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The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16
ID. f. LUHRSEN
TAKES DAY OFF
TO TAKE BRIDE

The Montana oil industry has had
several surprises of late but the
brotherhood has had no greater shock
than to read in the morning paper
that Y. F. ("Firpo') Luhrsen, super
lntendent of the Sunburst Oil & Re-
filming company, has taken unto him
self bride.
Luhrsen is the rough-and-ready
type of oil fields workers whose chief
sentiment is supposed to be inter-
wined with wire line and no manila,
let alone trailing arbutus and orange
blossoms.
Luhrsen is called "Firpon by his
friends because of his husky build and
he has been dubbed the "snow fighter
in recent months because he kept
wildcat well drilling As miles from no
where, on the bleak blizzard blown
border of Montana north of the
Sweetgrass Hills, while the producing
areas of Kevin-Sunburst have been at
a standstill.
The first sign of weakness came re-
Gently when he wrote a poem about
his wildcat. Everyone around the rig
felt fearful. Then came the discovery
of oil, then big blow of gas and the
bit had just started for the main pay
sand when the wind shifted and the
boiler had to be drowned to prevent
a gas explosion and fire. In the midst
OF all this excitement Luhrsen showed
up IN Great Falls on Tuesday, aband-
oning his post of duty, for no given
reason at all. He asked G. C. Steven
son, vice president of the Sunburst
to accompany him to a north side
home where Stevenson was astounded
to find preacher, pretty young
lady and the members of her family
gathered around her.
The pretty girl in the case was
Miss Margaret Dempsey. The we'd
ding over, Luhrsen hot-fotted it back
to the wilderness-back to his first
or second Cor whatever it isl love. He
figures on a honeymoon trip "if the
wells a gusher," but admits that time
IS not the essence of his figuring.
Montana Oil Journal.
Mr.. Luhrsen is a brother of Walter
Luhrsen, the Red Lodge jeweler. The
above clipping was the first announce
ment received of the wedding.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16

In 1925 Mr.. Convery served as sec
retary of the Montana State Associa-
ton of County Commissioners, and in
1926 was elected president of the as
ISOLATION. During this time he has
been a consistent worker for the i'm
provement of highways throughout
the state.
In recognition of this foresight and
enthusiasm in road matters, he has
recently been appointed a member of
the committee on county highway
legislation of the County Highway
Officials association, a division of the
American Road Builders association
This committee is composed OF road
and paving experts, county engineers,
and other important highway Off
Gals It's main officers are located in
Washington, D. C. A meeting Of the
committee was held Jan. 9, 1928, at
the time Of the convention and road
show in Cleveland.
In addition to his highway activi-
ties, Mr.. Convery maintains an up-to-
date general store in Silesia. His
leisure hours are spend with his dog
and in trout fishing. AS to his fish
ing, many tales are told by eye wit
nesses of record catches which testify
to his prowess in this line.
Mr.. Convery's many friends take
pride in the high honors accorded him
and feel that his influence in state
and national organizations will be Of
direct benefit to the whole cause of
rond roadc
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16
STATE ROAD MAN
WINS ATTENTION
OF TRADE PAPER

Carrying a cut of the subject of the
sketch, The Highway Engineer, Den
yer, in its January issue, carries I'M
der the heading, "A Montana High
way Builder the following upon J.
B. Convery of Silesia.
In a short period of years, J. B.
Convery of silesia, Mont, has estab-
lished notable record for service in
the interest of good roads. When
elected in 1921 to the board of COM
missioners in Carbon county, he was
the youngest man ever to have served
in this capacity in the state. Since
then he has held the same office con-
tinuously.
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Prices at present are better than1
the above figures and encourage az
optimistic outlook for 1928.

the above figures and encourage az
optimistic outlook for 1928.
Manufacturing
Montana's manufacturing plants
show a consistent increase over the
three year period, values being placed
at S51, 100000 in 1925, at $57000,0OO
in 1926 and at $65,000,000 in 1927.
Shelters and refineries made a con-
siderable outlay in physical extentions
and betterments during the last year,
adding to the zinc plants at Great
Falls and Anaconda and equipping a
Stag treatment plant at East Helena.
Shipments Of custom ore from other
states increased.
About 100000 bushels of wheat
were ground, producing about $780,
900 barrels of flour; the automobile
repairing industry, the creamery and
beet sugar factory outputs are IN
creasing.
Coal mined was valued at $9,161 ,0OO
in 1925, at $7652,000 in 1926 and at
$7976, 900 in 1927
Oil
Oil production in 1925 was worth
sc, AGA 900, in 1926 a total of 1924
900 and S7,O42,000 in 1927.
The use of natural gas for heating
is becoming much more general. 1t
will be used in the smelter at Great
cent of the population of the state
by the close of 1928 almost 20 pei
Falls this wear reports indicate and
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16
1927 WAS BANNER
YEAR FOR STATE
IN EVERY RESPECT
State Publicity Bureau
Gives Data Of General
Interest to All

Montanas total income as gagged
by the sales value of all her products
was about S365000,000 in 1927, prob
ably the largest in the history of the
state and certainly the largest income
since the years Of the world war, ae-
cording to data assembled by the d.
vision of publicity. department of
agriculture, labor and industry. Mon
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16

Episcopal Guild

Episcopal Guild
The Episcopal Guild met at the
home of Mrs. Freeuf last Wednesday,
on North Platte avenue.
Surprise Party
A surprise party was given at the
Harry Moore home last Monday. The
evening was spent playing bridge,
Mrs. Fred Alden won high score. A
delightful luncheon was served.
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Legion Auxiliary

The American Legion Auxiliary
held business meeting at the library
Tuesday. A social hour was enjoyed.
The meeting was very we'll attended.
Hostesses were Mrs. James Cross,
Mrs. Chris Becklin and Mrs. J. Smith.
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tries. The livestock industry is an ex-
eeption, prices in 1927 being much
higher than in the previous two years
but generally speaking. farm crops,
the products of mines and quarries,
lumber and petroleum carried the
handicap of falling markets in 1927 y
the publicity office says.
The past year was clearly Mon
tana's greatest for farm crops, the
revised estimate of the United States
department of agriculture giving a
value of S149031 900 for crops for
1927 compared with S107, 1SS,000 for
1926 and S110,190,0O0 for 1925.
The value of the wheat crop for
1927 was S76,62S,000 in 1926 only
$5O,123,000 and S4s,243,000 in 1925.
Livestock sold are valued at S67.-
$4,000 in 1927, at ST. ,001 1000 in
1926 and at S65,173,000 in 1925.
In spite of a heavy decline in num-
bers sold, cattle sales are estimated
at s29, 29s.000 in 1927, at ISL, 1S5,000
in 1926 and S26,477,0 900 in 1925.
Wool marketed in 1925 was valued
at S9,156,000 declining to sS,555,000
in 1926 and again to s6,761,OO0 in
1927.
In general, livestock inventories
are being increased in the state and
the outlook is promising.
Mines and Quarries
The output of metal mines and
quarries has been declining largely
due to lower metal prices, being
valued at S63.000,000 in 1926, at SOL
100000 in 1926 and at S50,O00,000 in
1927 Copper production was valued
at S3S,000,000 in 1925, at S35, $4,000 |
in 1926 and at S29,19s,000 in 1927.
The difference in value is striking
" shown by the following table of
prices received during
1926 and 1927 for copper, lead, silver
and zinc, the quotations from the En-
and Mining Journal:
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-16
Demonstration Club
Met at Cartwright Home

Eighteen members Of the Red Lodge
Demonstration club met at the home
of Mrs. Glenn Cartwright Monday
night. The fourth in a series of nutri-
ton lessons was given by Miss Carey,
county home demonstration.
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Birthday Club

Mr.. and Mrs. J. X. Jenkins enter
tanned her birthday club at her home
Tuesday evening. Dinner was served
at six-thirty and the decorations were
carried out in valentine effect. Mr..
H. A. Simmons and Mrs. L. H. Tully
received high score.
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Water rent for the first quarter of
1928 is now due.
Please pay promptly and save us
the trouble of mailing you second
notice.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
Maybe I'm Wrong
Efficieney Experts

Efficiency Experts
The counterfeiter who pays his
income tax with homemade
money.
Financial Note
Just because your wife carries
your bankroil in her stocking that
doesn't make it q point account.
JustifiabTe Homicide
When fellow asks you to take
him down easy street in 2 taxi
cab.
Our Own Vaudeville
Judge--Is it true that you hit
the complainant with a brassief
Prisoner-Yes. your honor.
Judge-Twenty,five dollars for
using the wrong club.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
Wise Cracks

America is not steadier. It's
Just Volsteadier.-W Wash. ana Lee
Mink
He had a heart of gold--yeloW
and hard.-Stanford Chaparral.
The best way to cure q Scotch
man of suffering is to let him
talk on the radio telephone
Vassar Vagabond.
He calls his sweetie Garbage,
cause nobody can love him like
his little Garbage can. WASH.
Cougars Paw.
"a man is drunk" says Ant
werpeAndy. when he falls on the
floor and holds on to keep from
going further. '-Chaperon
The williams name was Water.
The heroine's name was SAND.
'Touch her." cried the hero 20
the villain.
Touch her and your name is
Mud!',-R Reserve Red Cat.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
DOWN

A dancing husband is a man
who one-steps his stenographer,
two.steps his secretary and side
steps his wife.
You're Right
One-half the world doesn't know
why the other lives.
Pitiful Cases
The absent.minded crook who
forged his name to his own check.
Excuse 1t, Please
Electrocutions don't necessarily
come under the heading of cur
rent events.
The Good Old DaZe
Some business men so into con.
ference and others sleep at home.
Advice to the LOve.WOrn
Every man is his own master
until he gets married.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29

Elaine-Did you hear a b o u t
Madge climbing out the window?
Jack-Yes, l hear she displayed
very poor sense.-Pup.
But, Betty, don't you trust
me-"
i Eyes, Lloyd-Tll go to the ends
of the earth with you, but abso-
lutely refuse to park on the way.
Green Goat.
Doctor-Has there ever been any
insanity in your family?
Modern Wife-Well, my husband
thinks he's boss.--Catfornia Peil-
can.
what are you doing now?''
Looking for a wife with
steady job. Chanticleer.
Guy-T despise you!
Call loathe your sight!
They got married. - Illinois
Siren.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20
Horses To Watch

BRUSH-Going to win heat soon
at this meeting.
WAR EAGLE-May not get post
ward here, but should win at New
OrIean9.
WESTMOUNT $500 Should win a
sprint race very shortly.
SUN BEAU-Going to be hard to
whip in Saturdays feature.
HONKER-There is a race in the
book for this one.
PARCHESI-When this one gets
soft track at a distance among
platers better beware.
LADY ROYALr-She looks as If
she will run well first out.
PAULINA L.-Going to be hard
to whip in her next start.
BLACK Misunderstanding well
and seems to like this strip better
than she liked the Pimlico strip.
DON Q.--Now that this one has
lost his maiden, perhaps he will
show his true form.
EXTREME-Never was better.
Follow up.
PRICKLY HEAT-coming alonr
slowly. Tab.
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Usually Requires Big Men

Until Sexton adaptaby with the S5pound sphere
Georgetown been laying little stress on that event except y
the case Of men Of Pansky and Norton type # takes good
big results with the heavier ball and i Is
te fart re Il far growth Few lads young as
Leo have had with it. bit more maturity usually
being real results.
The greatest world records who have
such stalwarts As Fat
Mcdonald Matt and Pat Ryan whose size later
made them available the New York police
Sheridan another Of the big fellows who made history N
Nohinr il the world kept Georgetown from winning the
indoor Intercollegiate except the lack o gooo
winner, finished second
third the weight events the meet With = point.
and GEORGETOWN balance of in track events bu
woefuy lacking weight throwing finished close second win
2OK points Had Sexton been throwing the wegns men q u
in the mtercolegiates.
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Gets IS Feet IN Practice

That all has thrown the IS pound ban
for Is much unoffly practice and under
the Of compositions he 70 swing that weight with
that being predicted at the Hilltop ne que
Tor i new record ii the Intercollegiate to come.
only last that Sexton commenced 70 take seriously
versatile track performer
raer than specializing then that he place for
high jump in the indoor inter-
coecs championships He entered the dcathlon at the Penn
Carnival revealed fine FORM
he that he went into the Olympic tTyouts n
third at the completion of Tour
81 Ere deaon events Ia the pole vault he forced out
because first supposed to be fractured elbow
Int which turned, QUIT be only twisted elbow
Sections height of feet inch has been great
hp IS him and has particularly stood him
good stead weight throwing His height gives him great
limbs giving him good purchase
In getting away the ball.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20

Most anyone can afford to buy ON S
NJ the many good used cars listed Tor
sale in tOday's Classified ads.
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Shdrkey Promised
Bout With
Dempsey

NEW. YORK. Nov. 20.-Follow-
ing Promoter Tex Richards an
nouncement that Jack Sharkey
will appear in at least three bouts
ut Madison Square Garden this
winter in the scramble to deter
mine the winner of Gene Tunneys
vacated heavyweight title. specu-
iation turned today to the identity
of the Boston gob's opponents
Richard Is said to have promised
Eharkey a fight with Jack Demp-
sey If the former champion de-
cides to attempt a ring comeback.
It is likely that Tom Heeney and
Phil Scott, the Englishmen, will
be Sharkey's other two opponents.
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SEVEN INJURED.
At F0RDHA|N

NEW YORK, Nov. 2o.-Maior
Frank Cavanaugh Is nursing q
BADLY cut up set of football players
at Fordham. and it il possible that
two of his star hnemen, and i've
halfbacks. will not be available to
meet GEORGETOWN Saturday in the
closing game OF the season.
Against Detroit, Cavanaugh saw
Beloin and Siano, leaders OF his
strong line, and F0ntana, a first
class halfback, carried from the
field with more than usual injuries
which threaten to prematurely ring
down the seasons curtains on these
men.
Ry far the most serious loss
to the team is that of Howard
chubby" BelOin, FOrdhRm's most
experienced lineman and star
guard. who had to be lifted off
the field and carried to the
showers by two teammates in
the last period Of the Detroit
game.
With Beloin out OF the lineup
the Maroon forward wall will lose
it's n1ainstay, an event which would
. NA0AAGC6
OF making even representative
showing against the Blue and Gray
this week.
Tom Siano, the short center. was
badly cut about the face, and also
was unable to take part in yester-
days workout. DR.. Conboy hopes
to have him in shape to meet the
Hilltoppers, however.
Playing his second game with
the regulars, Joe Fontana, who
started at left half in place of Nc
Mahon, went along nicely until he,
too, was injured. His showing up
until that time had pleased the
major considerably.
Several long and shift runs
that FOntana made added much
needed punch to FOrdham's
rather weak running game.
Others who are on the Fordham
sick list are Cullen, Mcmahon,
Shablesh and Baut, all halfbacks.
These men. and the three above
mentioned were unable to take part
in the light workout which Cav
anaugh held yesterday on Fordham
Field. The major rehearsed the
faults that showed up Saturday,
and sent his squad through a short
signal drill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20
RIPLEY STEMS
As c. j. COACH

The Georgetown athletic authori'
ties have decided not to abandon
basketball as first intended as there
is a strong prospect the use OF the
new Tach High gym may DO &C.
cured for the home games.
Elmer Ripley. who has been play
ing pro basketball in the North, mas
again been signed to coach the Hlil'
top five. 1t is expected Coach Ripsey
win join the players the latter part
OF this. week or the first part OF
next week.
The basketball situation at the
Hilltop has been cl0uded by
doubt since the Arcadia, where
home games were staged last
season, was converted into
bowling establishment. However,
with the possibility Of obtaining
the Tech High gym, the dark
clouds are lifting.
Ripley has been touring New
York tate with team that STYLES
itself as the washington Palace
Five" although Gorgeous George
Marshall has no connection with
the team whatever. The other
members are Jazz Chizmadia, Chief
Westlock, Harry Riconda and Shui1.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20
CELTICS TO DRILL

The st. Mary's Celtics will hold
their first basketball practice in the
Armory Hall tomorrow night at 8
O'Clock. Eddie German, Carl Drei-
fus. Busy Bremen, Buddy thinner
man, Reds Manning, Charley Veacn
and others desiring a trial are re-
quested to be present. John La
grossa will coach the team.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20

nTODAYS
pORTORIAI
BIZ KIRK MILLER

These autumn when Coach John y o'Rslly y
season. lie can't help producing another
great athlete . habit John d has had from time to time
ever since he Georgetown.
The cause of sppartons is 19yarcld Hercules by the
re Of Leo Sexton bids fair to become aTound track
and who specialist at tossing the 5Pound weight
weight and inches N ntsrcas meet and
spectators the while he wiped the
his brow examno Of LeGendre, Pansy and
Norton certainly haunting the Hilltop
IN case It has slipped memory worlds record for
singing such weight only inches farther than the distance
accomplished young STRIPPING who is the hero OF this
yarn It wonder that OReys great blue eyes spared
and 81 he calculated
through with his remarkable perform
ance--even III it only in q class meet.
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played Carnegie twice, in 1926
and 1927. and won both games.

and IUz1, aHu Won DOTH EameS.
BY defeating Army, Nebraska
can recover the prestige it lost by
being held to a scoreless tie by
Pittsburgh. And an Army victory
will put the soldiers back in the
running.
A Princeton triumph over Navy
will furnish further proof that the
Tigers ties with Virginia and Ohio
State were all wrong. The magni-
tude of Princeton's task is indicated
by the midshipmen's smashing 81.
too victory over Loyola of BaltI-
more last week.
Georgetown, with a perfect record
except for It's defeat by Carnegie,
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HELP TO FANS

The Howard College football team
of Birmingham, wears snow white
uniforms for its night games, which
are being featured this season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-20
DESERVES PLACE

Buddy Maracle, a member of
the Springfield Indians, champions
Of the Canadian-American Hockey
League, 10 actually full-blooded
Indian.
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should defeat Fordham. The chances
of Georgetown for the Eastern title
AZ is the case with the other con-
tenders, depend upon a defeat for
Carnegie Tech.
Yale and Harvard close their
seasons at New Haven. Al
though both have been beaten
more often than a boarding
house rug, hallOwed tradition
will lend this classic a distinc-
ton all its own.
Dartmouth, whose cripples stag
eered home to a 2S-to-0 victory over
Cornell last Saturday, Journeys west
ward for an intersectional tilt with
Northwestern at Evanston, Ill.
The little Villanova eleven may
be- toppled from the list Of the un-
beaten when it tackles Davis and
Elkins. the giant killers who toppled
West Virginia and Navy. Boston
College. unbeaten and united, has a
POSSIBLE Tartar on it's hands in the
Connecticut AgGies, who have rolled
IN a total of Sc points to none for
their minor opponents on the New
England circuit.
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The day will mark the last ap'
pearance of the season for practi'
cally all of the Eastern teams
Army, Boston College, and Holy
Cross are the only Eastern elevens
scheduled to play a week from
Saturday.
Carnegie Tech, headed for
the Eastern and possibly the
national title, faces a formid'
able hurdle i'm New York Uni
versity. The powerful Violet
eleven, still smarting from its
unexpected defeat by George.
town on muddy field, will
journey to Pittsburgh with q
psychological edge on the
SlxibOs. The New Workers have
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Leading Grid Teams Face
Final Tests Saturday

Several of the countrys leading elevens will be making
desperate bids sectional and national recognition in the
semifnas of the gridron sweepstakes next Saturday.