Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-03
WOLF POINT
FIGHT IS KEEN FOR
ROOSEVELT CAPITAL
Contending Towns for County
Seat Are Conducting Hot
Campaigns.
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Wolf Point. Nov. with less than
a week remaining before election day,
Interest in the county seat race is at
high tension in Roosevelt county and
.dwarfs every other Issue of the cam
paign. Both Wolf Point and Poplar
are putting forth every effort to win
and are campaigning intensiyely. Pelt-
ticaI meetings are being held in prac-
f~tically every community in the county.
Usher l.. Burdick, former lieutenant
of North Dakota. and ma
~tionally known as an organized for
the United States Grain Growers as
ISOLATION and Farm Bureau, is this
week addressing IL series of meetings
in the eastern part of the county.
speaking for the ECONOMY ticket and
Wolf Point for the county seat. Bur
dick made several speeches in behalf
of the economy candidates before the
primaries and was enthusiastically re-
ceived. His addresses set forth the
issues at stake in no uncertain man
ner.
The Wolf Point school band and or
chestra have given a number OF con
,certs at rural schools at various places
in the county. and at these meetings
there have been short talks boosting
the economy candidates and explaining
Wolf Points points of advantage as a
candidate for the county seat. Fol
lowing these meetings there has usually
been Il dance, Mt which the Wolf Point
school orchestra furnished the music.
Both Claim Victory
Both Wolf Point and Poplar sup
Iporters claim to expect victory by a
Comfortable majority but neither side IS
resting on it's oars because of this eX-
p~ectation. 1t has become known that
during the past week several Poplar
ties. whose business would call them
10 Wolf Point should the county seat
be moved. have been quietly looking
lover rentable houses here IT is no
known whether any of these parties
have actually rented houses, but it is
thought that the increasing numbers OF
voters in various parts Of the county
who have during the past week come
out openly in favor of Wolf Point may
have caused them 10 take this fore
handed step.
:, Since the offer of some of Wolf
> Points citizens not only TO move the
!, courthouse fixtures and records from
iPoplar to Wolf Point free of all cost
to the county. but also TO make ready
the Coliseum for occupancy as a court
house, many prominent citizens anc
? taxpayers. who have formerly been non
: committ4l as 70 their attitude on thu
/ county seat question. have come on
" openly in favor of Wolf Point. A tent
/. alive agreement to lease the Coliseum
I, for a term of years at $165 a month
r has been entered into with Mrs. o. NJ
Rogers. the owner. This agreement is
5 of course, contingent upon Wolf Point
, securing the county seat. This is
4 one story building. 80 by 40 feet
erected "A little more than three year.
/, ago, and is large enough to contain al
- the county offices and also q our
room. Plans have been prepared show
ling how it can be conveniently ane
economically arranged. This buildin.
has an excellent, up to date. steam
heating plant.
Conditions at Poplar
1t is charged by many who are famll
liar with the red brick schoolhouse a
o Poplar, now being occupied to hous'
l several of the county offices. that /
E is impossible to heat the building com
fortably, and this may be one of tn
reasons why it was abandoned. Thi
+, building, which has only approximate,
=, 1880 feet of floor space. is not larg'
! enough to accommodate all the count.
! offices, and the court room and tw'
other offices are scattered about tn
. town of Poplar, not only making |
announcement for those who have bust
+ ness to transact, Wolf Pointers say, bu
q increasing the maintenance cost. TIL
: amount spent for heat, light and waite
!, for the county offices at Poplar TO
. the fiscal year ending June 30 wa
' So, 003.2 1t is estimated that in tn
proposed courthouse building here thes
Items could be furnished for 300 a
the outside. The total maintenance
expense of the courthouse at Popia
, during the year mentioned was $40,
t52501. of which S2,220.7I went for re
pairs on the temporary courthouse
8 about $40 more than the rem of Ia
entire courthouse at Wolf Point. Woi
q Point men who have gone into the ma
!. ter carefully claim that that is to
much money, and say that the item
I. included in the upkeep of the court
e house at Poplar could BE furnishe
here for $7,136, thus effecting q yearI
q saving to the county of $3.50. II
: this econom argument. presented /
the Wolf Point Herald, the Popln
ipapers retort that Roosevelt county Oh