Attempted Jail Break Foiled by Sheriff Force in Dillon
In Dillon on August 206 the sheriff's team thwarted an attempted jail delivery that would have freed several prisoners. A former inmate who passed in saws, named Farl Thisen, is jailed for action by the county attorney. Some saws have been recovered while two ringleaders wear Oregon beat vandal labels, hindering escape and pressuring them to reveal hidden tools. Several defendants, including four white men and a colored man, await trial in the district court session with several regarded as especially dangerous.
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Dillon
Ile
Farl Thisen
Oregon
Stevens Glee Club Visits Deer Lodge in Aug
The Stevens Glee club, a top Northwest group, spent Sunday in Deer Lodge with concerts at the Presbyterian church and courthouse lawn plus an afternoon visit to Irvin lake. Soloists Pearl Job and Mabel Mitchell performed, under director G W Stevens, with McClellan and McLeod leading the organization.
Seattle Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Special Dispatch from Seattle notes receipts: cattle 262 heads hogs 26. Cattle and sheep steady with last week. Hog market higher with prime light 18.40 to 18.90, medium to choice 18.20 to 18.25, smooth heavies 17.75 to 18.00, rough heavies 17.20 to 17.50.
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The
Standard
Seattle
Farmers Picnic Moves to Broadwater Grounds in Helena
Aug 20 Hiena The Farmers Defese club announces the annual picnic will be at Broadwater grounds Helena next Sunday due to expected crowds. Former Ambassador Gerard will speak, arrival arranged for Aug 26, with Helena Commercial club aiding. County commissioners loan a truck and logistics are organized for a large turnout.
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Hiena
Farmers’ Defese Club
Broadwater Grounds
Helena
Priest Pass Road
Butte
Anaconda
Great Falls
Gerard
Priest Pass
Trelena
Helena Commercial Club
L. M. Rheim
Lewis and Clark County
Letters Swamping Exemption Board in Helena
Helena Aug 20 The district exemption board No 1 of the selective draft administration is overwhelmed with mail as registered men seek exemptions. Chairman Galen says clerical staff cannot handle the volume and many letters go unanswered. Exemption claims on agricultural and industrial grounds must be supported by affidavits. The board will reconvene Tuesday at 10 to hear Anaconda Copper Mining Co industrial claims and individual industrial and agricultural cases. The board aims to have 30 percent ready by Sept 1 and continues sessions through the week.
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Helena
District Exemption Board No. 1
The
Selective Draft Administration
Galen
War Department
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Masons and Eastern Star Arrive for Helena Grand Lodge
Helena prepares to host the grand lodge of Masons and the Eastern Star with elaborate arrangements. A special street car is chartered to meet trains Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday, and automobiles will shuttle visitors from the station to the temple for registration and rooming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Grand Lodge of Masons
The
Eastern Star
Dillon News: Local affairs and notable visits Aug 20
Four prominent citizens plan affidavits protesting county exemptions. Delegates Bert Orr Thomas Gilbert and L K Adams head to Helena for the grand lodge of Marons. George Melton welcomes a baby boy born to Miss Talia Heintz. Charlies Butler visits from Miles City. trip includes Cottonwood creek camping. The Gilbert party returns from Yellowstone trip. Vera Geneva and Albert Baker visit Helena to see George Gilbert in the Second Montana Infantry. H C Graves sues Bannack Mining for owed salary. Mrs H F R Melton and daughter Fidith return from Butte. Katherine Murray released after diamond ring charge dropped.
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Robison
Kankakee
Ill
Naomi
Ruth
Norman Gilbert
Yellowstone Park
Vera Baker
Geneva Baker
Albert Baker
Helnen
George
Second Montana Infantry
H. C. Graves
F Bannack
Bannack Mining Company
H. FR. Melton
Miss Fidith
Butte
Henry Melton
San Francisco
Katherine Murray
Methodists Gather for Billings Conference Sessions
Bishop Franklin Hamilton of Pittsburgh arrived in Billings and will preside over a week of Methodist Episcopal Church meetings starting tomorrow. About 200 ministers and laymen are present as ideal weather sets the scene. Rev. Borden B. Kessler of Denver will deliver the opening address on “The Function of the Church.”
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Billings
Lewistown
Franklin Hamilton
Pittsburg
Borden B. Kessler
Denver
Helena Man Fined Twenty For Speeding
Helena August 20 George Logan a Helena business man paid a $20 fine in local police court for speeding after a young woman passenger playfully placed her foot on the accelerator and caused the car to slide past a patrolman who promptly arrested Logan. He said he was surprised by the car’s behavior until he saw the foot on the pedal.
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Helena
George Logan
Logan
Helena enacts ordinance to curb traitorous speech on streets
Helena city council passed an ordinance to prevent traitorous speech in public places. The measure, effective immediately, requires anyone planning a public meeting to obtain council permission before proceeding.
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Helena
Grady Dies at Helena After Hemorrhage at Garage
E P Grady owner of the Fast Side meat market collapsed and died of a lung hemorrhage at Walker's garage in Helena. He was a longtime resident and well known in the community.
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Helena
Walker
E. P. Grady
Fast Side
Beans Destroyed After Strychnine Found in Helena Shipment
In Helena on August 20, the state board of health ordered destruction of Burma beans found to contain strychnine by the state laboratory in Bozeman. The beans had been shipped into Montana and sold to dealers, with German agents suspected of the plot.
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Helena
Burma
Bozeman
State Board of Health
Exemptions Raised in Lewistown Draft Review
Lewistown begins state examination on a first call of 1006 men with 150 more exemptions granted today, totaling 267 exemptions. Wheat reports include 80 bushels from Mayor Charters' Grass Range field and 30 bushels from Roy area. Fergus County War Relief association campaigns start with four women’s teams canvassing districts.
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Lewistown
J. H. Charters
Roy
Fergus County War Relief Association
Stabilization of Sugar Prices Aimed at by Hoover
Washington Aug 20 Representatives of the New York Coffee and Sugar exchange met with Herbert Hoover the food administrator on stabilizing sugar prices in the United States Beet sugar producers also discussed the marketing price for up to a million tons of beet sugar to be produced this year Prices contemplated ranged from 6 75 to 7 50 a hundredweight 1 to 1 1/2 cents under current quotations No settlement was reached and sugar likely will be next to come under government regulation through voluntary arrangements with producers and dealers
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Washington
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
Herbert Hoover
United States
Mr. Hoover
Food Administration
Ancient Giants in a Giant Forest
In a vast forest table land about two miles across, experts say trees reach 4,600 years old. The largest tree has a base circumference of 209 feet and rises about 279.9 feet tall.
Oregon Short Line Nears Dillon Land Deal for Shops
Prominent Oregon Short Line officials visit Dillon to finalize purchase or lease of land east of the tracks near the old coal chutes. Plans reportedly call for shops and a roundhouse, with the western plot abandoned in favor of the new site. Local businessmen back the move and pledge support to attract more residents.
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Dillon
Montana Laundry Owners Meet in Billings
In Billings on August 20 the Montana Laundry Owners Association opened its annual session with the largest attendance in its history. President John Scovil of Butte chaired, with Secretary J W Judd also present. The day covered preliminary work, a banquet was held, and a dance is planned. Committees will report after officer elections and selecting next year’s meeting place as visitors tour local sights by automobile.
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Billings
Montana Laundry Owners’ Assation
John Scovil
Butte
J. W. Judd
Three Forks Socials and Visits Fill Summer Week
Ransom Hunt and the Misses Johnson of Harrison attended a dance in honor of Dr. C. I. Hoy in Three Forks. Weekend visitors included Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jenney with Master Frank Young, Grace Lee en route to Ric Timber and Melville, Jerene Deeny visiting Maudlow, and Mrs. Lacey with Mrs. Joe Gordon returning from Rochester. Additional stops included Mrs. Lee Gustine and Dr. Pierce of Manhattan, Claude Sterling's family in Harlowton, and visits by John Daniels from Columbus while H. C. Rowland and family from McCook, Nebraska, spend the summer with George Rowland and Mrs. Bob Whitsel. The Chautauqua opened to full tents, Cy Perry of Butte visited, and Mrs. George Dunkley returned from Ringling.
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Three Forks
Ransom Hunt
Anaconda
Harry Gillingham
Maudlow
Lacey
Joe Gordon
Gordon
Rochester
Lee Gustine
Pierce
Manhattan
Co. M. Wright
Claude Sterling
Harlowton
John Daniels
Columbus
H. CC. Rowland
McCook, Neb
George Rowland
Bob Whitsel
Cy Perry
Butte
George Dunkley
Ringling
Coal price hearings halted by Illinois coal director
Chicago Aug 20 Justice O N Carter, Illinois coal director, suspended public hearings started last Friday to fix mine mouth coal prices. He will submit findings in writing and asked the state council of defense to conclude a fair price on a 10 percent profit basis. Carter welcomed federal cooperation, echoed by Gov Lowden.
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Chicago
O. N. Carter
Illinois
Justice Carter
State Council of Defense
Frank, Lowden
Another Triumph for British Tanks
British tanks captured key German positions along a mile front near the Ypres Poelcapelle road north of St Julien in a dawn assault. The operation saw heavy German losses and numerous surrenders as tanks led infantry in quick, decisive fighting at redoubts Hibau Cockcroft and the triangle.
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France
Belgium
Ypres-Poelcapelle Road
St. Julien
Cockcroft
Hans Andersen
Europe
Unwritten law upheld by English jury in self defense
London inquest finds Lieut. Douglas Malcolm not guilty of murder after shooting Anton Debordh Debordh was termed Count Debordh and had seduced Malcolm's wife Malcolm surrendered to police and testified, wife admitted affair Debordh then viewed as spy by police amid wartime tensions and service with officers training corps
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London
Douglas Malcolm
Anton Baumberg
Count Deborch
Malcolm
France
Debordh
Officers’ Training Corps
Will exchange views on proposal by the pope
Washington reports that Lord Cecil signaled in Parliament that entente governments would exchange views before replying to Pope Benedicts peace proposals. The State Department notes no formal conference is planned, but American officers may join technical talks to assist campaign planning. The US aims to cooperate, seeing the pope's plan as touching vital American interests.
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Washington
Lord Cecil
Pope Benedict
State Department
United States
Subterranean Clocks Preserve French Observatory Time
Officials at the French Observatory set their standard clocks 90 feet underground to minimize temperature variation. For years the underground environment has shown temperature changes of less than one degree, ensuring clock stability.
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Official Observatory of
France
Anaconda College Man Struck By Illness In Hills
Louis Kajaroo a University of Montana student summers in a cabin near Flint Creek Canyon Anaconda was found by a picnic party under the Daniels reach suffering an attack of acute appendicitis He was carried down the mountain to Murray’s hospital Butte and operated on with critical but hopeful prospects for recovery
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Louis Kajaroo
University of Montana
Flint Creek Canyon
Phil Daniels
Kajaroo
A. J. Schuch
Murray’s
Butte
Anaconda
Helena Man Weds Deer Lodge Woman In Quiet Swedish Lutheran Ceremony
John Peterson of Helena and Mrs Ida May Penny of Deer Lodge were married yesterday by Rev N J W Nelson at the Swedish Lutheran church. A small group of intimate friends attended from Deer Lodge. The couple will depart for Helena where Peterson serves as maintenance foreman in the Northern Pacific railway yards.
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John Peterson
Helena
Ida May Penny
Deer Lodge
N. J. W. Nelson
Swedish Lutheran Church
John Anderson
William Hare
Northern Pacific Railway
Temple seeks divorce after desertion in Glendive
John B. Temple filed for divorce from May Amelia Temple on desertion grounds. The couple married ten years ago in Glendive Montana.
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John B. Temple
May Amelia Temple
Glendive
Mont
Name list from multiple cities appears in sparse notice
A fragmented OCR roll of names and places includes Montana figures H E McAffee and J C Barringer among others like A V Higgins Portland John Peterson Deer Lodge Butte Spokane Chicago and Salt Lake. The text reads as a scattered roster or notice with many inconsistencies and missing context.
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H. E. McAffee
Helena
J. C. Barringer
Denver
A. V. Higgins
Portland
John Peterson
John Anderson
Deer Lodge
Jame Brown
Hutte
Gene Whiteside
Sposkane
Elizabeth Ruth
Butte
J. C
Young
Spokane
Larry Jones
Southern Cross
Harry Abel
J. Newman
Chicago
Ed Smith
Family
Dillon
Chernoff
New Haven
Ira W. Ferry
Dorothy Clary
Audry Clark
Salt Lake
Juvenile Volunteers Seek Navy Outfits in Detroit
Two young men approached Captain Richardson at the Detroit navy recruiting station and declared their wish to join the outfit. Richardson screened them and, judging their fitness and morals, inquired their ages. one replied six, the other i.
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Richardson
Navy
Detroit
Outfit
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Stevens Glee Club
Northwest
Presbyterian Church
Penitentiary
Courthouse
Frank Conley
Irvin Lake
Miss Pearl Job
Dudley Buck
Israel
W. G. McClellan
Paradise
Tosti
G. W. Stevens
N. G. McLeod
Mabel Mitchell
J. E. Barrett
Simon Johnson
BE. van Orsdel
James Heilmen
Stone Station
Granite County
Gregson
Tom Rawlings
Justice Court
Andrew Larsen
Rock Creek Lake
Harris Pillsbury
James Martin
John Martin Jr
Dempsey Creek
Jerry Ryan
Theodore Lentz
Reuben Stiner
Peter McMillan
George B. Winston
McMillan
Garrison
Stiner
S. P. Wilson
W. E. Keeley
Edgar Newlin
Milo
Co. Newlin
Bakersfield
Cal
Charlies H. Williams
Yellowstone National Park
Nebraska
Grand Lodge
Preeo A Moe
J. A. Grant
Nelle Davies
Ernest Moe
Frank McAvoy
Fay Foster
Cottonwood Creek
Seattle Livestock
Masons
Dillon News
Hamilton
KE. P. Grady
Lewistown News
Hoover
Ypres
Flanders
Langemarck
Polygon Wood
Adriatic Sea
James S. Kirk & Company
Dept
U.S. A
Anaconda News
Perterson—Penny
Montana
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