Glacier County chief., 1939-02-03
Treasure State
News in Brief

HARLOWTON-AW PA crew Is grav-
cling the Shawmut- Hedgesville road.
Gravel is also being placed from
Hedgesville north to the synod ranch.
BILLINGS-Edgar L. Buddy Zum-
walt, 24-year-old Billings accountant,
shot and killed himself as he lay in a
bedroom at his apartment here.
LIBBY-Cole McDougall was struck
by falling limb while working as a
logger for the J. Neils Lumber Co.,
and suffered a lacerated forehead, a
sprained ankle and sprained neck.
SIDNEY-Fire Chief Fred Hurst re-
ports there were seven fire calls an
swered by the department in 1885, Total
loss was sl,!62 and 76 percent was in
sured. Hurst has been chief for 26
years.
HAMILTON-Cattle rustling has be-
come too prevalent in the Bitter Root
valley county commissioners declared,
nation leading to arrest and convic-
ton of cattle thieves.
BILLINGS-Benjamin E. Berg. dis
trlct Judge at Livingston. was elected
Industrious potentate of FL Bedoo Shrine
temple at the annual meeting of the
organization here. He succeeds w. H.
Bunney of Belfry.
MISSOULA-The second residence
hall at the NYA Little Bitter Root
camp in Flathead county has just been
completed according to E R. Ormsbee,
district NYA supervisor. The new resi-
dence hall has capacity of so.
FORT PECK-The Fort Peck fire
department announces total fire loss
of S3.70 to government property on the
Fort Peck project in 1898. In the 1888
annual report of the fire department
Is calls are listed.
BILLINGS-District Judge Guy C.
Derry was elected president of the
Yellowstone County Bar association at
the annual banquet meeting of the
group. Other officers elected were Hor-
ace S: Davis, vice president, and
Howard Gullickson, secretary.
HAVRE-L. N. jacobson was elected
president of the Havre Chamber of
Commerce, Elmer Hansen. vice presi-
dent. and F. A. Buttrey. John Philips,
F: M. Cowan, c. B. Elwell, Frances
and Dan Heltne, directors
LIVINGSTON-Of q hunters arrest
ed in the firing line" country in south
ern Park county for shooting elk 16
minutes before o'clock in the morn
ing, Deputy Game Warden Kenneth
Fallang said 20 entered pleas of guilty
and were fined S27.50 each.
LIBBY-Howard Turner bought a
grocery store in north Spokane and
will move there with his family before
Feb. l. He has been proprietor of the
turner tavern for number of years.
A few weeks ago he sold the building
to P. E. Larsen.
WHITEFISH-Chief of Police Ernie
Hoffman takes prides in his hobby of
finger printing. A report he received
on Jack Brooks, "a, arrested here a
short time ago for shoplifting, shows
he has been arrested % times in 10
years in Montana, Idaho, Washington,
Utah and North Dakota
DnLLON-On Jan. of this wear
there was no bonded debt on the
Beaverhead county books, Clerk and
Recorder Albert S. Baker said. A def
cit of s3,858.79 was the only debt and
County Treasurer BERTHE Matthews
stated that collections of automobile
licenses has taken care of this.
BUTTE Approval by the works
progress administration of a S176,6 600
allotment with which Silver Bow
county will sponsor large countrywide
sanitary sewage system project was
of county commissioners by Senator
Burton K. Wheeler.
HELENA-The Montana unemploy-
ment compensation commission has 81
732,015.14 on deposit with the federal
treasury, State Treasurer Ray N. Shan
non said. When the Montana unem-
ployment compensation act becomes
effective July /, persons in covered lines
who lose their jobs will receive weekly
benefits out of the fund.
BILLINGS-Sugar beet growers
voiced favor here for sliding wage
scale to permit 1ow-yield farms to pay
lower wages to field laborers than would
be paid for work in Iigh-yield acre
ages. The growers preference was ex-
pressed In testimony at a public hear
ing conducted by a five-man federal
board.
HELENA-Miss Margaret Holmes,
daughter Of State Auditor and Mrs.