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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
14
Statewide cattle grazing policy faces conflict as elk habitat concerns rise. Reports detail wartime injuries and hospital care for a soldier injured by German shellfire. Montana rancher C C Brockway, longtime Musselshell Valley figure, dies after illness. Roundup drilling pushing ahead at Van Duzen well with expected pay sands in about 66 days.
Flathead Irrigation association directors met in Ronan to plan a mass fundraising drive for irrigation work and to organize boosters for Flathead Reclamation. Speakers outlined needed work, with two and a half million dollars expected from the government for the year and telegrams sent to Sen. Myers and lawmakers urging immediate bonding and action.
Aug 6 Great Falls reports that court reporters plan to join a fund for higher living costs by asking the legislature’s special session for a raise from 42400 to 1000 dollars annually. Peter Sitk, a local reporter, notes the effort spans Montana. A delegation will be sent to Helena immediately.
Helena reports a brush fire near Austin led to an arrest. Deputy State Fire Warden F. H. Keller charges Augson Sonn Leggerin in Justice Lemkie Court with starting the blaze that partly burned the town. Case set for Saturday in court.
Melstone news reports Roy Kester son of Mr and Mrs Peter Kester has come home on a 30 day furlough from a year in France with the expeditionary forces. Earlier notices in fall listed him as casualty twice but he survived the war and returned to his home near Melstone.
Fragmented report describes a medical or cosmetic procedure involving removal of surface skin through absorption. The language is unclear with garbled phrasing, but references a thin surface layer and a gradual process with no detention or indoors context. Entities are largely absent.
Helena Aug 6 Inland Empire Aerial Training corporation has filed articles here. It aims to establish a hangar and taxi station for flying machines and run a wireless school and service. Butte named home office. capital stock set at 60000. Incorporators are John W. Hesser of Livingston Jack Needham and A B Smith of Whitehall.
News from St John’s hospital Helena reports Emmet Okeefe severely burned in the Wanders Fork blaze near Wanders Fork in the Big Blackfoot region. His brother died at Camp Lewis last year and his mother died in April this year. another brother Remy Dikeete lives here.
Favorable weather helps firefighters in district No. 1 as forest service crews in Western Montana and Northern Idaho reduce the burn area to a minimum. Some fires remain dangerous in the Clearwater and Selway regions, with attention centered on active suppression efforts.
Aug 6 Deer Lodge notes list Mrs Mayo entertaining visitors from Sherfontana and others, Miss Myrtle Senior leaving for Capte schools, Matron from Louisiana visiting, Wilson family plans trip to California, and Swanson ill. The state fire ward and dilapidated house talk frame town concerns. Court notes record Judge Winston, water fig cases, McLain homestead proof, James burglary conviction, naturalization for Carl Popper and Bertha Combs.
About 150 members of the Great Pali Teamsters union gathered in Grammat Falls this evening to demand a raise from the current wage of 4.78 to local employers. A meeting to consider the demands is set for tomorrow morning, according to organizers.
The Senate confirmed numerous Montana appointees including Joseph D. Pilcher at Boulder Mae Obershaw at Cascade Har M Davis at Cutbank Thomas H Morse Jr at Drummond and many others across towns such as Glasgow Harlem Polson Rosebud Shelby Sheridan Superior Twin Bridges Walkerville and West Point. The body also approved Frank F. Steele as receiver of the Helena land office.
At Lewistown the county division petition to form Judith Basin from Fergus Went side Cascade and Chouteau was concluded. Commissioners will rule next Friday after considering the matter. Dr Walter A Stevenson, longtime First Presbyterian pastor here, has accepted a Spokane church and will depart soon. Public reception planned. In a separate case Judge Ayershaw ruled the Modern Woodmen life policy proceeds go to the decedent's first wife heirs, not him, clarifying the beneficiary.
Fragmentary notes report communities events in Dillon including a gathering at The Manse on South Idaho Street and a nest lap paving project set to resume. The Dillon Rod and Gun Club plans a shoot Sunday afternoon with the Schulte Henge medal to be awarded. Cattle market movement and ship offs are briefly noted amidst scattered names and locations.
Philadelphia August 6 Hundreds of war cripples nationwide allege delays injustices and hardships from the federal board for vocational education. The association of over 5 000 disabled ex service men says cases of wounded soldiers suffer from faulty administration and seeks a square deal. The Federal board, chaired by Secretary of Agriculture Houston, is led by director Charles A Prosser and organized nationally in June.
Attorney General Palmer orders enforcement action against profiteers in price gouging for essentials. The day also sees proposed laws defining profiteering and curbing margins on necessaries, amid the public release of the federal trade commission shoe industry report. The FTC charges that high shoe prices stem from excessive profits across factories, with blame attributed to packers, tanners, manufacturers, and retailers. The report was presented to Attorney General Palmer.
London reports that Britain will set up a central authority to combat profiteering. Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of reconstruction, told the select committee on the high cost of living that the central body would link with local and county tribunals. The plan seeks new powers and higher penalties for violations.
Valuable evidence has been found of alleged profiteering. Special Agent Edgar K. Epeer of the department of justice said tonight after the arrest of three Central Sugar company branch officials. They are charged with selling sugar at inflated prices last week at wholesale rates. The company operates in Pittsburg.
Warrant for George W. Sheehan directing head of the company and three executives arises from alleged conspiracy to violate the food act by charging unreasonable prices for essentials. Leinberger Dowd Shaffer released on $2000 bonds each. hearing set for August 8.
Labor leaders urge national acceptance of the Sims bill as the path to industrial democracy. Mr Stone, speaking for millions of railway workers, asserts labor and AFL backing. They argue the third party profits dominate industry, demanding shared control of production and living costs to solve the railroad problem. Morrison and Gompers affirm AFL support.
The Young Peoples Educational congress at the A M E church closed as a historic highlight for the parish. It was the first such gathering there with merit programs each day. Milnes Anna Cooper and Ruby Davidson led ticket sales, Davidson earning a cameo locket and Cooper an imported bud vase for top sales. thanks were extended by the pastor and committee.
Alisses Ruth and Virginia Willits return home to Anaconda after a Wisconsin vacation. Bert Mathews and J. Larry Mathews of Helena were city visitors. Clifford and Lawrence Anderson of Missoula visit Anaconda friends. Mrs O Meara and two sons of Butte motored in to see relatives. Charles Bertsch returns from California after three months. R M Rorabaugh of Helena conducts business here. John J Ney of Minneapolis among arrivals. K C Scribner of Butte visits. Mrs J M Knox leaves for Portland and Vancouver to visit sons Robert and Philip. Mrs Guy Burnett heads to Portland to visit her aunt Talbot. Hazel Harrison of Endicott, visiting her father C W Harrison, tours Yellowstone and eastern Montana with him. Harrison formerly of Anaconda holds a bank position in Endicott.
Morriston touts Plumb plan and Sims indorsements as a shift toward public accountability for quasi public railways. He argues democratically managed property can lower living costs and end watered stock, urging public consent for new management structures guiding national railway policy.
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