The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-02-25
the STATE

Billings-All local restaurants
have cut prices from 10 to 25 per
cent.
Observation-Disclosures De Weber, pio-
neer merchant of Florence, and who
has been resident of the Bitter Root
valley for more than a third of a
century, is dead.
Butte-The first man to be arrest
ed In Montana for failure to file his
income tax statement is NJ. J. Erker
He is single, earned $1,41475 dur
ing the year, and refused to pay the
So compromise offer. so his arrest
followed.
! Great FalIs-The pupils of the
Great Falls high school are publish
ing a weekly school paper.
Windham-The Lehigh coal mines
near here have been closed on ac-
count of the reduction of the work.
Ing force of the Great Northern. Over
500 miners were thrown out of en-
ployment.
| HeIena-Senator T. J. Walsh has
advised the Helena chamber of COM
merce that 100000 will be expended
by the government of Fort Harrison.
which is to be made a rehabilitation
hospital.
Missoula-Residents of Missoula
have raised $4,000 for the purpose
of drilling an oil we'll near French
town.
Red Lodge Mayor Presley G.
Hfcox has resigned for the second
time within month and John T.
Flaherty has been appointed to sue
coed him.
LewistOwn-It is reported that
the Montana Power company will ex-
tend it's transmission lines to Win
nett and into the oil fields.
Billings Purebred Hampshire
hogs sold at an average price of
$3.50 each at a sale held here re-
Gently.
Whitefish-After she had filed
suit for divorce against her husband
Mrs. Acie Mcmillan put a revolver
to her head and blew out her brains.
Malta-C. O. Jarl of Great Falls
was awarded the contract to build
the new Phillips county court house,
the estimated cost of which is $780,
900.
Observation-Disclosures broke into the
Harlem Drug company's store and
helped themselves to all the narcotics
they could find and about 5000 in
cash.
Scobey-The Citizens State Bank
of Scobey recently closed, has been
purchased by Montana men and re-
opened.
Butte-At a recent initiation of a
Butte Masonic lodge, George F. Gel
ser and his six sons, all members of
the same lodge, occupied the chairs
when the seventh son was raised"
Helena--If the new movie censor
ship bill passes it is estimated that
its cost of administration will be
about $4,000 annually, which will
be passed on to the theatrical pa
: irons.
MISUNDERSTANDING into a hole
while out hunting rabbits, Elmer E..
Rink. for many years ticket agent for
the Great Northern railroad in Lew
istown, received compound frac-
ture of the leg. He is at St. Joseph s
hospital.
Billings-Billings is soon to have
aerial livery service. according to the
articles of incorporation filed by
Wilson's Montana Auto and Tractor
school. Aside from the air service
the company will conduct a darage,
and deal in automobile, airplane and
tractor supplies, besides running a
tractor school,
i BrOwning-It is expected that this
year suitable road will be built
across the Blackfeet Indian reserva-
ton to afford an entrance for tour
list travel to Glacier park. Provision
for $4,000 for the purpose is made
in the Indian appropriation bill
which has been approved by the sem
ate. Commercial clubs have been
working for two years to obtain the
highway, claiming that many auto
mobile tourists are kept out of the
locality through poor highways.
Observation-Disclosures of inquiries
about the oil fields in this county
are being received by the Lewistown
chamber of commerce. They are the
result of classified ad run in news
papers in many parts of the country.
Copies of a booklet issued by the
chamber of commerce are being mail
ed to the inquirers.
COnrad-Organization of the Boys
and Girls Calf club under the aus
pieces of the Community club of the
irrigation project, has been complet-
ed, and the club is now in the mar
ket for registered Holstein calves out
of high producing dams.
! Helena-Senator T. J. Walsh has
wired from Washington that $780,
900 has been set aside for improve
ment at Fort Harrison, which is
being turned into rehabilitation
hospital for veterans. Work is now
being done.
Great Falls-The largest seizure
of liquor in the state of Montana I'M
der the federal prohibition law is be-
lieved to be contained in the return
filed in district court by Sheriff Bob
Gordon on the search warrant issued
on the Baatz block. This return
shows that four truckloads of liquor
of all brands and kinds, ranging
from moonshine whisky to the finest
;lnnprted wines and oh NJ ma cno voro