Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-06-10
(By Our Helena Correspondent

(By Our Helena Correspondent
Due partly to the rapidly-improving
economic and financial conditions
throughout the state and partly to a
more sensible attitude toward public
debt, school districts, towns, cities and
counties are making continuous and
successful efforts toward paying of
their Indebtedness, says L. NJ. Brand
jord. register of the state lands.
They are issuing funding and refund
ing bonds to the state Of Montana" said
Mr.. Brandjord, 'repayable in fixed gradu-
ated installments throughout the term
of the new bonds.
They are tired OF paying interest from
year to year and almost from generation
TO generation on some indebtedness, SO
they are turning to the state amortiza-
ton bond for relief.
"The city Of Missoula. Lake county,
Flathead county. the cities of Choteau
and Glendive, and many other cities,
towns and school districts throughout
the state, are taking care of indebted
ness through this new and improved
PLAN"
Fol the control Of contagious diseases,
with particular attention to trachoma.
the international health board of the
Rockefeller foundation has agreed to con-
tribute SO, 800 to Montana for the year
beginning July l, 1927, according to DIR.
w. F. Cogswell, who returned to Helena
recently from Washington, d. c., where
he attended a meeting of state and pro-
vincial health officers n a conference
of state n territorial health officers
with the surgeon general of he public
health service.
The United States public health serv-
ice assured that financial aid will be
given Lewis and Clark and Cascade coun-
ties another year" said DR.. Cogswell, land
the service anticipates establishing a full
time health department In one other
county of the state.
Surgeon General H. s. Cumming has
promised that he will visit Montana and
deliver an address at the dedication of
the new entomology laboratory at Hamil-
tom
Alex A. Sweas of Kalispell seeks from
the Montana railroad commission author
ity to operate a motor bus service be-
tween Kalispell and Libby via Whitefish,
Eureka and Rexford. There are now two
lines operating from Kalispell to White
fish.
In the Judgment or the supreme court,
a county is precluded from allowing ex-
penditure for board of county prisoners
in excess Of the moun provided by
statute. For this reason, 1t holds, the
commissioners of Silver Bow county were
right in their refusal to pay for coal or
dered by the sheriff's Office for the range
on which meals for the prisoners were
cooked. Thu district courts decision In
favor of the Pacific Coal company, which
sued the county to collect, is reversed.
An order denying the application OF
E.. H. B~lankenburg for authority to OPP
crate a passenger bus between Bozemar
and Livingston was issued by the state
railroad commission. 1t was protested by
the chambers OF commerce of Bozemar
and Livingston n by the Northern Pa
cihc railroad.
The cities are separated by the mair
range of the Rocky mountains and serv-
ice could not be maintained except dur
ing the favorable months while the rail.
road operates eight trains a day, the
commission points out.
acquisitions Of Warden Austin Middle
ton for $4,000 worth of electrically OPP.
Grated equipment for the automobile Ii.
cense plate factory at the state prison
have been approved by the state board o.
examiners. The orders will include EN-
bossing machines, bake ovens, punch
shears and other equipment. The legis
up the plant, but j. E. Murphy, state
purchasing agent, believes that all OF Thu
sum will not be needed.
Equipment for the garment factory
also established for the prison by the las
legislature, has been ordered.
Work Is now In progress toward pre-
pairing the federal cell house for use o
these industries. The cell cages are be
ing torn out n cement floors will b,
run In. The garment factory is to oc
cupy the top floor, the license bureau thu
second floor, and the plate-making plan
the ground floor.
The piate-mnxing plant Will o put IN
to operation as soon as possible, Warde1
Middleton explains, to make sure tina
the 1928 plates are ready for the first O
the veal.
In the meantime he is working a BIZ
crew OF men on the prison farms anc
making preparations for putting other
on the Job of building water mains TO
the state school at Boulder.