The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-08-31
THE STATE

HaVre-Forty-two men in Hill
county who were registered failed to
respond for examination for draft.
LeWlstoWn-The trades and labor
council asked the city council to raise
the pay of all city laborers to "a per
DAY, an advance of SO cents. The re-
quest was granted.
Butte-Beulah Crawford is suing
her husband, G. V. Crawford, because
she alleges he threatened ito meas
ure her for a wooden kimono," which
sne took to mean coffin.
Butte-John P Breeder. snecjal
agent of the Aetna Fire Insurance
Co., has left for San Francisco to ioin
the second officers training camp.
Breeder is we'll known over Mon
tana.
Belt-John p. Healey. manager of
the Nelhart Lumber company and
vice president of the State Bank of
BELT, mas gone to San Francisco to
enter the second officers reserve
training camp.
Eureka-A. w. Lindsay, banker;
N. D. Ralph, lumber man, and Attor-
hey Laurence Jack, all of Spokane
paid fines here for fishing without
license. After being fined they
bought licenses.
Gienoive~-A meeting Of those in
terested in the home guard movement
resulted in the organization of 40
members. DR. Baker, formerly regi-
mental adjutant of the Second Mon
tana, is captain.
LeWlstoWn-A. D. Strouf, admins
orator OF the estate of the late Frank
Strouf, who committed suicide at
Great Falls, announces that the es-
tate of the Diseased is valued at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
GlasgoW-Wnen Two special train
loads OF sailors passed through Glas-
gov for the coast, it was the opinion
OF the tars that Glasgow was a real
town, for the citizens gave literally
OF tobaccos, candy and fruit.
Blllings-The public market. re-
Gently opened at Billings. is being
better patronized than it was at the
start, and now both consumers and
farmers are satisfied that it is the
oest way to dispose of produce,
Anaconda-Hunters and sports
men in this vicinity are much in
censed over the discovery that elk
nave been slaughtered during the
past week near Georgetown lake. Al
vigorous effort will be made to find
the culprits.
Nelhart-The Butte G. Great Falls
Mining company, which has been op-
eratlng at Butte for several years.
Will shortly resume work on it's min
ing property here. The high price of
silver is the reason for extensive de-
velopment that is contemplated.
Livingston-Rather than be draft
ed, Park county man resorted tn
the extreme measure of having six
good teeth extracted. The conscrint
may be provided with raise teeth and
forced into the army. The dentist
will be called before the district ex-
emption board
Missoula-The extension of the
MllWaukee's Blackfoot branch from
Potomac to Clearwater will not be
completed for some time yet at re-
suit of lack of steel. This branch
VIII eventually connect with Great
Falls and probably will be the main
line of the Milwaukee.
Helena-While STOPPING over to
lift loaded wheelbarrow, Art
Thompson's suspenders broke and
buckle flew up and struck his neck
with such force that it nearly severed
lhe ]ugular vein. Thompson was
working for the Piper Construction
company at Bozeman, and he has
made claim under the workmen's
compensation law.
Missoula-Dr. W. E. Shea, captain
in the medical officers reserve corps,
has been ordered to report to the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search in New York to take course
IN war surgery under DR.. Alexis Car
rell, the famous French surgeon who
has come to America to teach a Sc
lected number of American army
physicians his new methods.
LeWistown-The members of the
Mennonite colony near here all filed
claims for exemption from the draft,
the creed of their church expressly
opposing war. The members of the
colony have been notified that they
will be called but that they will not
be required to fight. They will be
used back of the lines
Helena-John T. Murphy, Jr., has
brought proceedings in the supreme
court to break the will of his father,
the late John T. Murphy, who died
in May, 1914, leaving an estate of
$1,6O0,000. He asks for writ of SUI
pervisory control Young Murphy