Montana Legislature Preview and Land Policy Review
A lengthy overview outlines the upcoming Montana legislature session with emphasis on Republican control, speaker candidates, and proposed measures. It discusses land policy, state land sales, and the farm loan program, noting Toole era actions, school fund handling, and projected economic prospects for Montana’s agricultural development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Fred
L. “Gibson
Park
Ronald Higgins
Missoula
E. H. Cooney
Cascade
O. ‘W. ‘Belden
Fergus
C. A. ‘Rasmussen
Dawson
Montana
Freight tariff protest forms Montana association
A Helena conference saw nearly all Montana business groups oppose new freight rates and classifications seen as unfair. The Montana Freight Rate Association organized with Warden head and an executive committee to pursue fair treatment for residents, shippers, and retailers relative to neighboring states and the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Helena
Railroad Commission
Montana Freight Rate Association
Great Falls
John Roach
Butte
D. D. Richards
Land Trade Between Forest Service and Montana Near Missoula
The Missoula forest service district wraps up a land exchange with Montana to swap scattered tracts for 106 000 acres of timber land. In return the service will give the state two large Swan River valley and Blackfoot valley tracts near Missoula and Whitefish, simplifying administration pending a presidential proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
Swan River
Whitefish
Montana
State Land Office
Treasuries
Forest Service
Forestry Service
Missoula
Wilson
Swan‘river Valley
Blackfoot Valley
Blackfeet Forest
Montana Aviator Arthur Wierick Safe After Crash Report
Lieut Arthur M Wierick of Lewistown Montana was reported missing and believed killed after a crash behind enemy trenches late October. A telegram from servicemen in Chicago later stated he is safe and released from a German prison camp. His parents Mr and Mrs E B Wierick are noted Montana residents with his father a former banker and longtime First National Bank cashier in Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Tax Commission
University of Montana
Board of Education
Montana
Terry
Lewistown
Livingston
Billings
Ronald Higgins
Missoula
Montana House of Representatives
Higgins
Captain Higgins
Arthur. M. Wierick
Iwan
Cieut
Arthur
Wierick
American ‘Flying Corps
France
Tident
E. B. Wierick
Helena
Butte
First National Bank
Arthur M
Wierick, Montana
Prominent Montanan Woman and Son Loss Depends on War Sacrifice
Mrs Wierick a leader in club life and state women's work for years served on the prisons welfare board until moving to Los Angeles. Her son Young Wierick grew up in Butte and, after cadetship in ROTC, training as an aviator, went to France with early air combat duties, possibly sacrificing his life for liberty.
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Officers’ Training Corps
France
America
Montana cadet flies 700 miles in six hours from Waco to Kansas City
Douglass Christie, Montana youth and army flight cadet in Texas, piloted from Waco to Kansas City in 6 hours 45 minutes, covering about 700 miles by air. He previously flew Dallas to Waco, 100 miles, in one hour, riding a slow plane at 5000 feet with favorable wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglass Christie
Montana
Texas
Waco
Kansas City
J. W. Christie
Helena
Young Christie
Richfield
Dallas
Dhe
Field Marshal von Mackensen Returns With Rumanian Loot
Field Marshal von Mackensen returned to Berlin reportedly carrying 17 million dollars in gold and currency looted from Romania. The government reportedly compelled him to surrender all possessions and end his revolutionary stance.
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von Mackensen
Berlin
Rumania
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Para
Lincoln
Lewis and Clark County
Frank Miracle
Feventie
Joseph' K. Toole
Joseph
K. Toole
Congress
Toole
Land Department
Charles A. Whipple
Whipple
Wise Provision
Edwin L. Norris
Lew L. Callaway
Dave Hilger
Rudolph von Tobel
National Forest
Forest Reserve’ ‘Department
Montara
Norris
James Wilson
State Board of Land Commissioners
Ito
National Congress
Forestry “ Service
F. A. Silcox
State Land
State-Land Department
U.S
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