Treasure State News in Brief Bozeman and Beyond
Bozeman civic leader Albert C. Roecher dies at 68 after long illness. Harvests improve in Conrad and Libby reports. Townsend water main nearing completion by year end. Montana railroads to challenge increasing cattle stopping rates before ICC. Butte ex-fireman Harry Kinney dies from self-inflicted gunshot. Sugar beet harvest expansion in Pondera County boosts jobs. Libby pond and hatchery work notes. Roundup rancher Jake Rhyner survives rattlesnake bite. Helena meat contract awarded to Hansen Packing Co. Billings to Helena office move for biological survey. Poplar WPA nursery school opens for Indian preschoolers. Wheatland County dam project funded. Glendive to host Eastern Montana show. invites extend to several counties. Montana eyes standard drivers license law and a $3 million highway bond proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Office of the Biological Survey
Billings
Helena Federal Building
Washington
Harry Hendricks
Kenneth F. MacDonald
Poplar
Evelyn Welch
State cash on hand falls from last year August
The August end balance was 6,872,833.93 versus 8,405,652.59 a year earlier. First of last month balance stood at 7,327,451.29. Receipts totaled 2,353,100.64 and disbursements 2,972,928.53. Unfinished business reached 165,210.56. August 1937 started with 8,194,111.39. receipts 2,996,533.32 and disbursements 2,977,578.83. Unfinished business was 192.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray N. Shannon
Electrified Fences Guard Corvallis Pastures
Corvallis farmers report successful use of electrified fences to restrain cattle. A single hot wire runs through grazing fields, delivering a sharp shock to any animal that touches it, teaching the herd to avoid the wire without external control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corallis
Corvallis
Eac
Trailers Decline at Yellowstone Park in 1938 Survey
A park survey shows 697 of 39 690 cars in August 1938 towed trailers, 1.15 percent, down from 1.76 percent in 1937. Businessmen owned most trailers, costs rose to 704, and most were electric with cooking ranges. Road upgrades worth over 1.2 million dollars planned across 70 miles of Yellowstone roads, including a major 375k Gardiner River bridge project near Mammoth Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone National Park
Edmund B. Rogers
Park
National Park Service
National Parks
Rogers
Bureau of Public Roads
Gardiner River
Mammoth Hot Springs
Grand Loop
Old Faithful
West Thumb
Mammoth
CCC College Moves Amid Glacier Park CCC College Moves Amid Glacier Park
Fifteen Ranger Naturalists and staff from the CCC camp at Rees Creek prepare to shift to education programs at colleges and universities across the country. The move follows a season with 31 classes including auto mechanics forestry and typing, supported by a large library and Glacier Lookout publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rees Creek “University
CCC
Glacier Park
St. Mary Lake
Belton
Charles Beiswinger
Gonzaga
University of Washington
Rees Creek
Glacier Lookout
Glacier Park Ranger-Naturalists
Clinton Bishop
Elkator
Iowa State College
L. Ariel Edmiston
Seattle
Charles Gunterberg
Irvington
N. J
University of North Carolina
George Leinenweber
Decatur
Ind
University of Indiana
Farrell Miller
von D. Oehmig
Chattanooga
Old Trade Check Triggers Inquiry Into 1891 Cosmopolitan Bar
A trade check for 124 cents found by I Heidenheimer of Great Neck Long Island in the effects of a late relative led to an inquiry about Schwab and Zimmerman proprietors of Helena's Cosmopolitan hotel in 1891. The 1892 Helena directory lists new owners H C Burgard and the Cosmopolitan no longer functioned as a hotel. Mr Heidenheimer seeks descendants or successors of Schwab and Zimmerman. staff recalls both were long deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schwab and Zimmerman
I. Heidenheimer
Faraway Great Neck
Long Island
New York
Matt Staff
Helena Chamber of Commerce
Cosmopolitan
Helena
Heidenheimer
Schwab
Zimmerman
Samuel Schwab
Edward I. Zimmerman
H. C. Burgard
South Main Street
Mr. Heidenheimer
North Clover Drive
Great Neck
N. Y
Montana Education Board Seeks Higher Budgets for Six Units
The state board of education approved a tentative budget requesting roughly $300,000 more annually for each unit of the Montana university system for the coming biennium. Rising enrollments and costs justify increases while salaries remain down about 16 percent, with figures showing projected balances through the biennial year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Montana
State Board of Education
University System
George Finlay Simmons
State University
State College
School of Mines
State Normal College
Dillon
Eastern Montana Normal
Northern Montana Normal
Billings
Federal beer stamp sales show decline in Montana
Montana revenue chief Lewis Penwell reports 1938 beer stamp purchases fell to 3100 from 3109 in 1937. Total stamps sold to liquor concerns reach 2242, with 37 wholesale and 1602 retail liquor dealers, 10 brewers, 81 wholesalers and 493 retailers in fermented malt liquor, no wine dealers, and narcotic stamps sold to 4 wholesale and 283 retail dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Lewis Penwell
Montana Bureau of Internal Revenue
Extension men plan six district meetings for 1939 program
Montana extension service announces six district conferences for county extension agents in early October to review agricultural planning work and plan programs for the coming year. The meetings will cover land use and water development, plus 4-H leader training and achievement days with state and local leaders in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Taylor
Montana Extension Service
KR BE. Cameron
Taylor
Montana
Canada
P. M. Brandt
Animal Industries
Oregon State College
Oregon
Howthans Gap
Breeds
H. G. Bo
R. E. Bodley
Frances Smith
H. G. Holster
Ani
Butte Pastor Resumes Sunday Sermons After Fishing Season
In Butte, the Concreeation church noted fishing season end and Harris announced services would return to Sunday instead of Wednesday. He said the summer had uneven turnout, with midweek gatherings previously held, and plans to hold full Sunday services moving forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Harris
Mother grouse defends brood from attacking hawk in park
In Glacier Park near Huckleberry Mountain lookout a blue grouse hen with five chicks chased away a circling hawk. The hawk targeted a chick but was repelled by the mother's wing strikes sending it earthward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier Park
Steve Frohlicher
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout
Ouse
Onions Reported Stored After Harvest
Report states ten thousand pounds of No 1 onions from a field of one and a half acres. Danvers variety noted, crop harvested and stored ready for marketing. Mr Schwabsta confirmed well grown and prepared for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ee
Danvers
Mr. Schwabsta
Also Mentioned on This Page
Treasure State News
Bozeman
Albert Charles Roecher
Townsend
Harry Houston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission
John W. Bonner
Harry Kinney
Conrad
Pondera County
William A. Anderson
Libby—Forrest DeRosia
Granite Lake
Libby Fish Hatchery
John W. Edwards
Pony Express
Gallatin County
Order of the Knights of Khorassan
the Knights of Pythias
Jake Rhyner
Roundup
I. 8
McQuittry
Hansen Packing Co
Lewistown
Wheatland County
Musselshell River
Dead Man’s Basin
Roosevelt
B. K. Wheeler
Glendive
Great Falls
Montana Safety Council
OAKS
Gallatin Valley
Bridger Canyon
Bozeman Canning Co
Midland Empire
Billings Polytechnic Institute
School of
Director OF
Self Help
Yellowstone
CCC “College
Glacier Park Camp
James L. Dyson
Colgate University
Frank Evans
Chicago
Washington State College
George R. Gibson
Carleton College
John Hutchinson
Whitefish
Geyser
Montana State University
Missoula
Rae Green
Norman Stortz
John Blair
Forsyth
Dayl Graves
Eureka
John Durkan
Emery Turner
Montana School of Mines
Art Owings
Columbia Falls
University of Chicago
Edward Olmstead
Howard Traweek
Texas University
Matador
Land of the Longhorn
Richard Nelson
Board of Education
Pierce Arrow
Standard Motor Company
Galena Street
Lincoln
General Electric
Roa
Theifty Ln Price
Thrifty Te Corrent
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