The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-06
TREASURE STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST.
BRIEF RESUME OF HAPPENINGS
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terhood, will meet at Butte, June /
to Is.
Licenses of two automobile driver
were suspended at Chinook after con
vietion under the 1929 ''drunkel
driver" law.
Work started on the first unit O
the building at Great Falls which vii
serve as headquarters for the com
missary department of the Great
Northern on that division.
Ole A. Khyn, 81, crossing watch
man at the A. C. NJ. reduction works
at Butte, committed suicide by drop.
ping from the Black Eagle dam to
jagged rocks of the Missouri river.
Posts of the American Legion in
southern Montana are taking action
to secure a second veterans hospital
in Montana, probably to be located
at Billings.
Permission to discontinue its agency
a. Stoekett, and handle its business
through custodian, is given the
Great Northern railway by the Mon
tana railroad commission.
Actions to recover on war risk in
surance We're begun in federal court
at Billings by Robert A. Kliska of
Anaconda, who asks $7,5325 and by
George E. Penland of Livingston, who
asks for $7,992.50.
A section of vertebrae from some
prehistoric reptile and the tooth of a
shark have been taken from fossil
beds in the bad lands along the Milk
river by DR.. w. F. Briggs, Havre ply
sician.
Dorothy Dodd, former Hollywood
actress, is in hospital at Great Falls
recovering from an overdose of what
officers described as headache med
icine.
A rise Of one cent a gallon in the
price of gasoline was posted by dis
tributors and service stations over the
state. The increase made the price
2S1a cents for straight run gasoline,
including the scent state tax.
Picture of the original silver mill at
Drumlummon mine, erected by Will
liam Mayer in 1877 at Marysville,
and books from the library of John
F. Forbis, former prominent Montana
attorney, are received by state his
torical library.
Merger of the United States vet
Grams bureau regional office at Hell
ena with Veterans hospital No. 72,
at Fort Harrison, has been ordered
for as soon as possible after June
l, said DR.. H. G. Watts, who will be
in charge of the combined institu-
lions.
Leigh Miltz NARROW, 81, Yale stu
dent and son of Thomas A. NARROW,
Helena, banker and former member
of the finance committee of the re-
publican national committee, was
killed in a plunge from an
eighth floor window Of the Belvedere
hotel to the street at Maryland, Nd.
Because of the exceptionally heavy
SHOWS of last winter melted this
spring without causing high water in
Montana, officials of the district Of |
flee Of the United States geological
survey at Helena characterize the
1929 melting season as one of the
most unusual on record. AS the
snow melted, the officials say, the
water soaked directly into the ground,
the state with much sur
plus moisture.
Through the efforts of the little son
# Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Copeland, their
wo and a haf-year-old daughter was
rescued from drowning in the Milk
liver. They had wandered from their
lome south Of Nashua and the little
me fell in the water When they ar
lived at home, he reported his eff
orts and said, "the fishes kept pulling,
t his sisters dress" before he finally
'ulled her out.
One of the state university's gradu-
ties, Miss Helen Griffin, has received
n appointment to- teach in the Hwa
IAN college at Foo Chow, China. Miss
lriffin, who will receive her masters
egree at the end of this school year,
as signed three-year contract for
York in the orient. She plans to leave
lissoula after the summer session
nd sail from Seattle August "a.
York in the college of Foo Chow is
nder direction of Johns Hopkins uni
ersity of Baltimore, Nd.
A teacher, Margaret Mcbride, was
ictor recently in what is believed to
e the first test of a Montana law /
hich requires that unless an instruc-
II in the public schools is notified
efore May that her services will not I
> required the following year the |
strict is obligated to re-employ her. !
-iss Mcbride taught last year at {
ecker. This year, when she reported ,
u work, she found another teacher t
charge. She brought suit against t
lie district, asking pay for Septem- |
II. Judge j. j. Lynch at Butte {
varded her judgment for S145, sal '
y for that month. Probability of '
| additional suit for the remainder c
the years salary was forecast. L
Approximately 100 acres of land
,ar Danvers, Judith Basin country, b
IS dropped into hole. The tract, Ii
Ong the Judith river. apparently n