Glacier County chief., 1939-09-08
News Briefs
From the Treasure State

KALISPELL-The bird committee of
the Flathead Sportsmens association
liberated $50 Chinese pheasants in
Flathead county.
MILES CITY-The annual eastern
Montana ram sale will be held here
Sept. q, with Rambouillets and cross
breeds on the block. About 500 head
will be brought here, ]. H. Boiling,
sale manager, said.
SIDNEY-The Sidney Cold Storage
Co., with C. E. Turner as secretary
manager, is an important new local
enterprise. Nearly $4,000 will be in
vested in the plant when installation
is completed.
NOLBoRG-A grass and timber fire
burned across 600 to 800 acres about
three miles west of the postoffice here
before It was controlled by ranchers
and a CCC crew. No crops were re-
ported damaged.
WHITEFISH-Work has started on
construction of the road to Hell Roar
ing ski run north of the city. Much
effort has been spent on the proect
by the chamber of commerce, the city
PLENTYWOOD-Qu action by two
threshing crews and a wind that
changed saved a big wheat field from
farm south of here. About 10 acres was
burned before the blaze was quelled
NASHUA-A horse buyer from Fargo
spent several days here buying horses
and shipped carload to Atlanta, Ga,
this being the second carload he has
consigned from Nashua.
BILLINGS-The new $4,000 SWIM
ming pool to be governed by the city
athletic commission, has opened. The
pool is 210 feet long and 14O feet
across, holding $4,000 gallons of fill
tered water.
HAVRE-Flow of Milk river above
Fresno dam will be shut off about
six weeks starting Sept. Is in order
at the dam, according to H. v. Hubbel,
chief engineer.
BUTTE-Francis Allan McDougall,
ID. freshman student at the Montana
School of Mines, died of skull frac-
ture incurred in an automobile acci-
dent near the country club at Ana
conda. McDougall was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Allan H. McDougall of Butte.
HAvRE-With harvesting operations
virtually completed, competent author
tiles estimate the total production for
Hill county this season will reach g.
100000 bushels. Many fields have run
county average is expected to be 8
to 10.
MISSOULA-Foresto officials are con-
sidering a cruise of Trapper creek and
Chaffin creek timber stands in the
West Fork of the Bitter Root this
fall. The area was last cruised in 1915.
Estimates place the amount of timber
available there as a future source of
supply at 200,O00,000 feet.
HARLOWTON -William Haskill,
foreman at the N. R. Barncord ranch
near Hedgesville, suffered a compound
fracture of the right leg when he was
kicked by a horse he was removing
from the barn to turn out to pasture.
Haskill was removed to LewiStown
hospital.
HARLOWTON- The county COM
missioners have fixed the tax levies
for the current year as follows: County
general fund, II mills; courthouse pur-
high school fund. 9 mills; general
school fund, mills, and bond sink
ing fund, a mill, a total of 1919 mills as
compared with 1915 mills last year.
BUTTE Registration for first semes-
ter classes at Montana School of Mines
will occur. Sept. Is, with first classes
opening the following day. 1t is ex-
pected the junior and senior classes will
be the biggest in history and nearly
80 credit transfers for new students
are already on record.
CUT BANk-A 62-ton fractionating
column in the process of erection at
Glacier Productions new gasoline re-
filming plant east of the city was