The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-09-07

% llngS, Closed Win the cOnferrlng OF Il
. degree Of Amounted High Priest upc
\ score or more of candidates at IL
e Masonic temple. The degree of Anoin
n ed High Priest Is one to which on
T those Royal Arch Masons who hay
D served as the high priest Of chaptt
q are eligible. fhe grand chapter cleo
ed Donald S. Macleod of Plains mos
: eminent grand high priest and elevate
: all other elective officers to the mex
s succeeding position, the new candidat
:. for the chairs who came in at the bot
{ tom being e. N. Hutchinson of White
: fish, elected right eminent grand Roya
J Arch captain. The other officers elect
t ed were: II. s. Hepner, Helena, RICH
eminent deputy grand high priest; q
. L. Hart, Helena, right eminent Crane
. king; G. S. Bell, Billings, right emf
nent grand scribe; DR.. e. w. SPOTS
wood, Missoula, right eminent CRANE
captain of the host; r. M. Armour
Great Falls, right eminent grand prin
cipal soj0urner. Edward @. Day, Hell
ena, and Cornelius Hedges, Jr., Helena
were reelected right eminent grand
treasurer and right eminent grand sec
rotary, respectively.
The election of state officers and
delegates to the national convention
of the organization to be held in San
Francisco concluded the state conven-
ton OF the American Legion in Bill
lings. Helena was chosen as the con-
vention city for the meeting In 1924.
Quincy Scott of Lewistown was elected
commander of the department of Mon
tana. Scott P. Hart of Poplar was
elected vice commander; 10y j. Mol
umby, national executive committee
man; 7. ]. Wegener of Forsyth, state
finance officer; William Lowry Of
Whitehall, historian, and Jack Dis
more of Kalispell, sergeant-ataarms.
The Rev.. Conrad B. Wellen of Havre
was elected state chaplain. The Mon
tana legioIaires who will represent
The department at the national conven-
ton at San Francisco are D. G. Silver,
Butte; Frank t. Hooks, Townsend;
E. j. Cummins, Deer Lodge; Earl Ten
ney, and w. I. Neubert, Great Falls.
A. j. Johnson, Miles City; Donald
Loehl of Missoula and Charles Hattie
of Baker were chosen as alternates.
Lack of market is the outstanding
reason for coal in Montana not being
produced at capacity at the present
time, according to information gath
cred by the geological survey. During
the week ending July 81 production
was at 70.7 per cent Of capacity, 8.4
per cent of the production being
due to mine disability, the remainder
to market conditions. For the previ-
Gus week production was at 75.5 per
cent of capacity. Comparison of soft |
coal production of the first TT work
ing days of the past seven years show
that 1923 stands one per cent behind |
the average for the three years of in.
1ustria lactivity, 1917, 1918 and 1920.
and 81 per cent ahead of that for the
three years Of depression, 1919, 1921
and 1922. Production for the nation
Turing the first 1T working days of
1923 is given at 14,404,0vJ net tons.
t is estimated that about two million
ons of anthracite coal is being pro-
iuced each week, only three times
ince the season opened on April ! has
weekly production been below this
igure, and In these cases failure to
each the mark was due to observa-
ion of holidays.
Mrs. Quincy Scott of Lewistown was
lected president of the American Lee
ion auxiliary at the final convention
Meeting of that organization in Bill
ngs. Other state officers elected
rere: Mrs. w. l. Marsh, Deer Lodge,
ice president; Mrs, Alva Martin,
ewistown, secretary; Mrs. Charles
GODDARD of Billings, treasurer, and
[rs. Mary Tevlin, Butte, historian. I
district committee women elected I
ere: Mrs. G. s. Bonestiel, Helena, S
istrict L Mrs. 0. L. Lundin, Eureka, [
istrict 2; Mrs. J. S. Connors, Town e
nd District 8; Mrs. Stephen Tighe, c
oundup, District 4; Miss Gladys Bid V
Ike, Billings, District 5; Mrs. G. P.
rowley, Glendive, District 6, and Mrs. t
ay Runyon, Chinook, District z.
The osteopath physicians of Mon 8
ma concluded their three-day conven-
IN at Chico Hot Springs with the
ection of DIR. Asa Willard of Mis- =
ula, president, Dr. J. H. Strowd, :,
endive, vice president; DR.. w. O. q
ives, Bozeman, secretary-treasurer, Y,
elected, and DR.. Alice Strowd, trus- T.
2. Dr. Asa Willar was elected as :,
legate to the national convention :
itch will be held at Kirksville, Mo-, :,
yt August.
Another monster grey wolf has been
led near Sanford by Government %
apper Daniels. Daniels with party !"
three other men Travelled three days th
d three nights in pursuit of the &c
tie before they caught him. He was pa
lied by the dragging trap and by pa
Jack of greyhounds belonging to the az
9per.
The annual meeting of the Montana 10
tie Bar association closed it's session mt
Hunters Hot Springs with the cleo ia
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