The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-01-21
Treasure State
News in Brief

HELENA-Forest grazing areas IN tne ma,
tional forests of the state are nearly normal
due to fall precipitation.
KALISPELL-Mrs. Anna Hummer, 90;
mother of Carl hummer, is in the II ho : ta1i
in which she fractured her hip.
WARM SPRINGS-The state hospital for
the insane had SO more patients Jan. l. 1888
than at the sam time a year ago. a ret1rt
to state officials showed. Population OF the
asylum on Jan. l was 1853.
Observation-Disclosures from Wallace. Ida,
reported snow on Lookout mountain pass on
the Montana-Idaho border. was nine feet
deep. A rotary pillow is keeping the highway
clear.
MILES CITY-Fred Irish. wPA recreation
project official, announced the annual state
wide checker tournament would be held in
Miles City in February. Dates of the meet
will be announced later. he said.
TOWNSEND-Twenty-five crates of oranges.
six 50-pound cans of lard, $50 pounds of
prunes and $50 sacks of potatoes are stored
at the Broadwater county courthouse for the
POOR of the community.
HELENA-The state has completed paying
$227,ol6:71 to counties as its share of the
cost of transporting pupils to and from
schools in the final semester OF the last
school year.
HELENA-Michael Freebourn, husky baby
boy born to Harrison J. FreebourE, attorney
general, and his wife, was officially the first
resident baby born in Helena in 1888 and was
given a prize as the winner of a baby
derby" conducted by a local newspaper.
LIVINGSTON big, black bear, which
should have been alternating and not cavort-
ing in open hunting territory in midwinter,
was shot and killed on Decker flats near the
firing line by Ed Durgan, upper Yellowstone
valley rancher.
HELENA-Income from various activity OF
the national forests in Montana for the year
was allocated to the several counties by the
state auditor this week. Total divided among
,he ga counties with forests in their confines
was $55. 642, being one-fourth of all the re-
cclpts.
DEER LODGE-Twelve state prison inmates
were taroled during December, Warden Ted
BerGstrom reported to Gov. Roy E. Ayers.
The PRISON population. however, increased to
578. when 45 new convicts were received dur
ing the month. Seven were DISCHARGED. The
count on Dec. LIST was 552 inmates.
WIBAUN-Stewart Stair. son Of Commits
sioner E.. B. Stair, whose arm was broken
twice in a double accident and later ampu-
tated by physicians at a G!endive hospital,
was reported rapidly recovering at his home
III FaIrvieW. He was released from the hos
p.tal early last week.
HELENA-Hugh /. Sherman was named to
the board OF park commissioners Of Great
Falls by Gov. Roy E. Ayers recently. He sue
ceeds w. E. Mitchell. who moved to Ana
conda and who has been named to the board
OF directors of the State School of Mines at
Butte.
GLASGOW-More than 10000 cubic yards
of rock, to be used as fill material at the
Fort Peck dam. were loosened by a single
blast at the Snake Butte quarry near Harlem
last week, army engineers reported. They
said the charge contained IL 900 pounds OF
powder. and was the heaviest ever set off
at the quarry.
HELENA-Prices of farm commodities gen.
orally dropped sharply during December,
bringing the list down to 1884 levels. federal
statistics reveal. Years lowest levels were
reached in December on is items, including
hay, grain and wool. Livestock and poultry
prices were above the 1886 December price,
but almost all other farm products were
lower.
LIvINGSTON-Mike S. Ricci, Livingston
young man, returned from a trip to New
York City and reported ownership of silver
dollars in Gotham produced only headaches.
He recounted how a restaurant cashier
called a cop when he rendered a cart
Wheel in payment for a meal. and said
several theater cashiers refused to accept
silver dollars in payment for tickets.
PLAINS-Three-year-old Darrell Murray,
who always covers himself with bedc.othes
when frightened. saved his own life as the
result of that habit. While DarrelrS parents
we're away from their logging camp home
near here, he tipped over a lamp and his
clothes were set ablaze. The tot covered him.
self and the flames we're smothered. lie was
burned severely.
following officers we're
elected by the Woodmen of the World. Camp
No. %. of Augusta: w. J. McManuS. past
council commanders; w. E. McManus, council