The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-06-02

construction at Billings.
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More than 100 delegates attended the
Knights of Columbus held at Living
ston.
A power permit has been granted the
Buffalo Hydro Electric company for q
project on the Yellowstone river about
seven miles east Of Miles City.
George w. Hustled, pioneer Living
ston druggist, and one of the most
widely known residents of eastern
Montana, died at his home in Living
ston.
Otto Reader, arrested at White Sui
phur Springs on a grand larceny
charge, was sentenced to not less than
one, nor more than two years in the
penitentiary at Deer Lodge.
G. o. Johnson Of Ringing, was ar
rested on a charge Of selling intoxi-
eating liquors. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to serve As days in the
county jail and fined $3.50.
The general committees of the Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs were in session
at Lewistown recently making arrange
ments for entertaining members of the
grand Lodge to meet there in October.
Funeral services for Frank B. Rey-
nolds, late associate justice of the state
supreme court, were held at Billings.
Many men, prominent in Montana's
political and judicial circles, attended.
George w. Farr of Miles City has
been appointed by Governor Dixon to
be associate justice Of the supreme
court, filling the vacancy caused by
the death of Frank B. Reynolds. The
term is for the remainder of 1922.
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The municipality of Hardin and the
Pine Ridge Oil company, to which the
city recently voted a franchise to con-
duct a natural gas utility in Hardin,
have applied to the public utilities COM
mission for a schedule of rates to gov
ern this gas service.
The bankers of Big Horn, Carbon,
Gallatin, Park, Rosebud, Saltwater,
Sw~eetgrass, Treasure and Yellowstone
counties will meet in the eleventh an
nual session of group seven of the
Montana Bankers association, Tues
day, May 80 at Hunters Hot Springs.
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The state board of equalization has
elected Nils P. Haugen of Madison,
Wis, advisor to the board. Mr.. Haul
gen, who for many years was chairman
of the Wisconsin tax commission, was
advisor to Montana a short time in
1921, but had to return to Madison be-
cause of his health.
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Ralph Ness, 81, shell shocked ex-
service man who disappeared recently
by leaping from a train near 1smay,
Montana, while en- route to Helena to
enter the government hospital, was
found by a searching party on the
ranch of Burt Jones, IL miles north of
Ismay. Ness is reported to have been
in a dazed and weakened condition.
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The plan to have the Gate-of-the-
on the Missouri river north
of Helena designated by the federal
government as a national monument
in the same manner that national
parks are created has the support OF
the forestry department at Washing
ton. D. c., according to a communica-
ton received by the secretary of the
commercial club.
The University of Montana at Mis-
soula has been designated by the fed
eral government as one of eight schools
the United States to lave a summer
this year for the teachers in fed
aral Indian service. This summer
school will be held for the benefit of
Ill. teachers in the Indian service of
he Rocky mountain district, which in
dudes the states of Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming and Utah.
At a conference of fair managers
held in Billings, the Observation-Disclosures
Tair circuit was organized with nine
ace meets and purses averaging from
g. 800 to $4,000. The fairs which will
,e included are at Fargo, N. D.; Grand
Forks, N. D.; Minot, N. D.; Mandan,
D.: Aberdeen, S. D.; LENNON, 5.
D.: Billings. Helena and Lewistown,
md will run from the middle of July
Until early October.
Delegates from a number of counties,
n session at Helena, have reached a
on a measure to amend the
tate primary law which will be sub
nitted to the voters this fall. Judge
NJ. Johnson of Billings will write
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