Tressler chosen chairman of Montana Republican central group
John Tressler of Glasgow elected chairman of the Montana Republican State Central Committee to succeed the late O M Harvey. The session noted party leadership changes and outlines governor Stewart's address on taxation, police, prohibition enforcement, anti new counties, school language teaching, and court expansion.
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Helena
O. W. Belden
Lewistown
House
J. EB. Edwards
Forsyth
Senate
Roosevelt
Brantly
Holloway
Stewart
Joint Assembly
House of Representatives
Silver Bow County
Silver Bow
Butte
John Tressler
Glasgow
State Accident Board
Supreme Court
A. E. Spriggs
Montana Issues 1919 Vehicle Licenses And Fees
Helena officials announce arrival of 1919 automobile and motorcycle plates. January 15 starts license mail outs. last December licenses expired. Estimates show increase in vehicles postwar, with orders for 60,000 plates. Fees vary by vehicle type and horsepower, with color changes noted to deter old-number use.
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Helena
C. T. Stewart
Stewart
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
S. BE. A
Army ROTC Units To Be Established In Several Western States
The district ROTC HQ announced junior ROTC units will start at schools in Mantanz Washington Oregon and Idaho. Junior units require at least 100 students over 14. Schools must apply to Major Patten. Senior units to replace the Students Army Training Corps will be at four year colleges. age rules match juniors.
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Alena
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Mantanz
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Patten
Army Training Corps
Army
Prosecution Updates and Statewide Administrative Notes
Ed Jones and BE Miles discuss Swindlehurst case bound over for trial in Livingston with $10 000 bonds. Missoula Chamber fights time zone change with Helena club, while Missoula rail travel voices oppose the ICC shift. Judge Bourquin denies Griffith habeas corpus. Griffith remains jailed in Deer Lodge for sedition.
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Ed Jones
Att ‘Orney
Park County
BE .M. “Niles
Ormerly
Ford
Joseph E. Swindlehurst
O. M. Harvey
Livingston
Missoula
George M. Bourquin
United States Court
John A. Griffith
Billings
Deer Lodge
Griffith
Two Thousand Bottles of Real Beer Flood Anaconda
Real beer flowed through Anaconda Street gutters and into the county courthouse grounds after the court ordered the 2000 bottles confiscated and destroyed. A search warrant found 74 unopened cases and 11 uncorked bottles on the bar with one partly consumed, signaling alcohol beyond legal limits. Judge George B. Winston oversaw the destruction following a woman’s complaint about her husband obtaining near beer.
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Anaconda
Deer Lodge County Court House
George B. Winston
Warnang
Forsythe Loses Homestead Entry. Defense Council Acts
Captain E Q Forsythe of Great Falls loses homestead entry after an adverse general land office decision. Local council of defense steps to protect his rights as he lies wounded in a base hospital in France.
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General Land Office
E. Q. Forsythe
Council of Defense
France
Wilson
Paris
Italy
Adriatic
Lloyd George
London
Orlando
Japan
Poincare
Clemenceau
Pichon
Klotz
Jules Cambon
Andre Tardieu
United States
League of Nations
Ford Recommends State Sheriff Office
Helena attorney general S C Ford urged Governor Stewart to create a state sheriff to enforce the prohibition act. Ford led a vigorous campaign against bootleggers and blind pigs, predicting substantial public good from the move.
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Ford
Helena
S. C. Ford
Stewart
Butte City Funds Exhausted Halt Salary Warrants
Butte city treasurer Neal Ward says the general fund is exhausted after months of purchasing employee warrants. Bankers refused to cash city paper unless a drastic payroll reduction based on an efficiency engineer’s recommendations is adopted.
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Butte
Neal Ward
Disorders In Germany and Bolshevik Rise in Russia War News
Spartacans spark civil war in Berlin as government clashes with Liebknecht led independents. Loyalists, police, and soldiers battle amid mass casualties while Noske readies fresh forces. Across Europe, Trotzky allegedly seizes power and Kolchak gains support in Siberia as peace talks loom in Paris. Roosevelt and Wilson shapes key postwar decisions.
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Trotzky
Russia
Paris
America
Roosevelt
Edward W. Pickard
Ebert
Spartacans
Liebknecht
Berlin
Spandau
Brandenburg Gate
Ebert-Scheidemann
Ledebour
Liegmann
Tiek
Eichhorn
Radek
Gustav Noske
Bavaria
Japan
Siberia
Great Britain
United States
Archangel
Siberian
Baltic
Riga
Omsk
Kolchak
Copenhagen
Lenine
Americans Raise Flag Over Adlon Amid Berlin Turmoil
A military commission linked to the armistice terms sought safety in Berlin and persuaded General Harries to raise the American flag atop the Hotel Adlon. A street mob threatened to storm the building if the flag remained. The flag was lowered at the Ebert government’s demand.
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Berlin
Harries
Hotel
Adlon
Ebert
Offi
Secretary Baker and War Policy Reflections in Wake of Roosevelt
The text notes efforts to host home receptions for returning servicemen, contrasts with Secretary Baker’s worries about militarism, and recounts a Chicago federal court verdict finding Berger, Germer, Kruse, Eng Anh, and Tucker guilty of sedition under the espionage act. It also mentions Allied relief aims for Poland, Balkans, and parts of Russia, Hoover leading aid, Roosevelt’s death, and Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell’s long army career and role in training the Seventy-seventh Division.
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Blackhawk
Chicago
Landis
Victor L. Berger
Adolph Germer
W. F. Kruse
J. Louis Eng- Anh
Irwin St. John Tucker
Milwaukee
Berger
J. Franklin Bell
Department of the East
Philippines
Seventy-seventh
Europe
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