The Montana courier. [volume] (Shelby, Mont.) 1922-192?, 1922-09-06

III LOuItlC0 VI 01OuLdud.
Northern Pacific mines at Red
Lodge have resumed work with a force
of 2o5 e Coal is being shipped to
Laurel for railroad use.
Charles Waterman OF Bozeman, was
elected president Of the Sons and
Daughters Of Montana Pioneers at the
annual convention of the organization
at Missoula.
The appointment of e. J. Haslerud
as assistant In animal husbandry in
charge of dairy production at the State
college experiment station at Bozeman
has been announced.
Potato growers of Park county met
at Livingston for the purpose Of per-
fecting an organization, and primarily
to discuss the question of potato grad
ing schools to be held in Park county.
Twenty-nine counties of Montana
have already taken action to provide
agricultural exhibits at the Montana
state fair at Helena September 26 to
so, according to B. T. Moore, secretary
of the fair.
Farm and grazing land in Montana
be assessed at $566, 967,7S7 for this
be assessed at $566, 967, 1877 TO rthis
year, according to figures received
from the "a counties by the state board
of equalization at Helena.
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John A. Cannon, one of the old-time
residents of Montana, and a member
of Lincoln Post of the G. A. r., died
recently at a Butte hospital, following
an illness of a week. He had recently
celebrated his eighty-third birthday.
porcupines are doing much damage to
corr and gardens in that vicinity. One
rancher killed fourteen in one field.
When the old porky starts out for the
evening meal the whole family goes
along and they make short work of
a row of corn.
The charter presentation to the
newly organized Kiwanis club of Liv-
ingston will be made at Hunters Hot
Springs on Saturday, September %,
according to announcement at the
1f A. p;11;nro Iyiuyonic nlrh |
The charter presentation will be made
by District Governor George Smell.
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In oredr that Montana sheepmen
may understand clearly how wool is
graded In the markets and how the
values of fleeces are determined, a
series of wool grading demonstrations
will be held by the state college extern
sion service at Bozeman in co-opera-
ton with the Montana Wool Growers
association, according to an announce
ment.
Following a party of Laurel shop
men to Billings recently, a gang of al
legged strike sympathizers, most Of
them said by police to be from Laurel,
made an onslaught on the workers.
Two of the shopmen are in a hospital
as a result of the belligerent tactics of
the strike sympathizers while the rest
the party scattered to all parts of
the city.
The big three-day reunion of the
Grand Army of the Republic held at
county will be the last Of its kind, ac-
to d. T. Golf of Hamilton,
Known over the entire Bitter Root as
Major Golf. Next year, he said,
he reunion would be limited to a
day when the program would be
carried out.
The annual state convention of the
Firemen's association was
to a close at Hardin with a
which was featured by talks
rom many of the delegates. In the
business sessions held, r. j.. Baker of ;
.ewistown was reelected president
f1dllIilOu was Hdllcu dS thC pace
where the annual session would be :
eld in 1923. !
Through a decision just handed :
own by the Indian court Of claims, .
indians of the Poplar reservation will !
hare in a claim that has been al '
wed the Sisseton-Wapheton Indians l
, he amount of 100000. The claim y
5 for an old land treaty known as the {
isseton Wapheton treaty which was
,ade years ago between these tribes
the government.
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A fusillade of shots were fired into n
bunkhouse lodging 90 Northern Pa !
fic strikebreakers in the yards at Mis- '
,ula. Probably a score Of shots were II
from a distance of 700 feet, but G
lere were no casualties outside Of a