The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-05-31

Butte is busy with cleanup cam
paign. Ninety-seven buildings have
been condemned and will be dis
mantled. Half of them are at pres
ent occupied.
Edward Thomas of Havre received
severe scalp wound in an automobile
accident a year ago. The cut was
sewed with II stitches. A few days
ago he unlodged piece of glass that
had been left in his scalp and sewed
! up when the stitches had been put in.
/ Vainly waiting 81 years for his wife
to return, Charles Mack of Butte has
obtained decree of divorce from the
woman who deserted him away back
in 1897.
Halibut weighing from 200 to 800
/ pounds are often caught, according to
the United States bureau of fisheries.
According to the stories of the Mon
tana anglers native trout are fire.
quently caught out here as big as any
halibut in the seas.
One of the striking features of the
coming Silver Jubilee celebration at
Lewistown on July and will be
the pageant of transportation, in
which the ancient methods of travel,
from the travois to the huge electric
engine of today, will be shown. Along
with this exhibition will be the show
ing on the same track of the oldest
engine of the Great Northern system
and one of the Milwaukees massive
electrics.
John @. Adams of Corvallis is going
in for diving in an airplane with the
hopes of bringing back his lost hear
ing. Recently at Spokane he dropped
8,700 feet in plane. He will make
another attempt from an altitude of
10000 feet. Adams believes that the
sudden change in altitude and the rush
of air against his ears may prove
beneficial.
Keith Farrer, 21-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Farrer, who
live near Laurel, was drowned in a
backwater pool of the Yellowstone.
He was seized with cramps while TAX
ing his first swim Of the season.
Roy Hanson of Dovetail is ably as
sisted in training his range horses by |
his wife. Mrs Hanson is an expert !
horsewoman and works side by side |
with her husband in the handling of |
the widest ones and seems to enjoy
the work of training them.
DR.. and Mrs. J. C. Dunn Of Lewis
town have petitioned the state rail
road commission for permit to con-
duct a stage line from Moccasin,
through Hobson, Lewistown and Wini-
fred to Havre.
Automobiles will be permitted to
enter Yellowstone National park, for
travel over the park highways, June l.
With the exception of the Trick
Falls-Two Medicine lake section Of
Two Medicine road all roads in Gla-
cler National park are now open and
in good condition.
Speaking of fish stories, how's this?
Jack Kanahouse, 5-year-old Living
ston youngster, noticed big Loeb
leven trout stranded in shallow of
the Yellowstone and went after it.
After a struggle which Melted him
several scratches, he finally grabbed
the big fish under the gills and
dragged it ashore with his hands.
When weighed the trout tipped the
scales at five pounds.
Montana will expend over nine and
half million dollars on main high
ways and lateral roads this year, ac-
'ordlng to the Montana Automobile
association.
Plans are under way for a SWIM
ming pool at Terry. The project is
ponsored by the Terry Commercial
Tub and other civic organizations. A
vading pool will also be built for
mall children.
Hailstones as "big as hens eggs"
re reported by Cascade sheriff as
llling six lambs in flock ranging IN
eton mountains.
Sportsmpn of Arnarica interested IN