Optimism Grows for Montana Agriculture and Growth in 1923
Lyman E. Wakefield of Wells-Dickey, Minneapolis, predicts a strong 1923 for Montana farming and related industries. He notes 60 percent of farmers endured adversity and survived, while 40 percent of non farmers failed. He expects increased farm income, more settlers, oil development, and a steadier cattle market as key future drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Treasure State
Lyman E. Wakefield
Wells- Dickey Company
Minneapolis
Middle West
Robbery at Sand Springs Stolen Cash From Post Office and Store
robbers broke into a building at Sand Springs during a nearby dance and stole 180 dollars in cash from the post office and Fred Allen store located in the same building. the crime occurred while attendees were at a dance in progress elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sand Springs
Post Office
Fred Allen
Diamond Dyes Promise Easy Home Dyeing for All Fabrics
Advertises Diamond Dyes as a guaranteed solution for restoring worn garments and draperies regardless of prior dyeing skill. Guides readers to tell their druggist material type whether wool silk linen cotton or mixed and claims no streaking fading or running.
New Game Regulations Trim Bear Status and Expand Fish Rules
A new season framework limits trapping and defines bears as non predatory unless licensed. Elk season runs Oct 15 to Nov 15 with one elk per person. Park county extends to Dec 20. Ducks Sept 16 to Dec 15. muskrat trapping paused for three years. beaver trapping requires a license for landowners. Five seven inch or longer game fish may be taken daily. 20 pounds daily fish limit. Cascade county closes grouse sage hen and prairie chicken hunting. Hungarian partridge and ring neck pheasant hunting prohibited with fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Fl
Mae
Cascade
Park County
Montana National Forests Death Toll From Hunters
Six thousand nine hundred thirty one hunters killed about one thousand five hundred deer in Montana national forests during the last year. Morrell reports 618 elk 115 bears also taken and one mountain sheep illegally killed. In Idaho north of Nez Perces forest 724 hunters killed 455 deer 16 sheep or goats 87 elk and 73 bears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Forests
Montana
Fred Morrell
District No. 1
Missoula
Mr. Morrell
Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington, D. C
Lolo
Bitter Root
Idaho
Nez Perces
Montana judge orders forfeiture in early confiscation cases
Judge Robert Stong of Billings ordered the forfeiture of fixtures in two Livingston soft drink parlors tied to bootlegging arrests, while a third case returned seized fixtures after finding Frank Cannon did not use the premises for liquor dispensing. The Lehrkind estate owns the property, in probate, with potential removal of the administrator if knowledge of liquor sales is proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Robert Stong
Billings
Livingston
Frank Cannon
Lehrkind
Stong
Fires From Coal Beds Burn Across Powder River Basin
Coal beds in southeastern Montana harbor two hundred fires, some burning for over fifty years, as Thomas Edison Smith reports. A large burn near Ashland, Rosebud County, shows rock subsidence and deep crevices where heat creates burning fissures. Spontaneous combustion ignites fine lignite, with erosion not yet exposing underlying rocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Thomas Edison Smith
Bear Creek
Miles City
Powder River
Smith
Ashland
Rosebud County
Jeffy Johns, Montana Fighting Editor, Dead in Miles City
T Jefferson Johns, known as Jeffy, a veteran Montana editor and temperance advocate, died at his Miles City desk after a long career spanning Lewistown Red Lodge Forsyth Miles City Clyde Park Livingston and Fairview. He began in 1891 at Lewistown and was famed for vitriolic editorial wars with rival papers and a lifelong love of baseball. He was born in West Virginia in 1889 and moved to Kansas at 14 where he learned printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles City
Jeffy
Montana
Lewistown
Fergus County
Rowan
Scott Brothers
Rathbone
Dave Scott
W. F. Meyers
Red Lodge
Walter Alderson
Meyer
Walter
Mr. Johns
Forsyth
Ira Cole
Clyde Park
Shields River Valley
Livingston
Fairview
North Dakota Line
West Virginia
Kansas
Cawker City
Charley Bebb
Billings
Threshermen Organize Eastern Montana Association
The Eastern Montana Threshermen organization was formed at a Miley City meeting with over 50 farmers and outfit owners. Olaf aeces land of Rock Springs was elected president, W. Viertel of Coalwood vice president, Al G. Ballenski of Crow Creek and Charles Wright of De Grand as directors, and W. Y. Smith as secretary-treasurer. The group aims to stabilize the threshing industry in eastern Montana.
State Death Rate Ranks Low in Nine Months of 1822
Montana reports a death rate of 8.4 per 1000 for the first nine months of 1822, among the lowest in the nation. Idaho 7.6. Nebraska 9.3. Wyoming 9.3. Michigan 9.4. Florida 9.9. Maine tops with 14.3, California 14.2, New Hampshire 14.0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Union
Department, of Commerce
Washington
Idaho
Nebraska
Wyoming
Michigan
Florida
Maine
California
New Hampshire
Lost and found: Sheriff Hawkins recovers scattered cash
Old pioneer and sheriff Jack Hawkins of Custer County misplaced nine $100 bills outside a business house. The wind blew the money across the street, but with help from bystanders he retrieved every bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hawkins
Custer
Beaverhead Hereford Herd Sells In Dillon Auction
A Beaverhead county sale of 85 registered Herefords netted 3045 dollars with prices from 100 to 340 dollars averaging about 145 dollars per head. Seven buyers were Beaverhead ranchers and the rest from other parts of the state. William Tash paid a record 340 dollars for a bull. Donovan Ranch bought 10 head. The sale was under Montana Hereford Breeders association and the herd was shipped to Dillon from five state breeders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon ‘Crag Aules
Beaverhead
Beaverhead County
William Tash
Donovan Ranch Company
Montana Hereford Breeders’ ‘Association
Dillon
Long County
For & Num
Anaconda Man Elected Governor at Rotary Convention
Bender of Anaconda was unanimously chosen governor of Montana district Rotary at a Livingston convention after defeating rival H B Wylie of Miles City. He serves as superintendent at Anaconda Copper Mining's plant and moved to Butte in 1896 to work as a stenographer before joining the reduction works in 1903 after graduating from the Colorado School of Mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda
Montana
Rotary
Livingston
H.B. Wylie
Miles Y
Butte
Colorado School of Mines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fenanciers
Monana
L. E. Wakefield
Hunter
C. A. Jakways
Bayer
Hickory Motor Car
Hgrape
Kelley-How-Thomson CO
Duk Finn
Castoria
Central Ave
Great Falls
Tyark Hotel
FORD
Piel
Pines
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!