The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
THE STATE

POplar-Influenza is killing stool
in this neighborhood.
. Cut Bank-The Galbreath herd o
cattle will be shipped to Texas 70.
winter pasture.
Poplar-Frank Mitchell has beer
reelected principal of the Poplar
schools.
Shelby-Teton county has voted
bonds for $150,O0O with which &c
purchase seed and finance farmers.
Observation-Disclosures ounty has
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 ia
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.
MISUNDERSTANDING is going strong
in western Montana. More than T.
100000 feet of lumber were handled
by western mills in December.
LivingstOn-Two hundred n and
two-year-old 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.. X. Devlin, who re-
agent for Montana.
Miles City-A bond issue, calling
for $25O,000 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 SILL
00O $1,000 for oil cake and corn to feed
stock this winter, and in spite of this
immense outlay will make a profit,
according to George R. Metlen.
Livingston-Charles Willard, pion-
Ger 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
place.
Helena-The state weekly health
report is as follows: tuberculosis,
seven; typhoid, four; smallpox, 80;
1iptheria, six; scarlet fever, two;
measles, 20; ~chickenpox, 16; mumps,
,hree; influenza, one.
MissouIa=Even the cost of div
,rce is rising. At a recent meeting
If the Montana Bar association the
fee of lawyers in divorce
was raised from $50 to SIS,
which m under the head of the
high cost of loving unwisely.
Great FaIls-The Montana Coop
congress will meet in Great
Falls February 1926. Among the
peakers are Governor Stewart, Lieu
enant-Governor Mcdowell, Glen
Plumb, Attorney General Ford, Pre-
ident Atkinson of the agricultural
ollege and many others. ]
Livingston-Walter M. Crest, a
lark county soldier reported killed
n France, and for whom a memorial f
rec was planted on the village green, I
sounded his friends the other day i
y returning to his native heath. He
iewed his growing memorial with /
ne interest of one awakened from Y
ne dead. 2
Boulder-Twenty years ago, when
!. w. Cason was on his way to the (
e%nitentiary to serve a 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 acct f
emit, which resulted in the loss Of his C
.ght foot. He has brought suit s
the Northern Pacific for $40 i
90, and has won his first point, the T
)urt holding that the statute of limi- |,
ltions did not apply in his case. t
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