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THE STATE

POplar-Influenza Is killing stool
In this neighborhood.
Cut Bank-The Galbreath herd o
cattle will be shipped to Texas TO
winter pasture.
Poplar-Frank Mitchell has beel
reelected principal of the Popla-
schools.
Shelby-Teton county has voted
bonds for $15O,000 with which u
purchase seed and finance farmers.
Harlowton-Wheatland ounty hat
voted bonds for 100000 with which
to purchase seed wheat.
Moccasin-Miss Eva Beckman has
been made assistant cashier of the
Moccasin. state bank.
Helena Governor Stewart has
designated February 1922 as fa-
ther-and-son week.
Butte-Charles Tracy, for eight
years secretary of the Silver Bow
democratic committee, has resigned.
Belt-A coal land boom is on in
this section, with land carrying coal
rights selling at fancy figures.
Butte-Butte will spend $4,000 on
an advertising campaign to attract
automobile tourists.
Miles City-The bonded indebted
ness of Custer county, which six
years ago was about 100000, has
been reduced by half.
MissOula-Logging is going strong
in western Montana. More than T.
100000 feet of lumber were handled
by western mills in December.
Livingston-Two hundred one and
two-year-o1d elk were shipped from
here recently to Banff, Alberta, to be
placed in the Canadian game reserve.
Helena-E. M. Allen of Havre has
been appointed deputy humane Off
Ger to succeed l.. K. Devlin, who re-
signed to become federal prohibition
agent for Montana.
Miles City-A bond issue, calling
for $3.50, 200 will be submitted to the
electors of Custer county. The money
will be used for the construction of
a county high school.
Dillon-Stock growers of Beaver
head county have spent nearly ST.
100000 for oil cake and corn to feed
immense outlay will make a profit,
according to George r. Metlen.
Livingston-Charle Millard, pion-
,er placer miner, who sought gold in
many of the states placer camps, is
lead. He mined in the Butte placers
when there was but one store in the
,lace.
Heleha-The state weekly health
'eport is as follows: tuberculosis, |
even; typhoid, four; smallpox, 80;
liptheria, six; scarlet fever, two;
measles, 20; chickenpox, 16; mumps, |
hree; influenza, one.
MissOula-Even the cost of div
rce is rising. At a recent meeting |
# the Montana Bar association the |
minimum fee of lawyers in divorce |
,ctions was raised from $50 to SIS,
which comes under the head of the |
Ugh cost of loving unwisely.
Great Falls-The Montana Co-Op-I
rators congress will meet in Great |
'alls February 1926. Among the
peakers are Governor Stewart, Lieu
Mcdowell, Glen |
'1umb, Attorney General Ford, Pre-
ident Atkinson of the agricultural
ollege and many others.
Livingston-Walter M. Crest, a
ark county soldier reported killed
i France, and for whom memorial
rec was planted on the village green,
sounded his friends the other day
y returning to his native heath. He
iewed his growing memorial with
le interest of one awakened from
lie dead.s
Boulder-Twenty years ago, when
. w. Cason was on his way to the
to serve 20-year term
)r having killed a man in a fight
yer the possession of a mining claim
e was the victim of a railroad acci- !
ent, which resulted in the loss of his I
ght foot. He has brought suit /
gainst the Northern Pacific for S40.-
90, and has won his first point, the j
,urt holding that the statute of limi- !
Ltions did not apply in his case.