Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-05-07
Treasure State
News i'm Brief

EMBARRASSING Insurance By mail order
1 S troWned upon by State Auditor John J
holmes VINO says such firms should be II
censed within Montana 70 come under clos,
supervision. Mail order policies frequentl,
dupe the purchasers thereof. Holmes says
mssOULA-Mrs. A. r. Davey, IS. former
Bozeman resident, died here after a short IN.
ness. She came here when her husband. I
/ cashier was transferred from Bozeman L
/ the Missoula office By the Milwaukee railway
in 1885
! MISSOULA-No serious injuries were sus-
! tanned BY Carmen Raymer. %, In a fan from
window here few days ago, II was re-
ported by her SURGEON cut ankle and several
/ broken ribs we're her injuries. The woman
came here recently from Nome. Alaska.
HELENA-some 1880 car and truck owners
Of Lewis and Clark county who have not taken
out 1888 license plates viii be assessed a 10
percent penalty. as win auto and truck owners
in other counties. The law provides a penalty
for tardy licensees.
HELENA-Edward T. and Viola Ross of
Billings their suit against the Industrial
Accident board for compensation over the
death in q highway accident OF their SON.
Dale. The state supreme court recently ruled
they are to receive $40 week for 400 weeks.
KALIsPELL-The Great Northern Veterans
association viii hold its annual convention
here June 4, officials Of the chamber of COM
merce said they had been informed by r. L.
Bonham. Of st. Paul an official Of the or
AAulLaLlOl. MORE klhu 4sUVu He4GHHtcS are 6X-
pected to attend the meeting.
BoZEMAN-Three idaho snowplows broke
through drifts on U. s. highway No. l91 over
Targhee pass q few days ago. opening the
route into Idaho for the first time in four
months, highway officials said. The highway
has been open to the Montana line for two
weeks.
BOZEMAN-wayne Tretsven Of Bozeman was
elected president OF Associated Students Of
Montana State college in student balloting a
few days ago. He defeated owen MURPHY,
Great Falls. by the marrow margin Of 4s7 to
AIT. Bill White, Kanspell, was elected vice
president without opposition.
GREAT FALLs-The city council elected
W. S. Anderson, a democrat, as alderman from
the fourth ward to succeed the late Harvey
NJ Read, alderman from that ward for nearly
i6 years. John E. Swanson was elected pres-
dent Of the council, a position held by Read
at the time Of his death.
HELENA-Dr. E. M. Porter of Great Falls
was elected president Of the state board Of
health to succeed DR.. B. L. Pampel OF Living
ston, at the boards annual meeting at Helena.
DR.. G. F. Truman was named vice president
and DR.. w. F. Cogswell, renamed secretary.
Other board members are DR.. L. II. F1igman OF
Helena and DR.. r. v. Morlidge Of Billings.
BoZEMAN-The Gallatin county welfare
board, in letters sent to every person In the
county receiving relief or working on WPA
projects declared any person on relief or
mobile or is spending money for liquor or
gambling will be considered not needy and all |
relief VIII be discontinued at once"
ANACONDA-Three Butte men pleaded guilty |
to robbery here and we're sentenced to one |
year each in the state penitentiary. They are |
Louis Huss, 81; John Grandovic. 49, and Ed |
Fortune 30. They admitted to District Judge /
r. {. McHugh that they entered the Butte, |
Anaconda and Pacific railway warehouse here /
with the intention Of taking some copper cable |
HELENA-To draw up q plan of conducting
merit examinations for employees OF the public |
welfare department, the commission employed /
ROLAND D. Severy Of Chicago, Of the Amer
ican Public Welfare association. Examinations
will be given present employees and all future
applicants under the merit plan, adopted
March !, by the department
GREAT FALLS-The Great Fails police de-
expects to have its new two-way