Mount Helena Ski Club Emerges Among Largest
The Mount Helena Ski club of Helena formed January 29 1937 has grown into one of the country’s largest winter sports groups. It built a new run on MacDonald pass with WPA and forest service help and plans a broader winter program after heavy snowfall.
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McDonald Pass
Mount Helena
Turner Clack
Owen Perry
Chick Reisenrath
Myron Wilson
Brooke Ricker
A Morrison
John Fenn
Dean Ckles
Seattle
Portland
Salt Lake City
Helena High School
MacDonald Pass
Forest Service
WPA
Northern Pacific
Reclusive New York Man Dies in Montana Cabin At 90
William M. Slater, 90, longtime Montana recluse, died in his seven mile above Winston cabin after weeks of illness. He had lived in the cabin for years preferring solitude, refused hospital aid, and asked to die there. Slater moved to Montana 45 years ago, earned some gold, but chiefly lived on New York funds and a monthly check. He was once famed as a meticulous dresser and kept a library filled with recent fiction, history, poetry, and reference works.
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New York
William M. Slater
Winston
Norman Co. Bruce
Broadwater County
Townsend
Slater
Montana
Elkhorn Mountains
New York State
Source Monthly
Townsend Bank
Treasure State News in Brief
Brief items from Conrad Missoula Kalispell Helena and other Montana towns report construction completions bond sales land transfers park plans weather map changes and local incidents. Notable notes include a 37 000 bond purchase in Musselshell county a new Grizzly regiment cadet colonel at Montana State University and a rescued truck driver in Browning.
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Missoula
Robert H. Robinson
Forsyth
Montana State University
Grizzly Regiment
Eloy P. Denson
Helena—Butte
W. E. Maughan
Carl A. Carpenter
Salt Lake City
Kalispell
Glacier Park
John E. Lewis
A. J. Shaw
Nettie C. Lewis
Hollywood
Calif
Mayflower Mine Discoverer J Pruett Dies at 78
J Pruett a Montana pioneer who first came to the state in 1862 and discovered the Mayflower mine died at his Whitehall home after a brief illness. He helped locate the mine with E M Clarke and S R Fair, which yielded $150000 when sold in 1896. He leaves a widow two sons Ira and Marcus three daughters and several grandchildren.
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J. Pruett
Mayflower
Whitehall
Illinois
Mr. Pruett
Alder Gulch
Montana
Treasure State
Sheridan
Madison County
Pruett
E. M. Clarke
S. R. Fair
W. A. Clark
Butte
Ellen Pruett
Man Teaches Blackfeet Tongue and Sign Language
Richard Sanderville begins an evening Browning class to teach white students the Blackfeet language and universal Indian sign language. He is an expert and recently aided an eastern project to complete a sign language card record started by Gen. Hugh Lott.
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Richard Sanderville
Browning
Sanderville
East
Baebeeht
Hugh Lott
Arbitration in Lyons Silk Disputes Before Revolution
The first use of industrial arbitration occurred in Lyons to settle labor disputes in the French silk industry before the revolution, addressing conflicts that arose among workers and employers.
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Lyons
France
Stock water dam building grows in Custer and Powder River counties
In 1938 N A Jacobsen reports 48 stock water dams surveyed in Custer and Powder River counties with 33 completed serving 934 range sections and 11 more under construction. Since 1931, 96 dams assisted, 71 completed across 205 sections, many small and cost-efficient. Flood irrigation shows 51 projects since 1931 covering 2439 acres. average hay yield of one ton per acre valued at about 10 000 dollars annually, aiding cattle during winter.
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Custer
Powder River
N. A. Jacobsen
Custer County
Jacobsen
Rural Electrification Expands Montana Power Reach
REA financed seven rural electrification projects operate in Montana with three under construction. High line power will reach nearly 5,000 rural customers across about 1520 miles of line, said Armin J. Hill, rural electrification specialist for the Montana extension service.
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REA
Montana
Armin J. Hill
Montana Extension Service
New Marine Worm Eases Cable Threat by Tunneling Through Lead
Scientists report a newly found marine worm that can chew through lead cable sheathing and cut a wire seven to ten tenths of an inch thick. The behavior raises concerns about subsea infrastructure and requires further study of the worm's feeding patterns and resilience.
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Dizzy Dean
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Dude
Treasure State News
Conrad
Harold Smith
Musselshell County
W. G. Kelly
Jordan
Here
Roy E. Ayers
Water Conservation Office
Robert J. Kelley
E. B. Donahue
Hungry Horse
John J. Kingman
War Department
Nobson
Hobson
Lewistown
Charles R. Bebb
Fergus County Democrat
Union Printers
Colorado Springs
Colo
Typographical Union
Montana Park Commission
Rutledge Parker
Shelby
North
Board of Equalization
Butte Miners Union
Walter Smith
Ickes
PWA
Galen Tuberculosis Sanitarium
James E. Murray
Father van de Gevel
Shelby’s
St. Williams Church
Hollyburn
B. C
Dykesville
Wis
Walier
W. P. DeClene
West Depere
State Board of Equalization
Treasury
Joe St. Marks
Babb
Blacktent Hospital
Passaig
Elizabeth
Lyndhurst
TATEN
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Glen Cove
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York City
Grover A. Whalen
Whalen
Exposition Moonmile
Maintreet
Montang
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Great Falls, Mont
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Schenleys
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