haviland, son of DR..
w. H. Haviland of Butte, has dis
tinguished himself as an aviator in
the French army. He has been deco
rated twice for bravery.
Columbus-Mrs. Lars Stene sold a
dozen pairs of socks at the county
fair for $3.50 a pair. She clipped
the wool from the sheep, carded II
spun it and knit the socks.
Ronan-Farmers of this section
have subscribed for sufficient stock
in an Independent telephone COM
pany to permit of the construction OF
a rural line which will reach nearly
every section of the valley.
II ACCOMPLISHMENTS Hartsell, while
in Miles City, saw Louis Carapalls
who was released year ago on $1O(
bond after being arrested for shoot
ing craps. The sheriff collected
500 and turned Carapalis loose.
Helena-Charles j. Conner o
Townsend, former county attorne!
of Broadwater county and membe!
of the Fifteenth Legislative assem-
bly,, has been elected secretary OF tn
railway commission to succeed w. b
Rhoades.
Hinsda1c-Hundred of head O
sheep and many cattle have persisted
in the bottoms of the Missouri river
> 60 miles from here, as the result o
the severity of the weather. JONI
Etchard is said to have lost 200
head of sheep.
Columbus-With eight car load
of possession, including AZ horse
and steam tractor, five familie
have arrived here from Iowa. Inc
are settling on seven sections Q
land they have purchased recently /
the Hailstone basin.
Livingston-The famous gold an
tungsten mines of Jardine, a fe,
: miles north of the Yellowstone Par
boundary, are to be reopened shortl
on a large SCALE About 800 me-
will be employed. Litigation ha
I kept the mines closed for years.
] Butte-The Buttv and SuperAo
F is now conceded to Re the creates
zinc mine in the world. The com
pany's contract with the American
I Zinc and Lead company expire
I March q. The Butte company pai
for one years shipment of concen
b trates to Oklahoma $1,200,00O. L
the future the ore will be treated a
. Great Falls.
Three Forks-C. M. Smith, one Q
the successful farmers of the Gala
tin valley, has taken over the $50
acre farm of the Broadwater Far1
company and will go in for machin
farming on an extensive scale. Whe
the weather breaks he expects t
have several tractor outfits workln
night and day until his lnad
seeded.