The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

next winter. There is no other course
In view.
Cash prices paid at two auction sales
held in central Montana recently In
dictate a renewal of intrest in livestock,
according to reports.
The forest service is offering for
sale 100000 feet Of timber on Wall
creek on the Pend d'Orielle national
forest, north of Bonner's Ferry.
Delegates from all parts of the
United States attended the sessions Of
the grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Good Templars held at Butte.
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Valuations in Chouteau county for
1922 show a decline of over 20 per
cent as compared with those of last
year, according to assessment lists just
completed.
Suit asking judgment for $43,169.70
from the Montana Pipe Line company
has been filed In the district court at
Lewistown by the AFRO Oil and Rein
ing company of this city.
With Governor Joseph M. Dixon and
Chester G. Davis, state commissioners
of agriculture, as principal speakers,
the annual Judith Basin farmers pic
mic was held at Moccasin.
George A. Judson, well known Great
Falls attorney, has filed with the coun
ty clerk and recorder for the Demo
cratic nomination for member Of the
state senate from Cascade county.
The office of the home demonstra-
ton agent Of Cascade county will be
dispensed with text year as a measure
of economy to the taxpayers, according
to the board Of county commissioners.
Sheriff Bob Gordon has filed with
the clerk of the district court at Great
Falls a record Of certification OF the
sale of the Montana Cord Tire COM
pany property located at that place.
Butte's biggest industrial holiday ex-
ceeded expectations when more than
10000 miners and members of their
families gathered at Columbia Gardens
to witness the annual miners field day
program.
,twenty-seven teachers have been
found pisces this summer by the
university bureau at Missoula of which
Walter R. Ames, assistant professor
of education and psychology, is in
charge. 4
Livingston Rotarians are to see gold
mined at Jardine camp. The club has
planned to picnic at Jardine, which is
near Gardiner, and the visit to the
gold camp will be one of the features
of entertainment.
Construction work on the new aerial
cable plant to be installed at Havre by
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company has been begun
The plant will involve an expenditure
of approximately $4,000.
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What is believed to be the first
instance of it's kind in the state is the
announcement made at Miles City by
Mrs. Minnie Serruys that she will be a
candidate in the Democratic primaries
for nomination to the office of justice
of the peace.
That part of the states highway
within the Crow Indian reser-
vation will be constructed entirely at
expense, by terms of an agree
ment reached between the department
of the interior and the Montana high
way commission.
An agreement by which the federal
employment service and the state di-
vision of labor will work together to
supply the $500 additional men who
will be needed to harvest Montana's
30 5000, OOO-bushel wheat crop was en-
into at Helena.
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Not to be outdone in any manner by
the rest of Montana, the people of the
Root valley turned out and gave
he members of the National Editorial
association, following its convention In
Missoula, such a rousing welcome and
entertainment that all vowed they
,ould not soon forget.
The Montana Wheat Growers asso-
at Lewistown expects to handle
lbout 100000 bushels of grain this
all. The membership has grown rap
dly in the past few weeks. More than !
200 contracts were signed this spring
While new names are being added to
he list at the rate of 100 farmers a
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Announcement has been made at :
treat Falls by President Sam Ste l
henson, of the First National bank, s