Golden Lantern Ceremony Marks Airway Milestone in Helena
Thousands gathered at Helena's airport for the hanging of the golden lantern, celebrating Northwest Airlines night flying and the completion of the northern transcontinental lighted airway from Twin Cities to Seattle. State officials, Eugene Vidal, Gov. Cooney, and military observers attended as air commerce links and regional centers future prospects were praised.
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Helena
Northwest Airlines
Twin Cities
Seattle
Butte
Fred B. Sheriff
Montana
Northern Pacific
Northwest
Atlantic Seaboard
Eugene L. Vidal
United States Bureau of Air Commerce
Frank H. Cooney
Montana Woolgrowers Plan Bozeman Convention
The Montana Woolgrowers association will hold its annual meeting in Bozeman January 16 to 18 with a closing planning session December 16. A three day program includes a live stock feed lot demonstration at Montana State College and the Little International livestock show on January 17. East speakers will be invited to address the convention.
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Montana Woolgrowers Association
Bozeman
Murray E. Stebbins
Woolmen
Montana State College
Public service board fails to cut gas charge in four towns
Leonard C. Young of the state Public Service Commission sought to reduce the minimum monthly gas charge in Sweet Grass Sunburst Oilmont Ferdig from 2.50 to 1.00 but failed for lack of a second. He cited 2.50 as the highest such charge in the United States.
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Leonard C. Young
State Public Service Commission
Sweet Grass
Sunburst
Oilmont
Ferdig
Young
Bas
United States
State Supreme Court Reverses District Court Ruling
The state supreme court overturned the district court in a case brought by Louise Barr, plaintiff and appellant, against Josephine Rupp as executrix of the estate of Robert Rupp. The reversal alters the lower court’s decision in a probate related dispute.
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Granite Court
State Supreme Court
District Court County
Louise Barr
Josephine Rupp
Robert Rupp
Treasure State News in Brief Highlights Across Montana Towns
A roundup from Lewistown to Kalispell notes a $300000 appraisal for the Lewistown water system, apartment fire damage in Miles City, Plains man Joe Jackson injured, and Mike Reich jailed for late closing a Helena beer parlor. Reports cover a train truck crash in Hamilton, the death of Louise Anderson in Forsyth, car wreck injuries in Butte, a Butte Girls Central vote favoring film stars, criminal blood tests in Missoula, star route talks in Kalispell, a Bozeman turkey pool, relief payment arrangements in Lewistown, an overturned Three-Mile School bus near Stevensville, a lecture in Great Falls, highway safety plea in Helena and a historical library donation in Helena, a Darby cabin break with a fine, and road surfacing progress around Flathead Lake.
Missoula Debating Teams to Face State University in April
MISSOULALA reports Hawaiian debate team to compete with the State university team early in April. The visiting squad includes four students from the University of Hawaii. The coach is Prof. N. B. Beck, instructor in debate here from 1926 to 1928. Ronan notes Indian tuition money pledged up to $9,000 annually to reimburse the federal government.
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Missoulala
University of Hawaii
N. B. Beck
Ronan
May Extend Season for Killing Sun River Elk
The Montana fish and game commission will meet in Helena on December 9 to discuss big game problems this season. They will consider extending the elk hunting season on the Sun River herd and evaluate its feasibility.
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Sun River
Montana Fish and Game Commission
Helena
Filipino Stabber Held After Ranch Fracas
Segunda Aquino a Filipino was critically wounded near Toston and moved to a Townsend hospital with a knife wound to the lung and heart. Broadwater county officers arrested Tony Gacayan near Three Forks as Aquino's alleged assailant and ordered him held. The men had worked the Mockel ranch beet harvest this summer. Gacayan fled after the stabbing, officers said.
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Segunda Aquino
Toston
Townsend
Broadwater County
Tony Gacayan
Three Forks
Aquino
Mockel
Gacayan
Children Escape Death in Chinook Fire
Three children Lyman 5 Archie 4 and Gaylord 2 were overcome by smoke when a home fire at Lyman Croft's Chinook residence trapped them. Firemen rescued the unconscious youngsters. they recovered at a physician's office with only minor burns and minor property damage.
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Chinook
Lyman Croft
Croft
Lyman
Archie
Gaylord
Youth Killed on Hunt Trip in Big Hole Country
Philip Terrio aged 20 of Hamilton died after a .22 rifle discharged while he sat on a running board during a rabbit hunt in the Big Hole mountains with Ed Glassey of Wisdom. He was shot in the neck and his death is the seventh hunting fatality of the year. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Leo Terrio and grandson of G L Satterlee a Darby pioneer and former county commissioner.
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Philip Terrio
Hamilton
Big Hole
Ed Gllassey
Wisdom
Terrio
Glassey
Leo Terrio
G. L. Satterlee
Darby
Husband Jailed for Threatening Wife in Kalispell
Leo Brindle was arrested on a third degree assault complaint filed by his wife Lottie Brindle. He allegedly pulled her from a bathtub and threatened to cut her throat. Brindle, reported as drunk, was unable to post $2,000 bond and remains in county jail.
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Leo Brindle
Kalispell
Lottie Brindle
Brindle
Pioneer’s Photo Given to State by Early Montana Settler
A photograph of Richard Grant, an early Montana settler and Hudson’s Bay Co. employee for 38 years, has been received by the Montana state historical library. Grant lived near Missoula after 1858 and had joined fur trading at Fort Hall in 1842. He retired in 1853 and died in 1862 at 68. The image came from his great granddaughter, Mrs. Frederick Shaw of Oakland.
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Richard Grant
Montana Territory
Montana State Historical Library
Grant
Hudson’s Bay Co
Missoula
Fur Trading Company
Fort Hall
Idaho
Fur Company
The
State Library
Frederick Shaw
Oakland
Calif
Fishing Expected Excellent in Montana Next Summer
The state board of health reported October fatalities among Montanans reached 25 in automobile accidents. This surpassed any month this year except December 1934, and the year-to-date total stood at 131 deaths.
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Montana
Auto industry leads U.S. recovery with farm purchases
AAA figures show the automobile sector fueling national recovery. Registrations rose from 1,276,524 in 1932 to 2,292,443 in 1934, with 2,336,630 new cars in the first eight months of 1935. Rural areas and farmers drive notable gains, up 38 percent in 1934 versus 1933, against an 18 percent city increase.
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Montana State College
AAA
Bond Investment Fund Expands Ahead of March 1
I M Brandford state lands commissioner says the public school permanent fund will have 772 788 available for investment before March 1 1936. The board of land commissioners also orders a temporary transfer from the public school interest and income fund revenues of January and February, pushing available funds for investment to over a million dollars to speed bond investments.
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I. M. Brandford
State Lands and Investments
Board of Land Commissioners
Montana Plants 15 937 736 Game Fish in 37 Counties
Montana planted 15,937,736 game fish in 37 counties beginning July 1. Native trout totals 6,833,479 followed by rainbow trout 6,612,680 and Loch Leven 802,880. Warm water species added include bass 90,355, perch 49,302, catfish 4,760, sunfish and crappies 320, with hatcheries supplying stock.
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Montana
Loch Leven
Marlow Plans Rebuild of Lewistown Block After Fire
T. A. Marlow, owner of the Leh man building at Lewistown destroyed by fire, promises Lewistown business men he will rebuild a one or two story row of business houses. Plans depend on requests from old tenants. Three have reopened in new locations temporarily.
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T. A. Marlow
Lehman
Lewistown
Purchasing power grows for farm products in 1914 parity
Farm products have reached 87 percent of the 1909 to 1914 level in purchasing power. By Oct 15 only hogs and tobacco among 15 designated basic commodities under the adjustment act had attained parity or fair exchange value.
Ducks attack moving car near Twin Bridges
A flock of mallard ducks surged around William Cocanoughner's car as he drove to his ranch near Twin Bridges. Two ducks were killed by the radiator and a third by the windshield. Cocanoughner said the ducks made a delicious meal the next day. The closing line offers a satirical aside about the nation.
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Twin Bridges
William Cocanoughner
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