The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-03-15
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

DOuu safes committee IOT Tie same
held conference in Helena with bank
ers and others on the next Liberty
loan, the campaign for which will soon
start.
The Butte Water company has an
nounced that this year, like In 1917,
it will make no charge for watering
vegetable gardens. This, officials of
the company say, Is as an incentive
for local residents to increase the food
| production. AS usual the company
will charge the regular rates for
| sprinkling lawns and flower gardens.
| Children's gardens on the parkings
| especially are to be encouraged more
than in the past, 1t is said.
A colony of beavers is at work this
winter erecting dam across the Bit
ter Root river two miles northwest of
| Corvallis. The LITTLE animals have
| felled trees a foot in diameter, leay-
| ing chips three inches across as neatly
cut as with an axe in the hands of a
skilled wOodsman.
Judge Spencer, in the district court
at Billings imposed a fine of $500 on
Lewis Downs and ordered his incarcer-
alton in the county Jail for 90 days
upon his second conviction on a charge
of practising chiropracty without hav-
ing obtained an osteOpaths license
from the state board. Downs will APP
peal.
Chapter 60 of the laws of the fif-
teenth assembly, prohibiting livestock
running at large in Incorporated cities
and towns, applies to range as well as
other classes of stock, according to
Attorney General s. C. Ford, who has
so advised the city of Terry.
Upon the suggestion of. the state
council of defense, William Hartwig.
manager of Helena theater. cancelled
the booking of film entitled Cheat
ing the Public" A telegram was sent
by the state council to the company
controlling the film requesting that it
be Immediately withdrawn from Mon
tana
The strike Of the Butte taxicab
drivers came to an end when the en-
ploying companies acceded to the de- |
mands of the men for a working day |
of 10 hours and scale of $3.50 per |
day. The men previously had been |
working u hours daily and receiving |
81 a shift.
Sugar beets will be one of the crops |
around Miles City this year. for 225 |
acres have already been pledged for |
raising beets by land owners east of |
town, and there is every assurance
that the figure will be raised to 400
acres. The product will be shipped to
Billings.
Henry Eoullier is the first victim
in Missoula of the Montana lazy hus-
band" law. He pleaded guilty to fail
ng to support his family and will
work for the county for the next six
months. He will be employed under
he direction of the county commits
;ioners and his wages will be turned
,ver to his wife and three children. If
3ouiller should refuse to work, the
county will support his family and he
will remain in Jail.
United States Senator 7. ]. Walsh
f Montana, has returned to the ma
ional capital. Mr.. Walsh had been
nc An0aIac Ca1 after
nervous attack brought on by over G
FORK and the illness and death of his /
fife. He is completely recovered and r
as resumed his duties in the senate :
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AS the result of action taken by Bill r
ngs banks. every child of school age !
4 Billings will be provided with a )
hrift stamp gratis. The bankers have
greed to purchase one stamp for each :,
upil of the city schools, first to as '
st in the thrift movement and sec
ndly, to inculcate the habit of saving c
mong the pupils.
Title to 57,531.02 acres of land in
lie Glasgow land district will soon
ass to the state, according to notice "
eecived by Governor Stewart from Il
lie general land office. Considerable Il
the land is considered as first class is
y farming soil. "
Blackfeet Indians have organized b
home guard company on their reser-
,tion. e
-
Drawing the dangers of trackless =
rest in the mountains, Mrs. Joe Du- :
t of Slough creek, Park county, made
two-day trip on snowshoes to join
n husband. She had been spend
& the winter in Livingston. Her /,
lsband is wintering near Cooke City. =
id Mrs. Duret made the hazardous =
mile trip when she received word to .
In him. He met her at their rural ~
ute mail box, Is miles from the ~
bin. ~
B.
Kalispell Is now the center of an
tomobile bus line connecting White
h, Somers and Bigfork. Seven 49,
ssenger auto busses will make sched- pc
, time botroop Kol;cpoI1 oud tha M