The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-23

Eighty boys and girls attended the
Farm Bureau camp of Lewis and
Clark county held at Broadwater.
Arrangements for the fifteenth an
nual Rosebud county fair, which will
be held in Forsyth on September II to
IA, inclusive, have been completed.
With a complete new set of officials
the First National bank at Wolf Point,
which closed on April 10, has been re-
opened for business.
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Seventy-one deputies are now on
duty in Montana because of the rail-
road strike. They are distributed over
the western and northern part OF the
state.
Visitors from along the High Line"
from down Yellowstone, from eastern
and western Montana, will be able to
visit the State fair this fall at the
cost of a one-way ticket.
Returning prosperity in Butte is
reflected In p~ostoffice receipts. In
July Butte's postal receipts were $751;
1873 as against $15,420 In July, 1921, a
gain of nearly 10 per cent.
H~ouseholders in Libby will pay less
for electricity for lighting and places
OF business will pay more, under an
order handed down recently by the
state public service commission.
Examination Of Tony Skabich, who
Butte and had apparently been run
over by a train, showed that the fatal
ity was due to too much moonshine.
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The store house of the Industrial
school at Miles City was broken into
and a quantity Of foodstuffs taken. No
clue has yet been unearthed that would
aid in determining who the robbers
were.
According to inspector Erickson,
nearly 1000 gallons of milk are con-
sumed in Butte every day. Ninety-two
dairies, keeping 2.074 cows, are operat-
in that vicinity and marketing their
product there.
Coal produced by Montana mines
during the year ended June 30 was
3.392,031 tons, a drop OF 573,377 from
the previous year, according to the an ]
nual report Of George N. Griffin, state :
mine Inspector.
Dairy herds in the vicinity OF Mis- /
,oula have but few cattle infected with |
tuberculosis, is the report Of Inspector
The dairy herds In the Bitter
Root have all been tested and the few
infected destroyed.
More than 5000 persons journeyed
o S~tevensville late last week for the
Bitter Roots twelfth annual stock
how and creamery picnic, this years
celebration being declared by all the
ever held by a large margin.
The Lower Yellowstone Growers as
~ociation has entered into a contract
With the North American Fruit eU
hange through their main office at
York City, for the marketing of
he big 1922 Richland county potato
rop.
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The first six miles OF grading on
lie 12-mile spur of the Burlington
own the Big Horn valley is completed
nd ready for the steel. Work on the
is being held up pending right
way arguments. This is the only
ailroad line now building in Montana. =
The Montana public service commits
has approved the supplemental
port of the board Of directors Of the =
ed Lodge-Rosebud irrigation district
Id the district board has taken the a
,cessary preliminary steps for the Is i
lance of $4,000 worth Of bonds to Q
,mplete works on the system. .
That the Great Northern railroads :
engagement will stand pat" on its :
omise to men who took the places of Y
opcraft men on strike was indicated 9
a message received by L. B. Woods, b
general freight and passen- 2
r agent at Helena, from G. O. jerks, "
,e president In charge of operations, 3
st. Paul. a
Montana crop conditions improved
ring July, and a forecast wheat
op of 4~0,333,000 bushels, a hay crop n
2,9SS,00O tons and a potato crop St
100000 bushels are shown in the g
gust report of the Montana coop OF
crop reporting service, issued :;
the Montana State college extern
n service. E
n order that the so farmers whose 4.
FPS were destroyed by the terrific -
! storm that struck Dawson county -
July 25 may be supplied with seed