Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-02-02

%AN Ff- AAAN VI ~ Ff'"0 $3.50
Women Of whIte Fish have formed
an auxiliary TO the Loyal Order Of
Moose.
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The Indies auxiliary Of the Ameri-
can legion has beer organized at White
sulphur Springs.
Farmers on Forsyth Flat near For
syth nave formed an organization TO
promote the growth Of water1neions.
A bread war is on In Great Falls
with the result that bread prices nave
declined 10 below the pre-war mark.
Bridger hunters sent over ~ jack-
rabbits TO Billings for distribution
among the needy families of that place.
The Wbeatland County S~portsmen's
association was organized at Harlow
ton and starts out with a membership
of over 100.
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Aboni 90 daIrymen attended the
three-day dairy school held In Billings
under the auspices of the Midland En-
pire MIX Producers association.
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Thirty additional vocational students
have arrived in Bozeman 10 take up
work at the Montana State college.
They are all ex-service men.
The cooperative weather station Mt
Livingston. which has heen closed for
one year for The lack of a Cooperative
observer. has been reopened.
Beginning February I. the city Of
Glendive viii undertake to pump all
the water needed for the Northern
Pacific railroad at Glendiye.
Cabins in various part OF the hills
surrounding Butte for the use Of
scouts and public alike wilI he built
this summer by hoy scouts of Butte.
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Junior Fleming. a senior in The For
syth high school. has been appointed
TO the e. s. Naval academy ut Annap-
oils by Congressman Carl ". Riddick.
A petition asking for Sunday mail
service is being circulated by residents
of Roman, Poison and other towns
along the n. 7. line into the reserva-
lion.
III a dispute over n business deal in
volying $3.50. John Lapp shot TO
death Fl. G. Brody. and then turned the
gun upon himself. Both men We're
well known Dawson county residents.
The purchase Of the "Rar VI" eat
tie ranch. containing 2.330 acres, near
Collins ON the Teton river by Albert
Winters. veteran stock man Of Bull.
Idaho completes one of The biggest
land transfers of the year in Montana.
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MisSouls3 county. it Is believed, has
the only woman deputy sheriff is the
state Of Montana. Mrs. Blanche Nc
Carthy was sworn In and supplied with
gun and star by Sheriff G. A. Cole at
MisSoula.
Lillian McBee. IS. OF Billings. fell
a distance of three floors from a
ing elevator belt at the Rursset-Mfiier
eompany's plant and survived despite
the fact that she landed on her head =
and shoulders.
Confident Of being able Ia convince
the war department that his automatic
shell will hurI itself 100 miles. Chris
Kaiser of Great Falls has gone To
Washington on the invitation of See
rotary Weeks to lay his plan before
government experts
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An attempt TO dynamite the Owsley
block in Butte was uncovered recently.
Half a DOZEN sticks of dynamite az
tached to ? fuse were found IN an ash
can at an entrance 10 the building.
The fuse had peer lighted hut had
gone out, all that saved the building.
one of the largest in that city.
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March business prospects for Bill
lings are rated 100 per cent in ON
to March 1921 by the current
forecast of the Babson statistical or
ganization. Billings prospects are bet
ter thar any other Montana town in
the list.
The preliminary work 10 organizing
q company of the new Montana ma
tional guard at Bozeman was complet-
ed when 20 young men who had passed
the required physical test were sworn
In. Rev. r.. j.. Osborne was elected
captain. Chester A. Morton. first Lies
tenant, and Bruce A HOLSTER. second.
lieutenant
Flora Lawrence. 81, was sentenced
IN a term Of one IN two wears in the