Various Montana Local News Snapshots From 1924 Convention Notes
Reports cover Butte Boston choosing a 1924 biennial convention site for the Independent Order of Good Templars, a motor-gear theft at Monarch Mercantile in Monarch, a $50 fine and reprimand for Henry Salsburn in Sand Point Idaho, a fatal climbing accident near Glacier Park, a large fire at Rutledge Lumber camps near Missoula, railroad strike concerns for Montana crops, a fatal electrocution at Anaconda smelter, a Billings assault case on a farm, and Montana officials evaluating truck transport for grain amid a railroad strike.
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Butte
Boston
Independent Order of Good Templars
Grand Lodge
Great Falls
Bob Gordon
Monarch Mercantile Company
Monarch
Ula
Henry ‘Salsburn
Sand Point
Ida
Glacier Park
Frank B. Wynn
Indianapolis
United States
Mount Yeh Missoula
Rutledge Lumber Company
Weyerhauser
Helena
Northwest
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Billings
A.O
Nelson
James Holmes
Everett Patterson
Holmes
Montana
Chester C. Davis
Deep Tests Planned At Cat Creek Oil Field
C E R Palmer of the Winnett Times reports two deep tests in western Cat Creek will proceed. L B Devereaux will drill a 2700 foot hole south of the Big Six to test the second sands, and the Oiltana well two miles west of the gusher area will be revived after prior unproductive sands. Palmer says success could open independent development and expand Montana oil exploration.
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C. ER. Palmer
Winnett Times
Cat Creek
Palmer
L. B Devereaux
Montana
Nature
Learn Telegraphy and Bonded Services Hit Montana Ads
An assortment of classified items from Helena and Billings notes telegraphy training from Butte College, a bonded adjustment company in Montana with National Surety Co. of New York, and various sales including fox pups, grain bins, tractors, engines, and trucks. Advertisers include HELENA AD JUSTMENT CO and Jes Trab Brosayre.
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Montana
National Surety Co
New York
Helena Adjustment CO
Helena
Mont
Montana speech extols state's vast wealth and future
The talk to visiting members of the Nation of Harry R. Cunningham highlights Montana’s mineral wealth, copper and oil fields, extensive forest and livestock industries, and record crop yields. It praises electric power leadership, irrigation potential, and agricultural prospects while urging efficient development and American citizenship. A final note announces a call for armed mail guards at $9 daily amid railroad security concerns.
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Harry R. Cunningham
Montana Life Insurance Company
British Isles
New England
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Chicago
Richmond
United States
Bis State
Montana
Butte
Kansas
Montana Power Company
Middleton
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Milwauke
Department of Justice
Ringling Structure Drill Aims At High Montana Oil Well
The Mid-Northern plans to drill a Ringling structure well at an altitude near 7000 feet, one of the world’s highest by elevation. It will contrast with the California offshore well and begins in the Kootenai formation below Cat Creek field’s production source.
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Ringling
California
Montana
Kootenai
Cat Creek
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Winnett
Montana Newspaper Association
Doash & Greenfield CO
Butte, Mont
I Et la el OE
Good Poultry Co
Golden Melon Farms
Greenacres
Wash
Bartlett Pears
Crawford
Etberta
Crawfords
Etbertas
First National Bank
Wenatchee
Morse
Butte’ College
Albert Teachers Agency
Peyton
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Bo Oariane
Calif
Badd
San Francisco
C. D. Birch
Chadbourn
Spokane
Edwards & Bradford Lumbhe CO
Elk
Washington
Fergus Co
M. L. Kingery
Plains
CIA
Cipca
Poland
China
Huck
Karinen
Donald Livestock Co
Melville, Mont
H. A. W. Jacobi
Fort Benton
C. O. Gandiitz
Joliet St
Jordan Lawler Co
Dept. M
Sea
Reeves
Conrad Banking Company
Great Falla
Altman-Taylor
Jestrab Brosayre
NASH
Neverslip
Big Ber
Burton
BON Ton Pits. Co
Rookery
Serere
Ae Eo
Montans
S. C. Huseth
Great Falis
Kevin
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Vancouver
Victoria
North Pacific Coast
Alaska
Glacier National Park
L. B. Woods
A.G.F
P. A. Helena, Mont
Chas. Doherty
Booh
Great Falls, Montana
Great Northern Railway
Greenfield
Ford Building
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