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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
635 'WPA JOBS
IN STATE IN 1898
THAT MANY APPROVED BY PRES.
IDENT FOR TOTAL COST OF
S26,572, 026
List Headed by 40 Water and Sewage
System Improvement Projects in
Every Part Of Montana and 81 Road
and Street Undertakings.

Presidential approval Of prof.
Gets totaling S1,O63,387 during last
december, brought total Montana
Wfa projects approved by the
president during 1888 to SIS jobs
aggregating S26,572. 026, the Mon
Ina works progress administra-
ton announced.
Officials pointed out that all nroi-
ects approved by the president are not
necessarily prosecuted but generally
are. Final operation is contingent
upon the desire and financial ability
OF local city, county, school district. or
other governmental agencies which
sponsor them, and the availability of
labor certified for work relief by the
state department of public welfare, it
AS typical of the wide range of work
undertaken by WPA during le38 off
Gals pointed to the 1873 REPRESENTATIVE
projects approved in the first four
months OF the year, which totaled
Heading the list were 40 water and
sewerage system construction or i'm
proVement projects with So. 400 227 in
federal funds allocated. Next were 81
road and street jobs approved for ST.
5s9,853. Other local projects were listed
in the following order:
Parks, Fairgrounds and recreational
facilities. % projects, $685., 1856: 90 pub
lie buildings, STA 29; fairground
improvements, s242.140: airport de-
velopments. sl46,3l3; II county and
clerical projects, 81. 4os; 3 hot School
lunch projects, s3.l02; s1,l0l for pro-
Vloing housekeeping assistance to i'll
or employed mothers in needy fami-
lies, In one county; and z other mis-
cellaneous projects, $81 ,586.
OF statewide nature, s288 764 was
allocated to operate an extensive COM
munity sanitation program sponsored
by the state board of health and the
S;tsS. pubic health service. Thirteen
ol11erent WPA sewing rooms spon-
sored by the state and county boards
OF public welfare received s287 1917:
SIS8. 844 was made available to provide
WPA labor in operation of the state
welfare board-Federal Surplus Com
modity Corps extensive commodity
re!iet distribution program: and sl3,-
ora Ior the predatory animal control
program sponsored by the Montana
livestock commission.
IL Federal Projects
Listed as federal projects. 70 other
IonS Tor construction and improvement
WORKS on federally owned propertv
were approved for S199.448. These in
cluded sewer system and two public
building projects for the Fort peck
and building job on the Fort Beik.
nap reservation four sewing rooms
LOT the Blackfeet, Crow and Tongue
River Indian agencies; building and
ground improvements at Fort Missol1la
ana a bureau of fisheries hatchery
improvement project at Gallatin City.
only projects not represented in
the first four months were water con-
servation Jobs. officials said. In all
WPA operated several score of dam
building and irrigation canal construc-
tlon jobs during 1888, it was stated.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
IS PLAN OF STATE BOARD

Development Of dental health edu-
cation program throughout the Sc
counties of the state is being under
taken by the Montana state board of
health and the Montana State Dental
association, officials said.
As the first step in the program,
all dental surgeons of the state are
being asked to Cooperate in a sur
vey being conducted by the maternal
and child welfare division of the health
board, DR.. Edythe P. Hershey, director
of the division, said
DR.. Hershey pointed out that dental
care programs are being carried on in
a number Of communities, but thew
are solely under the auspices Of local
dentists.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
many years operated q mems haber-
dashery here.

many years operated q mems haber-
dashery here.
HELENA-A ISL 900 issue of Mon.
tana state bonds to finance construc-
ton Of an addition to a building at
the state tuberculosis sanitarium al
Galen was sold to the Brown-Schless-
man-Owen Co. of Denver, State
Treasurer Ray N. Shannon said. The
treasurer said the bonds would bear
4 percent interest and would be re-
tired over a 25-year period.
GREAT FALLS-A total of 1.494
drivers were arrested in Great Falls
In 1898 for violations Of traffic and
parking regulations and fines amount
ing to $7,87075 were assessed against
these offenders, according to the an
nual report of Arthur Goings, SER
geant in charge Of the police traffic
division.
MISSOULA-The years first death
in Missoula as the result of an auto
mobile accident occurred when Jess
Richards, 52-year-old WPA worker,
died in a local hospital Of injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by a car
Dec. 20. The accident took place as
Richards was standing or walking by
the highway Just outside the city
limits.
HELENA Helena residents own
more United States baby" bonds per
capita than residents Of any other
city in the nation, Postmaster Harry
Hendricks announced. Per capita
ownership of the bonds in Helena is
S17.10, he said. Kansas City, Mo-, Is
second with per capita ownership
of $3.50.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
OFFICERS REELECTED
BY COUNTIES GROIIp

All Officers of the Southeastern Mon
tana Counties association were re-
elected at the associations second an
nual meeting at Miles City. They are:
L. J. Onstad Of Broadus, president:
Carl Gillian of Forsyth, vice president;
=. q; winter OF Miles City, secretary,
urer.
A program for 1899 was outlined
including continued emphasis on water
conservation and highway construc-
tlon programs. A resolution was
adopted requesting the state highway
department to adhere to the ORIGINAL
plan of the z percent primary and sec
ondary road system.
Inc next meeting of the association
will be held at Miles City on Jan 81
when the budget for 1899 will be pre-,
pared and standing committees will
be appointed.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
F irst Divorce i'm Montana
Granted i'm Miners Court

and the rest of the meeting, returned
to the nearest saloon. There all, in
GLIDING Jeptha, drank the couples
health. NO mention is made of what
became of the third party of the orig
inal triangle.
Statistics on divorces in Montana
have not been compiled for the past
two years. However, in Silver Bow, the
most populous county. there were 274
divorces during 1887, and all of these
couples went to considerably more
trouble and expense than Betsey and
Jeptha Wigs.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
LEAVES 100000
FOR CHARITIES
CHARLES E. Kelsey, WHOLESALER,
WILLS 100000 BUSINESS TO
HIS EMPLOYEES
Bequests Come to Light When Will Is
Filed for Probate Following His
Death; $1,000 Is Given North Gen.
trail Montana Boy Scout Council.

Charles E. Kelsey, Great Falls
merchant who died recently set
aside 100000 of his estate to es-
tablish a Kelsey foundation fund,
the net income from which will be
used for religious, charitable and
educational purposes in the city.
The remainder of an estate esti-
mated to exceed 100000, he be-
queathed to employees of his COM
pany and two Great Falls hos
pitfalls. This was revealed when his
will was filed for probate.
In decreeing that more than half
of his estate should be managed as a
foundation to be used for philanthro-
pic purposes, Kelsey named Attorney
of the Kelsey Co., and E. o. Jenkins,
president of the First National bank
Of Great Falls, as trustees to manage
the foundations funds, which will
amount to 5000 annually, according
to competent observers.
The entire stock of the Kelsey Co.
was bequeathed to officers and en-
ployes Of the. company except for zoo
shares set aside 100 each for the Co.
lumbus hospital and the Montana Dea-
coness hospital 1t was estimated the
value Of the Kelsey Co., established
here in 1911 as wholesale grocery
business, is not less than $1,000
The will names long list OF md1-
viduals and institutions given specific
sums of money. Rejecting Heisey's
particular interest in youngsters Is a
bequest of $4,000 to the North Central
Montana council Of Boy Scouts and
$500 to the st. Thomas orphanage at
Great Falls.
Before his death, Kelsey was known
as a philanthropist. Under the gutse
of a gruff exterior, he sought ways TO
aid needy and deserving young people
Close friends Of the merchant have told
how several Great Falls youngsters, un-
able to finance their way to college
have suddenly found good paying jobs
offered them In college towns. Accept.
ing the posts, the youths completed
their courses and went out into the
world unaware that Kelsey was re.
sponsible for the good luck" that had
befallen them.
One Of the few times he ever per-
mitted his identity to be revealed wa.
In construction Of the Kelsey Memorial
building at Great Fslls In 1885. Kelsey
ave more than 10000 for construc-
ton Of the building a. Catholic
youth center. It was erected In mem
or Of his wife, who died that year.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
No Hav Fed Yet

Although one of the largest hay crops
OF a decade was harvested last year
IN the Eden district, the winter has
Deen SO mild that cattle are feeding on
the open range, leaving stacks un-
touched, according to Joe Marker of
Boston coulee.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

the nat just ABOVE nevada TO mere
our storys and give us splittin
papers, everybody cum;
"JEPTHA WIGGS,
"BETSEY WIGGS."
This was the first notice of divorce
in Montana. 1t took place in the fall
Of 1864 at Alder Gulch.
A young couple had started west
from Missouri on a honeymoon trip.
By the time they reached Montana a
few complications had set in. Some
where enroute third person, young
man, had Joined their party. Perhaps
the bride thought she was making the
trip with the wrong individual. Ger
tainly the groom thought her refusal
to help hitch up the oxen, and other
wise do her share of the work reason
enough for divorce. They were both
of the same mind in seeking "dividin'
documents"
Upon inquiry they learned Virginia
City had no divorce court. Miners
meetings took care of court procedures.
places for the miners meeting to hear
the evidence, and make a decision.
The miners accepted in force the in
vitation to cum" A presiding officer
was chosen from among them. He had
satisfactorily acted as a judge in pre-
vious meetings. Coming across the
plains he had lost his hat and wore
handkerchief wrapped around his
head as a substitute. In Difference,
perhaps, to his office, fellow miner,
fortunate enough to have two hats,
loaned him one. 1t didn't fit, but the
Judge remedied this by splitting the
band at intervals. His hair protruded
from these splits in a rakish fashion
not at all in accord with the dignity
of his manner.
Two fledgling lawyers offered their
services to the parties concerned. The
miners freely expressing their opinions
on the lawyers comments. or advising
them wherein they could do better
These sallies were taken In good part
by all. Where every man Is his own
law-and armed to enforce that law
1t doesn't pay to be overly sensitive
In spite of everyone's willingness To
help, the trial struck q snag when
Betsey claimed half the property. Jep-
| tina saw no reason why he should
have to lose any Of his property In the
| process Of getting rid Of wife. The
Judge feared the argument which en-
sued might extend to the entire meet
ing. The miners showed too great q
willingness to take sides In the mat
ter. In the interest Of peace the Judge
told the lawyers TO @argy" the case.
One Of the miners had an idea. he
offered to take Betsey and all thu
| things she claimed off Jeptha's hands
for 12o0, Il the meeting would give
them dividing documents." The meet
ing promptly complied. and Betsey with
] hef huSband-to-he. hsr ex-husbanf
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
Health Warning Issued

warning against consumption of
raw or undercooked meats was issued
by the city-county health department
linens of meat containing parasites
which cause tape worm have been
found in the district.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

Aristotle believed that eels grew
from mud, while Pliny declared that
they developed from pieces scraped
from parents skins.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

New York's Bowery comes from the
Dutch word "bouweriji," meaning
plantation. The Bowery originally was
lane through a Dutch bouweriji.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

Bakers in ancient China who adulter-
ated their flour with sand were COM
PEELED to eat some Of their own product
as punishment.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

Cumnnmwsa1th = The off1c1nl do
E1nviv1n1a, vk1lnia md EGufueny.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

BILLINGS-Leo ]. DAILY, So, Boston
wool buyer and former Billings mer-
chant, died at Boston of pneumonia,
according to word received here. DAILY,
a graduate of Harvard, came west so
years ago as wool buyer, and for
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
GREAT FALLS-When

GREAT FALLS-When a wooz,
drivers car bumped into one driver
by c. R. Jewett here. both driver
stepped out to survey the damage TIL,
ton, took his keys from his pocket
handed them to Jewett Here are tn,
keys; take the car" he said. No on,
has seen him since.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20
By CATHERINE WHITE

Betsey and me has agreed to
split blankets and rustic on Diff
ferent trales. She will take one and
me t'other. A miners meeting Is
hereby called for next Sunday on
the flat just above Nevada to here
our storys and give US splittin
papers, everybody cum.
"Signed
"JEPTHA WIGGS,
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-20

CHOTEAU-E. J. Jourdonnais, pub.
Usher of the Choteau Acantha, a
weekly newspaper here, sold it to KarI
Bishop of DEBORAH, Ia. Bishop is q
nephew of Max Bishop, who sold the
Acantha to Jourdonnais 20 years ago
Jourdonnais had not announced his
plans for the future.
Evening star., 1939-11-12

(left) Winter relief in Berlin.
Only smiles in this group pressing
Ground relief fund collector to
drop coins in his box. All wos quiet
on the Western Front.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
Chds. WOrthingtOn,
Former Resident Dies

Funeral services for Chas. Worth
ington, ~, former Bluffton resident
were held here Sunday afternoon at
the Diller funeral home conducted
by Rev. Clifford Grabill. Interment
was made in Maple Grove cemetery.
Mr.. Worthington died Friday
afternoon in Lima at the home of
Mrs. Helen Swick Curtis where he
had ben cared for during his illness
of the past year. Death was due
to complications.
He was born near Ironton but re-
sided the greater part of his life in
Bluffton where for number of
years he followed the vocation of a
timber. buyer.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Clara Fensler, of Lima; three sons !:
Arthur of Bluffton, Charles of Chill
licothe and Edward of Alger and
three daughters Mrs. Grace Bell of
Greenville, Pa, Mrs. Jessie Bender
of Lima and Mrs. Caddie Enerr of
Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
Accepts Washington
Lobbying Position

Don Smucker, son of Mrs. B. d..
Smucker of South Lawn avenue, who
has been secretary of the Kansas In
stitute of Internal Relations with
headquarters at Newton, Kansas, has
accepted a position as lobbyist for
the neutrality forces at Washington
during the remainder of the pres
ent session of congress.
Smucker and his wife who have
been visiting here for the past two
weeks left Tuesday for Washington
accompanied by his mother and Mr..
and Mrs. Orden Smucker.
AS a lobbyist his work will con-
sist principally in contracting con-
gressmen in the interest of continu-
ing the present neutrality act with
special emphasis on the embargo pro-
vision.
Although representing several
peace organizations, Smucker will
work principally under supervision
of the National Council for the Pre-
vention of War.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
Special School For
Children M0Ues Here

A school for handicapped children
operated in Lima for the past two
years by Mrs. w. H. Gratz of Bluff
ton has been moved here.
The school is occupying the former
A. d. Lugibihl residence property on
Lawn avenue and began operation in
its new location, Monday.
The institution is known as the
"Gratz Home School for Handicapped
ChiIdrne" and has capacity of from
eight to ten pupils who board and
room at the school,
Instruction adapted for children of
defective speech, mentally retarded
and deaf and hard of hearing.
The school, operated as private
institution is in charge of Mrs.
Gratz, specialist in this work. She
has previously taught in special
schools in Ohio cities under the
state department of education and
also in other states.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
InaprOUenent Program
On County Line Road

Trucks loaded with dirt that have
been continuously rumbling over
Blufftons streets are part of an ex-
tensive improvement on nine miles
of road on the county line north of
town.
The work is being undertaken
Jointly by commissioners of Allen,
Putnam and Hancock counties on a
stretch of county line road beginning
at Route 103, running due north and
connecting with Route 224 near
Gilboa.
A total of $4,000 cubic yards of
dirt is being used to construct berms
at the side of the roadway. Half
of this amount, approximately 1000
truck loads is being furnished for
six miles of the route, the dirt being
obtained from stripping" operations
at the plant of the Bluffton Stone
company.
The stone company here will also
furnish crushed stone for six miles
of the highway. This contract will
keep the stone plant running at ca
pacity for the next month, it was
stated by Raymond Conrad, manager
of the company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
Herr Opera House Opened In
1884 Was Pride OF BlufftOn
Believed Unsurpassed in Any
Town of Equal Size in
Middle West
Huge Chandelier with Glass
Prisms was Lighted with
Oil Lamps

The Blufton Neios presents
the twenty instdllment of
the Centennial Series" dealing
aoith early Button history and
published IN conansemoration of
the one hundredth anniversary
of Btafton's foaading.-EDrroR.
Shut off from the outside world
by impossible roads and woefully in
adequate modes of transportation,
early Bluffton was hard pressed for
diversion and it is little wonder that
when travelling shows, lecturers or
musicians stopped here that the en-
tire town turned out en- masse for
an evening of entertainment.
This present age of talking movies,
radio, good roads and high powered
automobiles which make it possible
for whole groups to travel in short
time 20 to 100 miles for an even
ing's performance offers vast con-
trast to life in the small backwoods
town that was Bluffton sixty years
ago.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
100 Here For Weeks
Youth Conference

A gathering of 100 Presbyterian
young people are attending a youth
conference of that denomination In
session on the Bluffton college CAM
pus this week.
Attendance this year shows
marked increase over that OF the
conference held here year ago.
Young people of high school age
from Presbyterian congregations OF
Northwestern Ohio are spending the
week here under direction OF a
group of leaders and teachers.
Boys are quartered in Lincoln hall,
mems dormitory of the college and
the girls at Ropp hall.
Object of the conference is the dis
cussion of religious and social prob
lens on a christian basis.
Mornings are spent in study and
rclass discussion with recreation pro-
grams in the afternoon and get to-
gether meetings in the evening. The
conference will close next Monday
morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-13
COUNCIL WILL
BAN FIREWORKS
Drastic Action to Follow Fail
ure of Voluntary Fourth of
July Program
To Ask Richland and Orange
Twp. Cooperation in Ban
ming Fireworks Sale

Groundwork for the enactment of
comprehensive program to abolish
the sale and use of fireworks in Bluff
ton was laid by the town council at
meeting, Monday night. Sentiment in
the council appeared to be unanimous
on the matter.
Atty. Francis Durbin, Bluffton city
solicitor will be notified this week to
draft suitable legislation for consider
alton by the council at its next meet
ing, July "a.
Following the failure last week of
Bluffton's program for a modified
Fourth of July celebration based on
voluntary public cooperation, the city
administration moved swiftly to make
good It's assertion that drastic action
would be taken in event voluntary CO.
operation failed.
Ask Townships Cooperation
In determined effort to make the
program one hundred percent effec-
tive, trustees of Richland and Orange
townships will be asked to cooperate
by passing legislation preventing the
sale of fireworks in their respective
districts. This step, it is pointed out,
would bar fireworks being sold just
outside the corporation line.
Reports at the council meeting
Monday night were to the effect that
Richland township trustees had ex-
pressed themselves unofficially as
favorable to the proposal, although it
has not yet been brought before the
trustees at a regular meeting. Or
ange township trustees have not yet
been contacted.
In explaining the proposal relative
to the two townships, it was pointed
out that the council is asking for
legislation as applies only to the sale
of fireworks, and not their use in the
rural districts.
Experiment Fails
Bluffton's experiment with modi-
fed Fourth of July celebration with
no legislation to enforce its provis-
ions proved failure last week. A
proclamation by Mayor w. A. Howe
asking that no frecrackers be dis
charged in the business district was
fiouted and on the evening of the
Fourth the downtown section took on
all the ASPECTS of the old-fashioned
wide-open celebration which continued
until well toward midnight.
The present plan for an observance
of independence day under restrlc-
tions was first put into operation last
year at which time it was tried again
this year with different results.
When the plan was first adopted 1t
was advanced frankly as an expert
ment with the mayors statement that
if voluntary cooperation failed drastic
action would be substituted.