Montana aims to place returning soldiers in jobs and land
Captain Welliver and the state defense councils coordinate with Camp Lewis to place hundreds of discharged soldiers in Montana. The plan includes a soldier settlement fund and board to acquire lands and manage irrigation, aiding reintegration into civilian life and supporting rural employment. Saloons must close by midnight December 30 to enforce Prohibition.
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Helena
State Council of ‘Defense
County Councils of Defense
Camp Lewis
Montana
BE. M. Welliver
Chas. D. Greenfield
State Council of Defense
State Council
Northwest
Captain Welliver
Greenfield
Welliver
Bitter Root
Federal Department of the Interior
State Agricultural College
Secretary of the Interior
S.C. Ford
Wyoming
Red Trail project approved west of Glendive Montana
The Montana state highway commission has authority to build a new highway project west of Glendive known as the Red Trail. It includes grading drainage and graveling nine miles and bridge repairs, with plans ready but delayed by wartime conditions. Other authorized projects include Black and White trail near Bridger, two miles on Hardin-Custer road near Hardin, and seven and a half miles of Red Trail east of Glendive.
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Helena
State
Federal’ “Department, of Good Roads
Glendive
Bridger
Carbon County
Hardin
Big Horn County
Montana Mayors Meet in Helena Over Soft Drink Licenses
Mayors of Montana's first and second class cities will hold a conference in Helena on January 13 to discuss a license system and charges tied to the coming dry wave. City attorneys will join to plan license fees for soft drink establishments replacing saloons and consider broader license coverage to offset lost saloon revenue.
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Helena
Henry Kain
Hit by an Automobile Wins 16800 Damages in Fergus County
In Lewistown jury rules for Peter Hoffman in a suit against E R Roehl and Joseph Leedy, awarding 316800 as the largest personal damage judgment in Fergus county history. Hoffman, a locomotive engineer, was struck by a car from Roehl’s garage in November 1916.
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Lewistown
Fergus County
Peter Hoffman
E. R. Roehl
Joseph Leedy
Hoffman
Roehl
Leedy
Daniel Bean
Bean
Marsha Bean
Beets Farmers Paid $750000 This Season in Sugar Beet Payout
Farmers of the Yellowstone valley have received more than $750000 from the Great Western Sugar company for this season’s harvest. A $124000 payment arrived with the second mailing, following an earlier November 15 payment. Weather has been favorable with minimal freezing, boosting expectations for next year’s acreages.
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Yellowstone Valley
Great Western Sugar Company
Lower Yellowstone Men Form Irrigation District
At a meeting of the Lower Yellowstone Water Users Association land owners served by the government ditch voted to form an irrigation district. They will incorporate, contract with the government and take over management maintenance and defray the project costs.
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Savage
Lower Yellowstone
Germany
Berlin
Harry Kessler
Warsaw
Allenstein
Posen
Oppeln
Beuthen
Kattowitz
Fintow
Odessa
Ukraine
Galicia
Harvesting of ice by Montana companies slows this season
A terse roundup highlights Montana topics from influenza easing in Butte to road surveys near Roundup-Farreltown. It notes mild weather delaying ice harvesting, army demobilization pay details for returning soldiers, and plans for flood protection dams around Forsyth.
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Montana
Wilsons Pact Backed By Allies Yet Debate Rages Over League
Edward W. Pickard surveys postwar diplomacy as Wilson seeks a league of nations embedded in the peace treatise while American Republicans worry over haste. Allies push for destruction of surrendered German ships and clear lines on free seas amid bolshevik threats and Polish expansion.
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Wilson
France
Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Paris
French Society For
Bourgeois
Clemenceau
America
League
Knox
Senate
Freedom of the Seas
Taft
Milner Defends Allied War Effort in Russia
Viscount Milner, secretary of war, explains continued allied operations in Russia. He cites honoring obligations to protect Russians and Czechoslovaks from Bolshevik outrages and justifies the actions as necessary beyond mere alliance duties.
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Russia
Viscount Milner
Returning soldiers and navy homeward trends in postwar era
Allied transport streams bring back wounded and healthy troops as release plans solidify. Argonne casualties rise while naval units resume homeward journeys with overseas stations at Brest Gibraltar and the Azores to aid merchant shipping. Portugal names Admiral Castro president after a conspiracy links to the assassination of Dr Paes.
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Brest
Gibraltar
Azores
France
Great Britain
Portugal
Europe
Admiral Castro
Doctor Paes
League of Republican Youths
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C. K. McHart
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Nathan Brooks
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W. P. Kennedy
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J. C. VanHook
Charles D. Greenfield
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