The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-07-16
Treasure State
News in Brief

HAMILTON-Jack Kirschmann. 10. suffered
a fractured skull and a broken collarbone when
he fell from a moving automobile here. At
a hospital here. attending physicians said he
had a good chance to recover"
Observation-Disclosures of the Phoenix Engineer
ing company reported work of constructing the
Poison dam. on the Flathead river near here.
is 48 percent complete. The dam is being
built for the Rocky Mountain Power company.
GREAT FALLS-Social security account rec
ords at the local postoffice show 9.l40 persons
painfully employed here, either in full or
parttime jobs. This is approximately one-third
Of Il. total number of residents of the city.
LIBBY-L. E. Throop sold 500 bass to the
federal government for hatchery purposes at
the maximum price Of 50 each. Throop, owner
Of a lake between Troy and Libby, began his
fish rearing business as a hobby.
NASHUA-Jasper de Bobbeleer, of Glasgow.
was elected president Of the South Valley
Farmers union at the ORGANIZATIONS annual
meeting here. De Bobbeleer was a member of
the legislature during the 1887 session.
wHITEFIsH-school district officials will
submit to Whitefish voters in a special election
July "a the question of issuing sec, 800 in
bonds. the proceeds to be used in charging
and equipping the Central school building
here.
the future, Montana fishermen
who lose their licenses will be charged a So
cent fee for certificates of Identification, is
e LII e v ILL lOoI IA ny t1C
fish and game department, officials have
ruled.
DEER LODGE-A. B. Hoss, SO, early-day
Montana newspaper publisher, died at his
home here a few days ago. Hoss formerly
was the publisher Of the Silver Star. Dillon
weekly. He came to this state in 1892 from
Montg emery City, Mo.
ANACoNDA-Three brothers, W.. A.. Lacox,
70. of Lewistown; Joseph E.. Lacox. SO. Calome,
S. D.. and Frank Lacox. 81. of Anaconda,
were together for the first time in 81 years
at the Joseph Lacox home in Calome recently.
They had last been together on Christmas
day, 1886.
trict traffic manager for Northwest Airlines,
said here the lines business generally has
shown such increases that western Montana
has been taken from the Spokane district and.
with eastern Montana, has been made into one
division of the route.
HAMILToN-The 1887 berry harvest in the
Bitter Root valley is on IN full swing. with
strawberries ripening rapidly as temperatures
mount into the COS daily. Growers report
early cherries beginning to ripen and a heavy
crop in prospect. A large apple harvest is also
anticipated by orchardists.
HAvRE-Two Great Falls construction firms.
the J. A. McLaughlin company and the L. A.
Woodward company. submitted bids to the
city council for construction of a proposed
natural gas distribution system in the city Of
Havre. The council took the bids under ad-
visement.
Observation-Disclosures of two new units
on the Montana State university campus Is
progressing rapidly, President George Finlay
Simmons announced. He said work on the
new art building is SO percent completed. and
the journalism building is about half COM
peted. The art building was estimated to cost
$32. 727 and the journalism building $3.50. 1000.
MISSOULA-Fire season regulations were
scheduled to become effective Friday. July 20.
on the Lolo. Bitter Root, Cabinet and F1athead
national forests. forest service officials here
announced. The regulations ban smoking ex-
cept at camp grounds and require persons
entering the forest to carry an ak, shovel and
bucket as a fire protection precaution.
BHLINGS-First-de degree murder charges were
filed against two 2l-year-old Billings youths
in connection with the robbery-slaying of
Andrew J. Sandin. County Attorney George
8. Smith said he filed the murder charges
against Robert Patton, WPA truck driver and
father of a family including q three-year-old
daughter, and John Kortje, local farm hand.
who were arrested by the officers seven hours
after Sandin's rock-beaten body was found.
GLAsGOW-Large sturgeon and channel
can 60 only as far as the Fort Peck tunnel
inlets. There they find q man-made contrap-
ton Of steel grillwork witt a maximum clear
ance Of six inches. The curious sturgeons
wedge their shovel-like noses between the
OPENINGS Of the grill and fall easy prey to
nearby workmen. The largest specimen caught
since the diversion Of the river weighed 90
pounds and was five feet long.