Butte Hosts Five Day State Celebration Music Lineup
Butte gears up for a July 1 start with a diverse five day program featuring local bands the Butte Mines the Montana State and the Twin Cities plus a Great Falls jazz band and over a dozen outside drum and bugle corps. Informal program staffing falls to arriving units and a street concert series will be held at various sites. A highlight is the Mons Lane Band concert Saturday afternoon and evening with features of the celebration centered around music and dancing finales.
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Elks’ and Eagles
Butte
Butte Mines
Montana State
Twin Cities
Great Falls
Mons Lane Bate
Call for conference by first term Republicans to shape agenda
Washington June 28 First term Republicans urged to attend a meeting to form plans for exerting more influence in House proceedings and speed up the legislative program. Mondell invited to address. Ansorge says new members seek greater influence while denying revolt. Congress has been in session nearly three months with little accomplished.
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Washington
Representative Mondell
Representative Ansorge
New York
Upstate Asks Extra Session Of Legislature
A delegation from Great Falls and nearby counties asked Governor Dixon in Helena on June 28 to call an extraordinary Montana legislative session. They urged a mortgage moratorium to aid farmers in Hill Chouteau Cascade Liberty Toole and parts of Teton Pondera and Glacier counties as crops fail again this year.
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Associated Press
Helena
I. N. Walker
George Hughes
Great Falls
Dan McKay
Glasgow
F.C
North End
University faces handicap from lack of gas and bond failure
Bond market slumped preventing bids for the 700000 University bond issue. No buildings will be erected this year as bidders withdrew saying they could not offer above par. Chancellor Elliott in Chicago reported no action possible and the state board adjourned without further steps. Congress focused on the naval appropriation conference report and did not vote the Borah disarmament amendment.
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State University
State Board of Examiners
B.C. Elliott
Chicago
Board of Examiners
NAVAL
Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Milwaukee Road Pushes Through To The Southeast
In Washington on June 28 the Interstate Commerce Commission approved acquisition by lease and stock purchase of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway by the Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern. The St Paul line gains authority to assume payments on bonds and notes of the Southeastern system, securing a single through route for tramp steam from the Northwest to eastern and southern points without Chicago district interchanges.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
Chiis Eastern Railway Company
Interstate Com
Commission
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, ‘Terre Haute & Southeastern
St. Paul
Chicago
De Valera holds off on reply to peace conference invite
Dublin reports that Eamonn de Valera, Irish republican leader, is not yet ready to reply to Lloyd George's invitation for a conference on Irish settlement. He says unity is essential to peace and will consult principal representatives before replying. He has invited Ulster premier Craig and others to a Dublin Mansion House meeting.
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O the Associated
Dublin
Eamonn de Valera
Lloyd George
Ireland
de Valera
Islands
James Craig
Earl Middleton
Southern Ireland
Ulster
Maurice Dockrell
Rathmines
Robert Henry Woods
Dublin University
Royal College of Surgeons
Andrew Jameson
Mansion House
Big irrigation projects to be surveyed soon
Twenty thousand acres on Beachland near Whitehall to be watered under plans just completed. The article notes major irrigation programs advancing, identifying Beachland as the focal area and Whitehall as a nearby reference point, with the plans now ready for field surveying and implementation discussions.
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Whitehall
Massive irrigation plan eyed for Montana valley projects
A state irrigation survey targets 8 000 acres in the Boulder valley and 20 000 acres near Whitehall. A third major project is planned near Radersburg with a Whitehall reservoir at Willow and Norwegian creeks. Dams rise 116 feet, canals run 110 to 115 miles, two tunnels and siphons planned, approval expected in July.
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State
Frrction Commission
Boulder Valley
South Beach
Whitehall
Radersburg
Norwegian Creeks
Big Hole
Glenn
Jefferson and
Bul
Irrigation Commission
Severe hailstorms damage South Dakota and Minnesota crops
A hailstorm in Lincoln county South Dakota caused damage estimated in the thousands as grain lay flat across a two to three mile swath and stretched 20 to 30 miles. In Rock county Minnesota a severe wind hail and rainstorm with a cloudburst-like rain damaged crops over a two and one half mile wide strip eight miles long.
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Associated Press
Sioux Falls
8. D
Lincoln County
South Dakota
Laverne
Minn
Rock County
Fire at San Angelo causes quarter million loss
Texas dispatches report a fire at San Angelo after oil tank explosions at the Pierce Oil Corporation station. The blaze spread to nearby property, but authorities said the flames were under control.
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Ballinger
Texas
San Angelo
Pierce Oil Corporation
Bonaparte Former Attorney General Dead in Baltimore
Charles J. Bonaparte former attorney general during the Roosevelt era died at his Baltimore area home at age 70 after a year of poor health. He was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and Susan May. his paternal grandfather Jerome king of Westphalia. Napoleon was his great grand uncle.
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Baltimore
Charles J. Bonaparte
Roosevelt
Here
Bonaparte Nas
Jerome ‘Napoleon Bonaparte
Susan May
William Bonaparte
Jerome
Westphalia
Betsy Patterson
Napoleon
Levee Holds as Colorado River Flood Presses Imperial Valley
Rockwood Gate California June 28 The Colorado river rose to three points above the Tortuoro waste at the eastern end of the Volcano lake levee but the barrier remained intact. The Volcano lake levee guards lower Imperial valley cotton lands as floodwaters decline. Southern Pacific and irrigation district crews reinforced the levee to avert further damage.
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Cantu
Cal
Colorado River
Volcano Lake Eyes
Volcano Lake
Imperial Valley
Southern Pacific Company
California
Irrigation District
School Board Votes Bond Refunding to Pay Old Warrants
Silver Bow county faces total bonded debt near 399000 after the board met to plan refunding bonds for warrants. A special tax millage is proposed to run schools, with 174000 district debt and roughly 250000 warrants outstanding. The board intends to pay 25000 of the district debt July 1 and issue August salary warrants included in the refund. Deliberations on a truant officer and playground equipment for Washington and McKinley schools continued amid disagreements. The Clark playground received baseballs and gear.
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Silver Bow County
Lindsay
Hugh McLaughlin
Fox and Jenkins
Washington School
Baldwin
Rodgers
Metcalf
Washington
McKinley School
Clark Playground
Kalispell Chosen For Next American Legion Meeting
At the third annual state convention Kalispell was selected as the site for the next gathering. Officers elected include Tom Busha as state war risk officer and commander, C. C. Lamport as vice commander, Joseph J. D. Vey as finance officer, E. Pore as historian, and W. G. Ferguson as retiring commander among others. Delegates to the national convention in Kansas City were named with 11 members including the state commander and vice commander acting as delegates. The women’s auxiliary organized with Mrs. C. H. Pew as president and Mrs. J. W. Brossby as vice president, among others.
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Associated Press
Mr. Callahan
Northern Montan
Anaconda
Miena
Seery Lungtora
Mr Combs
Butte
Miss Whipple
Harlowton
Bozeman Adopts Commission Manager Government Plan
Bozeman voters approve the commission managerial form of government by a narrow margin. A light turnout of 912 ballots was cast from 3600 registered voters with 473 in favor and 439 against, a 34 vote lead for adoption.
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Bozeman
British coal mine strike ends after months of stoppage
London June 25. The British coal mine strike in progress since April 1 is settled. Prime Minister Livya George is expected to seek a Parliament vote authorizing a 10,000,000 pound subsidy to the mining industry. Miners will resume work Monday if approved.
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Asociated Press
London
Livya George
Peace by Congressional Resolution Ends War Declaration
Washington June 28 final stage reached as republican conferees approve a compromise peace resolution. The plan combines the house state of war with Germany and senate provisions protecting American property, aiming for White House action by Friday before the Fourth of July. Knox claims both paths yield the same result. The text declares the 1917 war with Germany at an end and begins detailing implementation.
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Washington
House
Harding
Germany
Senate
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Representative Blood
Virginia
Republicana
Republica
White House
Porter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States of America
Congress
Drowning Tragedy At Lake Avoca Injures Rescuers
William Shorty Harrington 18 of Butte drowned after stepping into a deep hole in Lake Avoca yesterday afternoon. George Battens and four companions attempted rescues, with Battens nearly drowning himself before freeing. James Moore located Harrington’s body after about an hour, coroner noted the drowning occurred in a deep water near the dam head.
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Aspen
William
Shorty) Harrington
Locust Street
Butte
Lake Avoca
Harrington
George Battens
Battens
Revert
A. Clark
Clark
William Byrne
James Moore
Hannibal Street
Moore
Carey
Women to Oversee Jacksons Hole Bandit Hangout
The AP reports Jackson Wyoming June 28 that Lincoln county division carried by 700. Jackson chosen county seat for the new Teton county. With Jackson under a womans administration and no other sizable town in the new county, women prepare to elect a sheriff and other county officers.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Wyo
Petticoat
Jackson's Hole
Lincoln County
Teton County
Eighteenth Amendment Critiqued as Minority Act in Senate
Senator Broussard of Louisiana denounced the eighteenth amendment as an act of a minority and criticized Volstead enforcement as fueling unrest. He proposed an amendment to allow beer and wine production up to eight and fourteen percent respectively, to be decided by referendum. The Willis-Campbell bill, sent from the House, was referred to a judiciary subcommittee to act next day.
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Senate
Broussard
Louisiana
House
Judiciary Committee
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