The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-09-11
Treasure State
News in Brief

BUTTE-Gordon Gray, 10. miner, died In q
local hospital after a car in which he was
side on a street intersection. Police said Mrs
Gray failed to stop at through intersection.
Enthusiastically large new hay stacks
are dotting the valley, haying operations Of
| q bumper crop having been completed in this
area. The bumper crop followed an unusually
| heavy rainfall this year, ranchers report
ANACONDA-Miss Catherine Harrington of
Butte was elected president of the Helena
Diocesan Council Of Catholic women at the
| close Of the recent annual convention here.
| She succeeds Mrs. T. F. Moran Of Helena.
pILLON-Taylor grazing district No. s, en-
| bracing parts of the public domain in Beaver
| head. Madison, Silver Bow, jefferson and
Broadwater counties, was formed here at q
meeting OF stockmen.
ST IGNATIUS-Fr. August Dinner Of the
5oth anniversary of service in the Society of
Jesus recently. He has spent most of the
| time in mission work.
BnLINGS-More than 300 domestic animals
| and birds we're destroyed by coyotes and bob
! cats in Montana during July, United States
biological survey officers here reported. Farm
| ers and hunters killed 263 coyotes and IL
bobcats in that month.
DEER LoDGE-The states old-timers gath
! cred here few days ago for their annual con-
! vention and before the program was off to its
| official start spent the day swapping remin-
| iscences. The Deer Lodge Women's club was
| host to the pioneers at reception and social.
| BILLINGS-John North of Billings was
elected president and Robert Nathan Of Great
| Falls was chosen vice president Of the Mon
tana Association of Real Estate Dealers at
| the closing of the annual meeting. North
| succeeds Lloyd Hague Of Missoula.
wHITEFISH-c. W. Powell. local chief of
| police for the last II years, resigned his post
He succeeds Charles Dalton who returned
| to his former position as switchman for the
| Great Northern Railway Co.
| HAvRE-The 23rd session of the Montana
state conference of the Methodist church was
| held here recently at the Van Orsdel Meth
odist chuch The 1T. Rev. Ralph s. Cushman,
| bishop of the Denver area. was the presiding
! officer
MISSOULA-Three thousand bushels of yel-
low pine cones will be cut from trees in the
month and will be used for seed purposes at
the Savenac nursery of the forest service at
Haugan.
GREAT FALLS-Bids for the work of build
| ing a new s215 900 addition to the Great Falls
federal building and remodeling the present
structure will be let Sept. is. Postmaster
W. A. Brown has been notified from Washing
Observation-Disclosures Of the federal al
| cohol tax unit reported seizure Of a 300-gal-
| near here They said the plant was valued
at $1,000 had capacity of $50 gallons daily
and had been in operation two or three weeks.
BILLINGS-Jay G. Diamond of Helena, fed
eral-state agricultural statistician was here
| to confer with G. L. Harlan OF Washington.
chief livestock statistician for the depart
ment of agriculture. They planned to discuss
/ drouth relief measures and methods Of mar
ketins livestock from drouth areas.
HAvRE-Donald McNeely was transferred
| from the Walla Walla. WASH. immigration
office to Havre where he becomes one Of the
/ officers of the immigration border patrol.
| He takes the place made by the transfer Of
H. l. Wheeler to the border patrol at Sun
burst.
DEER LODGE-John T. Wickman of the
| Boulder valley and Andy Ehrick Of Butte,
buddes In the Philippines SO years ago. when
both were campaigning in the Spanish-Amer-
then at the recent convention Of the Society
, Of Montana Pioneers.
i wIsDOM-Ed Classy. suffering severe
! burns on his arms. has resolved to do no
more drilling near gasoline. While drilling a
hole in a gasoline tank an automobile,
/ spark dropped onto gasoline on the floor.
starting q fire and injuring the mechanic.
| The blaze slightly damaged the garage.
! HELENA-offer Of the United States treas
ury department, transmitted through Post
master Harry c. Hendricks. to sell the old
United States assay office building and
i grounds on Broadway to Helena, for use as
a city hall, for $1,000 was formally accepted
, by the council.
BUTTE-Mrs. Margaret Connolly of Helena.
%. died in an Anaconda hospital after a
hit-and-run driver sideswiped the car in
which she was riding. sending 1t rolling into
ditch. Four others injured in the accident
will recover. Mrs. Connolly had been In
Butte about q month.
COLUMBUS-John Sprains. %. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Sprains. was instantly killed
when his car left the road and turned over
three times on highway No. 10. seven miles
east of Columbus Saltwater county officers
uvha ffrva Hoo tad he ~.
lieved Sprains. who was returning alone from
Billings, fell asleep at the wheel.
HAVRE-James L. Duffy, district Works
Progress administration director, said 1900
men are at work on various projects Of the
north central Montana counties and three
Indian reservations. OF the total approxi-
mately 2,200 are emergency drouth cases. he
J., said.
GREAT FAELS-Police displayed statistics
stolen in Great Falls so far this year were
left unlocked and in nearly every instance
ignition keys were left in the machines Since
the first of the year "A vehicles were re-
covered by authorities.
COUTTs-Not having any horses to ride on
their farm in the st. Kilda district east Of
here, Flora and Celia McTaggart, aged -
McTaegart. tanned and broke two shorthorn
steers to ride to school. It Is q common
sight to see the two sisters riding their bo-
vine mounts at a lively gallop. The girls ride
bareback, astride, with only a halter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by gas fumes from
the exhaust pipe, R. j. Henningsen. about IS,
was found dead in his automobile about a
mile from his ranch home. son. Adrian.
who had been blowing in a nearby field, saw
! the parked auto and found his fathers body
when he investigated hose had been at
, tached to the exhaust and pulled through a
window Of the car. The rancher had been in
ill-hea1th.
/ BUTTE-After an absence of 26 years from
! this city, where he was reared. James A. Jim
Mclaughlin Of Fallon. New. returned recently
to renew eld-time acquaintances. He is
! superintendent of the Penelas mine. q large
| enterprise about 80 miles from Falon. Nc
| LauRhlan will be remembered by old-tme
| friends as one Of the first route carriers for
the Butte Intermountain, the Anaconda Stan
dard and the Butte Miner.
HELENA-Parts Of Montana may be too dry
| for some things this year but, according to
/ ~. danort Of agriculture at Washington.