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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1919
Page
12
Montana faces a swift postwar revival with mine mill farm field and factory operating statewide except a lumber phase. Reconstruction, irrigation, railways, and highways plan to sustain growth while cattle shifts and new post office truck use promise population and land expansion.
Legislative Bureau reports on the first week of Montana's Sixteenth session. O B Belden of Fergus chosen speaker amid party lines among Nonpartisan members. Governor Stewart's message lauds war effort, opposes German language teaching, and urges court expansion and state police. Delinquent girls home proposed by Emma Ingalls with broad support. Nine Silver Bow Democrats face election contest filings alleging fraud. Ronald Higgins named temporary speaker pro tem. John Edwards elected Senate president. profiles of long careers and local stakes highlighted.
The Thirty second division credited with planting the American flag on German soil and fighting across Alsace Vesle Soissons Argonne and the Meuse, with 20 German divisions engaged and no ground yielded. Montana men from the 163d Infantry and the 126th 127th regiments served, highlighted by Burr Price from the New York Herald.
Captain William Whipps of Kalispell, formerly regimental quartermaster with the Second Montana and later stationed at Winchester, England, has been appointed chief disbursing officer for England by the War Department. Based at the American headquarters in London, he will oversee paying the United States bills to the British government, a task expected to be vast and exacting.
State building activity is expected to remain strong over the next two years with no anticipated cuts in labor or material costs, based on the annual union of architects meeting held in Helda. The report highlights ongoing construction momentum and steady supply costs shaping the outlook.
Dr. F A Long a Lincoln county Montana state senator has patented a stump clearing device that bores intersecting holes in stumps and uses fire to burn them from the base. The machine speeds work with a tractor mounted drag saw and a stump pulling device promising economical land clearing and quicker stump removal.
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