Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-08-10

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The work on changes In the golf
course at the Country club at Lewis
town is under way.
Fire, the origin of which is unknown.
totally destroyed the Montana Elevator
company's elevator at Suffolk.
Estimates for the construction of a
hotel to quarter Great Northern shop
employees in Great Falls are being pre-
pared.
A small red parasite resembling a
louise has appeared in the Judith Basin
and is infesting the grasshoppers in
great numbers.
Eighty-five dollars an acre was the
price paid for the Hatch property.
three miles south Of Harlem, which has
Just been sold by its owner.
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With a homemade aIrplane. whose
motive power is a Ford engine, Roy
Grippe, OF Broadview, flew from that
city to Billings, In 40 minutes.
Announcement has been made that
another oil well will be sunk south
west OF Broadview within the next
thirty days on the structure known
as the Little Dome.
disappearing as e~x-service veterans.
twosmen In Butte succeeded In reliev-
Ing generous citizens of that city OF
some S65 before they were picked up
by the police department.
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The large and novel group of tro-
piles and awards for the winners OF
various events at the fourth annual
Bozeman roundup have arrived in
Bozeman and are on display.
An agreement having been reached
between the Gazette Printing company
at Billings and its former employees,
all mechanical departments of the
paper have been unionized.
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An attempt TO loot the vaults of the
First State bank at Clyde Park ended
in failure when the robbers were COM
PEELED TO make their escape without
having secured anything of value.
For saving a man from drowning in
the Missoula river, james johnson,
aged IA years, formerly OF troop No. 3
of the Boy Scouts In Missoula, but now
located in Portland, Ore, will receive
a medal.
Assurance that the Pioneers cabin
which burned at the state fair grounds
at Helena Will be replaced by a new
structure is given by Mrs-Bessie
Marshall Whltcomb. custodian of the
building.
Three horseshoe pitching clubs
of Montana have expressed their In
tentlon to take part In the tournament
at the state fair at Helena. September
26 to 80, from Bozeman, Helena and
Lewistown.
Although the Jefferson forest is car
ryfng its full allotment of cattle and
some 24.O00 head of cattle ana
$4,000 head Of sheep, range conditions
were never better, according to w. b.
Wiley, supervisor. at Great Falls.
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Notice OF the opening of 2.400 acres
of the land formerly Included In the
Sun River irrigation project TO settle
and filing as homesteads, has
been received by w. r. Bennett, regis
ter of the Great Falls and office.
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A trunk containing narcotics valued
at $500 was seized In the baggage
room of a trans-continental railroad
at Butte recently by Sheriff Dugan and
Inspector Guerra of the federal force
who are searching for the wne
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Montana received advance publicity
In 400 papers published In 1885 towns
and cities and A states of the Union,
as a result of being chosen as the con-
state of the N. E. A, according
to a check made Of seven clipping
bureaus.
That the honor system of gathering
Information for assessment purposes Ia
4 success In Daniels county Is indi-
by the fact that the value of tax
,ble property. as compiled by the as
,essor, is s8,843,114, compared with
y. 658.g53 In 1921, an increase of
1888. POI.
Montana will do its part In any
for controlling distribution
II coal, with priority rights to public
and institutions along the
Ines outlined by Herbert Hoover, ac-
to a telegram sent from Hell
ma by Governor Dixon to Secretary
Hoover.
There has been no advance in the
rice of coal In Butte since the coal
began and although a number
Il small dealers have been forced to
lose out on coal and are now selling