The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-12-07
Treasure State TabIoids

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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
and an 1900 gallon gasoline tank In
the Continental Oil Go. station was
threatened. The tank and its con
esnts were save although all the paint
was scorchsd from the tank by the
Aeat.
Three big grain freighting outfits
with is horses, were mixed up In
BAD runaway accident at the railroad
crossing in Harlem when the horses
Aecame frightened at a 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
Ais high wagon.
-Four hundred gallons OF mash, TWO
stills of oO-gallon capacity and guam
tity of other Illicit booze manufactur-
ing paraphanalia were confiscated
when officials of Valley county arrest
ed Jesse Fisher and George Brown at
their ranch In the badlands 70 miles
southwest of Glasgow. This is one OF
the largest moon plants ever taken IN
the northern part Of the state.
The territory south and southeast
of Plentywood will be served by Two
tri-weekly mail routes to be estap-
lished from the Plentywood postorrice
after January first, according to ao-
vices from Washington. The new
routes will serve 1877 families and are
the first to be established out OF that
postoffice.
Thirty head of range horses were
sold at public auction recently at the
Dome mountain ranger station near
CarbelIa by United States Deputy
Marshal w. G. 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 church at
Sumatra and Ingomar by the Rev. X.
G. Edgington, district superintendent.
Mss Rich is graduate of the Chicago
training school for home and foreign
missions. Is a licensed minister, and a
dssconess of the denomination. She
has also had experience as teacher
AS the result of the explosion Of
55-gallon barrel of gasoline, which was
ignited by a spark, or heat generated
By trying to drive In the drain-pipe
plug which was stuck, John Grady OF
Conrad la dead. Death followed in
iurias which necessitated the amputa-
ton of the deceased's limbs.
The telegraph line from Dixon to
Poison has been completed and tele-
graph service begun. Construction
was started November and the work
rushed, the crew averaging 10 miles
a day. No new poles were set, the
wire being strung on those OF the
Northern Pacific.
To purchase a carload of high grade
Guernsey cattle for Hinsdale dairy
men, George Fl. Webster, chief of the
divisio nof dairying Of the state de-
partment of agriculture, has gone to
Eau Claire, Wis.
Mrs. Emma Ennis swallowed the
contents of a hottie of poison and died
In the arms of her husband a few min
utes later when he returned to the
farm home near Cut Bank, following
q dance at a country sch0olhouse.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the Montana Implement and Hardware
association will be held in Billings
February and Z. 1924. 1t is expected
100 representatives OF the association !
will attend.
Recently the Sidney school board re-
mitted $4,000 to the state land board
for the redemption of bonds issued in
1915 and due in 1925. A year ago
$1,000 worth of bonds were redeemed
a year ahead of maturity.