The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-06-20
montana HAPPENINGS
TOLD IN FEW WORDS

Interesting News Items About Nor
tanans and What They
Are Doing
Plans are being made to organize
militia company at Wilsall.
John r. Haislett, Of Edwards, dice
of spotted fever complicated by chroni,
nephritis.
A movement for the building of s
municipal swimming pool has beer
started by citizens of Three Forks.
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Bonds for a new high school build.
ing at Ingomar have been sold and
construction will lei immediate
ly.
Colonel Charles l.. Sheridan, state
adjutant general, has been designated
as Montana's greatest hero Of the
World war.
Fifty thousand bushels of wheat
were received at a Miles City elevator
in one day recently. The price paid
vas $1.15 a bushel.
Anaconda was selected as the con-
ventfon city next year of the Montana
Federation Of Woman's clubs, recently
In session at Bozeman.
e. A. Anderson has been appointed
assistant state forester, and will have
headquarters at Kalispell for the
northwestern district OF Montana.
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The Custer county fair board will
hold community fairs at Knowlton,
Beebe, Hillcrest, Moon Creek, Pine
Hills, Ismay and Miles City, in Sep
TENDER.
Work on the boys Y camp on Chey-
enne island In the Yellowstone river,
seven miles west of Miles City, has
been begun in preparation for the an
nual August camp.
Approximately 1,4OO acres of land in
isolated tracts were recently sold at
the Miles City United States land Of
flee to bidders at prices ranging from
$1.25 to 1925 per acre.
Thirty-two cases of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever have been reported in
Montana this year. The seasons death
toll Is three, two in Missoula county
and one In Carbon county.
AL Bedoo Oasis of Billings has been
granted a charter as a temple by the
Imperial council Of the Ancient Arabic
order, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
recently in session at San Francisco.
Miss rIazel Davis of Great Falls was
president Of the State FEEDER
alton of Business and Professional
Woman's clubs at the closing business
of the state convention at Great
Falls.
Owing to the demand for cement and
gypsum products, the Three Forks
plant at Hanover and the
Gypsum Products company
of Heath are shipping out to coast
points over the Milwaukee from four
to five cars a day.
Governor Dixon has been invited to
attend the Fourth of July celebration
Of the American Legion at Livingston.
rodeo will be a feature of the occa-
sion. The Park county chamber of
commerce is cooperating with the le-
yion in the program for the day.
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Owen Criswell, aged "a, member of
/ prominent Park county family, told a
sanity commission in Livingston that
lie was being pursued by Oxygen" and
hat Thomas A. Edison was the only
,erson who could aid him. Criswell was
placed in the state asylum for
insane at Warm Springs.
Inc Dry FORKS wen, TWO HHilcS uoIlh
# Conrad, drilled to a depth of 1,7OO
'eet some six years ago, when a con-
iderable flow of gas was encountered
md a good showing Of oil made, will
,e drilled to completion by the Dry
Forks Oil company, a new organiza-
ion.
Commissioners Of Fergus county
lave dismissed the petition for the
reation of Petroleum county out of
he eastern part of Fergus county upon
he grounds that the petition did not
ear the signatures of SO per cent OF
he registered electors Of the proposed
ounty.
The Rev. G. L. Bovard was elected
resident of the Montana Wesleyan
ollege at a meeting of the board of
in Helena to fill the vacancy
reated by the resignation of the Rev.
!. D. Crouch. G. B. Pfeiffer was
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