Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-11-09
MONTANA HAPPENINGS
TOLD IN AFEW WORDS
Interesting News Items About Mon
tans and What They
Are Doing

Roundup's first annual corn show
VIII be held on November 10. IL and IS
In a building yet TO be selected. A
generous prize list is being prepared
In the expectation that nearly every
exhibitor will receive an award. The
displays will Include potatoes and gar
den vegetables.
The sum of sG6.6Gh is what Frank
Schuber paid for a chicken in Dillon
recently. 1t mus have been a rare old
bird TO bring that price. Evidently
Frank Schubaur OF Butte likes chicken
and likes them wild, for that Is what
he paid for each OF three sage hens in
Justice court.
Eleven district superintendents of
the Helena area Of the Methodist Epis-
copal church were In Helena recently
In conference with Bishop Charles
Wesley Burns, of Helena. ON the win
ter program Of the church. The area
includes the Dakotas and Montana and
portions of Idaho and Oregon.
The splendid home OF n. N. Nc
Naughton on Fallon flat near Terry
was totally destroyed by fire recently,
together with about 20 tons of millet
hay which was stacked about 100 feet
from the house. and some 600 acres of
winter pasture belonging to Harry G.
Otis and Mrs. E. s. Cameron.
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Every teacher in the state of Mon
fana who falls 70 attend the annual
meeting of the Montana State Teach
ers' association TO be held in Helena
on November 81. IS and 20. will be
doing herself, her pupils and her fel.
iow-teachers an injustice" says Dean
]. NJ. Hamilton OF Bozeman. president
of the organization.
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Perfect health for every child in
Silver Bow county is the aim of the
Parent-Teacher association OF Butte.
according TO Mrs. Nellie Small, county
superintendent, Who. with Mrs.. Sara f.
OF the Montana tuberculosis
association, Helena. has been organic
Ing Parent-Teacher circles In the rural
of THE county during the past
week.
1t cost less TO fight forest fires this
rear than In any year since 1915, &C
to figures given out by the
forest service at Missoula. One hun.
ired and forty dollars was the average
cost of each of the seasons 1900 fires,
his being half OF the 1920 costs and
'ut a fraction of the 1919 average OF
1884 for each blaze. The total cost
vas half the average for the past IL
easons.
Redolent Of the past and bringing
tack the days before the coming Of the
the Robert Vaughn collec.
ion of Indian trophies Is soon TO be- {
ONE the property of the Great Falls
ublic. according TO announcement that
ms been made by Mrs. II. NJ. Sprague. I
aughter of the pioneer, and owner of I
collection. which consists of hun {
reds OF Indian articles, including {
weapons. hed-dresses, sad I
les and many others. $
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After two months of unusually fine
Ill weather. the Midland Empire and I
filings was out with a handshake for v
Id Man Snow, who arrived Sunday f
orning after a night OF rain. Or II p
ley didn't get ont of doors to greet n
I'm they smiled at the old fellow r
the window. Beets harvested, q
e pavement completed, everyone was C
Hing that the farmer who has been e
the moisture for several weeks j
have his innings.
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The yearfing steer which won the W
and champion blue ribbon at the %
state fair last month recently v
In the form of roasts and 4
on the dinner tables of Great 70
Ills folks. The animal was raised &C
Percy Sunburn of Geyser and took OF
wn the grand champion prize not W
ly at Helena but at Billings and Lew CO
AhiiN- Inv steer l,UtD 40
when n year old and was
by its owner in the boys and
Is club division at, the Helena, Bill OF
gs and Lewistown fairs. LEI
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". F. Maddox of the state u~nivers- ia
faculty has been named one Of p er
nmittee Of 10 Montanans to assist in st
selection of the q most prominent pa
ntana women not now living, whose is
mes will be placed on the memorial ST.
let In the Temple Of Womanhood. he
Ich Is to be erected In Washington. Ro
? others TO serve on the committee Re
I: Charles L. Bovard. Helena John Dn
Durston, Butte Jnmes VI. Hamilton. ne
Mrs MAJ Jacobs. Helena . pa
J. Quincy Scott. Lewistown; Mrs bel
I'm L. Anderson. Dillon Mrs. Abel Civ
$ b. Keith. Butte; Mrs. Z. Brook Mr.
-tfn, Bohemian. q OF
lcendIa rists, careless campers and I
kers caused 321 OF the 1885 fires drc
In District No. 1 Of the for o.
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