The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-06-02
MONTANA NEWS NOTES
TerseIy Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
M0ntananS

Four new cases of spotted fever
have been reported to the state board
of health.
at Conrad have been begun. The mill
has a 24-barrel capacity.
Nine Havre boys have signed up to
attend the government training camp
at Fort Douglas, Utah, this summer.
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More than so druggists, from as
many communities of Montana, attend
ed a convention Of agents of the United
Drug company at Great Falls.
J. n. T. Ryman of Missoula was
elected president of the board for the
state historical library at a recent
meeting of that board in Helena.
One hundred and fifty-one seed
loans, amounting to approximately
$14,50O, have been approved by the
federal government in Blaine county.
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Plans are well under way for the
annual Girls camp to be held at Glas-
gov, June 5 to 10. Phillips county
will send % girls and Valley county
about 100.
The Absarokee Oil Development
company, after over a year in the ex-
animation of the Baker field in FalIon
county, has made a location and will
start development work Immediately.
Thirty eggs of the ~ring-necked pleas
ant have been received in Roundup
from the Oregon agricultural college
experiment in the production of these
birds.
The United States veterans bureau
has approved a lease on the t. G.
Power service building at Helena for
use as a vocational school for war vet
erans. About zoo men will take special
courses.
Pierre Sanders of Anaconda was
elected state deputy of the Knights Of
Columbus of Mnotana, at the conclu-
sion of a two-day state convention at
Livingston. Deer Lodge was chosen
for the 1923 meeting.
Complaining that the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad does not
have adequate service at Ismay, the
people Of Ismay have petitioned the
railroad commission to require the
company to correct the condition.
Western Montana has been allotted
$50 men in citizens military training
camp to be held this summer at Fort
Douglas, Utah. Helena, Great Falls,
Billings, Livingston and Butte, includ-
ing territory adjacent to each, are al
lotted so men each.
A verdict of guilty, with life impris-
onment as penalty, has been returned
by the jury in the trial of George
Beach at Butte, accused of completely
in the murder of Cyril Schilling last
November. This is the fourth convic-
ton for the murder.
Another step toward increased pro-
duction at the plant of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company's smelter at
Anaconda was taken when the fur
refinery was reopened and fires
kindled in preparation for resumption
of operations by June 1.
The Mobiles of Al Bedoo temple Of
Shriners of Billings are planning to
"Sweeten" San Francisco to the
queens taste at the time of the meet
there of the imperial council of the
order, June 10, IA and 10. Twenty
seven hundred miniature sacks of
sugar are to do the trick, through the
courtesy of the Billings sugar factory.
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N~inety-eight applications for enlist
in the United States Marine
corps were made at Billings office be-
tween May L anu ~, dNtoiuihS " oCl
geant Cody, recruiting officer in
and of this number not one was
found fit for enlistment. Forty-three
were rejected for goiter, eight for flat
feet, - for defective vision, three for
missing teeth, six on account of being
married, four on account of criminal
records, and % for other physical de-
Litigation between the Minerals Sep
company of London and the
Butte Superior Mining company was
,nded by the issuance of a decree of
settlement signed by Judge Bourquin s
the q. S. district court at Butte. /
Alleged infringement Of the patented {
separation process or the former {
ompany by the latter company in its /,
Mills at Butte was the basis of the {
.ction in which thousands of dollars G
we're spent and experts from all parts q
f the world called to Butte to testify. t