Sheriff Clary Remembered For Courage And Silence
The account recalls Sheriff Tom Clary as a formidable, quiet figure in Montana history. A tale from the Shonkin Roundup shows him interrupting a raconteur to note a duck nest, while another incident in Fort Benton portrays him as powerful enough to floor a freight handler with a single punch, then calmly apologizing.
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Jack Harris
Clary
Coburn
Floweree
Milner
Harris
New Orleans
Fort Benton
Tom
Jack
Dyer, Collins & Co
Ground breaks for Aiden Hall dorm at Billings Polytechnic
Ground is broken for a $50 000 boys dormitory on the campus of Billings Polytechnic Institution. Various Montana towns report road work, sewer upgrades, and a fishing season closure in Yellowstone Park.
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Billings
Aiden
Billings Polytechnic Institution
Yellowstone Park
Edwind B. Rogers
Yellowstone River
Mashing Bridge
Upper Falls
Canyon
Forest Firemen Take New Posts In Deer Lodge Forest
Four lookout station tenders and three contact men began work July 1 for the summer fire season in Deer Lodge national forest. Supervisor Charlies A. Joy announced training at Rock creek ranger station directed by K. M. Stewart. Lookouts serve Cable Haystack Black Pine and Emerine with Thunderbolt to follow. Movements of cattle onto the forest ranges began June 1 and continue.
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Deer Lodge National Forest
Charlies A. Joy
West Fork
Rock Creek
K. M. Stewart
Missoula
Cable
Haystack
Black Pine
Emerine
Thunderbolt Post
Joy
The Present American System Survives a Century
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century column notes that the present American system remains resilient beyond a hundred years. The brief reflects on enduring institutions and national governance amid changing times.
Birds speed myths debunked by field observations
A survey notes ducks commonly fly 40 to 70 miles per hour with mallards reaching 50 to 60 mph and pintails 65 to 72 mph when aided by wind. Duck hawks and other birds reach far higher speeds in dives, with hawks clocked at 165 to 180 mph.
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James
Ornitholts
Georgia
Montana urged to welcome tourists with neighbor policy
Montana Motor Trades Association secretary M. P. Trenne of Helena urged a good neighbor approach to protect the growing tourist industry. He warned state line taxes and fees would deter travelers, saying gas taxes in other states suffice for highway upkeep and border barriers threaten constitutional rights.
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Montana
Montana Motor Trades Association
M. P. Trenne
Helena
Mr. Trenne
Motor Trades
Paradise Town Named by Transients on Rainy Night
A family of five transients traveling westward stalled in the town on a rainy night. Residents collected funds to provide hotel shelter for the mother and children and bought train tickets for the five to Sandpoint on the next day’s No. 3. They reportedly started from eastern Montana.
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Paradise
Sandpoint
Montana
Bountiful Crops Seen in Northern Montana After Rains
Northern Montana farmers at the Farmers National Co operative Elevator association convention report improved prospects. Influenced by recent rains and cool air, spring wheat yields may reach 20 bushels per acre in some districts. Local conditions vary with Chinook receiving rains in June and late sown wheat showing strength.
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Montana
Farmers National Co-operative Elevator Association
Centr
J. A. Ludwig
Rudyard Farmers Elevator
John Keil
Ledger
J. W. Hitchcock
Carter Farmers Co-operative Elevator
Carter
Hugo Christianson
Farmers Union Elevator Co
J. M. Glass
Sazhnets Cooperative Elevator
Dento
Ed McIntyre
Galata
Montana designates 27 counties as mountain meadow areas
Twenty seven Montana counties are named mountain meadow counties under the 1937 agricultural conservation program. Eligible for payments for reseeding with specified seed mixes and for building earthen dams to control erosion. Payments set at 20 cents per pound of seed up to $2 per acre and 15 cents per cubic yard of dam fill, with total potential earnings capped by the grazing capacity based formula.
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Montana
Mountain Meadow
J. C. Taylor
Montana Extension Service
AAA
Clyde McKee
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station Agronomist
State Technical Committee
Western
Lincoln
Flathead Glacier
Sanders
Lake
Pondera
Teton
Mineral
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Cascade
Ravalli
Granite
Powell
Deerdge
Beaverhead
Silver Bow
Jefferson
Broadwater
Meagher
Judith Basin
Madison
Gallatin
Park
Sweet Grass
Stillwater
Carbon
Volunteers identify vast North American birds with bands
Unpaid volunteers fitted identification bands to over a quarter of a million birds in North America last year to aid the Bureau of Biological Survey in tracking migration and population data.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
Havre Grain Exchange Secretary Reports Weather and Crop Conditions
W. S. Gregoire of Havre states that after a stretch of 23 inches of rain and heat, winds, and drought, crops on 500 acres are not thriving. He notes wheat prospects in Havre and compares feed oats and overall condition to earlier notes.
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Gregoire
Havre
Farmers Grain Exchange
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Tom Clary
Sam
Old
Chouteau County
Oldetyme Distillers, Inc., N. ¥. C
Sante i
t—iTr
Treasure State News
Polson
Ernest Claffey
Libby
J. Neils Lumber Company
Livingston
Bvtte—Butte
Sompson Falls
Trent Racine Association
Joseph Burke
Anaconda
Felice
Miles City
W. J. Butler
Bennin Hummel
Jack Hummel
Great Falls
Bartley
Opheim
Peskan
Plegan
Morgan
Raymond
Roosevelt
Scobey
Turner
Westby
Whitetall
Whitlash
Butte
William Fox
Knights of Columbus
Newark
N. J
Peter Fox
Ireland
Butteman
United States
Accor Researchis
Esther Swanson Feeney
Sreasears
Montone’ State
Prudent Body
Alpha Phi Sorority
Chance Sun
Tom Platt
Kentucky
Dean
Clark’s Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
America
General Electric
General Electric Supply Corp
Cobbi Creck Eer
Recontinental Distilling Corporation
Philadelphia
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