The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-01-25
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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| is confident the people of Montana
will respond generously to the appeal
The characterization forces of BoZe.
man have organized and made plans to
| fight the attempt to enforce .vaccina-
ton in the schools of Gallatin county.
fund of 5000 has been raised and ac-
/ ton will be started in the courts.
reduction works that will dispose
of the garbage of Helena and render
from it gycerine for the use of the gov
eminent in making munitions, may be
| established as q result of a movement
started at a meeting of the board of
| directors of the Helena Commercial
club.
| The newsbOyS of Anaconda allowed
to sell papers on the streets are now
required to wear white tags on their
coat lapels, showing they have been
authorized by the police and the sani-
tary department to do this work. This
action was necessary because of the
prevalence of contagious diseases.
DR.. w. G. CoggswelI, secretary of
the state board of health has denied
published reports that there had been
death at Bozeman as. a result of vac
cination. He investigated and found
the statement was fabrication.
The sale of thrift stamps and war
savings certificates will be speeded up
in Yellowstone county through the or
ganization of 1.-TWO Bit Club" by
Chairman John Rogers To be eligible
to membership a citizen must agree to
invest % cents a day in the stamps
Or the certificates.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
started by the town of Denton against
the Milwaukee railroad for alleged in
jury to the streets, sidewalks and other
property of the town on March 20,
1917, and succeeding days, through
flood. The allegations of the plaintiff
are that the flood was caused by the
negligent action of the company in
driving piles in the channel of Wolf
creek, half a mile west of town, in
the construction of a bridge.
Notice has been served upon Butte
authorities by Attorney General S. C. !
Ford that the segregated district of
that city or any other in Montana will
never be permitted to reopen as long
as he is attorney general or the pres
ent statute remains unrepealed.
John l.. Waddell, lawyer practising |
at Hardin, must answer charges filed |
in the supreme court by Attorney Gen |
eral 5. c. Ford, alleging he was guilty |
OF malpractice and unprofessional con-
duct in half dozen cases.
Three hundred people, comprising
the entire population of Trident, were
driven from their homes when the wat
ers of the Missouri river were backed
up by huge ice gorge just below the
town. torrent of water five feet
deep flowed through the town and
every house in the place was practi-
cally submerged.
Judge J. J. Lynch, in the district
court of Silver Bow county, has ruled
that under the Montana law is is not
necessary to record chattel mortgages
n order to make them valid.
George BartZ, Bozeman provision
nan, has been fined S25 for selling
oysters.
DR.. e. o. Sisson, president of the
State university at Missoula, has re-
.eived word that his nephew. Lieut.
ieorge Arnott Sisson, has been report
ID missing since the heavy fighting
ecently engaged in by the British
rmy in the vicinity of Cambria.
In an opinion rendered the Whole
ale Grocers' association of Montana.
Attorney General s. C. Ford has de- S
Jared that the anti-premium act of the S
asst assembly applies to intrastate I
usiness only, and not to outside firms g
rho may therefore continue to ship c
remiums into the state. c
Yellowstone county commissioners {
ave granted petitions for ferries to
ross the Yellowstone river at Worden
nd Bull Mountain &
The new Evans hotel. a splendid q
rick building which has been year t
1 course of construction, has been s.
pened to the public at Culbertson. Il
Livingston citizens have celebrated s.
lie completion of new ornamental
rect lighting system. a
One hundred and seventy-three "a
Dmeless children of Montana were
'und homes during the year just end
by the Montana Children's Home
,ciety.
Two Billings cigar stores and one al
)ol hall have been closed and pad ta
cked by the sheriff of Yellowstone IN
unity in efforts TO suppress gambling. IN