The Montana courier. [volume] (Shelby, Mont.) 1922-192?, 1922-09-20
MONTANA news NOTES
Tersely Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
MontananS

The first snow of the season hal
fallen ia the Helena locality.
The annual state convention of the
Knights of Pythias was held recently
in Billings.
The farmers market, established re
Gently at Havre, is proving successful,
according to its manager.
The fifteenth annual convention OF
the Teton Association of Baptist
churches closed its sessions at Havre.
The Northern PacilIc Railway com
pany will build a new storehouse and
warehouse at Glendive at an estimated
cost of $4,000.
Volunteer shopworkers brought to
Missoula from st. Paul are gradually
being released and are returning east.
But Is men are left.
Free city mail delivery will be estab-
lfshed in Whitefish November 16.
There will be two regular carriers and
one substitute carrier.
Thirty cars of cattle were shipped
from Miles City recently to the Chi
cago markets. This Is the first ship
ment of this size this season from that
city.
A total production of 1000 barrels
of oil from three Sunburst-Ohio wells
In the Kevin-Sunburst field is shown
by a report recently filed at Great
Falls.
0. e. Shrode of Great Falls. was
elected grand chancellor of Montana
Grand lodge Knights of Pythias at
the annual convention held in Billings
last week.
Moving pictures of Custer county
farms were made during a recent trip
of State ~Agronomist A. J.. Ogard. The
pictures will be ready for distribution
by the first of the year.
Although $4,000 bushels of wheat
have been delivered to the two eleva-
tors at Denton, Fergus county. only
ten carloads have been shipped out
due to the scarcity of cars.
Ward Crosby, well known Livingston
war veteran, has been appointed act
Ing postmaster at Livingston to sue
coed Postmaster j. E. Swindlehurst
whose term expired recently.
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Official notice has been received
at Forsyth from the state athletic as
ISOLATION that the Forsyth high school
will be recalled that the Forsyth team
was disbarred by the state %organiza
ton because of alleged Irregularities
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Reorganization of the American
Bank & Trust company of Great Falls
is being effected. Approximately
500, 900 is needed to reopen the bank
and depositors are expected to sign
up for this amount soon. State Bank
l.. Q. Shelton will supervise
the reorganization.
A splendid example of community
spirit was evidenced at Chester when
neighbors with headers, wagons and
bundle teams headed and stacked 20
acres of oats and so acres of rye on
the Herman Stein farm. Mr.. Stein
had been i'll for some time and the
n~eighbors harvested his crop.
Dead Mans curve near Turah will
,e Strengthened. The Northern Pacific
viii remove a ledge of rock 600 feet
ong and 100 feet high. This will
itraighten the road so hat the loop
hat crosses the track and then recross-
s it will be eliminated. Twelve ac-
idents have occurred at this point
Turing the last year.
A bomb made OF matches, pieces
f a file and a small can of kerosene
found in q bundle of wheat on a
arm near Roman. TIL articles were
o arranged that the matches would I
gnite by any dissarrangement of them.
he bomb was found by one of the |
7orkmen just as he was about to pitch {
into a threshing machine. I
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The Montana Wheat Growers asso. .
which was recently extended r
redit of $1,50O,0OO by the war finance /
orporation, has been notified that the \
1ercantile Trust company Of San
rancisco had extended it credit of
,OO0,0 900. The association began last {
ear with 1.500 members and now has o
membership of 5000 Montana wheat p
overs who will be enabled, through c
lese huge credits, to receive about b
) per cen Of the value of the wheat [
advances, and at the same time a
take advantage of the entire sea II
ms price, under the orderly market. p
g program of the association. re