Forest Insect Threats Endanger Western Pine Forests
A U.S. Forest Service bulletin warns insects and diseases threaten forests and forest products with annual losses around 130 million dollars. It notes chestnut blight white pine blister rust and western pine beetle as major threats and outlines quarantine and control efforts, including large scale cooperative insect control on Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain lands.
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Forest Service Bulletin
Asia
Europe
British Columbia
Washington
Pacific Coast
Rocky ‘Mountain
Bureau ‘of Entomology
Farmington Community Notes and Local Updates
Farmington visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lindseth and family from Monroe Oregon. Parochial school opens with Miss Ella n Thostenson of Spokane as teacher and eighteen pupils enrolled. Drilling on the Farmington test well halted due to dropped parts. work to resume soon. A Ladie's Aid meeting is set for July 11 at Rev and Mrs Houglund's Chateau home. Local residents visit Great Falls and Manda Lindseth. rain brings encouragement against grasshoppers. Forest insect damage costs and stumpage losses cited by the forest service. multi million dollar impact noted.
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Ellan Thostenson
Spokane
Farmington
Peter, Clieve
Great, Falls
Oluf Lindseth
Ladie’s Aid Society
Peter Clieve
Oddie Lindseth
Great Falls
Judge Greene to be asked to call grand jury
Glacier County State Bank depositors and counsel seek a grand jury with Judge J J Greene to investigate transfers that moved the Lothair Bank paper to Glacier State Bank after organization of Lothair. Petition with over two hundred signatures prepared and circulating. Committees to meet when the judge returns from Michigan. The Ladies Industrial group met at church parlors with Mrs Dane McDonald Mrs A B Guthrie and Mrs Hodgskiss hosting.
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Glacier County State Bank
J. J. Greene
Lothair Bank
Glacier State Bank
Lothair Institution
Michigan
Ladies Industrial
Mesdames Dane McDonald
A. B. Guthrie
J. ©. Hodgskiss
New Montana Liquor Law Takes Effect July First
Montana will implement a stricter liquor law on July 1. Convictions carry minimum fines of 200 dollars and 60 days jail for first offenses, with harsher penalties on second offenses. Officials say the law holds buyers as responsible as sellers and narrows options compared with the prior statute.
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Montana
Legislative Assembly
Leavitt to Represent Dixon at Meacham Oregon
In Great Falls, June 25, Congressman Scott Leavitt of Montana will represent Governor Dixon at Meacham Oregon on July 3 for President Harding's arrival. Dixon cannot attend and asked Leavitt to extend Montana’s compliments to the president on Oregon Trail Day. Harding will review a pageant depicting pioneer overland travel before the railroad era.
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Great Falls
Scott Leavitt
Montana
J. M. Dixon
Meacham
Oregon
Harding
Dixon
Leavitt
Veterans Hospital at Helena to get TB expert
A tuberculosis specialist will be assigned to the Veterans Bureau hospital at Helena to ensure the same high standard of care for Montana TB patients as elsewhere. Abandonment of Fort Harrison is denied. Helena is authorized for TB program expansion under the bureau. D. W. Davis to become reclamation commissioner July 1, succeeding Arthur P. Davis. Reorganization plans follow secretary Work's study trip. Federal Farm Loan Board authorizes charter for Knowlton association with $20,000 loans.
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Veterans Bureau
Helena
Montana
Bureau
Hines
Scott Leavitt
Fort Harrison
Leavitt
D. W. Davis
Idaho
Interior Department
Work
Harding
West
Alaska
Reclamation Service
Federal Farm Loan Board
National Farm Loan Association
Knowlton
Custer County
Sidney Corson Celebrates 12th Birthday Party
Sidney Corson celebrated his 12th birthday Saturday afternoon with a pretty party. Guests included Ruth Moore Ariah Moore Tom Moore Opal Moore Mary Core Jack Core Evelyn Upman Ernest Eder Grace Dow Ruth Martine Rachel Stephens Geo Loomis Clytig Bard Eleanor Crossen and Evelyn Eder.
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Sidney Corson
Ruth Moore
Ariah Moore
Tom Moore
Opal Moore
Mary Core
Jack Core
Evelyn Upman
Ernest Eder
Grace Dow
Ruth Martine
Rachel Stephens
Geo. Loomis
Clytig Bard
Eleanor Crossen
Evelyn Eder
Hopper Poisoning Campaign Expands In County Fight
The 1922 season used five carloads of bran for grasshopper bait, while this year about fifteen cars have been bought. The poison mix includes 23,640 pounds of arsenic, 138 gallons banana oil, 23,640 pounds salt, syrup and saccharine. The program could cover 70,920 acres and aims to reduce hoppers for 1924. Rainy, cool weather may aid fungus that kills hoppers, with reports of declines in other counties.
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Chouteau County
Teton
Quiet Tluzincllon Wedding Joins Irene Plummer and James Steele
The wedding of Irene Plummer to James Steele occurred Wednesday June 27 at 1 p.m. at the Plummer home Tluzincllon Mont. Rev Harry Steg presided with Mendelssohn’s march by Mrs Fred W Smith. A luncheon followed. the couple will reside in Red Lodge where Steele works as a mining engineer.
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G. B. Plummer
Tluzincllon
Mont
Irene Plummer
James Steele
Red Lodge
Mendelssohn
Fred W. Smith
Farmington
Harry T. Steg
Chateau
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Steele
Bank Looting Suspect Arrested After Sun River Chase
John D. Sykes Jr, alias Francis Simpson, ex teller at First National Bank of Elizabeth City, N C, arrested near a Sun River canyon camp for stealing 26000 last September. Federal and Great Falls officers hid as tourists, captured him, and expected to recover about 10000 cash from a Great Falls safety box. Bonding houses expect 4000 to 5000 from selling his 1000 acre ranch to fund restitution.
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John D. Sykes, Jr
Francis Simpson
First National Bank
Elizabeth City
N. C
Federal and
Great Falls
Klickourist
Sum River
Sykes
Ray S. Gaunt
Department of Justice
N. C. Bank
Klick
Evelyn Hansen
Phyllis Green
Beth Cleland
Chateau
Gaunt
Sun River Canyon
Rainfall backs big crop prospects in region
The Chateau weather station reports 3.82 inches of rain in June, 1.84 in May, and .69 in April totaling 6.35 inches for the three months. County agent notes this practically guarantees a crop for the year. Dutton reports prospects are good for the biggest crop ever raised in this section.
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Chateau
Dutton
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Bureau OF Entomology
Forest Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of ‘Entomology
Bulletin
Farmington Gews
Herman Lindseth
Monroe
Burton Bercch
The
Forest Service de
Clares
Judge Greene
Brand Jury
Choteau
Eral Reser
Norman Allan Imrie
States
New Zealand
Canada
Alaskan
Chicago
New York
Imrie
Helemwa
Plummer-Steele
Sun River
John D. Sykes
Citizens State Bank
Choteau, Montana
G. M. Coffey
P. H. Crossen
George F. Miller
Wm. Hodgskiss
James Eckford
Safe Banking
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