The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-05
INTERESTING NEWS
NOTES OF MONTANA
Short News Paragraphs Covering Ac-
tivities Of Montanans for
Busy Readers

Busy Readers
The Park County Potato Growers as
sosciation was recently organized at
Livingston.
State Senator Charles S. Hefferlin,
Livingston banker, died at Livingston
after a lingering illness.
According to Major J. e. Edwards
of Forsyth, crop prospects in Rosebud
county are the best In many years.
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Owing to Ill health, Fred F. Wilson,
city commissioner at Bozeman, resign
ed at a recent meeting of the board.
Tourists through Billings can cook
by gas as well as travel by it hereafter.
Mains are being extended to the center
Of Tourist park.
Frances De Camp, Is, of Helena, was
drowned in the Woolston reservoir on
Mt. Helena while camping there with
a party of picnickers.
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Colonel Charles S. Sheridan, state
| adjutant general, has just completed
inspection Of the six companies which
comprise the 163rd infantry, M. N. G.
A. II. Bowman, of the War-Bow fruit
farm at Hardin has 10 acres in straw
berries this season and expects to pick
and market $4,000 to $4,000 quarts of
fruit.
w. r. Van Orden of Butte was elect
ed commander Of the United Spanish
War Veterans Of Montana at the SEES |
sion of the annual state encampment
at Missoula.
Under the auspices of the safety
departments of the mining companies,
the fifth annual miners safety-first
field day will be held this year at
Columbia Gardens at Butte on July "a.
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The Retail Merchants association of
Montana in session at Boulder adopt
ed resolutions pladging its membership
to further the distribution of Montana
products in preference to outside prod
uctS.
Rev. Frank B. Lewis of Bozeman was
grand commander of the Mon
tana knights Templar at the conclusion {
Of the 1922 conclave at Missoula. The
.conclave win be held in Dillon next
year. y
Miss Elizabeth Giesick of Billings
awarded the two lots given away r
BY a Billings realty firm as an adver- b
feature of the suburban homes
addition sales campaign. The two lots
ire valued at $500. C
Sheriff Wood of Lewistown brought G
,ack from KalispeIl William Grant, al h
eyed to have taken a truck from the s.
III fields near Winnett and brought it fl
Kalispell. The prisoner says he
the truck.
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Using the Poly drive near Billings as B
motorcycle speedway landed George hi
Of Laurel in a hospital, some b.
that bruised and shaken up, and left IL
damaged cars and a smashed mo- OF
along the highway.
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The development Of the packing In a
ustry in Butte has redoubled greatly Fl
!, the advantage of Beaverhead county ne
.Ockmen and to the s-tOckgrowers of ge
estern Montana generally, according tW
State Senator Frank Hazelbaker OF fir
illon.
Following an address given at Miles Pill
lily recently by NJ. S. Carpenter of Of
~issoula, secretary of the Montana we
Sportsmens' association, the Gus we
r Rod and Gun club was organized Lo
Ith the election Of officers and adop- WI
IN of a constitution and bylaws. ma
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James H.. Duke, an employee OF the
rest service, was killed when a bullet val
IN a rifle with which he was firing lar
rats in a forest service warehouse in loo
e upper Blackfoot forest near Mis- mo
ula struck q box Of d%etonator caps. fan
le caps exploded, terribly mangling fix
body.
Great Falls was chosen as the place OF
holding next years annual tourna- tra'
mt and w. r. Wilcoxsen, a Great ten
lis resident, was elected president of tior
Montana State Sportsmen's associ- Sto
at the closing session of that or bies
t~wenty-ninth annual meet of
at Butte.
fever has claimed its second by
in Deer Lodge. Bonner Whit Hel
-th, 16 years Of age, succumbed to In
disease after a brief Illness. He Hos
been on a trip with the Boy Scouts anct
it is supposed he was bitten by 4 resi-
at that time. i've
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