The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-02-15
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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other two, boy and girl, are Wig
orous and healthy. The babies weigh
ed three pounds each. Mrs. Davis is
81 years old. The couple has no other
children.
Lewistown's weather man has quit
his job because the weather does not
live up to his predictions.
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The Anaconda Copper company has
discontinued work on that portion of
its coal mines in Bear Creek known
as seam No. 8. One hundred and
forty men were thrown out of work.
William Black, sheepherder, chok-
ed to death in a Dillon restaurant
while eating a midnight lunch of
noodles.
| State Game Warden Jones of Idaho
has arrived in Livingston for the pur-
pose of capturing so head of elk to
be removed to his home state and used
for propagation purposes. Warden
Jones believes the herd will increase
| In a short time.
A grocery store and realty office
at Roy were destroyed in fire that
did $4,000 damage.
The secretary of agriculture has |
authorized a slight increase in the |
number of sheep. cattle and horses |
that may be grazed on the Helena
national forest reserve this year.
There are 1852 children of school
age in Montana, according to a COM
pilation just completed in the office
of the state superintendent of public
instruction of the reports of county
superintendent on the census that
the support of the common schools
Montana will contribute $3.50 per
capita for each child of school age,
or a total of $S75,S86.
The "smileage book campaign in
Montana has been carried through sue
cessfully according to an announce ,
ment made by Charles Austin of Butte, ,
state director of the campaign. The ,
states allotment was $4,000. which /,
has been exceeded, according to the
figures. :
o. NJ. Harvey of Livingston, chair :
man of the Republican state central
committee, has left TO attend the meet :
ing of the national Republican commit
tee at st. Louis, going as proxy for
L. NJ NARROW, national committee
nan, who cannot attend. q
Bids will be opened in Bozeman 0
March l for the construction of the S
lew chemistry building at the State Il
agricultural college. The excavation d
or the foundation was completed sew
raj months ago.
Stock to the value of more than n
100000 has already been sold by the
northwestern Packing company, which
1tends to establish a plant in Hell
ma. An 80 acre site in East Helena IT
as been offered to the company. 1t
anticipated that the plant will be
full operation before the end of the of
resent year. as
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"SIow down" tactics are reported TO
ON the lumber camps of northwest OF
-ontana. The movement probably az
shers in the spring campaign of the an
w. w. in the state. 1t is at activi- eq
es of this sort that the sabotage OF
II, asked of the cominX extra session wi
the state assembly by Governor eff
,ewart. is aimed, it is said. wi
The Anaconda Copper company pro-
iced 100000 more pounds of copper 50
January than it did in December, u"
VS. an announcement just issued. We
More than S11 900 was earned for III
e state last year by the boiler in
ection department which was placed NO
the last legislature under the jul
,diction of the state industrial acct
mt board This is a larger sum than
e department ever earned before, !
d it was also earned by only three thl
stead of four inspectors. bre
n q pan
0. NJ Harvey of Livingston has re- -,
we'd notice of his appointment a. ~
airman of the Montana bureau of -
aakers in the interest of the third -
,erty loan and he will go to Mime "a,
oils shortly for a conference with
lirmen of other states in the ninth
leral reserve district to plan for the TN
rk.
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Upon the grounds that there is
,rtage of ships and cars and that
lerican soldiers in France are being
,plied with European grown pota
s, Secretary of War Baker has de- DAN
led with thanks the offer of the a
Wis and Clark county Potato Grow dair
; association to send one or two car bins
ds abroad free of charge. will
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he Anaconda Copper company has
rted suit against Missoula county to cTy
over $4,000 taxes paid to the cOun-
1nder protpSt