The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-12
Treasure State
News in Brief

HAvRE-Work on the dormitory for the
Northern Montana college has started, &C
cording to DR.. G. H. Vande Bogart.
MISSOULA-Buffalo meat will be on the
menu at the Northern Pacific Veterans as
ISOLATION banquet here this summer
HELENA-Frank H. Johnson. Montana state
bank examiner. and Mrs. johnson are at San
Francisco and Los Angeles for a brief vaca-
ton.
administrations degrees were confer
red on a class of IT candidates at the 29th
annual reunion Of Scottish Rite bodies, valley
of Billings.
FORT BENTON-Henry Davis reported the
first robin of the 1885 season to the River
Press office recently. the bird being in evil
dence on two successive days.
TOWNSEND-Several hundred Broadwater
county residents were present in Townsend
for the ceremony of laying the cornerstone OF
the new Broadwater county courthouse.
HELENA-The federal government has al
lotted the veterans hospital at Fort Har-
rison 9 10000 for improvements and additions
to the plant and grounds.
GARDINER-A serious early infestation of
ticks in elk in the Yellowstone park herd, par
ticularly among calves. was reported here by
State Game Warden Jack Carney.
RED LODGE-Arrangements for Quitting
the Red Lodge tourist park for opening on
May l are being made by the board of trus-
tees of that municipal enterprise.
RIMINI-A reconnaissance in this territory
BY Assistant Game Warden Tom Peasley
found much more snow in the mountains than
a year ago. Elk and deer throuehout the
area are in good condition, he reported.
MISSOULA-The proposition Of conducting
a beauty contest as a part OF the women
events at the interscholastic meet here in
May is being considered by State university
officials.
BuLINGS-Concrete was being poured a few
days ago for the roof of the large water res
Nr,y~i~ vo11~r-tN~n 0orrtv 10 constructing nr
its poor farm and hospital property north
east of Billings.
BUTTE-Catherine LEM. grade IA pupil
at the Garfield school, won the city Jacks
tournaments for girls with a score OF 1000.
She went through the entire routine without
a miss.
POLSON-Contracts have been let. and a
few days ago the first of the logs which have
been cut by Indian relief labor will be hauled
down off the mountain sides to the saw mill
east of Pablo.
BILLINGS-Travel by air in the United
States is equally as good as travel the same
way in Europe and more general" Dr.: F. G.
Underhill. an American general practitioner
who resides in France, remarked here.
SOMERS-Arthur L.. Schimpf. who died here
recently. for years operated the Longest bar
in the world" the old Atlantic saloon at
Butte. A brother-in-law, Carl Weiss, lives at
Helena.
BUTTE-Before leaving with the Bobcat
cage crew for Casper, Wyo. for a series of
games with the Denver Pigs. Schubert Dyche.
Montana State college mentor, talked to the
Butte Rotary club on college athletics.
FORT BENTON-The Iona ferry has been
placed in operation, according to County Sur
veyor F. J. Clark. The ferry was placed in
the river and is now operating: Work was
started recently to place the Virgelle ferry
ill the river.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the Babcock
theatre, Quilted by fire Feb. 81. began recently
and the playhouse is expected to be ready
- Nna y~~ ~, - Nnf nrvna l.
owner, announces. Cost of repairs is es-
timated at 100000.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. plans for the recently
authorized addition to the Central school
officials. The firm OF Mc1ver & Cohagen,
architects, has been instructed to draw the de-
tailed plans.
MILES ITY-Planting Of trees. shrubs and
lawns along U. S. highway 10 miles west Of
Miles City in conjunction with a general
Identification scheme, is progressing rapidly.
A water system was first laid throughout the
strip to be improved.
HELENA-The resignation Of DR.. Harry J.
McGregor OF Great Falls as a member Of the
Montana relief commission was announced
here by Gov. Frank H. Cooney on the eve
Of the first meeting of the recently-revamped
relief body.
HARLOWTON-one rancher who believes
that this is a real and beneficial winter is
John P. Campbell of Melville. He reports I'M
usual SHOWS in that locality and says there
is plenty OF water IN the sweet Grass right
now. He has no fear of a lack of ample
water for irrigation the coming season.
ROMANTIC Roman high school girls bas-
ketball team again claims the Western Mon
tana championship. In the past four years
the team has won four county championships
three district and two Western Montana titles.
They have played IS games in that time, los
ing only four.
LIVINGSTON-Based on a joint count con-
Quoted by the park service and the state
fish and game commission. there now are g.
536 elk in the northern park herd.
During the winter, with the open season ex-
tended, 5000 were either slaughtered or ship
ped to other areas for stocking purposes.
MILES CITY-Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Will
Jams. ranchers in the Pine hills. were callers
in the city recently. Mr.. Williams expressed
the opinion that the recent snow has buoy
ed up the hopes of ranchers in his vicinity
for more and a more optimistic outlook gen.
orally.
RED Murray was in Red
Lodge recently from his unirrigated farm near
Silesia. He reports good rains there and some
snow but says that the snow drifted badly in
the high winds. Conditions as to moisture
are better, MI. Murray believes. than they
have been for a number of past seasons.
BUTTE-Due to attacks by predatory hunt
ers and animals a herd of between 40 and so
mountain sheep in the Rock Creek region OF
the Deer Lodge National forest has been re-
years. L. L. Lake, forest ranger of the Phil
ipsburg district, reported recently.
WINNETT-A flow of water was struck re-
Gently at the BlakeSlee FERA water well, be-
ing drilled by Charley Davis when the bit
broke into the first Cat creek sand. The
surface and was slowly making its way up
the casing at the last report.
LIVINGSTON - Steve Cuneo OF Smelling
Calf. was a visitor at Livingston during the