Grant weekly social notes list local visits and errands
Mr and Mrs Alex Christie returned to their home near Grant last Monday after a month in Butte visiting relatives and friends. James Dodd was a business visitor in Grant Friday. John H Shefer visited in Grant Wednesday and Thursday. Alex Christie spent Thursday in Armstead shopping. Fred Munckton motored to Armstead Wednesday. Fred Hungate of Dell was a business visitor in Grant Saturday. The Pierce children spent the week end in Dillon visiting their mother. Robert Marchesseault of Bannack visited friends in Grant Monday. Mr and Mrs Chas Brenner were business visitors to Dillon Monday. A A Schroeder of Dillon was attending to business matters on the prairie Monday. Father Clifford of Lima held church at Mrs Anna P Mansfield's Sunday morning. Mr and Mrs Elmer Selway visited Dillon Monday. Chester Barrett spent the week end in Dillon with his family.
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Alex Christie
Grant
Butte
James Dodd
John H. Shefer
wArmstead
Fred Munckton
Armstead
Fred Hungate
Dell
Pierce
Dillon
Robert Marchesseault
Bannack
Chas
P. Brenner
A. A. Schroeder
Prairie
Father Clifford
Lima
Anna P. Mansfield
Elmer Selway
Chester Barrett
Legion Banquet Highlights Vets and Plans Camphouse
The Legion held a large banquet and meeting at Canyon Resort with District Commander Pete McBride and District Adjutant Ben Foley as guests. The post backs a Birch Creek log camphouse to aid Boy Scouts and Legionnaires, with spring log removal and fall first unit construction. D W Paddock leads the project committee as membership shows signs of revival with 42 already reported and 15 new payments.
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Legion
Paul Henneberry
Canyons Resort
Pete McBride
Ben Foley
Anaconda
Birch Creek
Joe Wedum
Earl Fairbanks
Scout Committee
D. W. Paddock
Commercial Mystery in a Trousers Tale
A satirical exchange traces a pair of trousers from Australian wool to a Berlin suit, highlighting global trade and profits. The dialogue exposes how many people profit while the speaker has not paid, while a Dutch proverb adds irony about fools and wisdom.
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Australia
Saxony
Berlin
Hog Prices and Fair Exchange Value Across Era Shifts
The text compares prewar farm price and fair exchange value for hogs, noting $7.24 per hundredweight prewar purchasing power and that hog prices postwar often diverged from this value. It cites 1926, 1932, and 1983 figures, and explains how Agricultural Adjustment Act adjustments in 1934 aimed to restore the disparity and align prices with the fair exchange value.
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Sents
Six students receive Bree Training in Dillon under bureau aid
Six physically handicapped youths and young women study at Normal College Dillon under supervision of Montana's rehabilitation bureau. Leif Fredericks says students’ tuition and living expenses are paid, with some receiving monthly allowances as they learn twenty three trades. He notes fifty fiveMontanans receive free training and maintenance and interviews two more applicants during his Helena visit.
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Dillon
Leif Fredericks
Department
Helena
Normal College
Rehabilitation Bureau
Montana
Mr. Fredericks
Fredericks
Bannack
Billings
Community cost of traffic accidents cited in safety study
Sidney J. Williams places a conservative community cost of 50 000 dollars per fatal traffic accident while noting total US accident bills approach 1.5 billion. In fifteen years Americans killed by or from motor accidents reach about 325000, urging campaigns and stronger traffic regulations.
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Sidney J. Williams
Public Safety Division
National Safety Council
United States
D. C G. Duncan
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Bulldogs Fall to Gonzaga Quint in Narrow Loss
The Bulldogs were nosed out by Gonzaga 45 to 29 last night after a slow start. Cal lahan led with 15 points while Maple had 10 for the Crusaders as Rouse returned from a foot injury in the second half. Upcoming games will face Idaho Southern Branch and Intermountain this week.
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Page One
Kakuske
Bulldogs
Billings Polytechnic
Rouse
Callahan
Maple
Crusaders
Idaho Southern Branch
Intermountain
Marine Enlistments Open To Young Men
Post office distributes Marine Corps booklets inviting information for local men. Recruitments limited to about ten per month from Oregon Idaho and southern Washington. Applicants must be 18 or older good habits three references and height of 68 inches. First enlistment sends recruits to San Diego for three months of military drill first aid rifle bayonet gunnery and artillery training.
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Harry J. Andrus
U. S. Marine Corps
U. S. Court House
Portland
Oregon
Marine Corps
Idaho
Washington
San Diego
California
Ah Battle
Gallatin High Wins Contest From Beavers
Gallatin high of Bozeman defeated the Beavers 21 to 16 in a close boys basketball game at the high school gym. Bozeman led 17 to 14 at halftime, but Gallatin pulled ahead late with two baskets as time ran out. Beaverettes lost 25 to 20 to Whitehall in the preliminary girls game.
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High School
Gallatin High
Bozeman
Beavers
Invaders
Beaverettes
Whitehall
Purebred Bulls Win at Billings Show
Reports note prize winners sold satisfactorily at Billings with Hazlitt Lad 11th the senior Hereford, plus four other registered whitefaces from Lester Thompson’s herd at Bozeman. Buyer plans to increase whitefaces, while Grasshopper valley is highlighted as fertile and midrange between nearby ranges.
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Billings
Kittermouth
Balantine
Mont
Lester Thompson
Bozeman
Grasshopper Valley
Big Hole
Beaverhead
Grasshopper
Bear Threat and a Hunter’s Gains in the Forest
The story recounts Pete Westergaand a skilled trapper feared for his bear work in a bear country near Selway Sheep Company camp. Ed Zerich, a cheese-loving herder, fears bears and endures taunts from camp mates about dangers, while Westergaand tracks and kills a mother bear and cubs after a cheese theft from Ed’s suitcase. Ed later shifts to safer fields following a dangerous encounter.
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Selway Sheep Company
Ed Zerich
Pete
Memory of War Haunts Youth Says Higgins Warns
In the London Daily News General Higgins of the Salvation Army argues that memories of the Great War fade and a will to peace must be forged to prevent a future catastrophe. The Rotarian Magazine notes cynically that memory may be selective. The piece also reports Thomas Ferrar of London chewing a bogus railway ticket and Katherine Fayne of Cowes fined $50 for posting letters with used stamps.
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J. Higgins
Salvation Army
London Daily News
Higgins
Thomas Ferrar
London
Katherine Fayne
Cowes
Eng
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