The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-04-03

sentinel peIore the hillside was entirely
!, free of snow.
POLSON-Work on Polson's WPA dock and
breakwater has resumed after a two-month
shutdown because OF lack Of funds. A crew
OF 10 men resumed work and more viii be
added later.
BILINGS-Henry Yost, farmer west of Bill
lings. paid $500 for q pair Of Percheron mares
from Canada at q horse auction recently. It
was believed to be the record high price
for horses in the last IS years.
! HAvRE-with one death attributed to
diphtheria. DR.. A. =. Doles, health officer,
warned parents to have children who were
not vaccinated three years ago inoculated i'm
= mediately. Only one other case Of the disease
was reported here this winter.
MssoULA-The Chamber of Commerce
will have funds Of about 1000 available this
year. Nearly $4,000 was raised in the annual
drive and other sources of income are ex-
pected to increase the amount by about $500.
The goal was $4,000.
a resolution providing for issuance Of Sl40,-
570.61 refunding bonds to reduce the munich
pal water department's bonded Indebtedness
and refund outstanding bonds of the water
amortization issue Of 1891.
MILES CITY-william H. Kearney, 70.
prominent Miles City business man for a
quarter of a century. died here a few days
ago. Survivors include the widow, a daughter,
Katherine Kearney of Aberdeen, and a son,
M. C.. Kearney of Denver.
MISSOULA-Sixto Laraya, graduate of Mon
tana state university in 1922, has been ap-
pointed a councilman for the city of Baguio
in the Philippine Islands. He graduated with
a degree in forestry and since has been
district and city forester in Baguio.
GREAT FALLs-committee personnel has
been selected and bylaws and a constitution
have been adopted by the newly-formed
Great Falls Safety council. formed for a
, campaign against automobile practices which
result in accidents.
PoLSoN-A coroner's jury held that W. Z.
on the east Flathead lake shore highway died
Of a heart attack, then tumbled onto a small
fire he had built beside the highway. He was
a laborer in this section and was walking
to Poison for medical attention.
POLSON-Sixty-four acres OF Flathead lake
SO, a mile east of Poison, were purchased
from the Heron Lumber Co. of Missoula by
the Poison Chamber of Commerce. It will be
presented to the city for a city park and
community playground.
BILLINGS-Labor contracts carrying the
same terms as those of 1885, S21.50 a ton
on a 12-ton yield basis. are to be offered this
year to beet workers in the districts OF tho
Montana-Wyoming Beet Growers association,
the association directors decided at a meet
ing here.
MISSOULA-A group OF Missoula dog lovers
gathered a few days ago to form the nu-
s siuso Of what sds is to be an ORGANIZATION Of
authorities in the fight against PRISONERS.
OFFICERS were elected and include F: a.
McNussen, president: R. c.. Ward, treas
urer. and R. S. Conger, secretary.
BnLINGs-walter L. Jack Keenan,, SO,
well-known Montana sports writer. died here
| ~ Nanoa n fam Iarc 1~@ T. h~l L~.n 49,
Billings Gazette's sports editor for tho last
seven years. keenan, was well known to read
ers of detective magazines of national circu-
lation. Many of his stories appear in the
pulp magazines.
,MIsSOULA-Game in its native haunts.
In the mountains, is q new interest being
furnished tourists in western Montana, 1t was
reported here recently by Roger M. Cummings,
Missoula sportsman, on his return from .
weeks tour Of the northwestern part Of the
state.
GREAT FALLs-sam stephenson was named
president Of the Great Falls Livestock Co.
at q meeting Of the organization held here
recently. Other officers elected were Oshey
Devine. vice president. and Lester Cole. Sec
retary-treasurer. Directors of the organiza-
ton are Stephenson. Devine. o. 8. Warden,
A. H. Langman and E. F. Gait.
MSSOULA-Three western Montana projects
Of the bureau of public roads will be COM
pleted this spring. it was announced by L. F.
Martin, engineer. The projects are the Plains
Elmo section south Of Elmo near the west
shore Of Flathead lake, the federal aid
stretch between Libby and Kalispell, and the
Columbia Falls bridge across the Flathead
river.
LIVINGSTON-The Northern Pacific railroad
is well prepared If unusually high water oc-
ours during the coming spring months. The
railroad company has taken the usual pre-
cautions to be ready to meet any emergency
If high water threatens tracks during the
spring months. Crews have taken out approx
mately $50 carloads of rock from the quarry
at Emigrant, about 80 miles south Of here.
and these cars are set at strategic points
along the division, the rock to be used as
ballast on bridges or along tracks threatened
to be washed out by high water. It will be
some time before deep SHOWS high in the
mountains Of the west begin to melt, with
flood conditions in this district usually pre-
vailing late in May and early in June.
SCHOOL MONEY DISTRIBUTED
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