The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-05-11

N addresses by the boys as well as th
n dads made up the program.
II Work on the reconstruction Of tn
h Cove ditch near Billings has agai
\ started and will be pushed as rapid
| as possible until the beginning Of tn
j irrigation season, according to Lloy'
: Lipp, secretary of the Cove irrigation
district.
. 1t is stated that permanent offices
of the new North & South railroad
, are to be opened In Miles City within
a short time as all business Of tht
, road is to be conducted from Miles
! City where headquarters are to be
established
Mrs. Ruth Browning, wife of Walker
Browning, and pioneer of Billings and
Yellowstone county, died recently after
an illness of several months. Mrs.
Browning was one of the earliest resi-
dents of Billings and had lived in the
city for more than 40 years.
Contract for construction of II miles
of gravel surfaced highway between
Cascade and Ulm, In Cascade county,
on the route between Helena and Great
Falls, has been let by the state high
way cmomissiOn to Fitzgerald & Staun-
ton of Great Falls for S8O3e6.
Earl Baker of Ismay shipped $500
pounds of his Bliss Triumph pure seed
potatoes to Miles City this week.
These seed spuds represent one of the
best lots in the state, where less than
two per cent of al potato diseases
were found in the patch last fall at
digging time.
vocational students at the Univer-
sity of Montana during the fall quarter
stood three-tenths of 1 per cent higher
than the regular students. There are
l35 men in vocational training there
this quarter, according to Allan Swift,
co-ordinator Of the United States
veterans bureau.
Montana Wesleyan college closed its
home debate schedule recently, Wes-
leyan girls winning in an exciting con-
test with team Of girls from the
state college at Bozeman by 80 de-
cision. The debate was on the ques-
ton of parliamentary government for
the United States.
Richard t. Ringing, son Of one of
the Ringing Brothers of circus fame,
who Is now a prominent figure in the
livestock industry of Montana, is
manned defendant in two damage suits
filed recently in the district court of
Gallatin county, in which damages
totalling 100000 are asked
Secretary Work has thrown open
275,OOO acres of public land in five
western states for entry by former
service men. The tracts, comprising
the largest areas offered for home
stealing by the interior department
during the last two years, includes
$4,000 acres in Beaverhead county.
Dandelions in Lewistown as we'll
is other cities in the state are becom-
ng greater pest every year and are
asst destroying the lawns. Several
ears ago the city authorities staged
campaign against the dandelion with
good results, but this
method has been discontinued for some
ime now.
Bridger folk are just beginning to
ealize the activity which will follow
he Introduction of the seed pea in
tustry into the Clark Fork valley.
Word received recently was that four
arloads of seed peas are en-route to
hat point for distribution and that
100 acres in Carbon county will be
lanted to peas this spring.
The special election at Kalispell to J
ote for the creation of the proposed !
ounty Of Lake out of parts of Flat )
cad and Missoula will be held as 9
riginally scheduled, but as a result y
District Judge Pomeroy's decision I,
lie deciding fight will not come until !,
ay ii, when the court will pass on =
lie legality of procedure leading up y
the election. ;
Entrance into Montana of another r
rye independent oil group with heavy +,
nancial backing is assured by the
in Billings of Jack a
anciger, vice president of the Dan 81
SCI vi " ieCliuluS COlupduy VI Nan | III
S City, that his company, through ri
e operations of the Rio Grande Gulf CO
| & Gas company has appropriated al
100000 for the purpose of prospect I'll
g for oil in Montana and Wyoming. a
lie company already has leases on al
900 acres in the neighborhood OF st
ker, Mont. us
At no time since the advent of the br
icago, Milwaukee 6 st. Paul road in
Montana in 1907 has the outlook 70
: southeastern Montana been more be
surfing than at present. The new br
rth and south road being built by
, Haskell interests which will con- In
ct Miles City with the oil fields OF of
Toming will develop one of the rich. wi
sections of Montana and will make tol
rkets more accessible to hundreds SUI
stockmen and farmers on five great A
lines of railway. The wi
portance of this undertaking can the
rcely be estimated until 1t Is re- bu
led that 1t will link the Milwaukee Ing
Union Pacific systems making 8 me
ect route to south Pacific coast