The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-06-01
TREASURE STATE
PARAGRAPHS
Short Items For Busy Readers
Devoted to the Welfare OF
Montana

Boulder Hot Springs, one of the best
known health and recreation resorts IN
Montana, has been taken over by d.
NJ. Stewart, of Bozeman, as manager.
The annual spring sale of the Mon
tana Shorthorn Breeders association
was held April % at the Midland EN-
pire fair grounds in Billings.
The annual spring track meet for
women will take place at the State
university at the end of May or the
first week in June, the date not being
yet definitely decided
Forsyth is taking on prosperous air
as preparations for the building OF the
Northern Pacific line to Castle Rock
for the purpose of opening up a great
coal field are being made.
Five hundred steers, reputed to be
of the best in Montana, were sold by
the Martinsdale Livestock company OF
Billings to a buyer in Scots Bluff,
Neb., it has been announced.
Return of one-half of the $100 cut in
the salaries of Great Falls school
teachers year ago has been approved
by the board of trustees of the dis
trict, it has been announced.
Reservations have been made by the
interscholastic committee at the State
university at Missoula to accommodate
all boys and girls who come to the in
terscholastic track meet May 9-12.
Chief Two Leggins head of the Riy-
er Crows and one of the most famous
Indians of inter-tribal warfare, died
recently at his ranch eight miles south
of Hardin of heart trouble, aged 76.
To have served Helena for 5S years
is the distinction of Sands Bros. Dry
Goods company. The store, now one
of the finest in the Northwest, is cele-
brating the fifty-eighth anniversary of
it's founding.
e. e, Collins, formerly county attor-
ney for Yellowstone county, who re-
Gently accepted appointment as assist
ant attorney general under Wellington
D. Rankin, has resigned from state SER
vice and has returned to Billings to
make his home.
In the hope that visiting nurse may
be secured for the children of Glen
dive, and Dawson county, committee
representing the high and grade
schools, the Glendive Woman's club
and the business men have taken the
matter up with the. board of county
commissioners, the city council and the
school boardc npntionpd
Formation of employment commit
tees throughout the state to cooperate
with the United States Veterans
bureau, is announced by Left Fred
erichs employment representative for
the bureau in Montana. Committees
will be established in all the larger
towns and will be composed of rep
resentative business men and former
veterans.
An old Clipped milestone imbeded in
the ground on the university campus
is the only thing left of the once IA
nous combination flour and saw mill
which marked the beginning of the
city of Missoula. The mill was built
in 1865 This stone is only one relic
of an interesting collection on the
to which the university is en-
to add each year with SOU
venirs of all state history.
Because the law imposing a license
tax of 2 per cent on production of crude
oil was passed by the last legislature
during the 44-hour period that the
hands of the clock were set back to
show the time was still officially be-
fore midnight of the sixtieth day of
the session, the Sunburst Oil & Gas
company of Great Falls has protested
payment of the tax A letter received
by the state board of equalization de-
clared that 2 per cent tax law was
40 hours after the legal time for the
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