Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-05-16
Treasure State News Briefs

! ton for the first semester Of the 1871
T 1912 school year, James E. Gardner
journalism instructor, announced.
, GREAT Minimum wages o
Is cents an hour for all labor EN-
oloyed by the city and 80 cents al
! hour for men engaged In care ans
maintenance of trees has been askes
Of the city council by the CONSTRUCTION
and General Laborers union.
GREAT FALLS-Mrs. Howard Moore
|, o. when in a hospital here with 6
pllnshot wound, said she had shot her.
self but did not know why" and thu:
ahsolved her husband Of blame. Shit
was shot at her home about % miles
northwest Of Fort Benton in ChouteaI
county.
HELENA-The state liquor control
board has written a check for 100000
as the current dividend on profits of
/ the state-owned monopoly. Officials
said additional liquor stocks have been
acquired in anticipation of further re-
auction Of output by distilleries as a
result of the war demand for alcohol
HELENA-The state railroad COM
mission has asked better planning by
Montana rail shippers in an effort to
make the greatest possible use Of
freight cars. 1t urges loading to ca
pacity and rapid unloading in an ef-
fort to reduce the possibility of car
shortages.
r1ryOTrATT Arrs Iyay,,-,, n E,o,sso,,
As, who died here, was the wife Of
the Choteau mayor and a native Of
this city. She was graduated from
Teton high school in 1915 and attended
Stevens college in Missouri. She was
an officer in the Teton County Old
Settlers club.
HELENA March births in Montana
totaled 1908, compared with 529 deaths,
L. L. Benepe, director of the bureau
of vital statistics of the state health
department, announced. Fffty-four of
the deaths were due to cancer, he said,
90 to communicable diseases, 10 toI
and 8 to syphilis Ten
we're killed in auto accidents.
HELENA-The state supreme court
has ordered further soral argument
June in the action brought by Guy
Palagi of Great Falls to force the
county clerk to accept his fill
ing for republican nomination for
sheriff. Palagi, former sheriff, lost the
office when the courts held that he
had violated the corrupt practices act.
ANACONDA Patrick McHugh, who
lied here, served as alderman from
,he fifth ward for about 20 years and
made this city his home for more than
lalf a century. He was born in Ireland
md came to America at an early age.
lie worked in Pennsylvania, Missouri
md Ohio before coming to Anaconda
n 1886.
GREAT FAILS-B. Nagelhus of
simpson declared he had broken all
dontana records when he received
/ 1896 for IL fat steers sold ON the
pen market at the Wolf-Langman
ards and purchased by the Berger
lacking Co. here. The steers were s.
ear-oldS. Average weight Of the ami
halls was / ,452 pounds and the average
rice per animal was $17i20.
HELENA Expecting to collect about
10 900 more In the next two monChSs
ne state board of equalization believes
eceipts for the fiscal year ending next
une 80 will show a Is percent In
rease over those for the preceding
ear. In the first 10 months Of this
seal period, income totals $828, 256.35,
ompared with $659,O17.57 for the en-
re previous fiscal year.
HELENA - Increased salaries and
terms for county attorneys
ere recommended by Attorney Cen
raj John w. Bonner in a report to-
low. Sam c. Ford Bonner made his
sport the day before leaving for ac-
We duty In the army. Bonner said
resent salaries were wholly made
uate" for the county officers, who
ow serve two-year terms.
CULBERTSON-Fred John Leonard,
!, who died at his home here, had
cen a resident of the state for 40
ears. Born in Toronto, he came to
lie United States at the age Of 10,
eating near here, where he was
inch hand In 1905 he homesteaded
ght miles south Of Bainville, where
: lived until 1887. He then returned
, Culbertson.
HELENA-Owners who abuse or neg
ct their tires won't be able to get
wv castings or retreads when the old
aes wear out, the state rationing
flee has been notified Regulations
ceived specified that applicants who