Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-03-23
MONTANA NOTES |
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

Billings recently.
+ Plans are being made at Livingston
to organize a branch Of the Veterans
OF Foreign Wars.
e The executive board u the state
: w c. T. q. held its annual meeting
in Harlowtown March 1916.
Salaries Of Billings teachers have
l. been. cut $50 a year. The new scale
ranges from $1,000 per year TO $1,000.
A large number Of taxpayers from
al parts Of Pondera comfy met in
Conrad recently and perfected a county
organization to be known as the Tax
PAYERS Association Of Pondera county.
Henry Baum 45.-a- farmer near
Anita. committed suicide by hanging
himself from II barn rafter With n
halter rope. Dependency over finan-
cial led 10 the act authorities believe.
With the coming of warm weather 1t
is expected that gas mains viii be laid
itl Fromberg TO permit residents TO
connect up with the Ohio c~ompany's
pipe line leading IL Billings from the
Elk Basin field.
The Glendive chamber Of
-coRtempiates putting on n membership
drive in4fheA near futnre-Aeammittee
is already AT work lining up a list
of prospects, and making a budget for
the ensuing year.
The only street car company in Mon
fana thar is not operating at Il loss
according to reports of corporations
filed with the state public service
commission, is the Missoula Street
Railway company.
or the % cases Of alleged bootlegglng
now pending before Judge Frank T..
Leiper in the Dawson county court
house at Glendive. seven cases have
been rried. There were six convictions
and one acquittal.
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Capitalized at $1,000 OO the Fergus
County Creamery has been incorpo-
rated at Lewistown by the Dissly
brothers and ]. G. Mack. A new build
ing is TO be erected so that the concern
win be better equipped for "a bigger
business.
Plans for building an electric railway,
20 connect Laurel with Billings are
being discussed in Laurel and Billings.
The project would entail much expense
hut the business developed in the 16-
mile stretch would Justify the expedi4
tHre, promoters of the plaH say-
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The odd Fellow organizations of
Miles City are considering plans for
a campaign to finance the erection
of a temple and are having plans for
sue a building drawn by an architect.
The site is selected diagonally across
from the court house. but construction
may not commence until next year.
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Ice in the Tongue river. which
empties into the Yellowstone near
Miles City. went out with a rush ar
noon Thursday. A warning has been
sent out to all residents Of the island
north of Miles City. to
move To the mainland as the Yellow
stone is expected momentarily to
loose.
Funeral services for the late James
J. Mccormick. Montana pioneer who
lied in Chicago, were held in Billings
recently. Mr.. Mccormick was one OF
four brothers who came TO Montana in
1864. and lived in Billings continuously
intll a few years ago when he went
% California He was "a years Old
It the time of his death.
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Monte Harris. found guilty in con
lection with the murder of Cyril
a Butte hotel proprietor.
Turing a robbery last November 2B.
las beer ordered hanged by the jury
which heard his case. William Harris.
co-defendant. also was sentenced To
and Earl Mccoy received a life
Two defendants remain to
e tried.
Ii is reported that the, people of
are eating snowballs. This
conduct on the part of the
of the Powder river capital r
5 not a symptom OF hunger. but of
hirst, rather. Some c~ontraband moon
hine was poured into the snow. and
there Is a spot In front OF the
eunty jail as bare as Mrs. Hubbard's
cupboard. The original owner of the
ioonshfne not only lost his goods but
i addition was fined 500 for having
unlawfuliy In his possession.
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The Gordon eampbeti-keviu syndf-
ate recently brought In an oil we'll
q the Rocky Ridge dome tn northern
with an estimated Tow OF