The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-16

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% sacks of high grade potatoes from
!. four city lots.
A company of Missoula men, CAPT.
talized at $125,000, plans the erection
of five-story theater building in that
city.
Adjutant General Phil Greenan adj
monishes citizens of Montana not to
shoot at airplanes or objects that
might be airships, saying he believes
the ones seen are machines of student
aviators who are making practice
flights.
| The Helena land office has received
notice that $4,000 acres of land in
Beaverhead county has been with
drawn from entry under the provisions
of the 640acre homestead law, to be
used as stock drives in taking stock
| from one grazing ground to another or
| to market.
William j. Butler, state veterinarian,
expresses the opinion that the untamed
range horses of Montana should be
killed and used for food. He says the
meat would be excellent.
Mrs. w. HI. Calfee, wife of the
Methodist minister at Edgar, is dead |
as the result of kerosene explosion |
which occurred when she attempted |
to build a fire with the oil
DR.. w. F. Cogswel. secretary of
the state board of health, has recon-
mended that the annual convention of
the Montana State Teachers assOcia-
ton, scheduled to be held in Helena
November 26-2S, inclusive, be postp0n-
ed because of the scarlet fever epi.
demic there.
w. +. Thompson, formerly assistant
professor of dairy husbandry at the
Kansas State college of agriculture
has arrived in Bozeman to take the
position of field agent in dairying with
the extension department of the Mon
tana State college.
More than $1,000 families in Mon
tana have signed food conservation
pledge cards, according to Sam d.
GOA, state campaign manager These
figures are by no means complete. as
few of the scattered precincts have re-
ported.
The State Agricultural college at
BOzeman has been designated TO send
six men to the third series of Off |
,ers' training camps for commissions
rs second lieutenants.
The scarlet fever situation in Hell
ma is considered by health officers
IS improved. The city for the pres
mt is without any form of enter =
ainment The matter of having no
hurch services was considered, but L
was decided to merely abandon the o
sunday schools for time. t
o o f
Sweet Grass cOunty's school super S
ltendent reports six rural schools va d
ant on account of the lack of teach p
RS. Every available source has been b
ppealed to in an effort to secure In C.
but without result. a
Sergeant Jameson of the Billings s.
office, in his return from t
liking recruits to Fort George Wright n
Spokane, reports that 80 per cent e.
the men received there are Mon Il
mans. o.
The official Anaconda production II
" October, which has just been an
ounced, is copper, 22,336, AGO pounds, fl
nd zinc, 3S7S,675 pounds. IL
o o m
Jimmy Douhan, 13-year-old son of C,
r. and Mrs. Peter Douhan of Fair Of
ew, broke through the ice while IL
Eating on pond and was drowned. OF
b.
Rev. G. G. GresS of Lewistown, state al
lperintendent of Baptist missions, has In
st received notice from the Carne- lii
e Hero commission of Pittsburg, that oil
: has been awarded a bronze medal w
it'll an appropriation of $1,000 to be al
voted to some worthy purpose to be br
,prOved by the executive committee. tv
ne incident that won for Mr.. Gress
is distinction was on the occasion of re
Sunday school picnic on Spring a
eek when he rescued little girl sc
ON drowning. sr
th
William O'Malley of Butte was found
lily of manslaughter by jury in re
e district court at Bozeman. O'MaI- M
Y was tried on q charge of killing O.
I'm McNamee during brawl in of
mt of road house near Butte early fe
e morning last spring. His punish pa
emit was left by the jury to the Ike
urt, The maximum penalty is 10
ars' Imprisonment.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bozeman
ok advantage of the recent warm
father for blowing in their fields.
lie soil was in excellent condition for
Is work. =
Two more Montana nurses have been
lied into the service of the Red