The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-05-26

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During April. 112 services were rem
iered ex-service men by the Billings
Red Cross chapter.
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The Sheridan County State hank at
PlentywoOd, which has been closed
since December, 1870, has re-opened
It's doors.
Burglars entered the station mt the
Butte. Anaconda and Pacific railway
at Anaconda and escaped with $50
in money and number of blank
tickets.
Federal employees of Billings, repre-
senting five bureaus. have temporarily
| organized a Federal Service club. Per
! manent organization will be completed
May 20.
The week May 3 to 13 is National
Guard week in Bozeman, ana the men,
bers of Company e are planning on an
even stronger basis in the city than it
| is at present
| Forsyth won the tr-city track meet
II: Miles City Saturday with IA scare Of
43: Custer high (Aliles city, took Sec
Ond place, score 30. and Glendve third
| with two points.
Following Il domestic quarrel at their
home in Laurel. Mrs. Il. V. Mead wife
of Laurel railroad switchman. fired
bullet into her right temple and died
about IN hour later.
james 4. Murray. of Butte, was Sc
lected president of the National Asso-
citation for Recognition Of the Irish Re
public at a convention recently held
in Washington. n. c.
| The Roundup Commercial club Is
| distributing 60 checks to as many win
ners in the summer tillage essay con-
test which was held this spring and In
which 40 rural schools participated.
Montana leads the northwest states
in the sale Of the new issue Of United
States treasury savings certificates &C.
cording to sales figures from the Ninth
District Savings headquarters ut Min
neapolis.
Gail Fiske, Of the Helena high school
won the state declamatory contest for
girls. held at MiSSoula, and George
Straszer of Livingston was winner in
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and three boys in the finals.
Since the bachelor tax was declared
unconstitutional by the state supreme
court. 81 Cascade county bachelors
who paid their tax. have been allowed
refunds totaling S225. This amount
is approximately - per cent of the
total paid in.
The Standard Oil company Of Cal
ifornia has opened offices in Great
Falls. The offices are being opened
primarily for the use of the corps IT
biologists working in northern Mon
tana fields. according to A. s. Palmer,
state manager.
Louis Cisco. the Italian who was
charged with having stabbed Carl
BramhO of Laurel in street brawl
in Billings March 4, and who later
was sentenced to Deer Lodge after
pleading guilty to carrying concealed
weapons. escaped from a prison road
gang at NimrOd.
A $500 loving cup will be awarded "a
n prize by the management Of the
Waldorf Astoria hotel Of New York,
to the western rider making the best
showing in the roundup in Bozeman
the first week in August. according to
Il. 7. Ringing who has just returned
to Bozeman from New York city, =
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! Orrn Hubbard, q. and Roy Hodge,
%, pleaded guilty to the charge Of at
tempting highway robbery. and were
sentenced to the state prison for terms
Of from one to three years. The at
tempt at holdup occurred last Sunday
night at Butte when a man and a
woman were halted at a street inter-
section, the woman screamed and
alarmed the pair who fled, hut were
later arrested and identified.
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Unless the Nonpartisan league Sc
cures membership OF 10000 in Mon
tana before the August primaries It
will not put up state ticket this year.
in which event the support of the en-
tire membership Is to he thrown in tina
November elections to those candidates
of the two old political parties who
most heartily support the program Of
principles and immediate demands OF
the league. This compromise was
reached Sunday at the convention Of
the Montana Nonpartisan league In
Great Falls between two factors OF the