The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-04-12
MONTANA NOTES |
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

hitting suicide, is recovering. She
said at the time of the shooting that
she wanted to die because she was
ashamed of having been out with an
automobile party the evening before.
A flat rate of $40 per ton for sugar
beets of the 1918 crop is announced
by w. l.. Lawson, vice president of
the Great Western Sugar company at
Billings. He also gives assurance that
ample labor will be furnished by the
company, which has located a large
number of employees who will be
brought to the state at no expense to
the grower.
Charles Fl. Puehler, state secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. for the past five
and one-half years, has resigned to
accept a position on the national Y.
M. c. A. war work board of 10 men,
of the California division. Mr.. Pueh-
ler's resignation was accepted by the
state executive board and he plans to
leave Billings about April 10 for San
Francisco
M. ID. Mccarthy, a Centerville bar
Der. at last believes there is such a
thing as luck. Three months ago he
accidentally dropped a wallet contain
ing $40 into city catch basin in
Butte. Recently small boy discover
ed the wallet where the sewer goes
by the reduction works.
In accordance with the policy of
competition among the
of the country during the time
they are under federal control, as pro-
vided in the recent regulations issued
by the federal regional director of this
district, the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway has closed its stations
at Garrison, Bearmouth and Clinton,
IN the western part of the state. No
at these points.
A new 560-fOOt bridge across the
Clarks Fork at st. Regis will be COM
oleted and will replace the ferry that
las been in use since 1859 when the
Nullan military road was laid out from
Nalla Walla to Fort Benton.
Twenty-Five dollars a head was the
rice J. e. Morse, manager of the
1ook Sheep Co, of Dillon, sold 500
flooded Hampshire ewes for to Dade
Stephens, a rancher of the Big Hole |
'asin. The ewes were bred from i'm |
,orted Hampshire rams and are said |
o be among the best in Montana.
One dollar to be divided equally |
mong IA relatives was the only leg |
cy left to them by Lizzie Woods, |
roprietress of a Livingston rooming |
ouse, although she left a large for
une to the Twin Bridges orphan asy-
I'M. The deceased owned considerable
roperty in Bozeman, Sheridan, Wyo.,
nd other places.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
any has developed gas of sufficient |
olume in the Sweet Grass hills, 20
lilies north of Great Falls, for the
iping of that city, it is stated by per-
)ns in position to know. The ulti-
ate purpose is said to be the piping
ot only of Great Falls, but of Hell J
Ia, Butte and Anaconda, and the
Melting plants of the Anaconda COM
any.
Ethelbert w. Love, mentioned in dis
,tches from France as having receiv
the French war cross for valor
lille serving in the ambulance, is a [
rmer Helena boy. His father, Rev. [
r. w. w. Love, was for many years
lstor of a Helena Protestant Episco-
IL church. Love is the second Helena
" so honored, Richard Atwater hav-~
G received a cross several months |
70.
Elementary school books, if found to
ntain anything that is the least saw |
ing of German propaganda, will be
thdrawn, Professor John Dietrich, :
esident of the state textbook COM ,
ssion, has announced.
The. most expensive smoke A. ].
osbey ever INDUCED in was in the
deral court at Great Falls while 7
dge BOurquin was on the bench.
Osbey, q witness, was assessed So for
Mixing a ci par i'm fine courtroom
Two men had narrow escape from !.
ath when a traction blowing outfit :
ey were moving broke through a :
dge over the West Gallatin river 6
ar Bozeman and fell into II feet of :
ter.
The board of trustees of the Great
lis schools have officially banned !.
, German language from the local :
III school. :"
Great Falls citizens have contributed
re than 1000 books to be sent to the
diers and sailors Of the United
ties. III
o 0 ef
frank A. Erloff, arrested at Miles &
y for alleged utterances of sedi- =
duration of the war, according to
ers received by United States Mar !,
i j. L. Asbridge. ~
kfter 80 wears spent in rehearsing r