Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
Treasure State News Briefs

| HAMILTON.-MrS. oscar Peck, a.
died at a ranch near Stevensville, after
topping into a 22-foot well.
HAVRE.- Missoula will be the meet
ing place Of the 1912 convention of
the Montana Nurses association.
HELENA. Montana land board
has authorized sale of 100000 board
feet Of spruce from the saltwater
state forest in Flathead county.
SCOBEY.- Winnie Moulds has been
named acting chief Of police here by
Mayor Harry Hanson following the
resignation Of Joe Gilmore.
HELENA Montana will send 229
men to the army during November,
the state selective service headquarters
announced.
HELENA.-Ed Walker, automobile
dealer, viii head this years roll call
campaign in Lewis and Clark county
for the Red Cross.
Chester r. Parsell, "a, Of
WhitlaSh, who died recently, had been
q resident of the Sweet Grass hills
for 20 years
DEER Population at the
state prison here decreased from 493
prisoners at the end of August to 474
at the end of September, the state
board Of examiners reported
HELENA September flow Of the
Yellowstone river near Corwin Springs
averaged 2238 cubic feet a second as
compared with 1855 for that month
during the period from 1911 to 1910.
HAVRE- Gerald Casman, 81, who
died here, was the proprietor of the
oldest continuous drug business in this
city, the Havre Drug Co.. Masonic fu-
neral rites were held.
GREAT FALLS.-Mike Sayatovich,
head of the county department. Of
public welfare, was elected president
of the Cascade County Federation Of
Social Workers.
Military training win
be discussed by high school debaters |
at the state finals here in May. Great /
Falls was first in the contest last /
year and Kalispel second.
BUTTE-An allotment of $97,e71
for additional improvement work on
the Butte airport-sending the total /
expended or expected to be spent to
about S579 000-haS been approved by
President Roosevelt.
CHOTEAU.- meeting OF the Three
Rivers district of the American Legion
will be held here Nov. Is. Most state
officers are expected to attend. The
district meeting Of the auxiliary viii
De held at the same time.
BUTTE.-The Montana works prog
'ess administration will not retain on
IS rolls workers who reject fair and
private employment, JOS
eph E. Parker, state administrator,
las announced.
GREAT FALLS.-NIrs. Mary E. Pet
,igrew, II, a Great Falls resident since \
1908, died after a long illness. She
md her husband moved to Shelby
rom Salem, Mo, in 1901 and came
lere in 1908
SCOBEY. - Charles Humbert, 81,
Who died after an illness of three
ears, was one of Daniels countys
arlieSt homesteaderS He came to the
ounty in 1909. At one time he owned ,
he largest herd Of cattle in the county.
HELENA. -Eustace LIE Master of
pokane, president of the Washington
ociety of Certified Public Account
nts, will be the principal speaker at {
he annual convention of the Montana
!. P. A. society at Helena Oct. 3O-3l I
BILLINGS.-Four hundred thousand
ollars in improvements and extern {
on of pipelines at the Billings Gas {
o's Garland and Elk Basin fields :
! Wyoming will be completed by Dec.
j. E. Moore, company manager, said. 9
HELENA. T. Beckwith, for :
Ter superintendent of st. Peters hos r
ital here, has been appointed secre-
ary Of the state board of nurses .
zaminers. She succeeds Edith L. :
rown, resigned. 7
HELENA. Enrolment in five of the v
x units of the Greater University of G
Iontana dropped nearly 500 from to- Z
Us of a year ago, the office of the
executive secretary at Hell :
IA reported. e
MILES ITY.-George O'Brien, Sill
er Bow county treasurer, has been
ected president Of the Montana b
Dung Democrats organization. Jock t
TEST, Billings, was named vice presi- t
emit; Oliver Lem, Wolf Point, secre- b