Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-01
Treasure State
News in Brief

passed an ordnance banning gambling here.
LEWIsToWN-county Assessor Ed coyls
announced q 20 percent reduction in the
assessed valuation Of ell Fergus county real
estate. TO take effect Immediately.
GREAT FALLs-The Great Northern Rail-
way company established limited train service
between Great Falls and st. Paul beginning
May 2, to expedite passenger and mail service.
GLENDTvE-Leo Smith. principal OF Daw-
son county high school here the last two
years, has resigned 70 accept position as
vice principal Of the Great Falls high school
HIS successor here has not been chosen.
LEWIsTOWN-Burns sustained when kero-
sene she threw into a stove exploded and
ignited her clothing proved fatal to Margery
Shay, IS, daughter Of Roy Shay, Petroleum
county rancher.
LIBBY-sheriff Baney said he believed
cattle rustlers were active in the Libby ter
ritory He said evidence had been found which
Indicated cattle had been driven from ranches
to nearby timberlands and slaughtered.
KALIsPELL--Adrs. Louis sauerbier Is en-
route to New York City from where she will
sail for Glasgow, Scotland. 70 VISIT her mother,
whom she has not seen since coming to the
States 80 years ago. She win embark on the
cunard White Star liner. 8. 8. carinthia.
TRoY-Kenneth HeImer. ssz-year-old Troy
boy. reported to be recovering rap4dly
from the effects Of exposure and shock suf-
fered when he was lost in the hills near here
ing in the snow under q tree.
MssOULA-Wore than 500 civilian con-
servation corps members from the middle
west. assembled at Fort Knox KY, and Bis
marck, N. D., are scheduled to arrive in
Montana soon for spring and summer detail
IN the Fort Missoula district.
KALIsPELL--A1rs George NJ. Graham left
recently for Milwaukee where she Will visit
a week before continuing on TO New York
to sail for London, England, to attend the
coronation. She will visit sisters and other
relatives in London for several months.
WHITE sULPHER sPRINGs-Newly elected
officers Of the Meagher post, No. 25 American
Lesion, include Alfred Harder, commander
Mike Bergen, sergeant-at-arms; Harry Stew
art. chaplain; Emmett Cox, historian; ~. D.
Holmes, adiutant.
AussOULA-Dr. @. A. Matson, associate
professor OF bacteriology at Montana State
university, will become professor OF bacteri-
ology and pathology at the University Of Utah.
it was announced by Dr. George Finlay Sim
mons. president Of Montana university.
LIvNGsToN-Huge bones believed to be
those OF a prehistoric mammal have been
uncovered IN gravel pits north Of Livingston
The remains were in a near-perfect state
OF preservation and were not fossilzed OF
turned to rock.
oZEMAN-Nelson Flint resigned as man
ager OF the Gallatin county employment office
to accept a position with the reclamation
bureau at Malta. Operation OF the office has
been taken over by the national re-employ-
ment service.
CoRyAIIIs-To visit his old pal. with
whom he freighted in the Blackfoot some Is
years ago. Al Tice, made a trip here from
Drummond and called upon Charles Newman.
Mr. Newman is seriously i'll in the home Of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Fierce.
observation-disclosures among CCC work
ers in the northern Rocky Mountain National
forest region for the six-mouth period which
ended March 81 we're l8 percent less than
the number reported during the preceding
period 1t was announced by the forest serv-
ice headquarters here.
LEWIsTowN-cy Price and B. A. Davidson,
both OF Roundup, have purchased the garage
business Of Lewistown Motors, Inc, and
changed the name Of the firm to Price-Dav-
idson Motor Sales Price formerly operated
garage in Roundup and Davidson was post
master there for several years.
MIssoULA-AGissoula high school officials
have been invited to cooperate in q plan TO
light Dornblazer field the Montana State
university athletic field. II the high school
win pay for the lights, high school grid teams
win have prior rights to Friday night engage
ments.
supreme chancellor Of the knights Of Pythias, |
was honor guest at a meeting here OF mem |
beers OF the order from Butte, Deer Lodge, |
Great Falls, Lima, Philipsburg, Kalispeu and !
Bozeman before leaving the state.
THREE FoRKs-with the exception Of |
Anita Pagelar, who has accepted a teaching /
position In Nevada at an increase in salary,
all teachers, clerks and janitors OF Three
Forks public schools have been rehired for
another year A. NJ G. Otto win be chairman
If the school board starting with the fall
ERIN.
B0ZEAEAN-ATiss Jessie Council. head Of
he secretarial department Of Montana State
College since 1929, has been named to serve
IS acting dean Of the division Of household
md industrial arts during the next year
Hiss Conneu replaces Dean Gladys Branegan,
Who win spend sabbatical leave OF one
'ear in travel.
PARADIsE-Paradise was dry" spot on
he map Of Montana when the towns lone
leer parlor closed its doors, bowling to the
ule Of the Northwest Improvement company,
which plated the TOWNSHIP that no hquor
ouid be sold within the corporate limits.
The state supreme court recently upheld the
ownsite eompanys rule
BoZEHEAN-Rock- pelting youngsters did
inished JOB at the Greenwood elevator recent
Y. They broke out every of the So panes
( glass in the building and battered the
ides OF the structure with at least as many
hots which missed the glass; Undersherinf
J, n Isben looked into his crystal globe
nd came up with the names OF the four
oys. Their parents VIII pay for the break
sc, he said.
MTSSoULA-The division Of timber man
cement OF the United States forest service
eported seventy-five and one-quarter million
GARD feet Of timber were cut in commercial
perations on national forest sale areas In
he northern Rocky mountain region during
be nine months from July !, 1886 to April
1897 In addition, the report said timber
ut for farm and ranch use amounted to
lore than 2A million board feet.
INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS
fay
ID those Of last year by more than 100000
ccording to Z. A. Dye, chairman OF the state
oard Of equalization. They have already
sached the total Of $3.50 which is $4,000
lore than those on 1885 incomes
What is said to have been the great
st calamity in history was the Black
)eath, a pestilence which spread over
STA, Europe and northern Africa in
he 14th century, and took the lives Of