Laws Affecting Oil Industry Head List for Montana Assembly
Montana's upcoming 20th legislature will face a wide array of bills, with laws impacting the oil and gas sector expected to take a leading role. Governors message and reports from 1925 commissions on banking, accounting, Fort Assiniboine, and a Lewis and Clark memorial will also be reviewed, alongside liquor, dry laws, land modernization, bank deposit guarantees, education levies, irrigation, corporate licensing, public finances, and debt funding measures.
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Montana
Legislative Assembly
Helena
Erickson
Billings
Fort Assiniboine
Havre
Lewis and Clark
L. A. Foot
I. M. Brandford
Register of State Lands
Falls Bobcats Defeat Te ton Five on Local Court
The Great Falls Bobcats beat Teton High 30 to 23 on their home floor Tuesday night. The game was low scoring with a first quarter 9-5 edge for Teton and a halftime 14-11 lead for the visitors before Great Falls pulled away in the second half. Teton guard pair Burns and Bennett and center Crossen led their offense as Loomis and Moore paced the Bobcats. An extra game featuring Ashley's youngsters against a Teton Alumni team was announced for the holiday period.
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Great Falls Bobcats
Great Falls
Teton High
Teton
Falls
Bobcats
Burns
Bennett
Crossen
Loomis
Moore
Ashley
Chateau
Foot to Draw Presidential Primary Bill for Montana
Attorney General L A Foot will draft a proposed law to restore to Montana political parties a way to be represented at national conventions and to nominate presidential electors. The 1925 repeal abolished the mechanism for selecting delegates and electors, though the referendum retained the convention delegation provision.
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Great Falls
L. A. Foot
Montana
Fairfield Bank Receiver Pays Xmas Dividend
The State Bank paid its first dividend since becoming a receivership. Receiver T. H. Pridham mailed ten percent checks to depositors the day before Christmas, aiming to distribute funds before the holiday as a Christmas gift.
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Fairfield Bank
T. H. Pridham
Pridham
Fairfield
Fairfield Times
Great Falls Chosen for Lewis & Clark Memorial Statue
A Montana commission recommends a bronze memorial for Lewis and Clark in Great Falls with a circle placement at Central Avenue. The report asks for 60 000 dollars for two statues or 30 000 for one in Great Falls, noting the Missouri River falls discovery as pivotal. Delegations from Armstead Butte Bozeman Great Falls Helena Livingston and Three Forks attended meetings.
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Great Falls
Lewis & Clark
Three Forks
Central Avenue
The
Missouri
Three Forks of the Missouri
Lewis and Clark
Armstead
Butte
Bozeman
Helena
Livingston
Commission
Shipping Association to Pick Directors January Eighth
Members of the Teton County Shipping association are reminded by County Agent Robert Clarkson of a meeting at two o clock Saturday afternoon January eighth at the court house. Directors for the coming year will be elected. A large attendance is desired. The board met yesterday to arrange details for the annual meeting a week from Saturday.
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Teton County Shipping Association
Robert Clarkson
Court House
Montana Senator Larson opposed to state refineries and bank guarantees
Teton legislator Senator Larson opens the 20th Helena assembly seat vowing opposition to a state owned refinery program and support for gas tax testing elsewhere. He backs state gas and oil inspection and a modest one and a half mill university levy, while opposing bank deposit guarantees and re enactment of a prohibition code. He favors a tax on imported gas if legal and independent of the initiated measure and notes potential Montana price comparisons.
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Nee
T. O. On
Teton
Assembly
Helena
Larson
Montana
Johnson
Fergus
O. K
Lontdna
L. A. Foot
Larsen
State University
Larsor
Teton Representative Opposes Gas Tax Repeal
J E B Hodgskiss representative elect from Teton county plans to oppose any repeal of the three cent Montana gas tax. He urges equalizing gas pricing with neighboring states and supports inspection and enforcement funding for oils and gasoline. He also favors timely high school board officer elections.
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TETON
Hodgskiss
Hodeskiss
M Hodgskiss
Bole Farmer Wins Christmas Phonograph Offer
Glen Wiseman of Bole held the lucky number 4296 in the Chateau Drug Company Christmas phonograph giveaway. His number was the first drawn at the drug store on Christmas Eve, winning the $260 Edison phonograph.
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Glen Wiseman
Bole
Chateau Drug Company
Mr. Wiseman
Few New Faces at the Court House Monday
The article lists Teton county elective officers for a two year term starting next Monday with Anna E. Stafford as the new county superintendent and M. C. Crawford as county assessor. Eva McDonald becomes deputy in the superintendent’s office until 1927. All officers have filed their official bonds.
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Court House
Anna E. Stafford
M. C. Crawford
Edythe Saylor
Blanche M. Jacobson
Obert Peterson
C. H. Connor
C. James Smith
W. H. Webb
Far North Oil Drilling Stays Busy Amid Snow and Cold
Chris Bennetson of Home Oil Co. reports heavy snow up to eight feet deep near High River while drilling 3100 feet into a well 60 miles northwest of Calgary. Production on a 1924 well yielded two million dollars. Bennetson aims to finish this new well by mid March with 72 tons of casing in place and two 12 hour shifts on working days.
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Calgary
Canada
Chris Bennetson
Chateau
Bennetson
Home Oil Co
High River
Harry Bradford Weds Louise Willis in Livingston Nuptials
Louise Willis formerly a Livingston teacher married Harry Bradford Tuesday noon at the bride's sister home 212 Seventh Street Southwest. Dr Ward E Boyd officiated with attendants Mrs F B Senecal and William Willis. The couple left for Spokane after a wedding breakfast for a honeymoon.
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Louise Willis
Livingston
Harry Bradford
J. M. Taylor
Seventh Street
Ward E. Boyd
F. B. Senecal
William Willis
Bradford
Spokane
Great Falls
Mary Wills
Chateau
Masonic Installation in Choteau with AG Foot presiding
Attorney General L A Foot of Helena arrived as representative of the Montana grand lodge to preside at the installation of officers for Choteau Lodge No. 44 A F and A M and Fidelity Chapter No 18 C E S held the same evening.
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L. A. Foot
Helena
Choteau
Grand Lodge of
Montana
Choteau Lodge
A. F
A.M
Foot
Grand Lodge
Fidelity
George Yeager Weds Mabel Barringer in Great Falls
George W. Yeager of Great Falls and Mabel Elva Barringer of Joplin were married Saturday noon by Justice of the Peace P. J. Shields at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert P. Christie, 809 Seventh Avenue North. Christie and witness Mr. and Mrs. Christie attended.
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George W. Yeager
Great Falls
Mabel Elva Barringer
Joplin
Justice of the Peace
P. J. Shields
Bert P. Christie
Seventh Avenue North
Christie
G. F. Tribune
Montana oil tax fight shifts toward payments and reforms
Montana refiners and distributors who failed to pay the two cent sales tax under the 1925 law are beginning to pay the state. Attorney General L. A. Foot urges legislative study of oil industry taxation and supports using crude from state lands to lower gasoline prices. He calls for a $10,000 annual gas inspection appropriation and opposes repeal of the gas tax via a 1928 referendum, while noting potential limits due to interstate commerce rules.
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Montana
L. A. Foot
Major Foot
Chateau
Masonic Blue Lodge
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Falls Bobcats
Teton‘ Five
First National Bank
Teton County
Chateau Acantha
Senate
J. EB. Hodgskiss
W Hodgskiss
Bole Farmer
Far North
George Yeager
Mabel E. Barringer
Albert Johnson
Citizens State Bank
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