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

seek TO replace WORKOUT tires must
prove TO local rationing board that the
carcasses Of the tires became worn
from reasonable use and not from
abuse or neglect.
BOzEAGAN-Lorraine Baker Of Fort
Benton won the highest scholastic
honor OF the 1912 high school week
/ contests here. Miss Baker won first
In the pentathlon, an event In which
the contestants selected three OF five
subjects on which to write examina-
tons. The victory brings her q 500
scholarship. She also won first In al
! zebra, American literature and Eng
lish literature.
FAIRFIELD Total crop production
on the Greenfields division Of the Sun
river irrigation project, where 235
farm security clients and homesteaders
have been resettled within the last
five years. approached the million dol
lar mark In 1874, with a crop valuation
Of 1884, 1889, according to the report
Of Supt. A. w. Walker. This valuation
compares with a 1910 valuation Of
s7O4.033.
GREAT FALLS-Appointment of
Louis W. Wendt, founder Of the Wendt
advertising agency, as business man
ager Of the National Wildlife fedora
ton, with headquarters In Washington,
D. c., has been announced here. Wendt
has been a national director Of the
organization since 1t was established
several years ago and has been mem
Der of its executive committee four
years.
HELENA-Two personal injury ac-
tons tota1ing $4,000 were brought
against the state highway commission
and employees and Gallatin county in
district court here as q result Of an
auto accident near Belgrade on April
80, 1899. The suits we're brought by
Lipman Coldwater and his two sons,
Elliot and Ralph, charging highway
employees with negligence In highway
construction which resulted in the
death Of Mrs. Henrietta Coldwateg,
wife of Lipman ColdWater.
BOHEMIAN Clarence L. Hogan of
Great Falls won the Montana Society
of Engineers award for the outstand-
ing engineering senior at the Montana
State college annual honor assembly
Dolores Emigh of Butte won the Par
sons scholarship, providing a year of
study in the Parsons School of De-
sign in New York. r. B. johnson of
Bozeman won the Alpha Chi Sigma
award for the highest freshman stand
ing in chemistry.
GREAT FALLS-Mrs. Joseph r.
Hopper, Billings, was elected state
president of the Business and Profess
sional Women's club at the annual
convention here Miss Mollie CLASSIFY Of
was named first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Mamie Jones, Butte, sec
md vice president; Mrs. Fern Hurst,
5kalaka, recording secretary; Eliza
beth Connolly, Billings, corresponding
secretary, and Miss Fern Strobel,
Terry, treasurer.
HEIENA-Mrs. Nina Hicks Harris,
2, whose charred body was found in
he ruins of her ranch home on the
south Fork Of the Dearborn river by
Don Brown, rancher, had lived in
Montana for 81 years Mrs. Harris was
,orn In Ontario, Canada, and lived at
Chinook when she first came to Mon
ana. In 1919 she and her husband,
he late John d. Harris, moved to
Dearborn county and bought the Sam
3assette ranch, where Mrs. Harris re-
NAMED until her death.
BUTTE County Attorney Frank J.
zoe said he had learned a virtual
baby market was being conducted
ERE and promised to investigate. He
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