Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-09-07

IT'S S~
John Malta of Little Belt returned
home Saturday from a short business
visit IN Great Falls.
Miss Clara Hammer left Saturday
for Sand Coulee, where she will teach
this coming term.
Andy Sofia is planning on going to
Missoula the latter part of this month,
where he will enter the university.
DIR. and Mrs. w. R. Smith of Mel
hart were brief visitors in Belt last
Thursday, returning from a trip TO
/ Great Falls.
VIM. Bradley is advertising an auc-
ton sale TO be held this coming Sat
urday at his place east of town. He
has leased the ranch to his son and
will move to town this winter.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Donovan, Dun
can MCGOWAN and Ben Shriber were
in Belt Friday returning to their
homes IN Neihart from a trip to the
county seat.
Mrs. William Fluhr was taken TO
Great Falls Monday suffering from an
attack of appendicitis and it was
expected that an operation would be
necessary.
Wm. Van Tassel, who for the past
two years has been making his home
at G~randview and other points in the
state of Washington. has returned to
Belt and is again employed at the
Hamment Bros store.
Robert Morrison of Great Falls and
Charles Ettien of Neihart were in the
city yesterday on their way from Mel
hart to the Falls. Mr.. Morrison resid-
ed in the Silver City for % years prior
TO 1914, when he moved to Great Fails,
and had been up there to renew old
acquaintance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Chamberlain
and Mrs. Maude Chamberlain arrived
in Belt yesterday afternoon by auto
mobile from Seattle, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Chamberlain have made their
home for the past two years, and
where Mrs. Chamberlain has been Wis
iting for several weeks past.
A. c. Young came in last Thursday
from his ranch at Geraldine, and has
his house here He says that nearly
his entire crop was destroyed by hail,
lao acres being hailed out. In June
hail struck his winter grain, doing
considerable damage and the storm Of
few weeks ago finished the crop.
Mrs. Howard Browning has moved
to Belt from Raynesford. and taken
the Probst place opposite the Holt
Lumber company yard, where she
PLANS to conduct a boarding house as
soon as she is sufficiently recovered
injuries received just before leav-
ing Rayneford, falling in a hay NOV
and hurting one of her lower limbs.
Joe Fischer, pitcher for the local ball
team, accompanied the Great Falls
team to Helena the latter part
games were played with Helena
teams, the Great Falls team losing all
three games. Great Falls papers
speak very highly of Fischer's work
in the game he pitched. The support
given him was very poor.
Walter Memke has filed an action
in the justice court Of John A. Hack
shaw against Joe Bazant to recover
a threshing bill alleged to have been
iue since October 20, 1920. Menmke
had threshed one lot of grain for
Bazant and received payment for
same, but on another field a dispute
rose as to the amount and he says
has never been made. He
asks $3.50 as the amount of the bill
md interest.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Browning went
Lewistown last Thursday and Fri
lay MFR. Browning drove home a Ford
.ruck which had been included with a
.ewistown shipment. In the vicinity
# Stanford they were caught in a
-ather severe hail storm, which they
iound anything but pleasant in the
pen truck, and Mr.. Browning carried
slightly d~iscolored eye as the result
f being struck by n Of the large
tones.
About 10 members Of the local
odge of Odd Fellows and about 20
the Sand Coulee lodge went to
seihart Saturday evening and that
light conducted initiatory work for
he Silver City lodge, putting through
tx new members. 1t wac an all-night
ession and well along in the forenoon
shen they reached Belt on the jour
home. They report the revived
at Neihart to again be getting
nto a thriving condition, and are high
n their praie Of the entertainment
hey received.
In the case of John Gliko VS.. John
)zivi, tried in John A. Hackshaw's
ustice court recently, plaintiff was
-iven Judgment for $50 and costs,
s72.50. Plaintiff alleged
efendant had cut down trees upon his
md, and sought to recover their value.
)zivi contended that the trees were
ut from government land, he having
permit from the forestry department
} do so. Leo &. Graybill represented
he plaintiff and John A. Thelan Of
Falls, the defendant. The
,urt gave judgment for 100 trees at
value of so cents each. VI
Leo c.. Graybill was in Great Falls :
esterday, where he petftioned the
ourt on the behalf Of Milllie X. :
uura, guardian Of the minor children
{ herself and the late Matt Tuura, T
, be allowed to deed to the county
ne children's interest in land desired
Y the. county for highway right-of-
ay. The petition represented that
he owners Of the land we're favor
Die to the deciding Of the riRht-of I