The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-26
THE STATE

Helena-Local street car fare has
been boosted to eight cents.
Laurel-Local water rates have
been reduced 80 per cent.
Miles City-Sheep shearing will
commence in Custer county about
June 10.
Miles City-Ten boy scouts in Gus
ter county have organized a radio
club.
Miles City-The local lamb crop
is reported as running better than
100 per cent.
Butte-Mrs. Georgia Anderson of
this city took a dose of acetanilid, a
headache medicine, death resulting.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. menace is
causing a general feeling of alarm
among the farmers of the Flathead
valley this spring.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M. Fish, SO,
dropped dead here one day recently
while working in the Catholic ceme-
terry.
Miles City-Cornelius Vanderbilt,
wealthy New Yorker, will arrive here
early in June for motor trip through
Montana.
Butte-Three Butte youths have
confessed that they attempted to
burn the Webster school building and
will be sent to the industrial school.
Miles City-Arrangements are be-
ing made to connect the Cat Creek
country with Miles City by wireless
~telegraphy.
Miles City-The Milwaukee rail-
road will build a 100000 extension
to it's power plant, which furnishes
power for it's railroad shops here.
Miles City-There is only one mar
teaching school in all Custer county.
He is Rollin E. Crane and he is in
charge of the Moon creek school.
Helena-The state board of exam
will market ~$850,000 of Sc
curities for the purpose of financing
state government for the next
seven months.
Great Falls-William Wood, IA,
and Mrs. Celia B.. Nash, 81, were
united in marriage here recently.
The groom's great grandson was a
witness of the ceremony.
Broadus-Ten thousand acres of
and in the vicinity of the Y T ranch,
Epsie & Kingsley, have been leased
20 Sloan & Russell of New York for
oil purposes and it is reported an
other 10000 acres are desired.
Miles City-Plumbers of Miles
City are reported to have made a
voluntary wage cut of 81 per day
master plumbers they
will reduce their charges according
y.
GIasgow-Roy Smart and Frank
g.. Morris, two ranchers in the prime
Of life, who are being treated in a
.ocal hospital for spotted fever, are
said to be recovering. A few days
lgo their lives were despaired of.
Miles City-Work on the refinery
If the Miles City Oil Refinery Co.,
has been under way since last
is progressing. The refinery
will be refining oil by the middle of
July.
Observation-Disclosures assert that
here is an unlimited supply Of ar
esian water lying about 400 feet
,elow the surface here and bingham
own council will drill a we'll in an
Effort to tap this reservoir.
Butte-Archibald l.. Clark, a Butte
who is serving with the Ameri-
an army of occupation at Coblenz,
Germany, is managing editor of a
newspaper which was recently estab-
ished in Coblenz in the interest of
he American soldiers serving abroad. !
Dillon-Bannack Lodge, A. f. &
|. M, which was chartered over half
century ago when Grasshopper
was one of the wonder placer
iggings of the world, has passed out ,
f existence, having been merged
nth the Dillon lodge.
Miles City-According to the testi-
lony of Mrs. William Murphy, her \
ather, B. P. Barker, killed her hus-
and after the men had q%uarreled :
yer a spade which Barker had bor- ,
owed and failed to return. Barker .
vent into his house, secured a shot i
un and shot his son-in-law dead.