The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-12-19

employment OF MISS Edith kaSSlng o.
Philadelphia as superintendent Of the
school. 1t is expected the school will
be opened In the buildings now on the
ranch In February and that work will
start on new buildings In March
Young women now detained at the
Industrial school ut Miles City will be
transferred to the new school.
A $4,000 brick edifice for the Cakes
street congregation of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Helena will re-
place the frame structure which WIS
destroyed recently by fire, it Is an
nounced by the Rev. A. Z. Piumner,
the pastor, as the result of plans made.
Construction work is to start in Tire
spring. The basement of the old church
will be rooted over for services.
Special licenses have been levied
against vaudeville shows, public dances
and soft drink parlors by the Living
ston city council. The new taxation
is part of an effort to overcome the
loss of saloon license money and the
Iessening of city funds through the
new assessment law.
Some of the old shacks of Butte
that are both an eyesore and fire
menace are to be torn down by the
city authorities for firewood for needy
families, according to plans by the
fire chief and city fuel administrator.
Helena is also following this course.
Martin Eagan has brought an action
at Lewistown against Arthur Miller TO
recover some $4,000, the value of a
bunch of horses that he alleged the
defendant contracted to pasture and
care for through the winter. The
plaintiff alleges that the horses all
starved to death.
The city of Havre has no alien en-
ployes on its payroll and Ii does not
intend to have any, according to infor-
nation received by the state Industrial
accident board from the officials of the
Hill county city. u
One thousand nine hundred pounds
Of brown sugar 400 pounds of corn
meal. prunes and raisins, five rifles
and shotguns, all of which were seized
In recent raids on Illicit liquor stills,
will be sold at public auction within
30 days, according to F. L. Mann, dep
nty collector of internal revenue. The
materials were seized in Butte.
An organization of Billings business
men which has taken over mine No. 4
1T Bearcreek from Yegen Bros. and is
mining coal for use at Billings, volun-
-eers being employed, has applied to
he state industrial accident board for
insurance under the
state plan.
Following the withdrawal Of the OPP |
,ratives of the Burns Detective agency |
rom the Union Bank & Trust company |
case at Helena, George Blod-1
,ett and James Ford, implicated by |
5harles Stevens, the bank messenger, |
Who is said to have confessed that |
he theft of the $4,000 registered pack |
Ige was fake holdup, and who have |
,een charged with larceny, have been |
eleased from custody on their own
ecoe zance. Information collected |
" the detectives has been turned over
o the county authorities, who report |
10 further developments in the case.
stevens is still in jail.
O o
Waugh @. Bennett of Roundup was
ound guilty of arson and sentenced
0 one to three years in the state peni-
entiary. Thee%,ry was out 10 hours
efore being able TO arrive at a YER
let. Bennett was charged with set
Ing fire to q small building occupied
v him as a meat market after insur-
~ the contents for considerable
um. The building was not owned by
i'm.
Title to lieu land comprising TAIL Z
/ /,
ores, mostly of an agricultural char
cter, has been received by the state
-on the federal government. The
md was selected two years ago by
fficials of the state land office. APP +,
IicatiUns to purchase some of it have
cen received, but until now it has II
zen impossible to sell, as the title /
{ the state land had not been per- /
,cted. Ii
Football this season cost the Uni /
srsity of Montana about $500, ac- /
,rd1ig to a meeting of the executive {
of the A. s. y. M. The ex- {
snses for the season were 5000, I
lille the receipts were $1,000. Wash
pton State received ST 900 for play
. Missoula Thanksgiving, and bad v
Gather played large part in keep c
eet1own attendance. c
Horace S. Ensign. secretary OF the
ontana State fair, has been reflect
member Of the board Of directors
the International Association OF e
hrs and Expositions, according to a G
[egram received at the State fair of a
e from Mr.. Ensign at Chicago, where e
3 annual meeting Of the association d
Is held. This Will be his second term Il
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