The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-02-01

sary, the Anaconda Copper Mining
company has installed a new shift
schedule at its Butte mines. The new
arrangement provides for the morning
] Shift going to work in three groups, at
Z, s and 8 O'Clock, and the night shift
going on at 5, 6 and Z o'clock.
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Montana now has SO nurses in active
| Red Cross service, and the names of
seven registered nurses who are ready
to go to the front have been sent in
to headquarters by Miss Margaret
Hughes of Helena, head of the Red
Cross nursing service in Montana.
Large shipments of Montana coal
are being made to North and South
Dakota, railway congestion having
stopped the usual supply from the east.
The new county Jail at Butte has
been occupied One hundred and
twenty-five prisoners were successful
ly transferred from the old structure
to the new modern one.
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by the state board of health to give |
the Pasteur treatment for rabies at |
it's laboratory in Helena.
According to word received from |
Secretary Lane of the interior depart |
ment, the railroads will take care Of |
traffic to Yellowstone National park |
next ypur tba S.,ma ucItaI
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Ice dealers of Great Falls are facing |
possible failure because the weather
so far this year has not been cold
enough to give them an ice harvest.
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What is claimed to be the largest
mountain lion ever killed in Montana
was brought down by Mark Wellman
and Bert Siebert of Augusta. The
from tip to tip.
Alleging that an editorial in the Hell
ena Independent regarding the Violet
Buddle case against officials of the
state industrial school, was libelous
and injured his professional character,
Attorney Davis II. Whittenberg has
filed suit against the Independent for
damages to the amount of $4,000.
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The exemption board of District No.
/ has resumed sittings at Helena.
The Hotter plant of the Montana
Power company will be ready to de-
liver 10000 kilowatts of power to con-
within the next few weeks,
but because of the war the market
that the company had in view when
was ordered-the supply
ing of railroads with electric power
has failed TO materialize and the COM $
pany has on its hands an investment I
Of $4,000,000 which will bring in no !
revenue until new market is Gre 7
ated. +
When an Indians questionairre $
merely states that he is an Indian. he
should be placed in class la, Provost h
Marshal General Crowder has advised /
he exemption board of District No 1. f
The Indians have the same privilege f
If appeal from the classification as r
,tler registrants. 6
Dynamite in the firewOod caused
IN explosion of the stove in Il Walker {
lille dance hall which severely injured
our men. Later the county authori- r
les arrested Victor Frank and John
iriss on suspicion. The pair is al
eyed TO have been making unpatriotic
Montana relatives of soldiers are y
sked not to send food to the camps, Il
n communication by the council of v
efense. The health of the army is ;,
njured BY food heated and spoiled h
q passage, it is said, and the waste {,
) appalling. a
While the east remains paralyzed "
through lack of coal. number of q,
Iontana coal mines will be forced to a
nut down soon unless the weather :,
hangeS from warm to cold, because
heir product is drug on the market. n
his is the information received by
tate Fuel Administrator Swindlehurst
/ telegram from the Bear Greek
oal company.
The first shipment of blank forms
)r individual income tax returns has
cen received in Helena at the office ST
{ w. C. Whaley, collector of inter- tn
al revenue for the Montana district IL
he blanks are for net incomes of not CO
ore than $4,000. and do not include tn
lose for corporations. The forms re
II incomes running higher than 49, sh
10 WILL it is expected, be sent from w
'ashington, ID. c., later.
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Automobile license plates will be
lady for distribution February 10, <,
hen all car owners must have applied
II licenses. according TO word from
e secretary of state at Helena. Any
II owner not possessing Il license
ate after February 10 will be liable a.
arrest. wo
The Missoula chamber of commerce ~