Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24
MONTANA NEWS NOTES
TerseIy Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
M0ntanans

lungs 10 the Bitter ROOT Cheese frOt
ucts company.
Contracts for $4,000 of state high
ways on the Blackfeet Indian reserva
ton will be let by the highway com
mission In June.
Joseph Murphy, who was for NOR
than 80 years a resident of Red Bodg'
and vicinity. died at Bearcreek follow
ing a long Illness.
Daniel L. McQuarrie, 81 years old
many times n member of the state leg
i~slature from Missoula county, died al
Missoula following a lingering illness
According to Secretary Bates of the
Livingston chamber of commerce, the
tourist season is starting early. He re-
ports a flood of letters daily, indIcat-
ing an immense rush into the park this
year.
Old time orchardIsts OF Park City
predict that the apple crop will be
light this year owing to the grasshop-
per scourge last summer, which ate the
apple blossom buds. This condition
will not seriously affect the plum crop.
AAtANitc VI lAtOA M VI thS LIB
Horn County bank of Hardin were ap-
proved at Helena by L. Q. SHELTON,
state superintendent OF banks, and
filed In the office of the county clerk
and recorder. The capital stock is
$4,000.
A slide carrying hundreds of tons Of
earth and rock onto the roadway at n
point between Gardiner and Mammoth
was the result of n SUPER charge of
dynamite exploded for the purpose OF
relieving any danger from the men
acing mountain.
Traffic both from and going to the
Dempsey Gibbons fight at Shelby July |
4 viii be handled by special train ser
vice as much as possible, according TO
plans now being made, according 10
plans now being made by the Great
Northern railway for the event.
Beet acreage contracted In the Bill
llngs district TO date aggregates more
than 23.500 acres as compared with
1922 acres last season. according to
w. z. Hogarty, superintendent of the
Great Western Sugar company's plant
at Billings. There were 762 growers
last year. while this year there will
be 1,067 farmers growing beets.
According to reports Rlchland coun-
ty grows the largest acreage of corn in
the state of Montana and leads all
counties In the northwest, with the
exception of the eastern counties Of
North Dakota. In the nelghborhood OF
1900 acres of corn were grown In
Richland county last year and the
acreage will be greatly Increased this
year.
The annual Woman's day at Mon
tana State college at Bozeman is 10
be held this year on May %. with a
program that VIII surpass anything
ever offered to visiting women. Dean
Una b. Herrick of the women's college
at the institution has issued n general
Invitation to mothers and other women !
Of the state to inspect the department /
that occasion. +,
A resolution censuring newspapers
featuring crime and vice. and n further {
resolution encouraging publications ,
giving more space to world news and
moral uplift were passed by the dele I
yntes attending the sessions of the yell
owstone County Federation of q
Tomen's clubs Mt Billings recently. q
rhe meetings were held at the Poly q
echnic institute, with 80 delegates 4
An airplane, which Ii Is declared will I
e%volutIonize present methods OF fly c
ng, has been invented by w. r. Hen c
of Shelby. A full-size'model Is b
'eing built and when completed will be h
.iven a tryout. Hendricks asserts his t.
plane will ny on a level keel, re- n
list side slips. tall spins and other Y
angers of aviation. and be so simple n
o operate that n child can fly It. In r
hort, his invention, he declares, is
frtually "fool proof" c
The Fergus County Potato Growers II
ssociatiou held a meeting at Lewis o
own to draw up articles of incorpor- v
ton for the new organization. The c
ext meeting will be held on Tuesday, n
II. At this time a permanent or &
anization will be perfected and plans "
iade for disposing of the potato crop Il
his fall. 1t was stated at the meet o.
that farmers who will have in more h
han $50 acres of potatoes have signed N
p with the association already.
According TO information received Mt o.
files City from Chicago, arrangements Il
ave been made for the building OF the tc
& Northwestern railroad from 81
amp Cook. South Dakota, into Miles 1t
lily by way OF Belle Fourche. 1t is II
the line will tap the coal fields at 81
'oalwood and then proceed to Miles W
ity, that being the northern terminal. pl
is claimed that the Chicago & North W
surveys are ready to be sent in
ito the field and Ii is expected that &C
vork on the grade win start during the is
ummer. bt
Preliminary reports frorsthe various
ommittees working for memberships VI
/ the Montana Merchants association OF
how that Billings now has a total Of CO
l members. The largest number OF &C
In any one city is In Great pi