Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-10-12


Shipments of thoroughbred Ram
bouilet sheep passed through Great
> Falls recently, consigned to the CoweIl
ranch near Choteau.
Fire originating from an o~verheated
exhaust pipe OF the Diesel engines,
partially destroyed the city light and
power plant at Glasgow.
Big Horn county's team was declared
the state champion at the state fair
at Helena In the boys and girls club
garment making contest.
Word has been received from j. NJ.
Power OF Helena that ]. p. Danson is
the newly elected president of the
State Poultry Breeders association.
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w. B. Orser, a farmer living near
Pryor and known to many as the man
ager Of the Pryor rodeo, ac~cidently
shot himself with a rifle n died al
most instantly.
AS a result Of a drive waged in the
Dillon community against predatory
animals and birds, Beaverhead county
today is minus exactly SIS crows, s
owls, 203 magpies and IL hawks.
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w. c. Childers. living six miles
north Of Jordan. had the misfortune to
have his entire crop destroyed by fire.
This includes forage crops as well as
stacked grain. All the ranch buildings
except the house were burned.
Decision whether any changes will
he msde@tnztext hooks sx8f IN public
schols Of Montana viii be announced
soon by the state text book commission
according to Miss May Trumper. state
superintendent Of public instruction.
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w. III. Louther, a business man of
Fort Benton. and race horse owner,
fell dead at the Playground stables, at
the opening of the central Montana
fair at Lewistown. just after having
driven his ~trotter, Copper King, TO vic
tory In a heat.
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Boys led in the September arrivals
Of babies for Yellowstone county, ac~
cording TO a report made by the health
which shows that there were
male births in the month and only
female. The total births are given
as 35. which Is almost twice the num-
Der Of deaths.
This summer many farmers Of
Broadus have captured swarms of bees
hat they found i~nhabiting hollow trees
along the course Of Powder river. Per
so such swarms have been dis 1
In such haunts of their own !
selection and most of them have been {
placed In captivity.
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The postmaster at Butte has received Z
circular Instructing him to warn all /
merchants that forged money orders 2
re being circulated The blanks were a
tolen from Aberdeen, Wash, and r
lumber from 880e1 to $500. These /
were tolen some time 81 and r
is reported that some of them had
cen cashed In business houses. n
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Wlnnett people have formed the G.
odge Pole OIL company and filed ar Il
cles of Incorporation, the concern be- I,
IL capitalized for $4,000 with Char .,
Ute Kennedy, Anna Thornburn and
ellie Knapp as directors. the other In
,rporators being Katherine Phelps
and Ethel 8. w. Abbott 1t G.
thus strictly a women's company. 81
Conference between the mining oper- n,
;ors of Butte and the committee of nj
new mine workers, independent n
lion reached a consensus that an or r.
for honest cooperation In ma
by both sides, and II was
reed that the union will at once COM VIZ,
etc Its constitution and bylaws, 81,
lich will be submitted to the employ 60,
. for approval or criticism.
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The gambling world of Butte Is all
% with stories about a two-gun BAN In.
who recently brought a fast crap 90
mt, WHICH was Dttuk optfdtcu III n rsx
ID. to a very sudden end by suddenly "a,
two very convincing looking =.
and with persuasive threats
ove a score or more of patrons -.
ainst the wall with their hands high -
sr their heads While lined up In ~.
8 very uncomfortable position, he
leved them of something like
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can be accomplished by a real -
mer willing to labor has been ably r.
nonstrated this year by A @. Shaw. -
OF the Twin Garden farm 20
Little Powder river, a few miles o.
tn OF Broadus. He raised between
100 and 10000 pounds of fine quail VI,
onions from less than one acre OF Gnu
und. These onions have a market :
ne of $50 a hundred pounds in
adus and 1926 In Niles City, max =
a money yield from the onions w