The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-08-30
| MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

| ing married women in the schools. II
has not been rigidly enforced, as one
married woman has been a principal
there for some years. 1t was explain
ed the aim is to give wives of soldiers
a chance to teach.
Mrs Annie Perkins and her daugh-
ter, Helen, 10 years old, were killed
in Helena by two bolts of lightning
which struck them simultaneously as
| they were crossing the railway tracks
at the Great Northern depot in a hur-
ry. A severe storm was prevailing at
the time.
After wandering more than year
in the hills between Colorado and Wy
| 0ming TO escape the draft Harvey
Bowen, IL conscientious objector, sur
rendered at Fort Yellowstone and Is
now in the hands of the local draft
hoard at Livingston. While Bowen
says he still retains scruples against
fighting. he said he came TO the con
clusiOn that his nomadic life sooner
or later would lead him to crime.
James w. Hyndman, for IL years
chief dispatcher of the Great Northern
at Great Falls, and a pioneer railroad
man in that section. is dead at Sc
attic hospital, where he had been I'M
dergoing treatment for the past three
weeks.
Lester Noble, county attorney of
Lewis and Clark county, writes from
Seattle. whittier he went for his vaca-
ton, that he is spending it pillng
planks in shipyard at $3.50 per day.
Cattle shipments from Montana to
market are to date three times as
heavy as they were last year, official
figures show. Record prices have been
paid.
The big smokestack being built at
the Anaconda smeter is already up
40 feet. The stack, 65 feet in di-
lmeter at the base. is to be more than |
500 feet high. This, it is said, will |
increase the value of land in the Deer |
Lodge valley.
Yellowstone National park will close |
September II this wear. Camps Will |
)e operated up to that time as usual.
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Two daughters. aged two and four,
If Conrad Weitz, of Helena. ate paris
green off a war garden cabbage. The
child is dead and the other
nay not live.
BY an informal vote of the faculty
if the State university at Missoula. it
las been agreed to require military
rill of all male students more than
s years of age.
]. Il. Carroll. clerk of the supreme
curt, has received patent for the
rectiOn of hollow slab cement Struc-
ures. The plan of building them is
new. and it is said the cost of
UGH structures will he more econom- 1
al than that of those built of lum-
er.
The state railroad commission has
,ade an C-der requiring the Great
Torthern to install portable stock
hute with suitable wings for loading |
nd unloading cattle at Dunkirk, and !
lso a portable loading and unloading
feline platform for handling heavy
Machinery.
An exhibit of the state board of
ealth will he shown at the Mon
ina state fair this year according
, arrangements which have already
cen made.
Montana is behind in the sale of a
FAR Savings and Thrift stamps says q
irector Harry w. Turner of Butte. b
will be necessary 10 raise 100000 p
month i'm this state the remainder of n
Ie year to meet its allotment Sta b
sites prepared by Mr.. Turner show p
at July sales amounted to 81 $780, al
'5.T4 Although the state exceeded 81
5 monthly quota during July. it is q
i'll 81, 240. 445.47 behind its pro-rata m
lota. or apportionment for seven N
onths. ID
iii
Charged with injuring his foot to al
old military service and imperson- m
ing a federal officer, John r. Nc it
,nald of Butte is in the county Jail w
ere. awaiting the results of an in m
stigation by the department of an
stice.
cake, bran, shorts and
her ground feed are included in the tn
evious order granting a half rate he
freight shipments of hay, oats and te
ain in Montana drouth regions. ac- ml
-ding to word received from Wash
ston. be
Federal Judge George M. Bourquin ",
5 directed the return to the state OF
ashington of Emil Herman. former
tie secretary Of the Socialist party
Washington. Herman was under
I'd not to leave the state Of Wash. ii,
ton