The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-07-30
Treasure State
News in Brief

DILLON-The Beaverhead valley hay harvest.
delayed by rainfall, was expected to get under
way again soon. Ranchers report they are
stacking a record hay crop this year.
GLACIER PARK-One hundred twenty men,
bers of the California Sierra club and 81
members of the national organization OF Trail
Riders recently hiked over Glacier park trails.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of a new
courthouse for Sheridan county probably will
start here this summer. it was learned by a
committee sent to WASHINGTON. D. c., to hasten
a relief program for this county.
MISSOULA-Frank J. Trip, At, former
resident of Anaconda, died at a local hospital.
He was brought here from his ranch in the
Flathead valley when he became i'll three
weeks aGo.
GREAT FALLS-President B. I. Steinmetz
and all other officers of the Cascade Trades
and Labor assembly were reelected for the
tenth consecutive time at the annual meeting
of the assembly.
H~ELENA-After awarding a contract to the
Bancroft-Whitney Co. of San Francisco for
printing the Montana reports for a six-year
period starting July /, the state supreme court
adjourned for the summer recess. The tribunal
will resume its sessions Sept. II.
GREAT FALLS-A jubilee celebration the
week of Aug. 2 to 7. commemorative the or
ganization of Cascade county so years ago, was
decreed in a proclamation by Mayor julius
u. ' 1AN
Golden Jubilee Week."
MILES CITY-Everything is in readiness for
high speed construction work on the Tongue
river dam. State Engineer j. s. James said
here after an inspection trip to the site OF
the irrigation project. Actual construction
work was expected to get under way soon.
: HAMILTON-Le Maxtun, of Hamilton, is a
hospital patient, suffering from Rocky noun
tain spotted fever. Attending physicians said
his condition was mot serious Maxtun's
father, Grover c. Maxtun, died of spotted fever
in April OF last year.
HAVRE-The northern Montana offices of
the national youth administration have been
moved from Havre to Wolf Point. J. B. Love.
state director of the NYA, said. He added the
move was made to better care for the needs OF
youths in the northeastern Montana drouth
area.
BILLINGS-Robert Patton, 81, WPA truck
driver and John kortje, 20, Billings farm hand,
pleaded innocent before District Judge Ben
Harwood to charges Of first degree murder in
connection with the robbery-slaying of Jonas
Sandin, 81, here June %. They will be given
separate trials.
GLACIER PARK-Clark Gable. screen star
now on a hunting and fishing trip in north
western Montana, will be the guest Of honor
at the Glacier park rodeo July 81 and Aug. l,
officials of the event announced. Gable. they
said, probably would be assigned the task OF
announcing results Of the various events.
ANACONDA-More than $50 delegates are
expected to attend the national convention
here Aug. Z and 8 of Rotana clubs. Mrs. Nettie
Thompson, of Helena. national president. will
preside at the convention sessions. Montana
chapters are located at Anaconda, Butte,
Laurel, Missoula, Great Falls. Bozeman and
Helena.
GREAT F~ALLS-Senator Lewis M. Schwell
enbach, of Washington, has advised the Cas-
cade Trades and Labor Councils Labor day
committee if congressional business permits,
he will deliver an address at the Fairgrounds
here Labor day. Sept. 6. His talk would be
the highlight of the annual Labor day cele-
bration here.
hold Jalmar Holstrom, Butte carpenter, the
driver of a car that hit and instantly killed
six-year-old Billy Krisk here recently. Wit
nesses said the boy. son of a mine timekeeper,
William Krisk, darted into the street from be-
TWEEN two parked cars and ran directly into
the path of the Holstrom car.
DARBY-Joe Abbie and w. I. Daw of Darby
have purchased from the Mc1ntosh-Morello
Orchards Co., Inc, approximately 2,700 acres
of land near here, together with an apple
packing plant and about go other buildings.
The sale was said to have been the largest
land transfer in this vicinity for many years.
Abbie and Daw plan to use the property as q
cattle and hay ranch.
GLACIER PARK-Walter McClintock OF
Pittsburg, Pa, well-known author of Black
feet Indian legends, was q recent visitor In
Glacier park. McClintock came to Montana in
the early part of this century and began lv-
ing with the Indians and tudying them fol-
the purpose Of gathering materials for his
stories. He has been back here nearly every
year since that time.
FORT PECK-A. H. Shelter, hoist operator
on the Fort Peck dam project, felt an un-
usual pull through the cable as he moved q
lever to lift an elevator from the bottom
Of q 130-foot shaft and instinctively Stacked
the cable. Lloyd Enquist and Louis Psendo
the machinery at the bottom Of the shaft and
but for the sudden stopping Of the elevator
probably would have been killed.
MILES CITY-A good index as to the num-
Der Of grasshoppers prevalent over the country
radiators Of automobiles. Very few hoppers
and other insects are seen adhering to the
screens this year, showing a great decrease
in the infestation over last year when motor
lists arriving here from across the Dakota!
or eastern Montana highway or byways fount
upon their arrival here that the screens vert
literally plugged full Of the pests.
sIDNEY-Miss Jerry Moses, who has taught
in. the third grade Of the Sidney schools fol
the last five years, has submitted her resig.
nation to the board and will be employed b,
tiers in Billings. Miss Dora Rued Of Froid, ha!
been appointed to the vacancy created by thu
resignation Of Miss Moses. The first grade
position left vacant by the resignation Of Mrs
Oscar Anderson has been filled by the ap.
pointment Of Miss Ruth Westrum of Glendive
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TO WELFARE FUND
Three state warrants issued by State Audi.
for John j. Holmes for n total Of S226. 00t