Attorney General rules prizes at home card games legal
The Montana Attorney General Ford finds that awarding prizes at women's card clubs when the hostess gives the prize to the top scorer is not gambling. The ruling cites precedents that social games with prizes for skill are not bets if participants do not contribute the stake.
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Ford
Fifteenth Assembly
Stewart McConochie
Fergus County
State Vs. de Bay
N. C
Miles City Independent
Rural Carrier Examination in Beaverhead Montana
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a rural carrier examination for Beaverhead County Montana to be held in Dillon on April 28 1917. Open to male citizens domiciled in the county who meet Form No 1977 requirements. Applications should be sent to the Commission in Washington at the earliest practicable date. Charles H Hume of Dillon bought a band of sheep from Albert Anderson and drove them to Beaverhead County Monday.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Beaverhead
Montana
Dillon
Washington, D. C
Commission
Washington
Charles H. Hume
Albert Anderson
Beaverhead County
Madisonian
Birth Announcement for Callaway Daughter in Madisonian
Born in Great Falls Montana on Monday March 26 1917 to Mr and Mrs Lew Callaway a pound daughter. The Callaways lived in Virginia City until about three years ago.
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Great Falls
Mont
Livestock Board Organizes and Forms By Laws
The Montana livestock board organized after appointment by the governor with J. H. Burke as president and Wallis Huidekoper as vice president. All six members attended. They drafted by laws and set up secretary assistants and inspectors including D. W. Raymond as secretary and Frank C. Lavigne as special agent. Officials foresee variable livestock losses depending on continued heavy snows and feed access.
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State Livestock Board
J. H. Burke
Helena
Wallis Huidekoper
Wallis
George Farrell
Rowan
T. B. Storey
Bozeman
John A. Woodson
Crow Creek
Harry B. Mitchell
Great Falls
Livestock Commission
Board of Sheep Commissioners
D. W. Raymond
E. A. Phillips
M. B. Owen
Frank C. Lavigne
John W. Collins
Butte
B. BE. Zachray
Billings
James McCoy
Chinook
J. F. Kiehl
Roundup
W. G. Alien
A. L. Sellars
Havre
W. A. Richardson
Miles City
W. E. McCarty
Leslie McCann
Lewistown
W. A. Lovell
Dillon
Burke
Social notes from Grant and nearby towns
Grant Friday visits include Grant R. Dansie and J. W. Salmon with Dillon business calls. Armstead residents stop by Dillon for errands as Miss Constance Barrett visits Dillon friends. Snow of six inches makes roads hard. Local salesmen Angove, Bridges, Arden, Burns travel to Bannack from Grant for business. Verse of social calls and travel dominates the page.
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R. J. Dansie
Armstead
Grant
J. W. Salmon
Dillon
Wm. Lee
Rollie Scott
Richard Porter
Bedrock
Constance Barrett
Frank Blair
Babe
L. C. Stocker
Grant Merchant
Warren Churchill
Milton
Ross Nay
Bert Davis
Roy Forrester
E. Evans
Ralph Mather
Alice Cross
Monida
Mayme Cross
F. Arden
Bannack
Vegetable plots in Montana plan gains school support
May Trumper Montana superintendent backs using vacant city lots for school garden plots. She stresses parent involvement and adult supervision as key to success, citing Kalispell's model where community attention boosted children effort and even earnings. The state department offers ongoing aid.
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May Trumper
Department of Public Instruction of
Montana
Dillon
Miss Trumper
Kalispell
State’ Department
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Horton
Nonton
Weyman-Bruton Company
Broadway
New York City
Housewives
Crystal
Montana and
Sebree Streets
Livestock Board
Raymond
Board
The
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Dillon Furniture CO
Dillon, Montana
G. T. Paul
John Scott
Drayman
E. W. Bell
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