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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1918
Page
14
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Governor Stewart and county delegations reported a severe seed shortage across 28 northern Montana counties. Independent investigator Ford tallies 28 counties needing at least 2,275,000 dollars for seed alone to avert waste, with 20,000 homesteaders awaiting patenting. Legislators and officials push for immediate patenting and grant funds while noting credit is exhausted for many farmers.
Lewistown dated January 21 reports William Dolan, 19, wounded in the groin by an accidental handgun discharge while handling a revolver thought empty. Gibbe Macdonald seeks divorce from Jack H. Sacdon, alleging failure to provide. Judge H. L. De Kalb rules Ellis Wilson to lose a divorce bid from Vera Le Wilson but grants custody of a child with $25 monthly support and visit rights. Other items note H. C. Green’s vagrancy arrest, Mrs. K Wyman undergoing appendectomy, and local infrastructure updates including snow depth, Rattlesnake headwaters inspection, and the P. & O ranch drive of 400 head of steers to Tutt.
Helena city records show big gains in utilities for 1917 with the light and power department earning 588 0, last year 196 608 12, a rise of 8 percent. The railway department netted 882 380 14, up 16 059 21 from 1900, yielding the city 1 858 63. Ford notes convention talk on refunding bonds and state finances, while public health, schooling, and local notices fill out a busy Helena scene.
The Monsociation of Architects closed with C. B. Wasmans Gorst of Lewistown elected president and Bossont of Havre chosen as treasurer. Helena named as next meeting city for Jan 4, 191. A banquet followed the business session where papers on relevant topics and the enforcement of current professional law were discussed.
Readers learn of an engineers annual meeting led by William B. Vestal city engineer of Anaconda with talks on highways and street garbage disposal. The week includes Farmers and Homemakers events at Montana State College featuring lectures on agricultural methods wheat prices and census planning led by Miss Anna Barrows and Miss Ida W. Davis with regional data collection for Gallatin county and state education officials supervising county census work.
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