WPA Projects Expand Montana School Program
The Works Progress Administration has begun 26 new school projects totaling 189 822 dollars, adding to 107 existing sites that have benefited from WPA funding. The program covers construction, repairs, grounds, libraries, and utilities across numerous counties and towns including Billings Havre Polson Helena and Missoula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. P. Moe
Montana Education Association
Works Progress Administration
Richey
Paradise
Red Lodge
Silesia
Three Forks
Belgrade
Logan
Philipsburg
Ennis
Rocker
Fairview
Billings
North
Montana College
Havre
Toole County
Deer Lodge
Fergus County
Helena
Polson
Montana State University
Missoula
Savage
Columbus
Bigfork
Absarokee
Bloomfield
Cascade
Chouteau
Daniels
Roosevelt
Sheridan
Valley
Blaine
Hill
Oregon's First Gasoline Tax Arrives in 1919
Oregon becomes the first U S state to levy a gasoline tax, imposed for the initial time in 1919, marking a landmark shift in road funding policy and transportation economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
United States
Forest Ranger Welton to Retire After 31 Years Service
Helena national forest veteran Earl V. Welton of Townsend plans voluntary retirement on December 31 after 31 years and 3 months of service begun October 1, 1907. He and his wife Margaret Jenson have two sons in forest work and intend to remain in Townsend with possible travel and forest trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
United States
Earl V. Welton
Townsend
Uncle Sam
Welton
Helena National Forest
Deer Lodge
National Forest
Helena
Nelson
Hauser Lake
Deep Creek
Broadwater
The
General Land Office
California
K. N. Welton
Montana
Ranger Welton
Margaret Jenson
Powell County
Earl M. Welton
Custer Forest
Billings
Warren Howard Welton
Nebraska
Plentywood Girl Wins in Yard Beautification
Shirley Erickson age 17 of Plentywood Montana tops the state in a national 4-H home grounds beautification contest. Her yard features a badminton court outdoor fireplace horseshoe pits and a picnic area with lilacs hollyhocks Mexican fire bushes vines and flagstone walks. She receives a 17 jewel gold wrist watch as the state prize. An Oregon girl wins the western sectional trip to the national 4-H club congress in Chicago and a Minnesota boy earns a $300 national scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plentywood
Shirley Erickson
Montana
State Extension Office
Erickson
Shirley
Oregon
Chicago
Minnesota
Dawson Wheat Loans Insured in Dawson County
Wheat producers in Dawson county 104 farmers secured insurance to December 3. Premiums total 25 000 bushels with an average of 1.82 bushels per acre and insured production at 9.3 bushels. American toys planned for sale in Antwerp Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson Wheat Loans
Dawson County
Insured Plan of Billings S&L Solves Small Investor Needs
The Security Building & Loan Association of Billings Montana offers an insured plan with up to 5000 dollars, a guaranteed minimum 3 percent dividend, no fees or penalties, and ready access to funds. It emphasizes safety, convenience, and mail-based service aimed at farmers, businessmen, and average savers statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Security Building & Loan Association of Billings
Security Building & Loan Association of
Billings
Montana
Building & Loan Association
Northwest
Montanans urged to plant crested wheatgrass on farms
W O Zirnstein county agent for Lewis and Clark and Broadwater counties urged ranchers to grow crested wheatgrass as a soil conserving and feed crop. He said one to two acres per cow could provide spring pasture and fall grazing, with similar gains for sheep. The crop fits lawn, pasture, hay and seed uses and is eligible for conservation payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Zirnstein
Lewis and Clark
Broadwater
Zirnstein
Lewis and Clark County
Montana
Agricultural Conservation Program
WANTS BUFFALO AREA RETURNED TO INDIANS
Ernest Thompson Seton urges the U S government to restore the buffalo hunting grounds covering South Dakota Nebraska eastern Montana and Wyoming to Sioux Indians under the 1868 Red Cloud treaty. He says farmers would sell land, funds would be owed, and buffalo could be stocked from Yellowstone and Canada for Indian hunting and living before white settlement with fences around cities like Omaha and Cheyenne to contain roamers.
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Buffalo
Ernest Thompson Seton
Uncle Sam
South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Wyoming
Red Cloud
Seton
Yellowstone Park
Canada
Omaha
Cheyenne
Kalispell Chamber Names Gratton Secretary
Roger Gratton, a former Kalispell newspaper man, has been elected to replace Leland Tansel as secretary of the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber
Roger Gratton
Kalispell
Leland Tansel
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
Montana Education Association backs countywide school taxes
M. P. Moe argues for law changes to allow countywide school taxes and district reorganization to boost efficiency. He cites disparities in per child valuation, says 100 large districts will suffice, and that closures require parent votes. District boundaries would be set by county boards, with a minimum valuation of $300,000 per district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. P. Moe
Montana Education Association
Great Falls
Moe
Cascade County
House
Senate
Tuttle Earns Liar Certificate for True Montana Facts
A. H. Tuttle of the U S Geological Survey in Helena returns from a district engineers conference bearing a humorous embossed certificate naming him member of the Ancient and Unreliable Order of Liars and Perfidious Prevaricators. The document jokes about exaggeration and lists Ima Fibber as secretary and Ara Nother as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
Montana
A. H. Tuttle
Geological Survey
Helena
Tuttle
Conference of
District Engineers
Order of Liars and Perfidious Prevaricators
The
Engineering Society
B. Cc
Ananias
Ima Fibber
Ara Nother
Prairie Dog Arnold Earned His Sobriquet
An eastern man known as Prairie Dog Arnold, a Chouteau county surveyor, earned his nickname after advertising prairie dogs for sale in eastern papers. Charles Baird recalls Arnold’s capture method and the rush of buyers, with prices dropping from 25 dollars a pair to 50 cents as demand faded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold
Chouteau
Charles Baird
Hays
Wyoming
Montana
Democrat
Baird
Nevada creek irrigation project finished in Powell county
Officials of the Public Works Administration announced completion of the $285 000 Nevada creek supplementary irrigation project in Powell County about 50 miles from Helena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada Creek
Powell County
Helena
Public Works Administration
Buck Sheep Charges Through Darby Store
A buck sheep frightened by dogs crashed into Darby Mercantile Co. smashing a plate glass window then rammed through the store. Clerks restrained the animal and sent it to the town pound as owner Clarence Duus of Hamilton prepared to claim it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darby
Darby Mercantile Co
Clarence Duus
Hamilton
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Lendco
Cobbs Era Rermidabinland Continental Distling Corpor
Philadelphia
Forest Ranger
Early V. Welton
Antwerp
Belgium
Lou Wilkens
Wilken Family, Inc, Aladdin, Schenley 1 P
the Security Building & Loan Assn
Billings, Mont
Prairie Dog
Weissman
Mighel
Carl Weissman
Company St
Great * Falls
Bost
Boston
Ben-Bark, Inc
Mass
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