The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-11-01

/ particular attention to the construc-
tive farm legislative program of Her.
bert Hoover, candidate for president.
The return of Joseph NJ. Dixon to
the United States senate is urged, by
Mr.. Leavitt on the ground that his
record of 10 years of service at
Washington and one term of COVER
nor of the state is along more con-
structive lines than that of his OPP
ponent, Senator Wheeler. The cleo
ton of Mr.. Dixon is asked so that
Montana may have a senator whose
views will be in accord with and
whose actions will be in support of
the administration of Herbert Hoover,
whose election Mr.. Leavitt predicts.
men, all of Toxic, are inspecting rail
ways and they expect to be away from
Japan year.
Wesley Snyder of Big Timber and
W. H. Boyd of Sour Dough returned
recently from hunting trip. They
failed to bag deer but brought back
three bear and three coyotes on
which bounties should be sufficient
to pay the expenses of the trip.
Montana's 1928 sugar beet crop is
estimated on the Sept. basis at 304,-
900 tons, which is reduction COM
pared with the month before when
the forecast was $4,000 tons, and
with the 1927 crop, which was 364,000
tons.
The recently purchased cattle at the
A. B, Cook sale at Townsend have
been delivered to the big ranch Of
B. B. Sheffield near Calabar. Mr..
Sheffield bought about $4,000 worth
of the Cook purebred stock.
Negotiations for a $7O00,000 flour
mill merger, embracing II mills of
the Centennial Mill company in Wash
ington and the Montana Flour COM
pany, are under way, according to a
recent announcement. If the merger
is carried out along the lines proposed
the combination will become one of
the largest flour enterprises in the
northwest, with a combined capacity
of $4,000 barrels per day.
A handful of silent but observing
Indians clad in tribal garb mingled
with shouting cowboys mounted on
prancing steeds and cheering, gayly
attired women and children proudly
witnessed the arrival of a painting
locomotive which inaugurated the
opening of service on the newly-con-
structed Northern Pacific railroad
into Circle.
A Montana youthful prodigy is
Carlisle Mallory of the Bitter Root
country. Carlisle, who is II, visited
the Anaconda smelter and the Butte
mines to obtain material for a lecture
before his class. Carlisle is a resi-
dent Of Hamilton, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Mallory, and a men,
Der of the sixth grade. Carlisle is
precocious. He not only collects ma
terial for lectures but also manages
farm of which he and his eight-year-
old sister, Goldie Grace, are the own
ers. He is said to be making a sue
cess of the farm venture. He is fam
iliar with many subjects and is pre-
pared to debate his conclusions on
number of matters. This little boys
of the farm is not just
a matter of form, but of actual ac-
complishment. He personally bought
the entire farm equipment, determined
the crops, supervised the planting
and harvesting and likewise the sale
of his products.
Contracts for approximately $780,
900 were awarded by the Mon
tana state highway commission re-
Gently. Two large bridge projects
account for most of the amount. A |
1878 foot steel span is to be erected
1ClOoS Illc nnlooOull IlNCI nSdl w Oll
Point, and 81 foot steel bridge across
.he Clarks Fork near Paradise.
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, assistant prin-
,ipal at the Howard high school at
Howard, and five school children were
1illed on their way home from school
Oct. 26, when Mrs. Abbott's car, in
which they were riding, was struck
" local freight train at the North
IN Pacific crossing.
Broadview wheat holds the high
mark for portein of all of the grain
elivered this season to the Russell
filler Milling company at Billings.
)ut of the 6,551 samples tested at
he mill the Broadview grain showed
high test of 1910 per cent protein.
Lee Perrine of Utica does not need
D go hunting because buck oblig-
ugly came down to his ranch and