Glacier County chief., 1939-04-07
Treasure State
News in Brief

LAUREL-Harold Richardson was
elected president of the Yellowstone
County All Club council.
LAUREL-A membership drive Of
the Laurel Rod and Gun club resulted
in enrolment of 200.
HARLOWTON- local chicken
raiser, Owen Collier, has barred rock
pullet that laid an egg TX inches in
circumference the long way and 81
inches the short way.
LAUREL-Rural identification lines
between Laurel and Park City on the
west and extending south from Laurel
to Rockville have received power to
supply about 100 farm homes.
BILLINGS-The Billings sugar beet
district has been allotted 26,735 acres
under terms of the 1899 agricultural
conservation program of the AAA. APP
plications from growers of the district
have requested $500 acres.
DEER LODGE-The short time
escape of Uno Cabling. SO. life termer
at the Montana state prison, cost a
prison guard his job, Warden T. r.
BergStrom announced. The guard was
charged with neglect.
misunderstanding approval has
been given S229 97 WPA project for
construction and reconstruction of pub
lie buildings at the north Montana
branch experiment station at Fort As
sinniboine, it was learned here.
CIRCLE-Mrs Helen NJ. Brown. IS.
died at the McCone county hospital as
result of burns suffered when clean
ing fluid exploded in the basement of
the Brown home. Her son, Kenneth. 3,
and Edgar Warner, %, were in a crit
ical condition.
DEER LODGE David joseph
Coughlin, IS, resident of Montana since
1868, died at hospital here after a
brief illness. He had been a resident of
the area that is now Powell county for
70 years. He was engaged in the ranch
ing and hotel business.
HELENA-Carroll college athletic
director Chick Garner announced
that the college would definitely spon-
sor an annual Montana Collegiate con-
ference spring athletic carnival here
May 10 and 20. In past years the meets
have been held at Billings.
LIBBY-Due to the fund set up for
medicinal purposes being nearly eX-
hausted in the county, the clerk was
authorized to notify druggists at Libby,
Eureka and Troy that their claims for
the balance of the fiscal year shall not
exceed s38.15 a month.
HELENA-Butter and ice cream pro-
duction in Montana during February,
1889, showed an increase over produc-
ton in February, 1898, B. F. Thrailkill,
chief of the dairy division of the state
department of agriculture, reported a
few days ago.
HARLOWTON-Work on the over
pass over the Milwaukee railway Great
Falls line tracks here was resumed
April /. When work was suspended, due
to unfavorable weather in January,
the structure was about 20 percent
completed.
HELENA-The Montana board of
commissioners for insane was advised
the state mental hospital at Warm
Springs, that unless something is done
to relieve the regular increase of pa
TENTS it may be necessary to turn
away additional cases.
HARLOWTO Meeting training
that will fit them for future life, IS
boys of the teen age are receiving in
struction in shop crafts under the rec
reation setup here. 1t is estimated the
costs per boy, will not exceed 81 for
the school year.
HELENA-The state railroad and
public service commission has under
advisement a request signed by more
than 400 residents of Glasgow for an
investigation of the rates charged for
its natural gas. The petition was filed
with the commission by users of gas
sold by the Montana-Dakota Utilities
company.
FORT BENTON-Fred Pangburn of
the Montana Power Co. reports that
eagles have been causing the linemen
trouble this spring. A power failure was
caused by an eagle that measured six
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