The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-05-10

! News Of Montana
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i Brief Notes Concerning the
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Reports from various peies OF tie
state indicate that the lanbing aver
ages have been high in Montana this
year. G. f. Martin. district manager
for Crfmnlis & Pierce. wool buyers
Of Boston. is authority for the state
mant that the lamb crop in Montana
las been approximately 100 per cent
this season.
Strife Fuel Administrator w. ]. Swim
dlehurst has announced that the ma
tion;l fuel administration has raised
the price Of coal III the mines in Mon
tana 20 cents. This is the figure pre-
fa.iing before MQrch IT, when d re-
due.ien Was made in the hope of iilduc-
.ng the people TO store coal.
Action on the applications of the va
rioBs counties for federal road aid is
being held up because of the scarcity
If dfaftsmen and surveyors. The
state highway commission is expert
.encing considerable difficulty in pro-
curing the. services of a sufficient NUM-
Der Of men to carry on the work. Two
parties Of surveyors are now in the
field and others will be sent out as
fast as they can be assembled.
Probably the smallest newspaper
ever issued in Montana is the 0pti
mist. Il weekly newspaper which has
Just. made It's appearanee at Outlook, a
town on the 500 Line northwest of
Plentvwood The Optimist, while it
consists Of eight pages, is but three
columns in width
Attorney General S. G. Ford has or
ierea the arrest Of 20 leading citizens
Of Miles City, charged with kidnapping
m organizer for the Nonpartison
league. The organizer was scheduled
TO hold meeting at Miles City April
| I, but was forcibly escorted to a train.
The citizens involved deny the kidnap-
ing charge.
The naval recruiting station at Boze-
man is to be closed soon and moved
to Glendiye This arrangement is be-
llieved to be best for the reason that
there is no recruiting station in the
extreme eastern part of The state.
Notices have been posted in the East
Helena smelter Of the American SEnelt-
ing & Refining company announcing
i voluntary increase of p cents day
In wages to ill but the salarted EN-
Iployes.
| John Whiteside. only son of State
Senator and Mrs. Fred WhiteSide. died
t his home in Kalispell of pneumonia
lie. was first stricken Mt laramie.
! }yyo.. and started for home. arriving
April IA. lie was - years OF age.
/ A new agreement has been entered
/ INTO between the Clerks union and the
Merchants association of Great Falls.
! fixing eight O'Clock as the opening time
Of all stores the year round. Hereto
fore stores have opened at Z 80 o'clock
from May 1 to October 1.
/ g. L. Lansing, a Farmer of Ovando,
Powell county, will answer to q charge
Of sedition preferred by lis own sons.
Lansing is alleged to have made sedl-
.tious utterances against the govern.
ment
BOYS at the st. Joseph's Orphans
home in Helena have been presented
With full set of band instruments
by the Knights of Columbus and other
/ Helena residents. A committee OF
Knights of Columbus is. planning to
buy uniforms for the band.
Montana has passed the half million
dollar mark for this month in the sale
re thrift stamps, according to Assis.
tant Postmaster C. B. Anderson Of
/ Helena. to whom the reports for the
state are made by the comfy chair
men,. The state is, however, far be-
hind its quota, which is 100000 fol-
the year.
! Chairman A. E. spriggs of the stat,
/ Industrial accident board has writer
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, ask
ing that his bin for the establishment
Of orthopedfe hospitals, with aukiliar,
workshops for the cure of crippled
/ soldiers and sailors, be broadened 5,
4 as to admit as patients all person.
/ needing such treatment. however in
i jured whether in war or industry or b,
personal accident.