The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-12-06
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

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a federal health officer, attached to
the state board of health, in cam
| paign against yenereal diseases. He
was here engaged in the same work
| last summer. This work will be done
In all states. s1,OO0,000 having been
set aside for it.
The ravages Of influenza at the state
penitentiary at Deer Lodge have de-
| clined, according to reports from that
| institution. During October there were
Is deaths, while the fatalities this
month have been only IL.
w. 0. Whitcomb, assistant professor
OF agronomy at the State college at
Bozeman, where he has been for the
last six years, has accepted a posi-
ton with the federal bureau of mar
kets, and will be stationed at Min
neapolis. He will have the title, in
vestigator In seed marketing, and will
have several men working under him.
Bricklsyers will soon lay the last
brick on the new stack of the Washoe
reduction plant at Anaconda. Tower
ing skyward $50 feet, the largest re-
duction plant in the world has the
largest stack in the world, erected
without fatality to date.
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A city ordinance in Butte, abolishing
private employment agencies, will be
tested in the courts, complaint hay-
ng been filed by an employment agency
operator against city officials, asking
for writ of subpoena to them to show
cause why they should not be arrested
for interfering with his business.
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The Billings-Midland club is the
name chosen for the new organiza-
ton, Of which the Billings chamber of
commerce Is the nucleus, that will take
over the magnificent Elks club build
ing in Billings and use it for the head
quarters of the interstate club.
Sixty cases against meat dealers,
charging the use of sulphides, have |
been turned over to the attorney gen.
eral by the state board of health The |
sale of lard compound as lard, beef |
fat as filler for pork fleece, and other |
violations of the law are alleged. The |
names of the defendants, who are stu |
ated in number of cities, will not be |
barred until their arrests.
Owing to a pronounced revival of |
the influenza epidemic in Butte, dating |
back to the celebration of the armis- |
tice signing, the health board has or
dered theaters, pool halls, cabarets,
card games and dance halls closed. /
Saloons are not mentioned in the order,
and former order permitting the
schools to reopen was not rescinded.
Billings and Miles City are the latest
places to remove health restrictions.
The State fair officials have Just re-
ceived two handsome gold lined silver
owing cups for the two babies that won
the first prizes at the baby show at
the fair this fall. The cups have just
been made by jewelers. and delivered,
and will be sent to Edith E. Bracket of
Helena, and Herbert Lay of Bozeman,
grand champion girl and boy of the
state.
United States District Attorney Day /.
las been authorized by the depart
nent of Justice to remove the head
quarters of his office from Butte to ,
Helena. This is in accord with regu- ,
ations which provide that the off
ial headquarters of United States dis
riot attorneys shall be at the place of
heir residence unless some other place
n the district is more suitable for !.
UGH offices.
State Commissioner of Labor w. J.
is investigating two cases
f alleged violation of child labor laws
'wo boys, Otto Henry Steber, Is years
t age. killed in a mine at Phillips. I
urg, and Wallace Douglass, aged 13, !
Tiled in tile company plant at Great
alls. were employed, it is said, in vio-
ltOn Of the law.
The state fish and game commission .
as ordered the construction of the
sh hatchery in Park county, for
hich the legislature two years ago
appropriated $4,000, and the work
i'll be done early in 1919, bids for the ;,
Hiding having been ordered adver- =
sed for.
Dairymen and milk dealers Of six .
)rthwestern states will convene in .
ute shortly after the first Of the
'ar for a three days convention. 1t
expected that number of promi-
mt state, county and city officials
ID dairy and agricultural experts will ,
present. Delegates from the states
Montana, Idaho. Oregon, Washing
n, Utah and Wyoming will be In at
The state public utilities commission
9 granted upward revision Of heat
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