Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
Treasure State
News in Brief

HELENA--The state had invest
ments totaling s18,217 ,s6O.56 on the
first of May, State Treasurer Raw N.
| Shannon reported
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. men started
work on the new road to the Hell
Roaring ski run. The run will be COM
pleted this summer.
! BIG TIMBER-The Big Timber fire
department elected Ross Snyder, chief:
| Harry Wordal, assistant chief; Abbie
(Elmer) Larson, foreman, and Arthur
StubJare, secretary-treasurer.
HELENA-The state fish and game
department was notified the president
approved WPA project for improve
ment Of the federal fish hatchery at
Ennis, to cost S7,432.
BIG TIMBER-Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Van Cleve Jr. of the Lazy K Bar dude
ranch have left for eastern cities.
! where they will contact guests for
| their ranch for this summer. They will
| also attend the New York worlds fair.
CHINOOK About $4,000 in sugar
beet allotment checks, half of the total
! due growers of Blaine county, have
/ been distributed. Wheat checks for
| SPA, 46489 and range payments of Sl4,-
O92.9l are being distributed.
/ FRAZER-Senator Wheeler has in
/ troduced a bill to grant consent of
| congress to the counties of Valley and
McCone to construct and operate a
free highway bridge across the Mis-
souri, river near Frazer
LIyINGSTON-National Command
er Stephen F. Chadwick will be the
featured speaker at the opening ses-
sion OF the Montana department con-
vention of the American Legion here
Thursday, June %.
GREAT FALLS-Clifton Chase. A
world war veteran, died at a local
hospital Of injuries received a month
ago when his car overturned near Ulm.
Chase was the son of DR.. George
Chase. dentist who practiced here and
who died several years ago.
HELENA-Fifteen district managers
and nine field auditors of the Mon
tana unemployment compensation
commission attended three-day
training program here with Barclay
Craighead. chairman of the state COM
mission, presiding.
WHITEFISH - Chamber of COM
merce officials were present at a
demonstration of power machinery
used to clear stump land on the ranch
Of AXel jacobson. In eight hours all
stumpS on % acres of land were up
rooted at cost less than SIS an acre.
GLENDIVE- WPA crews with
county equipment have completed the
road to the proposed Badlands park
south of Glendive Hundreds of cars
have already taken advantage of op-
portunity to get a view of the bad
lands.
HELENA-Senior Statistician ]. G.
Diamond of the bureau of agricultural
economics said on basis of condi-
tons as Of May l. the winter wheat
crop in Montana this year will total
or an increase Of nearly 100000 bushels
over an April l estimate.
HAMILTON-"Pat' jenkins, comely
Hamilton miss, started to thumb her
way to Chicago and marriage. After
|; Miss jenkins had left Hamilton Sheriff
James Olivet revealed she had asked
him for letter to help her hitchhike
to Chicago where she said she was &c
marry C. B. Probst.
WHITEFISH-The Whitefish high
school debate team, which won the
state championship at Missoula, will
take part in the national contest. The
we'll have l6 straight wins to Their
credit this year and have not beer
defeated in the last two years.
ROBERTS the Carbon County
WoolgrowerS association declined tC
sell its 1899 pool of $4,000 fleeces at a
scheduled wool sale here because prices
offered were considered too low, it was
announced by Albert j. Budas, asso-
citation secretary. BudaS did not revea,
prices offered.
GREAT FALLS-Irving w. Smith
superintendent of Great Falls schools
has accepted appointment on the 1895