The Carbon County news., 1928-04-26


covich of Butte, poked bean into
her nostril and was unable to etri-
cate it. A doctor was called to re-
move the bean.
Malta high and junior schools were
closed few days last week owing
to the prevalence of influenza among
the students.
Phil Gillette, Boulder valley stock
man, was paid an average of S1OS a
head for several carloads of steers at
the Spokane stockyards. Boulder
valley stockmen believe this to be
worlds record for high prices for
beef steers. The animals We're what
is generally termed short two-year-
olds.
Members of the Butte Women's Al
Smith for President club gave one
of the largest card parties ever held
in Silver Bow county. There were
more than 250 tables of bridge and
whist. Proceeds of the entertainment
will go toward defraying expenses of
women delegates to the meeting of
women boosters of the Rocky noun
tain region at Salt Lake City.
A new folder has been recently is
sued by the Great Northern railway,
showing map of land for sale along
the proposed branch line between Saco
and Turner. The folder gives the
price of farms and exact amount of
improvements on them.
Contracts for the construction of
modern grandstand for the north
Montana fair at Great Falls, designed
to accommodate 5000 persons. have
been awarded by the Cascade county
fair commission at cost of $54,170.
Building and track will be completed
in time for annual rodeo and Fourth
of July celebration, but there will be
no fair until 1929.
There is slight increase in demand
for farm labor throughout the state,
but to date it is being satisfactorily
met locally.
The ram sale, which will be held in
connection with the central Montana
fair this coming fall, is creating much
among breeders in the central
part of the state. According to pres
ent indications, $50 head of highest
rams will be consigned and stockmen
of central Montana will have an op-
portunity to get good foundation stock
in their own territory.
Within the past week wheat has
jumped Is cents on the board of trade
and even more where a good quality
of protein wheat was cashed in. Dam
age to the winter wheat crop the
world over, and late spring in the
spring wheat area is the cause of the
raise.
The Rev. Frank B. Gigliotti, Italian
minister, purchased a section of
Northern Pacific land in the Sheep
mountain territory of Prairie county.
He is going into ranching on a large
scale for year, to see what success
he can attain. The Gigliotti ranch is
well watered tract and ought to prove
prosperous.
Wheat seeding has been progress
ing at rapid rate in the Silesia dis
trict and it looks though there will
be record acreage this year. The
bean acreage will be increased over
other years, but there will be few
beets planted.
The Bozeman Chamber of Com
merce, the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs
presented communications to the
city commissioners, asking for spe-
cial election of freeholders, to provide
a mill tax levy. The funds derived
from this levy would provide about
$4,000 and this would be used to
acquire land for an aviation field.
Two men, Erling Strom of Oslo,
Norway, and George Graves of New
York city arrived in Missoula recently
and are now in the timber in quest
of lions. They had heard of the large
number of lions preying upon deer
and game of western Montana and
came on the lion hunt.
1t is estimated there are 1913 in
Montana banks for each and every
resident of the state Better look at
your bank book, however, before you
start writing checks.
Four cars of horses were shipped