The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-03
News Of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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The federal food administration of
flee at Bohemian has announced tina
i Charles M. Russell, the famed "cow
boy artist" of Great Falls, will con
/ tribute work to the food administra
ton work in Montana this spring. Mr.
Russell will give his services free OF
charge.
Requested by Secretary McAdoo to
/ proclaim a half holiday for Friday
April 20, as Liberty day, TO help in
the sale of bonds. Governor Stewart
| replied that, inasmuch as Montana has
already oversubscribed its quota by
| two-thirds. he considered citizens could
best serve the country by remaining
at their work.
Montana has so far sent 30 Red
Cross nurses to the army, according to
Miss Margaret Hughes, state chair
man of the nurses division. The last
| two nurses to respond were Miss Ella
Harnke and Miss Nettie Dollhouse,
| both of Butte
Four lambs from one eve is the
lambing record so far this season by
L. P. Officer, west of Big Timber.
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Tine state board of examiners has
awarded the contract for the erection
Of ~, I,,iI of
the Bozeman Agricultural college to
Krauffgantz & Frank of Butte. Their
bid was 100000.
Chancellor E. C. Elliott has accepted
an invitation to deliver the commence
ment address before the graduating
class of the University of Washington
at Seattle June IL.
The closing of "off the line" railroad
offices in Butte, due to an order of
Director General McAdoo, means that
the fixtures and much of the equip
ment of the Butte offices thus af-
fected will be sold. Practically all the
agents affected have been sent to new
posts.
The largest number of bids offered
on any one tract at the sale of inherit |
ed Indian lands at Grow Agency, was |
10. There We're 1876 bids on 70 of the |
10S tracts. No bids were submitted on |
80 tracts. There ware 146 bids on the |
cash plan and 80 bids on the deefrred
payment plan.
Because barberry bushes have been
found to be carriers of wheat rust,
which does much damage to grain,
Governor Stewart has issued a procla-
nation prohibiting their shipment into
he state and providing for the seizure
ind destruction of all such shipments.
concrete swimming pool, 80 by
90 feet, is to be constructed at Dill
mont park, just north of Dillon, for
which plans have just been completed
The water for the plunge will be pump
d into the pool, being heated by ar
ificial means before entering the
lunge.
Attorney General o. G. Ford has adj
ised d. G. O'Shea, president of the
'ederal Farm Loan bank at Spokane,
hat the Montana seed grain law is
ifferent from the North Dakota law
4 that farm loan mortgage is first
en- on the property covered by the
,an and that the seed loan lien is
lbordinate to it.
Have been granted furlough. c
lease wire me $25 for travelling ex- I
enses so that | can come home, waiv- t
lg identification" That is one of the
yindles being worked on fathers and c
others or friends of men serving in
e army or navy, according to an Off r
al warning sent out by the chief of 9
e military intelligence bureau, which o
is been received in the state. r
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Scott Leavitt, state director of the n
nited States Employment service is q
number of branch Of :,
.es Of the service throughout the >.
ate. Offices viii be opened at Bill -
lgs, Miles City, Lewistown, Glasgow, =
avre, Butte, Missoula and Kalispell. :,
lese offices will be in addition to ;,
ose at Helena and the headquarters =,
Great Falls. =,
A new motor lawn mower has been -
ecived by the Billings commissioner -
parks and the old horse drawn now - -
discarded. In addition to moving -
: lawn, the new machine has roller Ii
achment.
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George M. Bourquin, son of Judge 10
urquin of the federal court, has III
IN admitted by the supreme court
practice in Montana. He expects WI
'rtly to join the national army and co
s permitted for this reason to take 10
special examination. st
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