Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-03-27

SA.0oSu oaidiico Win the inaugural
ton of new salary schedule which
places their minimum wage at $125
per month with the annual raise
starting at $45 and ending with $145
High school teachers are started at
$l4OO with $50 annual increase for
four years.
BILLINGS.-U.P.)- Sixty-five of
the progeny of Mrs. Lucretia Ann
Ramp, 81, mourned her recent death
they included six children, 20 grand
children and SO great grandchildren
MILES CITY.-(U.P.)-- Northern
Yellowstone Parks elk population-or
at least the elk which came under the
Census Enumerator's" eyes-stands
at 7,7O9. Park and forest rangers who
made the count reported the greatest
concentration of animals between
Buffalo and Crevice lake where they
saw 1,167. The animals were in ex
cellent condition but there was an
apparent scarcity Of calves.
MISSOULA.-(U.P.) Years ago,
Arthur L. Roberts, lived in Missoula
as q humble hotel clerk. The other
day he returned to his former home
as president of chain of % hotels.
He resides in Winona, Wise.
BUTTE.-(U.P. Annual report of
the First Stock Bank corporation
which includes Is Montana banks in
Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Havre
Helena, Lewistown. Livingston, Miles
City, Missoula and Shelby, reveals
total resources Of the bank chain at
s122,875, 895.77.
MILES CITY.-(U.P.)-Tt's not all
cakes and ale" in Soviet Russia ac-
,ording to Zachary Braunbeck who
has just received a pathetic letter
from his brother, Mic, written from
Sunstunsiskei. Okruc, Siberia. Mic
odd his brother that the government
las appropriated his wheat crop. bed
ling and furniture, leaving only 20I
bushels Of wheat for his family's use.
Other families in his district received
he same treatment.
GREAT FALLS.-(U.P. )-Spring's
'ormal advent in Great Falls was
marked with the capture Of a beauti-
,ul butterfly here the other day. The
1arbinger of spring measured three
inches from wing tip to wing tip.
BILLINGS.-(U.P. THAT a bust
ness man can appreciate a farmers
problem was demonstrated here the
other day when the Billings real
estate board, members Of which con-
,rol $50 farms, agreed to cooperate
With agricultural authorities in al
wheat smut control campaign Fifteen
Der cent of the cars of wheat shipped
rom. Yellowstone county last year
we're locked for smut.
BILLINGS.-tU.P.)- Replacement
# 90-pound rails with the heavier
'teel over a 48-mile stretch and re-
,allastlng of 20 miles Of track near
are included in the North
I'm Pacific's main line improvement
program between Billings and Man
an, N. D.
BOHEMIAN. -(U.P.)- Additional
ionors have been heaped on Booze
mans famous high school newspaper,
The Gallatin High News" This en-
erprising scholastic publication won
'ourth place in competition with TOO
,ther school papers. The amateur pob-
ications were judged by the Columbia
Press association of Columbia Uni
yersity.
GREAT FALLS. -(U.P)-- Out
vardly, the city councils recent res
'lution seeks to compel the Milwau-
zee railroad to raise it's tracks at the
Sixth and Second avenues intersection
and construct a subway. Actually,
'he city fathers are bringing NUM-
sipal pressure to force the railroad
o use joint freight terminal with
The Great Northern.
MILES CITY. -(U.P.)- Yellow
stone river finally relieves itself Of
IT'S burden of ice but when the choked
river was flowing freely again it was
discovered the water level had re-
coded over six feet.