The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-02-11
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0"''e-lhe state Federation of
Women's clubs will meet here in
convention May 26 to May 20.
Missoula-A soap powder company
will establish manufacturing plant
here.
Buttc-Members of the Order of
Railway Station Agents will hold
meeting on February 20.
LeWistOWn-GeOrge B. Swan of
Raynesford is the new commissioner
OF judith Basin county to succeed
Walter Fish, resigned.
Great Falls-The Great Falls Min
tsterial association has gone on rec
ord as opposed to the propaganda in
aid OF the Irish republic"
BOzcman-Mrs. Fred Axtell was
elected president of the Pioneers So
ciety OF Gallatin county at the an
nual business meeting here.
Missoula-State Horticultural j.
g. Wood in his annual report, asks
the legislature for an appropriation
OF 100000 for the state board Of nor
ticulture.
Ashmoor-The barn on the ]. A.
Reed ranch, near Genou, was Destroy
ed last week, together with the ma
chinery and grain which were stored
in 1t. The house was saved.
Lewistown-Mrs. Charles Wilson,
shot by her husband about six weeks
ago, died few days ago in a local
hospital. Wilson has been formally
charged with murder.
Square Butte-Kate Foley, former
p0stmistress at this point, adjudged
guilty of embezzlement of postal
funds. has been taken to Colorado to
serve her term of Is months.
Great Falls-Sheriff Bob Gordon
is waging an effective war against
bootleggers, and 1t is predicted that
within very short time Great Falls
and Cascade county will be as dry as
a desert.
congressman, will be the orator of
the day when the state university OBJ
serves its twenty-fifth anniversary,
to be celebrated at Missoula on Feb
rary IS.
Billings-Glen Nettles, the Billings
youth who recently held up and rob
bed Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wilson and
Mr.. and Mrs. William Alley, has con-
fessed to long list of robberies and
burglaries committed in this city.
ewistown-The Methodist church
has purchased a motion picture outfit
and In short time will add the mo
vies" to the attractions there espe-
cially for the children and young peo-
pie.
Fairficld-Hans Lauvstad, former.
ly resident of this community, has
written to friends here that he will,
remain in Norway as labor condi
lions are much better there than ir
the United States.
Billings-Archie Harris, 80, veter
an of the Mouse Argonne and othel
major engagements during the world
war, was almost instantly killed
when he fell from a freight train OF
which he was riding and was ru,
over.
Butte-More than 100000 a yea
will be paid by bachelors of Silve
Bow county toward the support o
the widows pension fund If the bill
imposing poll tax of Sc on ever
unmarried man is passed by the leg
islature.
Great Falls - The payment o
$4,000 insurance on the pool hal
which belonged to Steve Lekich II
Belt is in question, following tn
death of Emil Adolphson, former de
putty sheriff, who was the states onl,
witness against Lekich.
Havrc-Arrangements for the en-
tertainment of 800 persons are bein,
made by the local committee o
Woodmen in charge Of the program
tor the convention here in May o
the Modern Woodmen from all camp
in Montana.
Libby - Bob Baker has receive
word that his film. Capturing an
Photographing Wild Animals in tn
Rocky Mountains" has been barre
by the English board of motion pic
ture cens0rs on the ground that
might teach English children to b
unkind to animals.
Eureka-A reduction in the rate
for electric power for lighting vii
be made by the p. L. Howe Lumbe
mills here. The concern has filed
schedule of lower rates with. tn
state public utilities commission an
as soon as these rates are approve
they will 60 into effect. The ne,
rates apply to meter charges only
Observation-Disclosures that he wa
discharged by the Northern Pacifi
as baggage master and clerk at tn
Bozeman depot on April Z. 1918
without proper cause and in viola
} ton of the rules provided for in tn
; agreement between the railroad an
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Charles Van Tassel has begun sui
; here for $1,000 alleged damages.