Red Cross Society Meeting and Belgian Relief List
Attendance listed for August 28 including Mesdames Adams Shawhan Brandt Reinke Weber Winger Braniff and others. September 7 and 12 notes follow ups with knitting and relief garment items totaling 57.90, urging purchase of thrift stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesdames Adams
Shawhan
Brandt
Reinke
Weber
Winger
B. H
Braniff
Kintzi
Shierson
Knecht
Ferguson
Nic
Nicholas
Aomi Charters
Ee Shierson
Rinehart
Icholas
Wellman
Blake
Jasper
Tabor
Hood
French
Freed
Knight
Brugge
Cameron
Ae Shawhan
Ager
Eber
Thelma
Sis
Fergus County Fair Opens in Lewistown Next Week
The Fergus County Fair runs Monday to Thursday in Lewistown with agricultural exhibits and a blooded stock sale. The Boston & Montana Band of Butte performs as part of the amusements, weather permitting. Farmers urged to attend when able, to support the event and enjoy a profitable visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fergus County
Lewistown
Boston
Home Industry and Flour In Grass Range War Time Appeal
The Grass Range Flouring mill nears operation with minor parts needed. The piece urges support for home milled flour to aid farmers and wartime logistics, noting railcar shortages from wheat and coal movement. It promotes Flavo-America Community Flour as a home grown product and asks merchants to back local production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grass Range
America
Home stead bill passes Senate in Helena
United States Senator Henry L. Myers informs Lieut. Gov. W. W. McDowell that Myers proposed home stead bill has passed the Senate. The measure lets homeseekers prove up immediately irrespective of residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
W. W. McDowell
United States
Henry L. Myers
Myers
Senate
Ralph Sanderson Killed in Battle in France
Mrs Tena French received a letter from Private William Ryan stating Ralph Sanderson was killed in France on July 30 He died instantly while his friend helped bury him in a woods Corporal Sanderson had been decorated for gallantry and his brother Albert was killed in a railroad accident in France on July 28 Another son Henry serves in the navy The family near Forest Grove and Grass Range shares grief efforts continue
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Sanderson
France
Albert
William Ryan
Ralph Sandderson
United States
Germany
Fergus County
Henry
French
Sanderson
Forest Grove
Grass Range
Great Canadian Veterans Trench Warfare Exhibit Comes to Fergus County
Sixteen Canadian veterans from Princess Pat Royal 50th and 49th battalions join a four day trench warfare exhibition at the Fergus County Fair in Lewis town starting Monday. They will demonstrate daily, sharing frontline experiences from Ypres Marne Chaumwood and Vieux Chapelle amid a cosmopolitan group including Canadians French Canadians English Swedes Danes and one Yank Private McConnell who was wounded three times and gassed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Fergus County
Canada
Hun
Ypres Salient
Marne
Chaum Wood
Vieux Chappelle
Princess Pat
Royal
McConnell
Constantinople Bombarded by Allies Across Four Nights
London reports Constantinople was bombarded on four successive nights in late August. Attacks hit the arsenal and dockyard, the Turkish war office, the Galata airfield, the Gallipolis seaplane base, and Chanak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Constantinople
Admiralty
Turkish War Office
Galata
Gallipolis
Chanak
Buy thrift stamps. Uncle Sem in the best kind of security.
Uncle Sem promotes thrift stamps as a secure savings measure. The short note urges readers to invest in stamps as a prudent financial move and security against inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sem
Notice of Sale of School Bonds in Fergus County Montana
The Board of Trustees of School District No. 185 Fergus County Montana announces a sale on October 5 1918 of eight coupon bonds seven of 500 and one of 750 to raise funds for two school sites and two schoolhouses later redeemable in ten years and payable in twenty bonds may be sold for not less than par value bids must be accompanied by 125 dollars certified check and are open to public or private sale with right to reject all bids and notices appear in local records listing officers Amos Snyder Chairman E Bates R J Kintzi Trustees Anne Metzel Clerk First publication Sept 5 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Fergus County
State of Montana
Becket
State Board of Land Commissioners
Pergus County
Montana
Amos Snyder
E. Bates
R. J. Kintzi
Anne Metzel
Homestead Entry Three Year Proof Filed in Montana
John A. Moore of Forest Grove Montana files notice of intention to prove up for Homestead Entry 032638 in section 29 and 82 township 14 north range west in Montana. He names witnesses Joseph L. Collins Carl Schwartz Poultersbeau and Harry Holmes of Forest Grove. Protest by Oct 7 1918 or final certificate will issue and entry pass to patent. H J Kelly Register first pub Sept 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Mont
John A. Moore
Forest Grove
Montana
Meridian
R. W. Blake
U. S
Grassais
Oseph L. Collins
Carl Schwartz
Poultersbeau
Harry Holmes
Notice for Public Sale of Homestead Entries
Ferdinand O Hetfield and Max Schaff of Battrick Montana filed for three year proof on homestead entries 031079 and 031081 in sections 2 3 and 34 township 1 north range 24 east Montana meridian. The hearing before R W Blake US Commissioner Grass Range Montana on October 14 1918. Witnesses Robert Turk Ferdinand O Hetfield Howard C Jones Ernest E Meier all of Battrick Montana. First published September 12.
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Battrick
Mont
Shaw
Swi
Montana
Meridian
Max Schaff
Os Nw
Oes
Witas
Elias
R.W. Blake
U. S. Com
Grass Ran
Aimant
Robert Turk
Ferdinand O. Hetfield
Howard C. Jones
Ernest E. Meier
H. J. Kelly
Register
Registration Books Closed for 1918 General Election
Notice announces closing of registration books for the general election to be held Tuesday November 5 1918 on Saturday October 5 at 5 pm Registrants may register at the County Clerk’s Office in the new court house Lewistown Montana or appear before a Justice of the Peace or Registry proper to register as required by law This notice is issued by the ex officio registrar in Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eew
Lewistown
Egistrar
Gina T Montana
Notice of Homestead Proof Lead by Montana Claimant
Petitioner from Fort Maginnis, Montana named TET Ode ormer nn r filed to prove three year occupancy on a homestead lot in Section 20 and 21, Township 16 North Range 22 East, with witness—Thomas W. Peppard Carl Moe George Longaneckar and Walter A. Harrah—all of Fort Maginnis. Proceedings to be before R W Blake U S Commissioner at Grasston Montana on October 14, 1918. First published September 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pet of the Interior
U. S
Lewistown
Montana
Otice
Agian
Mont
M. M
R W. Blake
U. S. Com
Grasston
Thomas W. Peppard
Carl Moe
George Longaneckar
Walter A. Harrah
Fort Maginnis
For Trade Four Room House in Grass Range
Trade offer for a nearly new plastered four room house and lot in Grass Range with good well and no encumbrances. Will swap for milch cows and horses. Write P O Box 172.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red Cross Society
Paris Green
Paris
Ekern
East Main St
Lewistown, Montana
H. M. Wetzig
Fergus Hotel
J. M. Vrooman & Son, Proprietors
the County Fair
First National Bank
U.S
Liberty Loan Benda
U. S. Fie
Federal Reserve Bank
National Banks Redemption Fund
Chanael
Nee
Deae
Myer
Fergud
Ss. II
Frank F. Miles
Weet Ik F
Aes
Grose Te Tesi
Trench Fighters
Opera of the Interior
U. S. Lb
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