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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1936
Page
8
State production reports show butter and cheese output down 17 and 20 percent respectively from the same month last year. Ice cream production rose 50 percent, reflecting a contrasting trend in Montana dairy production.
The state highway commission will hold the next road construction letting in Helena on September 29, with D A McKinnon, chief engineer, announcing monthly follow ups at other locations.
Experts in road construction from across the United States will attend the second annual bituminous conference to be held in Glacier Park on September 10 according to B A McKinnon chief engineer of the Montana highway commission.
Twenty four new smallpox cases were reported to the state health board last week, concentrated in Blaine and Deer Lodge counties. Dr. B. K. Kilbourne, state epidemiologist, urges vaccination of children before the fall start of school.
A state report by Leif Fredericks, director of the bureau of rehabilitation, says 71 persons completed training last year, including 22 women and girls and 49 men and boys. The total is 25 percent higher than the prior year.
Willam P Sullivan a Square Butte stockman asks the game commission to declare a short open season on the antelope herd rangeing on his holdings this fall. He claims the herd has grown to about 900 to 1000 animals and will not survive a hard winter due to drought and scarce feed.
The Northern Pacific railroad has filed suit in Lewis and Clark county district court to block a rate reduction ordered by the state railroad commission. It challenges the drop to one dollar a ton from the previous one twenty five.
A statement argues that the 152 mile haul is unrewarding and confiscatory and will not provide a just and fair return. The remark frames the rate as excessive and unjust for the distance involved.
The department of agriculture reports 1,144,195 bushels of wheat in Montana ready for milling as of June 30. Receipts at Montana elevators for the year include spring wheat 17,507,606 bushels winter wheat 3,210,447 flax 134,599 oats 617,200 rye 43,738 and barley 193,484.
Montana’s licensed tax collections for August reached 748,555, exceeding July’s 663,615. Gasoline tax brought in 626,494, with 40,667 from corporations and 39,737 from beer for the month, according to the state board of equalization.
The Montana highway commission announces 3 960 miles of oiled roads, excluding Bureau of Public Roads and National Park Service routes. Of these 886 miles were oiled this season with three methods: plant mix oiling at 3 500 dollars per mile, road mix oiling at 2 500 dollars per mile, and penetration at 700 dollars per mile.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever proved half as severe in Montana as in 1935, says L. L. Benepe registrar of vital statistics. Tick season nearly over with 61 cases reported and 15 deaths this year, versus 125 cases and 21 deaths in 1935.
The state highway commission received a 264 signature petition from the Helena Chamber of Commerce urging early completion of the Helena to Forsyth electric highway. Signers reside along the route and attended a recent Harlowton meeting to back the project.
Work on Flint creek project begun this week in Granite county, raising total public works and state water conservation jobs under construction to six at a cost of 1 931 999 dollars. Largest project is the Cooney dam and Glacier dam on Red Lodge creek in Carbon county, estimated at 712 000 dollars.
Multiple Montana towns report crimes accidents and civic developments. Notable items include Hal Moore of Butte killed in a hit and run, Missoula elects Florence Spon as chiropractic association president, Livingston mourns John McCarthy, and Gallatin County buys land for a new high school in Bozeman.
Glacier Park features a waterfall linked to Pitamakan or Running Eagle, the Blackfeet woman who earned a man’s name through heroic raids. Her life blends warfare prowess with leadership, including leading expeditions against Sioux, Crows, and Flatheads, and earning a revered war chief status.
Inspectors report beer merchants mixing whisky and gin. State Board of Equalization warns of license suspension or revocation for violations. Montana banks show resources up by over 8 million to 62,010,506, with no bank failures since the March 1933 bank holiday.
Ten new homes are planned on the West Texas State college campus to provide housing for married students. The project will cost forty five thousand dollars and is expected to be completed this year.
Pitamakan and five warriors were killed when Flatheads attacked while she and her men were in the enemy camp. Soamaken known as the Blackfeet Joan of Arc spurred revenge in the spring with bitter warfare, and a waterfall between the lakes of St Mary was named for her memory.
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