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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
6
Weather Mostly fair with cooler Tuesday. Services listed for local businesses and clinics. Funeral: Mary Hentsdell, overseas WWI veteran, buried in Anaconda after hospital death. routine notices include local ads for auto parts, tires, ice cream, and cleaning services.
City council placed resolutions reducing the tax levy for the present fiscal year on final reading. The measures also effect reductions in special assessments by districts. Building permits were issued to J. T. Bower for an iron clad garage at 6 North Moore Street and J. R. Bowman for rebuilding the home of Mrs. Fennon on West Main, recently damaged by fire. Roy Crago received a permit to install a fuel oil tank at the home of Tr. N Salvail, and G. W Paice was granted a taxi stand permit in front of the Harvey hotel.
The State College Extension Department runs a week long camp at Broadwater for boys and girls. Registration at 2 pm marks the start with a health talk by Dr Arthur Jordan at 4 pm. Camp rites instructions at 6 30 pm supper at 6 pm and camp fire and toast at 7 pm. Call to quarters at 9 15 and taps at 9 30.
A business meeting of Harold Joyce Post VFW will be held this evening in the Red Cross building at the Fort Hospital. Delegates to the national convention in Tulsa Oklahoma will be instructed at the meeting tonight.
Governor J E Erickson says plans to sell the 3 million dollar state treasury note issue to redeem the general fund warrants have not been abandoned. Money market conditions drive the sale as call money rates in June were too high to attract the investment, but officials expect a return to normal and an attractive offer may appear. The board now has authority to dispose of the notes without further advertisement when conditions improve.
Registration bureau records show passenger cars and trucks surpassing 1924 totals by end of July. About 600 new cars remain for the year with 3,734 added in July, as licensure closes and August begins.
Requiem high mass was celebrated at Saint Helena Cathedral for Mrs. George S. Boulware wife of a Helena boy scout official. Burial followed in Resurrection Cemetery with pallbearers named from the Helena Boy Scouts incl Jack McGee Ben Reach Douglas Rushford John Morgan Edwin Jasmin Leaverett Ropes Fred Hill Robert Jennings Cornell Brown Jack Howard Lyman Choate and Kerneth Kepner. Mrs. Boulware died after a major operation the previous evening. Mr. Boulware's mother Mrs. Sarah Boulware and sister Miss Termeal Boulware arrived from Malta Idaho. Funeral arrangements by Flaherty and Kahler.
Jos H H Moss of Milwaukee will be principal speaker at the Kiwanis district convention in Helena on August 7 and 8. A Milwaukee civic leader and businessman Moss has served as district trustee and International Trustee, with extensive club and committee work, and is a UW graduate in law.
Deposits in 148 state banks and two private banks and trust companies in Montana totalled 966.653.211.32 on June 30, an increase of 524,404.82 since April 6. Loans and discounts rose to 18,077,735.77, investments climbed to 18,891,979.55, and total resources reached 27,804,877.92, with time and savings deposits up over a million. Several banks moved or reorganized, including Drumond, Hall, Kevin, Gardiner, Fairview, and consolidations of First National Froid with First State Froid and Fires National Musselshell with Roundup’s Miners & Merchants.
Two foreign oil companies filed articles of incorporation to do business in Montana. The White Eagle Oil and Refining Co. based in Kansas City plans offices at Baker with Eph Kettle as representative. DeMar Oil Co. of Bar Jesville Oklahoma will base at Billings with J. Coleman in charge. Both Delaware-incorporated. Mary Jones recovers from animosity rheumatism attack. Suez Canal annual profit now $15,000,000.
Judge Bourquin took under advisement the contempt proceedings against former Montana Attorney General 5 C Ford of Helena after he testified not to intent to defraud by using the mails but admitted carelessness in preparing the bill of exceptions in the Gordon Campbell case. Witness Fred M Rose testified he copied from the transcript and added insertions. Ford blamed press of business and a report by Rose for errors. the amendment to the assignment was admitted but not recalled. United States District Attorney J L Starters conducted the proceedings.
The funeral of Mrs Meta Styles Graves widow of J Vi Graves will be held this afternoon at Flaherty and Wohler's chapel Rev Maker archdeacon at the Episcopal Diocese will officiate burial in Forestvale The family resided in Helena several years ago Mrs Graves died a few days ago in Spokane Washington her body was received here last evening
Children at Helena orphanages will be guests of the Helena Elks Lodge today. They will tour the valley and Unionville, with a return to the orphanages for fruit candies and other treats.
Attorney and Mrs. Lester Tonic and F. A. Motz and Walter Ziete travel to Toledo Ohio to represent the Pelena aerie of Eagles at the annual grand aerie session. Mr and Mrs Lible will extend the trip by boat from Detroit W Michigan.
Kiwanis members held a memorial service for Toby Hedges with a eulogy by George Nagle and singing led by Fred Kelser. The gathering discussed district convention plans for next Friday and Saturday and announced J Victor Kohler of Helena as district lieutenant governor candidate along with other leading contenders for partnership. Guests included Frank Waskina Putte Henry C. Smith Miles Gas Dan Forsyth David Craig and others from Helena Whitefish and Missoula.
A letter from Mrs. CL Woodhurst of San de Fuca Whidby Island Washington describes a lightning strike on the Woodhurst residence during a recent electrical storm. The house suffered roof and wall damage holes in the roof walls baseboards ripped windows shattered rug torn. Ira Lee age 61 slept through one wall hole over his head. A fire started in the attic but was extinguished by Mr. Lee with buckets passed up by the women. No injuries reported beyond nervous shock.
Springfield businessman Jo Newton, the oldest member of the Order of the Eastern Star in America, was honored as Masons from across Missouri joined in celebrating his 100th birthday.
Governor J. H. Erickson received a wire from Elwood Mead, commissioner in reclamation in Washington, noting that Kreutzer, a representative of the bureau, would depart to inspect the Yellowstone reclamation project. The message requested that a member of the staff accompany the party.
A mangled item notes agricultural college with Kreutzer aid in inspection near Mexico City and mentions Dean Paulino Maderazo killed by bandits while en route to a ranch in San Diego. It cites U.S. rubber consumption over 49 percent of world output and Iowa weekend drownings plus auto accidents. It briefly references taste regions of the tongue and ends with garbled medical detail.
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