The Montana courier. [volume] (Shelby, Mont.) 1922-192?, 1922-09-20

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has started.
At the convention Of railway train
men held in Helena recently 10 or.
CARNATIONS were represented.
Cascade county will begin the gravel
ing OF two miles of road between the
Belt road and Gerber. The grade has
already been made.
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Twenty-Five cars Of cattle were ship
ped from Rapelje recently and it is
estimated that as many more will be
shipped within a short time.
Frank Lehman Of Miles City, charg-
ed with placing explosives on the Mil
waukee tracks In that city was found
not guilty by a jury after but 80 min
utes elaboration.
Earl Bowler, who owns 100 acres
near Hoosac, threshed so bushels to
| the acre of winter wheat from the
entire plot. The land had been sum-
mer fallowed.
III. A. Borcherding, near Moore, has
a yield of 43 bushels per acre on a
320-acre field. Other yields in that
locality have ranged from 20 to 40
bushels per acre.
The new Butte city directory will
be off the press on October Is. The
book will contain 10000 names, which
is 1000 more than those in the last
directory published in 1918.
A. w. Miles and the Park chamber
of commerce have made a gift of 80
acres on McLeod's island to be used
as a permanent tourist camping
grounds In Livingston.
A saw that with a single stroke
will fell a comparatively large tree is
the invention of Valentine Paganini,
of Roundup, who has received patent
rights from the government.
c. o. D. parcel post shipments in
the Butte p~ostoffice increased 80 per
cent within the last year. The send
ing of movie films by parcel post is
n reason for the increase.
The Milwaukee railroad, from it's
Great Falls offices, that
1000 new freight cars will soon be
In Montana to relieve the car short
age caused by Montana's grain crop.
Invitation to speak at Portland,
Ore, at the unwilling of an equestrian
of Theodore Roosevelt on Octo-
Der q, has been declined by Governor
who pleaded press of state af-
Fergus county leads the state in
number OF horses, according to the
assessors rolls returned to the state
board of equalization. 1t has 27,610
listed. Valley county stands second
with 26,163 and Phillips third with
20,137.
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Miss Evelyn Coughlin of Helmville
has been appointed supervisor of pen
nanship for the Panama canal zone
md will sail for Panama September
IS. Her work will be throughout the
canal zone where there are 80 teachers
the white schools.
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The new rig that is to be used for
on the Pioneer Oil & Gas com
)any's property on the Poplar dome
las been unloaded at Poplar and is
low on the location of the well and
will be put in operation Immediately.
Carrying out adoption rites of their
ancestors, the G~ros-Ventre Indians,
It the seventh annual Phillips county
air, adopted into the tribe Governor
M. Dixon, of Montana, State
Secretary of Agriculture Chester G.
and John Survant, former state
from Phillips county.
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The lake which was formed by a
andslide on West Rock creek near
'enia, neal Red Lodge, has been
hristened Overnight Lake. Steps are
eing taken up TO build a dam which
viii keep the lake in its present dimen-
ions. The lake has receded slightly
ince the landslide but still covers +,
bout 30 acres of ground. +,
The case of the state against Frank !,
former warden of the state
for an accounting, is be-
)re District Judge A. J.. Horsky for
consideration with the filing of the !,
nal brief by the defense. Each side :
as allowed 80 days for filing first
REFS, after which each side filed a
aply brief. The suit asked account l
e for $500, 900 of state funds alleged o
iisspent at the prison. '
A checkup at the various mines at u
showed that about 100 men out =
a day shift of 1850 had quit work I
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