The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-03-23

Marcn 10 to May %, both inclusive
A campaign of progressive road ant
bridge building and maintenance wa
outlined by the Carbon county commits
sioners, In session for their regular
March meeting.
Disposition of the wool clip for 1872;
was the main topic discussed at 6
meeting of Powell county woolgrowers
held at Deer Lodge 1t was finally
decided to hold the wool until the
first of June.
On his annual tour as president OF
the American Institute of Metallurgfcal
and Mining Engineers, E. p. Mathew
son will be in Butte on March 20, &C.
companied by F. F. Sharpless of the
executive board
Re-zoning of the state for application
OF insurance rates on hail damage to
crops, and preparation of new forms
and drafting of new ruling to comply
with the new amendments to the hail
Insurance law, has been begun by the
state hail insurance board.
Hill county is setting up record as
a healthy and pleasant neighborhood
In which to live, that probably cannot
be duplicated by any other community
of the same size. Within three months
1t has had three well known families
celebrated the golden wedding ami
versary.
The reopening of the American Bank
and Tr1Jc& which h0C hppn
the topic of keen interest in Great
Falls for over a year, has taken a new
angle with the passing of a law relative
to banking by the recent legislature,
which has been signed by Governor
Dixon
All records for Sunday school at
tendance in Sidney were shattered re
Gently when 800 boys and girls and
men and women attended the Congre-
gational Sunday school. There were
126 children in the primary depart
ment and 213 In the other departments
Of the school
It Is reported that work will begin
within short time on the new railroad
from Miles City to Salt Creek. That
Miles City is meeting the Haskell In
terests In every way is evident from
the fact that 100000 have been sub
scribed by Miles City people, and 1t is
now up to the railroad promoters to
get busy.
The birth rate in Montana was the
next lowest of any state In the union,
with 1877 births per thousand popula-
tion during 1922, the bureau of the
census at Washington, D. O., has an
nounced. The figures are compiled
from survey extending over % select.
ed states in which registration area
Montana was just admitted In 1922
AT largely attended meeting of re
tail clerks, held in Miles City. an or
ganization was formed for the pur
pose of safeguarding the interests of
the local store employees and for stabil-
izing and standardizing working hours
and conditions. About three times the
required number were signed UP with
prospects bright for a 100 per cent
membership.
At recent meeting held in Miles
City, Milwaukee shopmen and Others
discussed plans for opening workers
bank in Miles City and seriously con
sidered organizing with capital stock
of $25.000 to take over and operate the
Custer County bank, which has been In
charge Of representative of the state
bank examiners office since the death
Of its president, w. O. McClintosk, last
fall
Improvements to be made in the
irrigation ditch this
spring will insure an ample supply OF
water to the farmers operating the
1900 acres Of land in the project and
make the area one of the most inten-
sively farmed and most productive in
all Montana, according to an announce
nent by John Bird, of Custer, presi
lent of the Waco-Custer Ditch com
oany
Thirty five registered Herefords
passed through the auction ring at the
Yards of the Dillon Horse Sale com.
,any at the sale conducted there by the
Montana Hereford Breeders associa-
ion, and brought an aggregate sum Oh
'5,045. The prices ranged all the way
rom $40 paid for two heifers to $34G
,aid for coming two-year-old bull
The average price paid was little
'etter than $144.
The basketball team from Miles City
yon the 1923 high school championship
# Montana by defeating Missoula II
O 6 in the tournament finals. TIC
yloyse Overturf of Darby was award
d the medal offered by the Rev. 81. G
Nemme of Bozeman for the best all.
ound athlete at the tournament on 8
asfs of 80 per cent for craftsmanship.
s per cent for aggressiveness and %
er cent on value to his team
The Yellowstone Valley Cooperative
Jean Growers association which met y
ecently at the office of the Montana
fortgage company in Billings for their
nRual meeting discussed matters re
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