Food War Looms as Montana Office Talks War Readiness
Helena July 28 Carl 8 Vrooman assistant secretary of sericulture receives grand Montana welcome. State officers and bankers hear him urge rapid food conservation and a nationwide war footing. He calls famine the true foe, stresses immediate action by 100000 Montana women, and urges farmers and workers to unite for victory.
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Carl Vrooman
Helena
Carl 8
Vrooman
Sericulture
Yndrede
Montana
Bismarck
N.bd
Toames
Monana
Second Montana Mobilization Orders Still Pending
Helena July 25 Officials have not received mobilization orders for the Second Montana Infantry except for one battalion to remain in Butte. The regiment, nearly fully equipped, is slated to move to Palo Alto California around August 1 with missing companies on state guard duty and Washington indicating the administrative corps will join.
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Helena
Montana
Butte
Palo Alto
Cal
Washington
Dillon News Report Notes Forest Fires Over In Beaverhead
Dillon residents woke to smoke over surrounding mountains. Beaverhead forest supervisor Summers says all fires within the forest are extinguished with the source likely in Salmon river country Idaho. Seven fires have been put out since dry weather began. Campers are urged to avoid matches and open fires. Also reported are local social notes and a license issued for Daniel Webster Lyons and Pearl McBride to wed in Centennial valley. A stolen Idaho car found in Armstead was identified as belonging to F C Miller of Salmon City Idaho.
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Dillon
Beaverhead National Forest
Beaverhead Forest
Salmon River
Idaho
George M. Melton
Faith Melton
Butte
W.T. George
Beaverhead County
George
San Francisco
Daniel Webster Lyons
Monida
Mooney
Armstead
F.C. “Miller
Salmon City
Taaho
Grasshopper Pest Destroyed by Parasitic Fly Finds
Boreman July 25 An important discovery by Prof R A Cooley state entomologist shows the grasshopper pest attacked by a parasitic fly The Rocky Mountain locusts dominate this year after about 50 years The parasite’s increasing numbers may ease next year as maggots from the fly prey on infested grasshoppers across districts
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Boreman
R ‘A Cooley
Cooley
Strike in Tampico Oil Fields Paralyzes Refineries
In Mexico City on July 25 a general strike began among Tampico oil field workers. About 15,000 men are affected across the territory and its refining plants, halting operations in the area.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Fort Bliss Officer Fatally Wounded In Range Shooting
Second Lieut. Lapp F. Patten of the Thirty-fourth United States infantry was fatally wounded by machine gun fire on the target range near Fort Bliss yesterday and died soon after. A board of inquiry is investigating the incident.
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Ieeteetteee Enee OY
Fort Bliss
Lapp F. Patten
Thirty-fourth
United States Infantry
Board’ of
Hall charges minimized in Billings child case
In Billings on July 25, the board of charities and corrections concluded there will be no public hearing over Mabel Hall the 12 year old once starved at the state insane asylum. A Warm Springs inquiry will determine if further action is needed. Investigators gathered evidence and an advertising plan was questioned by business leaders who felt misled. The board will drop charges for now and monitor Warm Springs for any issues. D H Morgan Deer Lodge county attorney found no grounds for criminal charges against Dr Scanland. Galen for Dr Beanland arrived with evidence for a possible future hearing.
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Billings
Mabel Hall
Yeas
Warm Springs
Board of Charities and Corrections
J. F. McNamee
Helena
Martha Pattes Ridge
Pilelings
B.C. Brooke
D. H. Morgan
Deer Lodge County
Scanland
Galen
Beanland
Water Shortage Strains Beaverhead Irrigation Needs
Dilton July 25. Mountain snowmelt and hot weather press irrigation from Beaverhead streams. Ranchers fear reduced water for grain and hay regions as stockmen use flood irrigation, though release of lower-stream water may relieve shortages. Beaverhead river remains unusually low. nearby water rights suits have been filed in district court over the shortage.
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Dilton
H .Av
Beaverhead
Shay Meadows
GROP REPORTS SHOW NO IMPROVEMENT
Helena July 25 Weekly crop reports from agricultural agents reveal no improvement over last week. Sheridan Hay 70 percent normal rainfall negligible. Ravalli less than one third crop spring and winter wheat. Carter half crop grain. Yellowstone dry land grain fail. Fergus two thirds district burned. Stillwater winter wheat burned. Missoula conditions generally poor. Flathead winter wheat 50 percent spring wheat 90 percent.
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Helena
Sheridan
Carter
Wichaux
Powell
Yellowstone
Aire
Phillips
Heaverhead
Fergus
Cascade
Missoula
Flathead
Blaine
Sanders
Portland fire crew refuses pay in Crater Lake area
Sixty five men sent from Portland to fight fires in Crater Lake reserve arrive in Medford May 25 and reveal Industrial Workers of the World leanings. Forty nine are sent back to Portland. twenty go to Butte Falls. They refuse to work without double pay. Automobiles are ordered to bring them back.
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Medford
Ore
Tve
Portland
National Forest
Butte Falls
Anaconda Rotary Celebrates Harold Blake Promotion
Congratulations to Harold N. Blake for a major in the U S Army ordnance department announced at the Rotary Club meeting in Anaconda. The former guest Dean A W Richter spoke on militaryService courses at Missoula and Bozeman. The club noted Fort Harrison exams and urged more local men to join military training programs.
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Rotary Club
Country Club
W. M. Montgomery
Harold N. Blake
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Biake
Blake
Fort Harrison
A.W. Richter
Engineering Department
University of Montana
Missoula
Bozeman
Dean Richter
Anaconda
Changes in Blackfeet allotment proposed bill
Special Dispatch to the Standard Washington July 25 Senator Myers introduces a bill amending the Blackfeet allotment opening only eastern allotments lie within ranges 7 and 8 West to settle. It authorizes allotments for children with the tribe and other members lacking allotments. Indemnity selections are limited to surplus non irrigable lands. The bill repeals prior fund division and provides 50,000 to purchase stock, equipment, and homes, repayable from surplus land sales. All minerals remain for Indian benefit. future coal or mineral patties preserve tribal interests.
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Standard
Washington
My= ere
Secretary of the Interior
Strike of drivers ties up Klein coal mine
Roundup July 25. Forty striking drivers underground at Republic Coal No 2 mine Klein halt work, leaving 500 men out. Oldest diggers displaced for new crews, drivers’ committee demanded removal of the newcomers. manager refused and a river strike spread the stoppage. Mine capacity and Milwaukee Railroad output cited as stake in dispute.
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Klein
Republic Coal Company
Milwaukee Railroad
Poisonous Bermuda beans sold throughout Montana warning issued
Helena July 25 More than a dozen Montana towns have been sold poisonous Bermuda beans believed distributed in the state by German agents. The state board for health is conducting a vigorous search, locating the beans rapidly, and warning the public. The beans resemble native beans but contain hyfrocyanic acid.
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Helena
Montana
State Board For Health
Four of Pam sel fom Rev George Sell Lutheran Minister
A Lutheran minister Rev George Sell his two sons and a female relative were killed when the car they rode in was struck by an interurban freight car six miles north of Martinsville early today. His wife and daughter were injured in the wreck.
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George Sell
Martinsville
Instructions for mailing to American Expeditionary Forces
Postmasters must ensure proper addressing of letters, postcards, and printed matter to U S soldiers in Europe. Use full unit designation and sender details, with postage prepaid by U S stamps. Do not reveal unit location on envelopes. return mail to the addressee's address as shown.
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Flere
Europe
Postomen
Ax Femara
Ita Posecacions
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Real Kaiser described in Gerard's four years book
Ambassador Gerard portrays the real Kaiser in his book My Four Years in Germany to be serialized in the Standard for about six weeks starting August 5. A film program at the Imperial last evening featured A Royal Rogue by Keystone studios. a comedy that elicited roars from the audience and will be repeated tonight.
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Gerard
Kaiser
Germany
Standard
Faily
Seem Esaft Ihc
Imperial
Indy
Jourhallnt
Keystone Studios
Fisherman pleads not guilty to non resident fishing charge
Fa Kaufman appeared before Justice Pringle with Chief Game Warden De Hart and Deputy Hl on a charge of fishing without a license. He pleaded not guilty and posted bond for his appearance claiming the fish in his possession were given to him by friends and that he had not been fishing.
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de Hart
Pringleesterday
Hue
Donations to Local Red Cross Grow Treasury
The local American Red Cross chapter received several contributions over the past weeks boosting its treasury. Gifts included 500 from the mill and smelter men’s union, 100 from St Jean Baptist society, 100 from Catholic Order of Foresters, and 100 from St. Joseph’s society. Charles Fox Davenport, arrested for stealing clothes from a passenger, was found guilty and given 30 days in the county jail after his trial yesterday.
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American Red Cross
Iowa
MIL and Smelter Men's Union
Catholic Order of Foresters
St. Jean Baptist Society
Bt. Joseph's Society
Gurs
Charles Fox Davenport
Jobes
Davenport
Methodist Ladies Aid to Meet in Red Cross Rooms
The Methodist Episcopal Ladies' Aid society will meet in the Red Cross rooms this afternoon for work and will gather there each Thursday afternoon during August, with members from Chicago Butte Great Falls Hamilton and Helena listed among attendees.
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Currah
Helena
Ana Atrs
Jerry O'Meara
New York
Hal Geer
Chicago
Dan Friendly
Sam Ambler
Chapman
Methodist Episcopal Ladies’ Aid Society
Red Cross
Timber Sale Notice for Safe Sealed Bids in Montana Forest
National Forest timber in the Warm Springs Creek watershed Montana offers dead and live timber marked for logging. Bids due August 26 1917 with a deposit of 200 dollars. Timber types include lodgepole pine suitable for mining props lagging and cordwood with various top diameters and measurement units. The right to reject all bids is reserved and full sale details are available from the forest supervisor Anaconda Montana.
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Anaconda
Mont
Warm Springs Creek
Deet Lodge National Forest
Montana
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