The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-11-06
STATE BRIEFS

have brought $4,000 to growers this year
health survey IS being made in the
Rosebud county schools by Miss Jessie
Adee, home demonstration agent.
The crew working in the KOOtenai for
est in Lincoln county under Ranger Bald
win on the new RexfOrd-Yaak road has
completed it's work for the season.
Judge Edward c. Day, Of Helena, has
been appointed to the committee OF foreign
relations Of the Grand Encampment'
knights Templar Of the United States.
The American National ank has made
a second payment Of % per cent Of the
deposits in the bank due the patrons at
the time Of suspension. RMS payment was
not due until April 90, 1926.
Improvement Of Billings freight house
facilities by rebuilding and charging the
loading platform has been started by the
Northern Pacific company at an estimated
cost Of $1O,65O in labor and material.
With the factory virtually completed. the
Midland Sugar company, 51,5OO,0OO subsid-
larry of the Holly Sugar corporation, is now
in full operation at Sidney, and Is making
car shipments Of finished sugar to every
point on the compass.
DR.. E. B. Downs, who resigned his posi-
ton at Fort Belknap Agency physician,
has left for Danville, Ill, where he VIII
E0 Aubu partnership VIII Ia AVeACA WAV
has been practising in that city for the
last 40 years.
Lumber cut in Montana last year
amounted to 35O,335,OOO feet, as compared
with 42G.917,OOO feet in 1923, department
Of commerce figures show. The number Of
1923 was 121, and 100 IN 1924.
For the purpose Of arOusing interest
and enthusiasm in music; the public
unhno1a nN Anaconda mrfl nHUn nwnnfFu 70
all students taking piano and violin les
sons, 1t has been announced by Miss
Mabel Hatch, supervisor Of music in the
schools.
An increase Of $2O,6S1, or 3 per cent, in
the assessed valuation Of the property in
MissOula is noted In the announcement by
City Treasurer Carl III. Christensen of the
The figure still is S21,1O1 under that Of
1928, it is said.
Sheep grazed on national forest areas in
Montana during 1924 represented a value
Of approximately S5,642, $3.50, according to
figures compiled by Glen A. Smith, assist
ant district forester in charge Of grazing
at MissOula. This sun represents the mar
ket value Of lambs and the wool clip.
suit has been filed in the district court
at Forsyth by Mrs. Mae Costello against
school district No. 80, Rosebud county, t.
recover the sum Of $G68.S8 with interest al
8 per cent from January 10, 1925, claimed
as hack salary due her as teacher in the
IngOmar public schools. She also asks S20(
for attorney fees;
DOdsOn advanced another step tOwar
the entry Of the Montana Power company
into that city when the city council voted
to accept the bid of the state for the issu,
EOf $4,000 amortization bonds, due in p
years. The proceeds Of the bond issue viii
be used to put the present light system
in condition for its acceptance by tn
power company.
Deposits a~ggregating S429.O6, the larges
single days in the history Of the Billing
school savings system, were received on
day recently at the nine buildings PARTED
pating In the system. Thirteen hundred
and ten deposits were received from a.
enrolment Of 2,766, indicating that AZ.
per cent OF the enrolment was represent
ed in the days deposits.
The Observation-Disclosures bank at Glas
gov has sold a 500-acre tract of land 70
/, $50 an acre or approximately $4,000. Thi
2 during the last four years, while bein
operated by the bank, has produce
I 1900 bushels Of wheat, besides a sma
= amount OF other feed grown for the stOc
I used in farming the land.
( Twelve carloads OF apples have bee
shipped from the MisSOula division Of Oh
Northern Pacific this season and It
.AA Nj AZ.
, more carloads of the fruit left to be move,
i The crop which normally runs several hun
dred cars vas reduced to almost nOthin
= by the frost last winter that nipped I'll
fruit buds.
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Terrence Mathews, son Of Scott Con
S missioner and Mrs. r.. G. Matthews
Kalispell, was accidentally killed when b
plane turned turtle I'm making a landin.
according to a message from the con
n handing officer at the flying field, Cam
4 Borden, Ontario, where Young Mathew
u entered school this fall to complete b
aviation training.
NJ. r.. Mann. Of Miles City, was electC
. grand patriarch Of the Montana 1. o. o.
at it's grand encampment held in Butt
Other officers elected by the grand e
campment were: Grand high priest, w.
Bell, Of BOzemRn; grand senior warde
James Harris, Of Butte; grand juni'
q warden, W. A. Huff, Of Billings; graz
scribe, r. W. Kemp, Of MissOula; graz
treasurer. Phillip DOdson, OF BOzemal
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