Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-12-06
Treasure State TabIeids


Quick work OF the fire department
saved Deer Lodge from what would
: have probably been a disastrous fire.
recently. when two frame buildings
back Of the state prison caught fire
aud anSrO00 gallon gasoline tank IN
the Continental OIL Co. station was
threatened. The tank and its con-
tents were save although all the paIns
was scorched from the tank by the
heat.
Three big grain freighting outfits
with 16 horses, were mixed up In a
bad runaway accident at the railroad
crossing In Harlem when the horses
became frightened at locomotive
whistle. One Of the horses was killed.
five were badly crippled and one Of
the drivers had his leg badly hurt
when he jumped to the ground from
bts high wagon.
-Four hundred gallons of mash. two
stills Of 30-gallon capacity and a guam
tity Of other Illicit booze manufacture
Ing paraphanalia were confiscated
when officials of Valley county arrest
ed Jesse Fisher and George Brown at
their ranch in the badlands rs miles
southwest of Glasgow This is one of
the largest moon plants ever taken IN
he northern part OF the state.
The territory south and southeast
of Plentywood will be served by two
tri-weekly mail outes to be estab-
lIshed from the Plentywood ~postofflce
after January first. according to adj
vices from Washington. The new
routes will serve 1877 families and are
the first to be established out Of thar
postoffice.
Thirty head of range horses were
sold at public auction recently at the
Dome mountain ranger station near
Carbeila by United States Deputy
Marshal w. c. Packer, of Helena. The
horses were rounded up by the forest
service trespassing on the government
national forest, and were sold under
an order OF the federal court.
Miss Bertha Rich has been appoint
ed pastor Of the Methodist churcn at
Sumatra and Ingomar by the Rev. II.
Edglngton, district superintendent. :
Miss Rich Is n graduate OF the Chicago {
school for home and foreign I
missions, is a licensed minister, and a {
deaconess of the denomination. She
has also had experience as a teacher. 7
AS the result of the explosion of a '
barrel of gasoline, which was n
gnlted by a spark, or heat generated {
" trying to drive In the drain-plpe r
llug which was stuck, John Grady OF n
Conrad is dead. Death followed In 8
urIes which necessitated the amputa- n
ion Of the deceased's limbs. b
The telegraph line from Dixon to "
FOLSOM has been completed and tele- !,
service begun. Construction :
vas started November 3 and the work :
'ushed, the crew averaging 10 miles !,
day. No new poles were set, the "
wire being strung or those of the q :,
Northern Pacific. :,
To purchase a carload Of high grade 7
Guernsey cattle for Hlnsdale dairy Ia
nen. George III. Webster, chief Of the Il
nof dairying of the state de-
artment of agriculture, has gone TO
Claire, Wis.
Mrs. Emma Ennis swallowed the "
Dntents OF a bottle Of poison and died +,
/ the arms of her husband a few min n,
ties later when he returned to the M
irm home near Cut Bank, following 90
dance AT a country schoolhouse. d,
The sixteenth. annual convention OF -
ne Montana Implement and Hardware "'
ssociation will be held in Billings W
ebruary @ and Z, 1924. 1t is expected 10
representatives of the association "
III attend. :.
Recently the Sidney school board re- IN
tilted $1,000 to the state land board We
# the redemption OF bonds issued in hn
no and due In 1925. A year age WI
1000 worth of bonds were redeemed ga
year ahead OF maturity. o.