Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-11-11

/ kALlSFELL - Building permits IS
sued here during October totaled
4 $l1 800. Permits for the year to Nov.
totaled $127680.
SWEET GRASS-Equipmen for the
Sweet Grass refinery Is arriving daily
and carpenters and worimen have
erected forms for concrete work.
CHTNOOK-Sugar beet growers ia
the Chinook factory district received
$3.50 from the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.
as final payment on the 1888 beet crop.
RED LODGE-The Red Lodge-Cooke
City highway to Yellowstone park has
been closed for the winter, due to a
heavy snowfall early IN November, the
bureau Of public roads has announced.
GREAT FALLS-Charles Kranz Of
/ Great Falls was elected president Of
! the Montana Florists association at its
annual convention here. Butte was
chosen as the site OF the 1910 conven-
ton.
BUTTE-Stewart J. Thomas, man.
ager Of the local field office of the
social security board, has announced
that payment of federal old age and
survivors insurance monthly retire
ment benefits viii start Jan l.
GREAT FALLS-Building construc-
/ ton in Great Falls during the first
10 months of 1899 involved the expen-
| diture OF S9l2.O19 for general construc-
| ton alone. according TO a report of
the city building inspector.
BOZEATAN-A horn similar to that
Of a rhinoceroS was unearthed by a
steam shovel in a gravel Dit near here.
! P. H Gaffney, Gallatin county COM
missioner, said the shovel also had un-
covered a quantity Of fossilized bones.
HELENA-The r. D. Merrill Con-
struction Co. of Helena has been
awarded the $l18, las contract for con-
struction of the first % of 80 homes
to be built at the Kinsey flat farms
resettlement project near Miles City.
| BUTTE - Jack Duggan, assistant
chief Of police here, has gone to Mex
leo City, where he viii attend the an
| nual convention of the Pacific Coast
/ International Association of Law En-
forcement Officers.
GREAT FALLS Four weeks of
! training and instruction for Montana
Farmers union officers, leaders and
members will be given here starting
Jan. 8, according to announcement
made by H. D. Rolph Of Joplin preSi-
dent Of the state organization.
MOORE-The Moore Womans club
recently honored pioneers of 40 years
or more residence in the state with
the 21st annual Old-Timers' meeting
-Four hundred Montana pioneers, club
members and specially invited guests
were present.
HELENA-"An apple a day" for
Montana,s needy school children was
in the offing with the announcement
the federal government has purchased
so carloads Of apples from Bitter Root
valley growers. The apples will be pro-
vided by the federal surplus commodity
corporation for free school lunches.
GALLATIN GATEWAY-Three
Montana Al club girls. all of this
place, have submitted entries IN the
Junior classes at the International
livestock show, to be held at Chicago
In December. They are Marie, Helen
and Margaret Monforton, who will ex-
hibit purebred Hereford baby beeves.
SHELBY - Shelby merchants have
been warned to be on the lookout for
counterfeit dollars. Five bogus coins
have been discovered at the local post
office and have been forwarded to the
federal bureau of investigation. The
imitation coins are said to be extremely
difficult to distinguish from the
genuine.
ROUNDUP Fifty Hereford calves
from this area were sold IN Billings
for All club work during the coming
year. One shipment, consigned by Earl
Clark, numbered 80, weighing an av-
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