The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-18
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

| Lit percentage VI hOlldLd Icti VI ls
sent to army training camps from Feb
ruary / to September 8, to be reject
ed, has been appreciably reduced since
the previous report, according to in
formation received by draft officials of
the state. Montana's percentage of
reflections stands at IL per cent, while
that of the nation las a whole is 7.6
per cent.
Associate Justice Sydney Sanner of
the Montana supreme court, and Ste
phen j. COwley, chairman Of the dis
trict exemption board at Great Falls,
have received notice of their appoint
ment as judge advocates of the army,
with the rank of major.
The Butte Ministerial association
composed of all the Protestant minis
| tiers in the city, has wired President
Wilson urging against peace at this
time.
The state utility commission has
been advised by Postmaster General A.
s. Burleson that telephone and tele-
graph companies shall not discrimin-
ate between union and non-union
men. "All persons shall be employed
solely because of fitness" he holds,
'and must not be employed, discharg-
ed, favored or Disseminated against
because they do or do not belong to
any particular organization"
Upon the grounds that the embargo
on lumber from northwestern inter-
mountain numbering districts is dis
elimination in favor of coast and
southern lumbermen, J. NJ. Kennedy of
Libby, representing the Lumber Manu-
facturers' association of Montana, has
wired a protest to the war industries
board at Washington and also to SEN
ator HI. L. Myers and Senator T. J.
Walsh.
To prohibit dances and other enter
tainments, ostensibly given for war
charities and activities, but really for
the profit of the givers, the state coun-
ell of defense has issued an order re-
quiring that no such entertainment |
shall be announced as for the benefit |
of war charities or activities unless |
permit is first secured from the coun-
ty council of defense.
In response to a query from Game |
Warden ]. l.. DeHart, the federal bu-
reau of biological survey has advised |
i'm, hot
duck hunters to reach blinds, but they
cannot be used to start ducks flying,
nor can ducks be shot from row boats
that are being towed by power boats.
Prince Axel, first cousin of King
Christian of Denmark, was in Butte
last week en- route to Anaconda to
inspect the smelter as the head of the
imperial Danish mission which is tour
ing the United States.
The first ferro-manganese turned
out of the new B. & NJ. plant at
Great Falls has been shipped. The fur
mace, the first placed in operation, ran
IL tons in the first "a hours. Four
".
Virgins states that
hey will probably be completed by
November l.
Montana is in better shape from an
agricultural standpoint than they had
)een led to except, according to R. A. |
Oakley, chairman of the committee on
iced stocks, and r. L. Weston, an al
alta specialist of the department of
agriculture, who are in Great Falls
hecking up the work done in the dis.
ribution of seed stocks, and are salts.
led with what was accomplished in
Iontana.
The Cascade county council of de-
ense has favorably recommended the
pplication of the contractors for three I
arloads of cement needed for the
of the new high school at l
cascade, which will cost $4,000. This 1
vas the first case before the board on 5
ne new priorities order of the non. U
var construction division of the war
Industries board U
Contractors on the bridge being
rected across the Musselshell river al v
[osby jointly by Fergus and Dawson
Dunties, say it is nearing completion
ut will not be opened to traffic for
few weeks because of large amount IL
filling to be done on the approaches g
he bridge will be a great boon tc 3
,ttlers in the interior of Dawson q
,unty and will afford them a shorter u
I'D more direct means of communica.
on with the railroad than they have
Id heretofore. q
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David Sutherland, ranch hand, was II
Iffocated in his bed in the Western
tel at Missoula. He had been dead vi
+ several hours when a companion OF
led to awaken him and found the Ell
ON filled with smoke Sutherland. ii TO
pears, had taken a lighted pipe tc pr
d with him and the mattress had DC
en- set on fire. nc
B. r. Swicher, national draft in.
ector, was in Helena last week going
er the records in the office of Adju. be
ut General Phil Greenan. to-
en-
Herbert Miles, nephew Of General co