The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-26

Under the land classification act,
now in effect throughout the state,
Treasure county's assessed valuation
is reduced S1,27S,441.
One hundred and thirty boys have
arrived in Havre to attend the second
annual farm boys camp at Fort AS
s~inoiboine, where work has begun.
Seven applicants appeared at Miles
City and submitted to a civil service
examination for the postmasterships
of Ismay and Baker.
Good Templars from all parts of the
United States gathered in Butte to
open the first national fraternal con-
vention of any consequence Yer held
in Butte.
Of 81 applicants for admission to
the bar, nine passed the examination
given at Helena, according to an
nouncement by the state board Of law
examiners.
A plague of grasshoppers, the first
ever recorded, has apparently made its
appearance on the east bench lands
lying close to Dillon and on the lower
reaches of the divide.
j. r. Denton of Laurel pleaded guilty
to a charge of making intoxicants and
possessing property used In their man
ufacture. He was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to 60 days in the county Jail.
Mrs. Edith I. Hobart of Cincinnati,
Ohio, national president of the wOmen's
auxiliary of the American Legion, ar
rived in Helena enrOute to the conven-
ton of the legion of Montana at Kalis-
pell.
A forest fire, starting from a bon
fire at the outskirts of the city limits
of Missoula burned over the side of a
mountain. 1t covered so acres, but
was checked before valuable timber
was reached.
Contract for construction OF approx
mately six and one-half miles of
graveled road Immediately west OF
Shelby was let to Toole county, the
lowest bidder, by the state highway
commission, for $42,00S.
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Tn the contest which was held in the
rural schools Of Custer county this
spring in which the contestants, pupils
of the various schools, entered stories
of the early pioneers. Marjorie Mont
gomery won first prize.
Fur farming, the Bitter Roots latest
industry. will be established soon on
the d. F. Boyer ranch northwest OF
Corvallis. The ranch was purchased
recently from the Oertlies by II. D..
Simmons for use as a fox farm
Lee Wilson and wife, of Great Falls,
reported to Sheriff Tom Spratt at
Helena, that they were held up at the
point of guns by a party of men who
-ook the Wilson'S new roadster from
where they were camped south of
Mitchell.
William Poole, a farmer north OF
Havre, has been formally charged with
he murder of Joseph Oswald, a neigh
,or farmer. who died in a hospital at
Havre from a bullet wound which ne
received while driving his cattle out
a field of Poole's
That the plans for the proposed fish
near Ovando have been APP
proved by w. A. Clark, Jr., who Will
nance the project was made known
~ II. N. Marlowe, chairman of the
fish and game commission, and
). A. Jackaways. state game warden.
None of the coal mines in Montana
operated by union miners have re-
1Imed production since the strike be-
April /, according to George Grit
in. state coal mine inspector for the
,ureau of public safety, who has re-
to Helena after q trip over the
tate.
Late spring wheat, oats and pota-
oes are recovering in the Molt terri
ory from the severe hail storms
which visited there recently. Although
ably damaged, many fields, which APP
cared at first as total losses, will pro-
Iuce small crops, regardless OF the
eavy handicap.
The members of the jury at White
ulphur Springs, who have been kept
retty busy since the middle of June,
ave been dismissed for the term, n
rent their way rejoicing, the greater
of them facing a haying 1oD
n one of the best crops tina Meagher
has had in several years.
The finding of a gold nugget weigh
- III n = 4