Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-02-16
News Briefs
From the Treasure State

HELENA Population of Montanas
penitentiary at Deer Lodge decreased
theodore Bergstrom reported.
LIyINGSTON-About $50 employees
OF the Northern Pacific shops here
are back at work after a two-week
iayoff. 1t was the second similar layoff
In the last two months.
HELENA-Prices paid Montan,
farmers for agricultural products
reached the highest level in almost
Two years during the: month ended
Jan. Is, the federal agricultural mar
keting service reported.
DILLON-Nearly 5000 residents and
tourists took advantage Of recreatiorai
facilities in the Beaverhead national
forest during 1899. the annual recre-
atlonal report Of W. B. Wiley, Beaver,
head supervisor, shows -
LAUREL-A number of Laurel gar.
dens will be open to tourists during
Ihe summer according to arrange
ments made by the Laurel Garden
club, an affiliate Of the Montana Gar
den Club association.
HELENA-Harry Bene of Arizona
president Of the National RehabiIita5
tlon association, named Left Freder-
lcks OF Helena, Montana vocational
rehabllltation supervisor, a member of
the associations legislative committee.
GREAT FALLS-Samuel r. Wilbur
70. operator of the Wilbur Transfer
Co. here for 20 years before he sold
MS interest in the concern, died here
recently: Wilbur had been a resident of
century.
RED LODGE-Dr. L. H. Teoley Red
Lodge postmaster and prominent mem
per per Oh me democratic party In Mon
the old-time residents of this area. was
a delegate to the democratic eonyen-
ton in Chicago in 1892.
HELENA EMPLOYEES of county
boards of public welfare are entitled to
mileage at the rate of z cents a mile
Tor distances actually Travelled in per-
formance of official duties. ATTORNEY
General H. j: Freebourn ruled on the
question for County Attorney PHI a.
Greenan of Great Falls.
LAUREL-C. w. Laird, local build
ing contractor, said in a speech to the
rotary club that about $4,000 was
IN Laurel during the last year. Abo,it
$1,000 was for commercial building
$1,000 Tor remodeling and $4,000 for
new homes. -
HELENA Two animal ailment s
never before reported in Montana were
discovered by livestock sanitary board
veterinarians in January. DR.. W, j
Butler. state veterinarian said the dis
eases were red water" . type Of
anemla which attacks cattle. and
"johne's disease" an intestinal ailment
which affects sheep.
HELENA The Montana. Wyoming
S0llThPrn tx,
nancial readjustment under the Chan.
der act, asked federal court for per-
mission to make bond Interest ana
principal payments totaling about
$4,000 March l. A final hearing on
the proposed financial reimbursement is
s scnesS before three Judge court
GREAT FALLs-catalogs giving the
complete tabulated pedigrees Of the
sale Of the North Montana Hereford
Breeders association will be ave- liable
about Feb. 20. Theodore Fosse, Cas-
cade county agent. has announced
The sale will be held Thursday, March
IA at the North Montana State fair
grounds.
MSSOULA-An old Washington
hand press. relic of early. newspaper
days at Marysville and white Sulphur
tana State university by Fred G. Ward.
publisher of the Meagher County
News at White Sulphur Springs: The
press soon will be added to the Uni
versity School of Journalism,s histor-
ical collection
HELENA-Mrs. Julia Warren, II.
who was born at Fort Benton the same
year as the gold discovery at virginia
City, died at hospital here recently
When 10 years old she came to Helena
from Fort Benton in a wagon train
and lived in this vicinity since. Since
the death Of her husband in 1920 she
had made her home with Mrs George
P. Poore, wife Of the state highway
department preconstruction engineer.