The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-11-02
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According to pitchers who were at
tracted to Helena by the state horse
shoe contest, the tourney of barnyard
golf this year was the best yet held
and attracted a great deal of interest.
The final result of the tournament
was: Charles Conklin, Big Sandy,
state champion Joe Duble Of Butte,
runner up; George F. Wright, Lewis
town, third r. r. Frazier, last years
champion, fourth Guy Buzzard, Hell
ena. fifth Mike Sullivan, Butte, sixth !;
George Cook, Helena, seventh; d. W.
Heffner, Lewistown, eighth. Follow
ing the contest the state organization
held an enthusiastic meeting and it is
laying plans to increase the member
/ ship to 1000 this season. Officers for
! the coming year were elected as fol
lows: President, Charles Conklin, Big
Sandy; vice president, Joe Dubie,
Butte; secretary treasurer, Leigh
Wade. Lewstown contest manager. D
. Frazi2r. Helena
,ere prevention week In Grear ruT5s
was usnereo in ny $4,000 blaze at
the Noble auto repair shop. Eleven
cars were destroyed or badly damaged.
The fire occurred close in the center
of the business district and ragged for
more than an hour
The Flathead Indians have just re-
ceived a total of $4,000, each man,
woman and child being given $25. The |
money came from Washington. accru-
ing principally from the sale of tim
Der belonging to the Indians on the |
Flathead reservation.
c. P. Tillman of Shelby claims the
worlds record for having funds in
closed banks. Since Feb. s, 1923, he
has picked eight banks in Roundup,
Shelby and Great Falls in which to
carry accounts, and every one of the
eight is now defunct. Mr.. Tillman be-
lieves himself to be fully qualified to
deliver lecture on Banks l Have
Known" before the state bankers con- i
vention next year
w. Fl, Reed, father of the summer
falow movement in the vicinity of
Harlem, has threshed out just little
short of 10000 bushels of wheat on
his summer fallowed land which aver
aged close to 80 bushels per acre.
This is probably the biggest crop of
wheat threshed out by any Individual
in that section of the state.
After receipt of confirmation of the
made by Congress
man Scott Leavitt, Otto NJ. Christensen
has assumed the office of postmaster :
in Glasgow. P. L. Herring, the retir-
ng postmaster, will devote his atten-
hon to his ranch interests.
A novu aIong-powder river following
recent heavy rains resulted in meal
culable damage, sweeping away
bridges, fences, hay stacks, livestock,
farm buildings and inundating the en-
tire valley from source to mouth, ac-
cording to Tom Barnard of Powder
Vile, who declares the flood is many.
lines worse than anything of like ma
-ure remembered by even the oldest
'esidents. Alfalfa fields were flooded \
% a depth of 10 feet on the Barnard
'anch, where the river, ordinarily
'ew feet wide, swept from side to side
If the valley, a mile and half wide.
Horses, forced to high ground, were
It last reached by the water, even on
he tops of high knobs and were cons
Yelled to swim to keep from drowning
III. Barnard saI'- ~
joseph 6ohme, employed by the \
[ontana Power company at Norris, is
! the BoZeman hospital believed to be
1ffering from a fractured skull after
fall from a cliff on the Madison
yer. No details of the accident, be-
Ond the fact that he fell some dis
nee, are available.
When ICY" S. Bullock, private sol
er in the World war, died in Butte,
,cently, all the flags of the city were
half mast. The custom of half
asting flags in honor of any soldier
the World war, no matter of what
nix, was inaugurated in Butte by the
forts of the American War Mothers
lllurc-.
It is estimated by county farm
gents who have been in conference in
reat Falls that more than 100000 IF
ounds of turkey meat, valued conser-
ltively at more than a quarter of f..
ion dollars, viii be marketed by
Nerp Montana turkey raisers this .