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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1919
Page
3
J Blazek from Montana, once the lone soldier, returns to his homestead to find more than 300 letters from women worldwide after a Twin City paper story. He becomes engaged to one writer and plans to return for her this summer.
Chicago based former Texas Senator Joe Bai ley is retained to lead the opposition against the national prohibition amendment. The new organization aims to defeat the re election bids of all state legislators who voted to ratify the amendment.
The mouth of the Columbia River is cited as the cheapest and easiest break-bulk and assemblage point for inbound and outbound traffic, offering the shortest haul on favorable grades to the heart of the surrounding territory. Estimated saving for rail lines is thirty cents per ton versus over-mountain coast routes.
State notes permit intakes for six new buildings in Havre. Harlem reports two smallpox cases. Fergus county scraps county fair this year. Bryan travels through Butte toward the coast. Copper rises from 21 cents as prices trend higher. Judith basin spring grain yield expected around half a crop. Continental oil houses burn from locomotive spark. Helena marks 25 miles of arrows into the city. Rev David Holford accepts Woodrow church pastorate. Stillwater county files first cattle grazing offense fine of 25 dollars. Parker buys 400 acre Baird ranch on Flint creek for 47 000. Beaver creek forest fires threaten Great Falls-Butte line. Silver Bow funds low. delinquent taxes near 1 000 000. Missoula dean Leapheart previously at Missouri. Income tax deadline extended to Aug 15 for certain corporations. Havre boiler explosion kills Fireman Har Dillon. Engineer Ball scalded. Ball's son dies. Helena teases tearing down Last Chance relics. town survey underway. Great Falls county attorneys back bone dry law. current proof-based seizures unsatisfactory. Belt rumor of Clyde Carrigan killed exaggerated. soldier returns from France. Missoula star Neil D McKain signs with Pirates. Helena state fair set Sept 8 to 14 with aeroplane flights and relay race. Butte heroic seven year old James McCloud saves girl from burning clothing. coroner’s inquest notes boy’s steadfast effort in vain.
A telegram read at the Montana stockmen meeting in Helena urges exploration of Lincoln County as a vast stock pasture. J M Kennedy claims blue grass clover timothy and other forage cover acres, with deer and jackrabbits the only wildlife, and calls for an investigator to verify the statement amid drought in the Kootenai valley.
Labor leaders announce a wage agreement after talks with Anaconda Copper Co and unions. Miners will receive 5.75 per day, engineers 7.00, journeymen 6.50, laborers 5.00 with 6,000 more miners to be hired once ratified. Scale abolished for copper quotas, contracts run to July 1 1920, jurisdiction disputes limited to specified cities.
Professional hunters employed by the federal government report 70 173 predatory animals killed in Montana and western states over three years. About 300 trappers saved roughly 5 500 000 in costs. pelts sold for about 100 000. Notable hunter Benjamin V Lilly, 65, credited with 167 mountain lions and 65 bears in six years, once guided Theodore Roosevelt.
In Yellowstone county amid dry conditions Sheriff S. W. Matlock reports a 200 acre field six miles east of Broadview yielding about 20 bushels per acre, an exceptional result. Neighbor C. B. Barr expects 15 bushels per acre as threshing begins 30 days earlier than usual with only minimal natural precipitation.
World items report former German emperor seriously ill and empress heart trouble in Holland. Santa Cruz votes water rate hike. Austin notes Texas Senate cuts German teaching ban but funds a German instructor. Washington reports labor demand for discharged soldiers. Massachusetts, commercial groups urge workers for highway jobs. London says NS 11 airship struck by lightning and lost with all crew. food prices fall due to blockade lifting and illicit hoarding. Washington resumes mail to Germany via Holland. Eleneral Felipe Angeles reportedly quits Villa and returns to U.S.. Gabriel d Annunzio plans Rome to Tokio flight of 20000 miles. Lincoln notes Nebraska wheat yield below expectations with 12,141,000 bushels spring and 25 percent less winter wheat anticipated.
Farm loan notices promise quick processing and low rates by Frary and Burlingame in Great Falls while Liberty bonds are sought at high market price. Floral ads from Columbia Gardens and Columbia Floral Co appear in Butte and Helena regions.
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