Montana Budget Bets on Higher State University Costs
The 1925 legislative budget released shows state university and affiliated institutions seeking large funding increases. Key debates center on whether money from a one and a half mill levy should fund the experiment station and extension service alongside four main institutions. The board of examiners urges kept within levy limits, while the university argues all levy funds should support the four institutions.
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William Hosking
State Board of Examiners
Board of Examiners
C. T. Stewart
L. A. Foot
Great
University of Montana
Agricultural Experiment Station
State University
State Agricultural College
State Normal School
State School of Mines
School of Deaf and Blind
Community Prosperity Promoted by Leaders
Fragmentary text praises leadership and unity for progress in the state and commonwealth, urging building a prosperous community with good will toward all.
Power High School Receives County Apportionment
Under county high school law Power High School receives its share of the county high school tax. From November taxes $1062.02 was transferred to Power High School based on 11.6 average daily attendance of 168.1 last year. Power students also draw 25 to 30 per pupil from six mill levy and state apportionment, with county school receiving no apportionment. County Agent Robert Clarkson will attend the state county agents conference in Bozeman.
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Power High School
Robert Clarkson
Bozeman
State College Extension Department
Parents plan book quality focus for P T A meeting
The local Parent-Teacher Association will dedicate its next meeting to the dangers of present day literature with a program titled Love of Books led by Mrs T H Pridham. Mrs G C Core notes a New York jurist Justice John Ford warned that pornographic and obscene content in books may threaten national decadence and urged revision of laws via the Clean Books League.
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T. H. Pridham
G. C. Core
John Ford
Supreme Court of New York
New York
Hebrew Educational Society
Clean Books League
Acantha
Alumni Tossers Edge Teton in Close Three Point Battle
Alumni basketball five defeats Teton 29 to 26 in a hard fought men’s game at the high school gym. Crowds stayed on edge as Chick Guthrie, George Jackson and Brick Anderson led the alumni, with Jourdonnais and Crittenden starring for Teton and Bing Hodgskiss refereeing. The girls’ alumni squad also played, with Marian Pridham and Lelen Gorham among the forwards and Mary Forrest at center.
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Teton
Uoual
Chick Guthrie
George Jackson
Brick Anderson
Bud Guthrie
Teddy Macdonald
Harold Forrest
Ted MacDonald
Teton Five
Jourdonnais
Crittenden
Burns
Evenson
Crane
Crary
Bing Hodgskiss
Teton County Census Shows Decrease in School Children
The 1924 census reports 2 410 children up to age 21, down from 2 661 in 1923, with 1 705 aged 6 to 21 and 705 under six. Gender splits: 900 boys, 805 girls ages 6–21. 389 boys and 613 girls under six. Tax funds from the 6 mill levy totaled 24 098.11 in November 1924 versus 21 722.64 in 1923.
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Teton County
Edythe Saylor
Christmas Dinner Brings Aged Guest List
At a Christmas dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Connor a group of seven old friends gathered. Including hosts, the seven's combined ages totaled 482 years with the youngest at 58 and the oldest at 81. a 72 year old Mr. Connor led a lively jig after the meal. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Burbank Silas McPhee Alex Longmuir and Charles LePage.
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C. H. Connor
Moa Ag
Turkey
Mrs
A. C. Burbank
Silas McPhee
Alex Longmuir
Charles LePage
Musical Club Recital Rescheduled for January Fifth
The Monday Musical Club program, postponed due to severe weather, is moved to Monday evening January fifth at the grade school auditorium. The recital was planned before the holidays and now proceeds as a community music event.
Former Choteau Boy Merrill Luther Weds Irma Bigelow
Bozeman report lists Merrill K Luther marrying Irma Bigelow on December 26. The couple will reside in Whitehall after January 1 where the groom teaches at the high school. Luther is a Teton County High School class of 19 alumni and a graduate of Montana State College Bozeman.
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W. T. Luther
Choteau
Bozeman
Merrill K. Luther
Irma Bigelow
I. W. Bigelow
Whitehall
Luther
Teton County High School
State College At
Explosion Flings Boiler Into Home In Great Falls
An explosion at the by product plant of the Great Falls Gas Company at two o clock Saturday morning hurled a boiler the size of a locomotive through the side of George Maiden’s residence a block away. The house burned briefly but the fire department soon extinguished it. Maiden his wife and his aged father were slightly burned and the city gas supply was endangered when a fanning tank narrowly missed two gas tanks on its path.
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Great Falls Gas Company
George Maiden
Maiden
Maiden House
Maiden Home
Christmas Mail Volume Up At Chateau Post Office
Incoming Christmas mail at the Chateau post office for December 17 to 26 rose 25 percent from 1923. Outgoing mail stayed level with last year. Postmaster G C Core noted extra hours and evening parcel delivery to ease delays despite holiday rules.
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Chateau
G. C. Core
Chateau +-poat
Core
Postal Department
Cascade County to Annex Eight Townships from Teton and Chouteau
Residents push a plan to annex eight townships along the south borders of Teton and Chouteau counties to Cascade county. If the legislature approves, Cascade commissioners reportedly back the measure with no local opposition in Chateau County, citing better access to the county seat as the motive.
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Cascade Teton& Chouteau County
Teton
Chouteau
Cascade County
Chateau
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State Purchasing Department
State Land Agent
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Inez Lindseth
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Lillian Archibeld
Phyllis Green
Eda Gregory
Misa
Olive ‘S Cholz
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