Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-10-05

A radio club has been formed In the
Chinook high school. starting with an
initial membership of II.
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Indians of the Fort Peck reservation
will hold their first harvest festival at
Wolf Point September %, 20 and 80.
Major F. B. Koben OF Fort MIssoula
has been appointed to the chair of
military science and tactics att the
state university at Missoula.
Attendance records at the Midland
Empire fair, held recently In Billings.
show 55.398 a~dmittances, the banner
record of the seven years of the fairs
existence.
The state conference of Congrega-
tional churches in Montana will be
held in Judith Gap on October 8, 4 and
8. Ministers and laymen from all sec
tions of the state are expected to at
tend.
The petition for the creation of Lake
county is reported to be about COM
pleted. 1t Will be filed with commits
sloners of Flathead county for the pur-
pose of bringing the matter to a popu-
lar vote.
Negotiations are under way at Red
Lodge for the settlement of a strike
which was called by the the Red
Lodge miners union several weeks
ago because OF the employment of a
former clerk of the Northwest I'm
provement company as an electrical
worker.
The registration books Of B~eayerhead
county show an increase In the num-
Der Of voters of about 400 over those
registered for the primary election.
However, this is about 500 less than
should be registered, for Be%averhead
county has a voting population of
1000 people.
Three Powder River riders won lead
ing honors at the Pendleton, Ore,
roundup celebration, with Howard Teg-
land winning the worlds championship
bucking contest, Jack Coats winning
the northwestern bucking champion
ship and Pinky Gist returned second
In the latter event.
Ten miles OF the new Skalkaho road
which is eventually TO connect Ana
conda and Hamilton have been COM
pleted on the west side of the range,
while four miles have been finished on
the east side, according to u. S, Mar
shall. district engineer for the state
highway commission.
William e. Healy. "a, was electro
cuted at the smelter in Anaconda. The
young man was working on a set of
roasters, and instead of using the
safety exit provided for that purpose
entered through an upper window. A
blow pipe he was carrying came into
contact with a live wire and he was
instantly killed. .
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Riders returning to the Crow ~reser1
walton from the Midland Empire fair
at Billings are well pleased with the
manner In which the riding contests
were staged, according to a communi-
cation received from the reservation.
They praise the management and
judges for their impartialtty during the
whole fair, 1T is said.
Registration for the county of Silver
Bow shows the number of voters en-
titled to participate In the November
election to be "a 58. Approximately
1000 persons have registered since the
primary election The registration for
the last general election was 26,S56,
and the total vote cast In Silver Bow
county was about 1900.
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In a communication received from
one of the bonding houses operating in
the northwest by the county clerk at
Harlowton, there are IL counties In 9
that are listed as enjoying I
100 per rent credit with bonding com
paDies. They are Sheridan, Teton, I
Cascade. Fergus, Wheatland. Richland, q
Wibaux, Yellowstone and Still
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The Montana Refining company has @
increased the capacity of their Bill I
Iings plant to more than double their b
capacity. Heretofore the plant e
has been able to handle approximately s
200 barrels daily but since increasing r
size of the plant IL can refine 500 v
barrels per day. The enlarged plant N
a new still and the old still p
employed has bee renovated II
NTH Ii is entirely modern In construc- II
ION. 49, IL
The sixth annual meeting OF the
.dusselsheli Baptist association was n
,eld In Roundup. This association h
the Baptist churches on the "
railroad from Lewistown OF
asst to the Dakota line b.
L. A. Henry Of Helena. civilian re
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