Tongue River Dam completes major Montana irrigation link
The Tongue river irrigation project extends from near the Montana Wyoming line to the mouth of the Tongue river near Miles City. Financed by PWA and state funds, the reservoir will store 60 000 acre feet and supply late summer water for about 35 000 acres, with broader benefits for grazing and wildlife.
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State Water Conservation Board
Wyoming Line
Miles City
Montana
Tongue River
Montana-Wyoming
Yellowstone
PWA
Tongue
Tongue Dam
Decker
Will Farm
Montana- Wyoming
Water Board
State Board of Equalization Reports Revenue Rise
The state board of equalization shows a 116,573.61 increase in receipts for the last fiscal year, totaling 7,604,736.98 versus 7,488,163.35 the year before. June income rose by 50,657.35 to 793, and a 21.47 rise in the 5 cent gasoline tax pushed receipts to 5,636,395.68. Heritage taxes of 225,008.24 collected by district court clerks are not included.
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Board of Equalization
State Board of Equalization
Phroven
Glacier Park Visits Rise Despite Rainy June
Glacier Park reported a significant rise in visitors in June 1939 with 21,087 guests, up from 20,189 in June 1938. Chief Ranger George W. Miller noted the increase despite rainy weather and forecast that travel may level off as summer progresses due to usual preseason activity.
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Glacier Park
George W. Miller Revea
Polenta Porridge Recipe Adapted with Meat or Cheese
A polenta style Indian porridge is prepared by mixing one cup of chopped meat fish fowl or grated cheese into three cups of hot cornmeal mush. Pour into a pan mold and cut into slices. Roll slices in flour or cornmeal and brown in hot fat. Serve with leftover gravy or sauce creamed mixture.
Thrill Day Leading Feature at 1939 North Montana Fair
Thrill Day caps the 1939 North Montana State fair and rodeo on Aug 12 with Dick Granere, a Canadian WWI ace, performing ground skimming precision flight in a clipped-wing monoplane. He flies near the stands, uses two hoops in feats, and stages a two-part show ending in a perilous tailspin.
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Montana
North
Granere
Colonel Throttlebottom
Dick Granere
Fair Management
Great Falls
Bee sting kills Montana leader Frank Hazelbaker at 61
Frank A. Hazelbaker, 61, former lieutenant governor candidate and Dillon business figure, died 20 minutes after being stung by a bee at home. Doctors called it accidental allergy. He had served Beaverhead County and Montana in public office, with a career as farmer, rancher, real estate operator and abstract company head. Survivors include his two wives and three children.
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Frank A. Hazelbaker
Montana
Dillon
Hazelbaker
Mound City
Kan
Sidney J. Hazelbaker
Linn County
Kansas
Kansas Normal
San Francisco
San Diego
Masonic
Odd Fellows, Woodmen
Red Men and Elks Lodges
Order of Eastern Star
Carrie E. Woodworth
Big Hole
Lois Brown Brantly
Theodore Brantly
Helena
Montana Supreme Court
Lois
Theodore B
Frank Woodworth Hazelbaker
Canada-Plenty Wood Bus Service Planned
R. J. Duncan of Arrow Coach Lines of Canada outlined a proposed bus route linking Canada with Plentywood and Culbertson to meet the Intermountain line. The plan, discussed before the Plentywood Lions club, aims to connect Prince Albert and Regina bus traffic via Highway 6 to Plentywood as Canadian officials consider sanction and the Montana commission weighs the proposal.
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Canada-Plenty Wood
Canada
Plentywood
Intermountain
Culbertson
State Public Service Commission
R. J. Duncan
Arrow Coach Lines of Canada
Plentywood Lions Club
Helena
State Commission
Prince Albert
Sask
Regina
Iodine for Scratches on Dark Furniture
A brief note suggests applying iodine to scratches on dark furniture to remove marks. The guidance emphasizes using iodine carefully and testing first to avoid staining.
Native Born Daughter of Dakota Aids Golden Jubilee at Bismarck
Josephine F. Waggoner of Keldron South Dakota attends North Dakota’s golden jubilee in Bismarck August 21 to 25. She was born on Apple Creek near present Bismarck. her father Charles H. McCarty served in the 1860s Dakota territory legislature and as Burleigh County sheriff.
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Dakota
Bismarck
J. Frank Watgoner
Keldron
S. D
Sitting Bull
North Dakota
Josephine F. Waggoner
Apple Creek
Charles H. McCarty
Dakota Territory
Burleigh County
Charles McCarty
John Dillon
Old Fort
Abraham Lincoln
A. Custer
Black Hills
No Special Representative Handles Welfare Services Local Change
Due to lack of funds the child welfare service of the state department will not be extended to Cascade County by a special station. Maude E. Sutherland, who has run the program for 14 years, says the work will be administered by the county welfare office in the future.
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State Department of Public Welfare
Pioneer Recounts Russell Incident at Great Falls
Esmundo C. Switzer, longtime oil businessman in Mexico City, recounts in Great Falls how Montana artist Charley Russell modeled a wax Indian figure with initials, later identified on a J. Pierpont Morgan collection piece. Switzer recalls ancestral ties, Cascade origins, and missed opportunities in the state.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Esmundo C. Switzer
Great Falls
Helena
Cascade
Russell
Sheppard & Flynn
Esmundo
Morgan
Switzer
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
J. P. Morgan
Sid Willis
Willis
Montana
Paris Gibson
Park Hotel
Mexico
Mexico City
Cowboys claim rodeo cowboys are best riders
Eddie Curtis of El Reno Oklahoma, a bronc peeler and Cowboys Turtle association official, says rodeo circuit cowboys outperform ranch boys. He notes turtles protect show managers, limit amateur contests, and enforce cattle safety rules similar to the Rodeo Association of America.
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Eddie Curtis
el Reno
Okla
Bronc Peeler
Livingston
Curtis
Cowboys Turtle Association
Doc” Pardee
Prescott
Ariz
Ama
Doc Pardee
Rodeo Association of America
Boy risks life to save dog as fire crew rescues pair
In Great Falls a New York youth Edward LeCompte braved a river freeze to rescue a dog stranded on a Missouri River pier. Fire department boat and ropes hauled both to safety after LeCompte fell and the cable broke. The dog, later claimed, is now his.
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Boy
Fire Department
Edward LeCompte
New York City
Great Falls
Great Northern
Missouri River
LeCompte
Compte
Se Ample
Saiplovera
Bing
Knight of Road Ready to Quit After 315000 Miles
Fred W. Dankowski, 74, says he will quit the highways after his wife’s death in a crash involving their trailer home and an Omaha police car. The couple spent 41 years traveling in a horse and wagon, then auto trailer, covering about 315,000 miles since 1896. They lived in Butte earlier, ran a tailor shop, and had a nomad trailer life with many cross‑country journeys across the continent. Mrs. Dankowski, born in Ogden, died in the accident. fetal services were held in Ogden Cemetery.
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Fred W. Dankowski
Omaha
Dankowskis
Butte
Dankowski
Ogden
Utah
Chicago
Rockies
Yellowstone National Park
Florida
Hufode
Great Northern Plans Major Montana Line Improvements
Thirteen improvement projects costing about 1,000,000 will start on Great Northern railway lines in Montana by July 15. The largest task relays rails on a 22 mile stretch between Dodson and Mata, with about 125 new workers hired for the reconstruction effort to be completed by early fall.
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Great Northern Railway
Montana
Dodson
Mataor
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Greatalls
New York
el Triumpho Oil Co
Knight OF
G. N
Charles M
United States
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls, Montana
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