Montana towns report various wartime, civic acts and incidents
Drafts to Missoula for army mechanic training. Sedition verdicts and fines in Missoula and Forsyth. County exhibits win prizes at the state fair. Insurance federation forming in Fergus county. Copper output drops in Butte due to a strike. Ranch cattle losses near Gilman. Mining engineers meet in Anaconda. Severe rains damage crops in Carbon county. Taxes held steady in Butte. Musselshell bridge nearing completion. Bitter Root irrigation sale confirmed in Missoula. High school opens in Hayre with large enrollment. Influenza cases rise in Scobey with eight deaths. Montana university staff changes in Bozeman. Beaverhead irrigation survey planned near Toston. Aid sought for a starving 14 year old in Cold Springs. Red Cross funds from Lewistown baseball receipts. Seed corn conservation campaign in Yellowstone county. New manganese mill planned at Philipsburg. Marias river bridge project saves travel time. Midland Stockgrowers postpone January stock show. Torch Assemblers Union No 1 forms in Butte for Liberty Loan parade. Miles City resident faces burial of wife without services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Missoula
Louis Effinger
Plentywood
Sheridan County
Lewistown
Fergus County
Insurance Federation of Montana
Forsyth
C. V. Sparr
Butte
Gilman—Blackley
Montana
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Red Lodge
Carbon
Mosby
Musselshell
Fergus
Dawson
Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company
Louis Boisot
Chicago
Bourquin
Hayre
Scobey
Bozeman
M. J. Edwards
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
University of Montana
Toston
Beaverhead
Cold Springs
Gerald Crane
St. Paul
The
Red Cross
Billings
Yellowstone County Farm Bureau
Philipsburg
Beaver Creek Mining Company
Galata
Great Falls
Marias River
Midland , Stockgrowers’ Association
Torch Assemblers’ Union No. 1
Liberty Loan
Miles City
G. P. Lamp
Lamp
Mrs. Lamp
Lane Plan to Aid Northwest Settlement Movement
Montana outlines arrangements to join the land settlement movement sponsored by Secretary Lane for returned soldiers. A Helena conference decides to send two delegates to Kansas City for a national land settlement association. Delegates will report back at a state conference inviting commercial groups to support agricultural reclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Lane
Helena
Kansas City
National Land Settlement Association
B. Linfield
State Experiment Station
State Council of Defense
Stewart
Linfield
EK. C. Elliott
C. D. Greenfield
J. H. Harrader
Bozeman
Commercial Secretaries’ Association of Montana
Fergus County
France
Rue Baxter
Lewistown
Red Cross
Parisian
Gene Lane
de Leopold Beck
Ellis
World War I Frontline News Roundup From Europe to America
A sweeping dispatch notes evacuations by Bulgarian troops from London to Belgians and Belgian civilians, Allied proclamations in Brussels, and heavy Allied prisoner counts. It covers submarine base abandonments, troop movements, aviation proclamations, plant destructions, ship sinkings, and new army leadership appointments through Washington and Paris bureaus with multiple city-by-city updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Serbia
Paris
Mont Blanc
Brussels
New York
Single Service Corporation
Washington
Shipping Board
Bedford
Pennsylvania
M. W. Ireland
Gorgas
Balloon Corps
U. S. Army
France
Secret Service
T. A. Gillespie
Morgan, N. J
Westgate
Naval Overseas Transportation Service
American
Petersburg
du Pont
Fort Lee
H. P. Davison
Red Cross Council
Legion of Honor
Macedonia
Dupetit Thours
Frankfort
Knoxville
Tenn
W. J. Oliver
W. J. Oliver Company
United States Army
St. Louis
Pressmen’s Union No. 8
Police Journal
Henry B. Wilson
Poincare
Brest
May cut out carbon in lights until war ends
War measures urge abolition of carbon lamps if orders of the division of compensation of the U S bureau administration are carried out. Council of defense and public service commission receive copies urging carbon saving and campaigning to use peach pits and fruit stones for carbon production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Bureau Administration
Council of Defense
Public Service Commission
Chrome discoveries in Montana spark mining interest
Head of State School of Mines reports widespread chromium deposits in central Montana from Boulder river to Sweetwater head, with estimates of 200000 to 600000 tons of first and second class ore and potential for millions more. Clapp notes a long haul and market risk but cautions the deposit could meet U S demand. Rosebud deposits may be larger though unconfirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
New Caledonia
Austria
Canada
Boulder River
Big Timber
Sweet Grass County
Sweetwater
Rosebud
Columbus
Norris
Sheridan
Clapp
J. H. Clapp
Montana School of Mines
Boulder
United States Geological Survey
Philipsburg
Carbon lamp policy and phaseout timeline
The text notes gas masks signaling carbon saving, describes free lamp renewals by electric companies as compensation through higher electricity sales, and outlines federal orders to reduce carbon lamp use starting October 15 with complete elimination by December 1.
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Weil
IL Bros. & CO
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Cig
Phoenix
Gallatin County Fair Grounds
Excelsior
Master Avondale
C. EB. Axtell
J. J. Stucky
J. R. Wyatt & Son
OC. S. Smith
H. L. Summers
Joe Redburn
Dad Tellier
State School of Mines
Sidney
Herbert A. Hover
Judith Basin
Farmers Land Co
Strong Realty Co
Carl R. Meyer
Hart-Albin
P. O
Farm Mortgage Corporation
Mont Largh
McClintock
Custer County Bank
Mont
Hart-Albis
Helena Adjustment CO
Uni
RCC Pt Ce
A. S. Gort
Butte College of Telegraphy
Gooding College
Charles Wesley Tenney
Gooding, Idaho
M. EB. Benedict
Pennsylvania Block
Hard Bros
Edison
Nickerson
W. Park
J. W
N. Main
Park
J. R. Gleason
City
Bath
Acoma
Butth
Butthe
Park Hotel
West Park Street
Columbia
W. Broadway
RO Ih
Kaye Obee
U Aid
Wolf Creek
Colling Realty Co
Shields River Valley
Ferlin
Livingston
Asher Murray
Wademan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dunn Block
Spring Valley
Helen Creamery Territories
Norby Brothers
C. H. Campbell & Son
LO RI
Ford & Hollister Raszeb (Inc
Darby
Montane
Huntsberger-Givens Co
Mark Sultan
Golden Goods
Montana State Fair
Hans Johnson
Belt
Pitman Live Stock Company
EL Paso
Texas
Robert R. Johnston
Dupuyer
J. B. Taylor
Cascade
D. Watsons Robb Co
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Mich
Wilds-Thurston Motor CO
Lat Avenue No
Maxwell Distributors
DODGE
BUICK
FORD
Garland
Butte Secondhand Auto Co
S. Galena
Montana Pinano Co
Platt & Heath Co
Fred Mulller Saddle and Harness CO
Larimbe ST
Denver
Colorado
Lewistown Hide & Sur Co
A. L. Rose
Hoeack
Minneapolis
Men
Speers Montana Fur Mfg. Co
Butth, Mont
I Ag
KODAK
Eastman Kodaks
Kenyon & Wheeler
Blue Print & Supply Co
Dunn By
Tout & McCarthy
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Harley-Clark & CO
Tod Block
Wood-Safford Machine Works
Contractors Lumber Supply Co
Lumber Exchange
Seattle
Cnc
Ness-Theisen Construction Co
Great Falls Typewriter Exchange
Arizona
Corner Park
Robert Metcalf
S. C. Huseth
Sae Optemetrist and
Optician
Great Falls, Mont
Bulgaria
Turkey
Geneva
Argonne
Sam
J. Lee Rice
D. P. Patenaude
Pro.s
General School Supply Co
Great Falls, Montana
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