The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-07-15
VOTERS TO DECIDE
THREE QUESTIONS
NEXT NOVEMBER

Montana voters at the general cleo
ton in November will express their
will on three initiative questions, the
petition for which, sufficient to place
the three measures on the ballots, hav-
ing been filed in the office of the sec
rotary of state They are, the FIVE
mill levy for schools; the revoking of
all laws of the state applying to the
manufacture, sale and use of alcoholic
liquors, except as to minors, and a
three-cent tax on gasoline, the pro-
ceeds to be expended in highway i'm
provements.
The fve-mill levy for schools is
sponsored by the State Teachers asso-
citation and Miss May Trumper super
intendent of public instruction. The
measure also extends the levy for the
university system for a period of
years past the expiration as fixed at
the time it was carried. ts
The proposal to revoke all state
liquor laws except those applying to
minors, is put forward by an associa-
ton of men and women who believe in
temperance, rather than the present
conditions brought about by sumptu-
airy legislation. They had no trouble
in obtaining the necessary signatures
and a good deal more besides.
Z In thus submitting this question to
vote, the sponsors have accomplish
ed without great trouble what New
York has been straining at for long
time, and the result of the vote will be
watched with interest throughout the
nation for, as the president of the Ma
tional Association Against Prohibition
said in recent amendment, Montana
is one of the pivotal states this year
in determining the popular sentiment
on the whole question of national pro-
hibition, as it is now and for several
years has been attempted, but with
results admittedly disappointing to the
prohibition element.
The proposal to revoke Montana's
liquor laws is being bitterly fought
by the Anti-Saloon league, and the
fight will grow more intense as the
November election draws nearer.
The tax on gasoline is sponsored by
the Montana Automobile association
and to date, the petitions necessary to
place the initiative measure on the
ballots, have been oversubscribed by
631 names, 1856 voters having beer
certified on the petition, according tc
the official figures, whereas only
| 1926 were required.
congratulations to the school ma'ams
They will both be in good company
Two months from now that progress
sive town will have a fine school house
and after p. m. the students there
will take up all the sidewalks and al
air of intellectually will permeate thu
atmosphere, so one had better watch
his grammar.
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other farm, orchard and garden pro
ducts that are raised by the enter
prising farmers thereabouts.
However, Boyd lacked schoo
house but it is going to have one RICH
away. Aside from the school building
there will be two pretty school ma'ams
in Boyd hereafter, to say nothing o.
a janitor and department and map'
and semesters and charts and curricu
lums located right within the. city lin
its. After September, I, the use of ;
wrong tense there will be capital Of
Tense, the utterance of a double neg
ative will be the same as first degre
assault, and the comission of spill
infinitive will be just plain assault an,
battery.
But it's all right though. Here
congratulations to Boyd and here