Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-18
Treasure State News Briefs

/ HELENA-Gov Sam S. Ford ha!
appointed 50 county unemployment
committeeman to work with draft
boards in reinstating in industry young
men returning from selective army
, service.
HELENA-Irvin Ross Dunlap, 81
who died here suddenly, was veteran
of the Spanish-American war and a
resident of Lincoln for 10 years. For
many years he was a street car con-
ductor in Helena.
HELENA. Montana will have $780,
600 turkeys for the nations Thanks
giving tables this fall. the same num-
Der the state produced the two previ-
GUS years, the federal agricultural
marketing service reported.
PHILIPSBURG- Henry Price, 70,
death victim, came to Philipsburg in
$780, after living several years in Kan
sas and Canada He worked as a
miner and was later associated with
the Philipsburg Hardware Co.
HELENA state fish and game
department this winter will show pic
lures and movies of Montana wildlife
to clubs, schools and sportsmen's or
CARNATIONS, DR.. j. S. Mcfarland, state
game warden, has announced.
BILLINGS -Yellowstone county's
l941 achievement day will be observed
Nov l, with a program at the high
school here. Winners of state and
county All awards will be guests Of
honor.
GREAT FALLs.AFred D. Black, for
a number of years head of the Cas-
cade county welfare department, has
submitted his resignation to the state
board of public welfare and the county
due to i'll health.
Observation-Disclosures of Oscar
Baarson, former city engineer, to head
the district priorities office here, has
been announced by r. E. Towle, Mon
tana representative of the office Of
production management.
CONRAD. - Mrs. Mary Conra d.
Drake, who died in Eugene, Ore, was
an early day resident Of Conrad and
Fort Benton. Mr.. and Mrs. Drake
UlOFGQ " OPl Al6lAE4As NACsf oAbSA AAf- J
ing here for 80 years.
HELENA Attorney General John /
w. Bonner has held that, when school
districts decide to furnish transporta- /
ton to pupils, they must furnish it
to all eligible students, including those
high schools outside their .
home counties
BOHEMIAN of this city's first
telephone operators, Mrs. Eva K.
NIoger, 70, of Harrison, died here of
which developed after
she had suffered a fall in July She
had lived in Harrison for nearly 80
years.
HELENA. - Montana farmers and
probably will receive $145,-
sec, 900 for their crops, livestock and /
livestock products this year as COM
pared with $97,973,OO0 in 1910, Jay
Diamond, federal statistician an
nounced.
DEER LODGE-NIrs. NJ H. Mayo
Of Deer Lodge has been elected presi-
dent of the Deer Lodge district Of
The Episcopal guild societies. Mrs. T.
D. Walters of Butte is vice chairman
md Mrs B. Haddick of Anaconda, sec
'etary- treasurer.
HELENA. - Discussions of federal +
axes, principally those new and re-
Used levies imposed by the 1941 reve-
Tue act, will highlight the annual
Meeting here Oct. 30 and 81 of the
Society of Certified Public
HELENA-NIrs. Thomas Sillers, II,
Who died here, was former state presi
lent of the Rebekah lodge and for
% years a member of that organiza-
ion. She was born in Scotland and
.ame here in 1888 Her husband is a
ormer county commissioner.
HAVRE.-Havre Elks lodge will ini-
late one of the largest classes in is
history Nov. 26 and three days later
will burn the mortgage wiping out the
ntire indebtedness of the lodge, &C
ording to DR.. w. F. Hamilton, exalted