The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-11-01
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

On account of the number a influ
enza cases in Butte, the county healti
board has ordered all clerks and bar
tied advertisements in the newspapers
by department stores.
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DR.. J. NJ. Sigh, city health officer
curing bread dealers to wrap all bread
sold by them, and forbidding them to
charge extra for the wrapping paper
over the bread price fixed by the food
administration
DIR. w. r. CogswelI, secretary of
the state board of health, continues to
receive reports of new cases of influ-
enza and calls for nurses and doctors
from all parts of the state.
State Director Harry w. Turner has
appointed Francis d. Jones of Helena
as special travelling representative of
| the war savings organization in Mon
tana. 1t will be Mr.. Jones' duty to
| travel through the state, extending
his services and the services of the
state office to the county war savings
organizations. Mr.. Jones is now on
trip through eastern Montana.
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State Auditor Poland has asked the
state council of defense to instruct the
,<.:I nf Jafo
him in securing information respecting
all new corporations in the state that
engage in stock selling, so that the
government boards and his office may
deal with them under the government
regulation forbidding stock issues ex-
cept by corporations engaged in in
dustries essential to the winning of the
war.
Jerome Locke, former chief owner
and manager of the Livingston En-
terprise, and formerly surveyor general
for Montana, has been commissioned
captain in the engineering corps of
the army.
A 20O,OO0-acre wheat farm project in
Montana, comprising large area on
the Crow Indian and Fort Peck In
October &c issue of the Country Gen
tleman, published by the Curtis Pub
fishing company, as a companion mag
azine to the Saturday Evening Post.
w. B. Van Akin, general secretary
OF the Y. M. G. A. at Grand Rapids |
Mich, will be the new state secretary
of the Montana Y. M. C. A., according |
to information which has been received |
in Helena. There has been no state |
secretary since the resignation of for |
mer Secretary Charles Puehler, who |
was stationed at Billings but who re-
Signed to go into war work.
A list of the war savings societies |
Of the state complied in the state di-
rector's office shows that Montana has
LBS organized to September 1, which
Is 10 per cent of the states quota.
Fergus county stands at the head of
The list with 397 societies, Cascade is
second with 276, and Missoula third
With 70.
Prejudice of so years standing in
Butte against the use of pennies has
,een overcome by County Food Admin
strator f. w. Haskins, who issued an
rider that the despised copper must
,e given by stores in change. Butte
tores and banks have always refused
o handle pennies in commercial ex-
hange.
A new quarantine hospital for the
verflow patients suffering from Span
sh influenza, which the local hospitals
t Great Falls cannot accommodate, !.
as been opened there. ,
Coal miners are needed at Round :
p, where there is a shortage in the
Oal mines, and Scott Leavitt of Great
'alls, state director of the United .
tates employment service, has been
sked for assistance in securing men.
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Lie MOuIdnd grand lOuge OF the
ons of Hermann, formerly German
'aternal organization, bought $1,000
orth of fourth Liberty loan bonds j
nd has donated $256 to the Red Cross. b
The Great Northern filtering plant q
, Brockton, where water for use Of a
comotives is treated, was totally de- G
royed by fire that threatened a big Il
evator filled with grain. n
Montana's contribution to the fourth 81
berty loan was brought to approx
ately $19,OOOOOO, or 100000 MOI 81
an the quota, by subscription of fl
$4,000 from the Montana Life In m
rance company. 81
Under federal orders, DR.. w. f. st
,gswell, secretary of the state board X
health is to undertake a medical bt
rvey of Montana Immediately, to al
termine what doctors and nurses the be
rious communities need. 10