The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09
MONTANA HAPPENINGS
TOLD IN A FEW WORDS
Interesting News Items About Mon
tana and What They
Are Doing

IAUA ara VvUat my
Are Doing
Manufacture of storage batteries is
the latest addition to Red Lodges list
of industries.
Threshing operati MS, believed to be
the first of the year in Montana, are
under way in Treasure county.
Thomas GULL, who has beer stationed
at New Orleans, has arrived at Niles
City to take charge of the government
weather bureau there.
The Montana Wholesale Grocers' as
| ISOLATION is holding it's annual v
ton in Bozeman. Representatives are
there from every part Of Montana.
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DR.. Thomas 3. Marquis has re-
ceived the appointment as government
physician for the Cheyenne Indian
reservation with offices at Lame Deer.
Re-opening of the Emma mine, n
of the zinc, silver and lead producing
properties of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, has been announced.
The Ruby Gulch gold mines at Tort
man, in the Little Rockies, 40 miles
south of Malta, are operating again.
after having beer closed down since
1917.
Robert S.. Hale, who conducted a
drug store at Virginia City in 1864 and
who opened a pharmacy in Helena IN
1855. is dead, according to a message
received in Helena.
For the purpose of determining
whether a gas franchise shall be grant
ed to Silas G. Hopkins and associates,
a special election will be held In Glen
dive on Friday, August IL.
Hardy W. Campbell, scientific farm
ing expert, who was obliged to aban-
don his better farming campaign IN
Yellowstone county on account OF Ill
ness, is slowly recovering.
Plans for the sixth annual tourna-
ment of the Montana State Q ASSOC
citation have been perfected and the
will be filled with interesting
events during the entire four days.
What is claimed to be the largest
grav1ty-fed swimming pool In the
state of Montana was recently com
pleted by the American Legion OF Har-
and formally opened to the
John e. Edwards, who has repre-
sented Rosebud county In the state
senate for nearly 20 years, Will be a
for denomination on the Re
publican ticket at the August primary
election.
Thieves looted the offices OF q
dentist at Bozeman and got away with
fifty inches Of platinum wire. Bottles
and drawers were ransacked and it is
thought drug addicts were responsible
for the theft.
An attraction that is expected to
prove of much interest to visitors at
the first annual fair to be held this
fall by the newly organized Fort Peck
indian Fair association will be a band
composed entirely of Indians.
Twenty-Five Eureka men, some of
hem prominent in business circles, and
.wo Columbia Falls residents, have
)een arrested by federal prohibition
on charges Of violating the
provisions of the Volstead act, accord
ng to information reaching Kalispell.
The state land board at Helena has
voted to buy $4,000 in hail warrants
o enable the state to relieve farmer
lail sufferers from any necessity OF |
liscounting warrants paid them for
osses. The $4,000 purchase was
.oted from interest and income Of the /
tate school fund. {
Six head of horses belonging to 6
Peter Fuch, Absarokee butcher, were
ound by their owner in the basement !
# an old house on his pasture a short
Listance from that town. Their weight
ad broken down the floor. Three
we're dead and the other three so S
tarved that their bodies presented a c
hastily sight. L
In order to provide for the handling c
t 500 head Of dairy ows which will G
upply the creamery he is now Dulfd- +
lg, R. T. Ringing OF White Sulphur
prings has launched the project OF
out dairy farms, stocking ?
hem and renting them to practical s
armers on a "5O-50' basis. The o
resent plans, If carried out, will ulti- c
lately result in the utilization Of more Y
ian $4,000 acres for the production a
{ milk. c
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