The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-11
STATE TABLOIDS

AdQlt10nS are Delng QUILT TO Dotn
Deaconess and Columbus hospitals at
Great Falls.
Great Falls was chosen as the next
meeting place of the Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor at the concluding
session of the Sind annual convention
of the body held in Billings.
w. A. Huff of Billings, was elected
president of the Montana state aerie
of Eagles, at the state meeting held
in Butte. Lewistown was selected as
the next meeting place.
The American Legion of Hinsdale
has made deal to purchase the Ma
jestic theater of Hinsdale. 1t will
continue to give weekly shows and
dance fortnightly.
State fish and game commission de-
cided to construct the state game farm
on land adjoining park and along
side the Deer Lodge-Butte highway
near the state hospital at Warm
Springs
Louis Doles and Ray Humplett, ar
rested at Dayton, Wash, for suspected
completely in the Roman State bank
robbery, were released from Jail at
Poison after investigation revealed
they were in Great Falls purchasing
car the day of the robbery.
County commissioners of Lewis and
Clark county are to be defendants in
a friendly suit to determine whether
they have the right to contribute
$2,250 toward construction of sheep
barn at the state fair grounds.
Contracts totaling nearly $750,000,
the largest amount for a single let
ting in the history of the state, were
awarded at Helena by the Montana
highway commission. They included
Is projects scattered through IT
counties.
Two masked men entered the
county detention hospital near Mis-
soula recently and robbed the matron,
Mrs. Blanche Mccarthy, of about
$500. Except for three patients who
were in their wards, Mrs. Mccarthy
was alone in the building.
James D. Graham of Livingston is
the new president of the Montana
State Federation of Labor. The cam
wasting board made its report, show
ing Graham to have received gill
votes, and Charles o. Heximer of
Great Falls, 1,016. The locals af-
filiated with the federation voted last
month and reported results to the
convention which was held in Billings.
One of the few cases of sunstroke
on record in Billings is that of Junior
Collins, 55-year-old negro, who was
found by other workmen on the He'd
den Nicolaus building, unconscious,
near concrete mixer on which he
was working. He was taken to a
hospital and packed in ice, after which
he soon regained consciousness.
Incensed over what he described as
a tendency of park-bound tourists to
make speedway Of the main street
of Hysham, Mayor G. L, Wright, re-
Gently plowed a deep furrow across
the main traffic of Hysham, county
seat of Treasure county, and an
nounced that if this doesn't "slow
'em down to moderation" he'll get
out the old pillow and do some more
trenching.
The 163rd United States infantry,
Montana national guard, packed the
last of its tents recently, and departed
from Helena, leaving what is con-
sidered remarkable record. During
the entire encampment not one
drunken soldier was seen on the
streets, not one arrest of a soldier
was made and not one case of dis
turbance, in which soldier was in
volved, was reported.
John w. Mountjoy of Boulder, form
er secretary of state, has become gaso-
line tax field man to check refunds for
the state board of equalization.
An airplane and the truck on which
it was being hauled to Spokane, were
destroyed by fire four miles east Of
Libby. The fire started after an ex-
plosion, caused by gaolne leaking
from the fuel tank of the plane onto
the exhaust pipe Of the truck. The
plane was the property of Cecil Gray,
Washington aviator who was in Kali
ispell for a rodeo. 1t was damaged
in landing at Whitefish. No one
was injured by the explosion or fire.