The Montana courier. [volume] (Shelby, Mont.) 1922-192?, 1922-08-30
MONTANA HAPPENINGS
TOLD IN FEW WORDS
interesting News Items About Mon
tana and What They
Are Doing

The annual convention of the dio
cesar council Of Catholic men will bt
held in Helena on September 3, &C
cording to word received in Butte.
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The Bird annual session of the Mon.
tana Grand chapter of the Eastern
Star, held at Helena, reached adjourn
ment sine die, following election of Of
Ulcers.
Contracts for 10000 lambs ut 9h
cents a pound nave been made by east
ern men. These contracts total around
S6O0,O0O and make the situation of the
sheepmen of the state look very prom
Using.
Newspapers of Hill county will
conduct a voting contest to determine
which young lady of the county shall
represent them at the state fair at
Helena. She will have all her expenses
paid.
Fishermen and hunters who were not
residents of Montana paid S11.179 into
the Golfers of the state last year, ac-
cording to figures compiled in the of
flee of State Game Warden Jackawavs
at Helena.
All incumbent officers were unani-
mously reelected and Lewistown chos-
en- as next years convention city by
delegates to the State Laundrymen's
association, which held it's annual ses-
sion there.
DIR. ii. III. Swain has been appointed
as temporary chancellor of the Mon
tana State university to succeed E. c. |
Elliott who resigned recently to accept
the presidency of Purdue college at
Lafayette, Ind.
The loss sustained by the Rutledge
Lumber company, operating in the
Marble creek country south of Avery,
during the recent fires which swept
over that region. is ~conservatively esti-
mated at $4,000.
Forty-two bushels of wheat to the
acre is the yield this year on the farm
of Peter Benner near Sidney. Crops
in Richland county were never better
than this year and optimism pervades
the entire community.
Improvement of the Monarch Log
ging creek road between Great Falls
and Helena on the Park-to-park high
way has been decided by the state
highway commission The expenditure
of $4,000 has been recommended.
Removal of Great Northern railway
armed guards who are not United ]
States deputy marshals, for the safety j
of member workers, was demanded in l
resolutions passed by the Big Four rail i
brotherhoods in session at Havre. E
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Shortage of farm labor exists in
northeastern, eastern central. and in v
some northern Montana counties ac- f
cording to the weekly crop summary of b
the state department of agriculture at d
Helena, based upon reports of county n
agents and others.
The effort for the creation of a new h
county out of portions of Flathead and II
Missoula counties entered its second s.
stage when committees began the work c
of circulating petitions to secure the n
signers required re get the matter be- OF
fore the people for final action.
Alvin n r airh+nn ppono0or Of tba ~
Buffalo Rapids hydro-electric project, tC
that the company will soon te
be Incorporated. Maps and plans for G.
the irrigation of the land under the &C
have been completed and m
passed on by the federal commission. to
Search for the body of Mrs. NJ. p.
Norman, believed drowned with her ia
son in a storm on Flathead lake. ended ia
when Mrs. Norman and son arrived at is
he home of Frank p. Linderman, after tn
having been buffeted around on the co
axe for some time but finally thrown TO
N the beach at Angle point. du
The Montana State School of Mines
t Butte will open for the 1928 term COZ
N September IL. Judging from appli- of
atoms now being received, the school lev
Till enjoy the largest enrolment it has sci
yer had. A new building is being lev
dded at an expense of S250.00 to an,
ouse the metallurgical and chemistry She
apartments. to
The state board of health issues a re- Z"
ort at Helena stating hat diphtheria aut
prevalent in several Montana coun- leg
es and with the approach of the stu
year usually spreads. They of
'ge that special attention be paid to pee
re throats and that compliance with pile
larantine regulations be observed by tioI
ose afflicted with the disease. thai
The Methodist Episcopal church for A
? north Montana district will hold con: