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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1925
Page
6
Mixed local items include weather outlook mostly fair for Tuesday through Wednesday and brief notices on services repairs sales and events. Shipping details reference buses and autos. administrators and estates listed with appointments in probate court. community notices cover clinics and local business ads.
John H. Piper of Spokane regional executive of boy scouts will meet with Scout Executive G. I. Goulware and the boy scout council to discuss conferences. He is making a motor trip to support scout organizations and will inspect eagle rails in the two national parks before returning to Spokane.
The Hestra diocese clergy opened their annual retreat at Mount St. Charles college with priests from nearly every parish attending. The week of prayer and meditation will conclude Friday.
A Hirst Presbyterian church session formed a three person congregational committee to select a new pastor after Rev. Newman H. Burdick resigned. C. B. Pfeiffer chairs the committee with Walter T. Baker as clerk. Applications from ministers poured in. Burdick will join Dr. O. W. Buschgen in Chicago.
The Sieben station 27 miles north of Helena, formerly Mitchell, will be renamed Clark. David Hilger of the State Historical Library suggested the name, approved by Great Northern officials, honoring Malcolm Clark a pioneer fur trader and early Lewis and Clark county figure killed in 1869. Clark’s daughter Helen P. Clark later became Lewis and Clark county’s first woman county superintendent of schools.
Sugar beet specialist C Nl. Barnes of the Great Northern railroad is slated to inspect test acreage in Prickley Pear valley and near Augusta tomorrow. Specimens will be sent to Clanook for analysis.
Bates of Malta Light and Power will face the Montana Railroad Commission at a hearing in Malta on August 25. The case, in Toomey’s words, is an old dispute about valuing the plant to fix a sale price, a request the commission has refused due to lack of authority. The city wants to buy the utility and let Montana Power join, but no agreed sale price exists.
Local notes document visitors and arrivals from Butte Great Falls Missoula and Bozeman among others. Notables include J C Meing from Holtor Blanchard from Townsend Brean DeForest from Great Falls and Jay G Diamond preparing for inspections in several districts. Also listed are Mrs J A Oldham and family and the marriage of Miss Lilla May Dannaher to William Wallace in Helena.
Copenhagen reports the Danish admiralty will blow up the wrecked German submarine U-20, sunk off the Jutland coast in 1916 after torpedoing the Lusitania. The operation is set for an unspecified date this year.
The Rodney street improvement district for permanent paving drew only 2 percent opposition from non residents. no resident owners objected. The city council placed the district on first reading and it heads to final passage next Monday. A Washington Place petition seeks new sidewalks along Olive to Hamilton and Hamilton to Int 18 to rebuild sidewalks. LM Schaeffer received a permit to install a 500 gallon fuel oil tank at Fifth and Ewing streets.
Postmaster Kirby Ioan warned remailers to ensure enough postage on wrappers under new rules. He said insufficient postage creates extra work for the staff and may delay papers reaching their destination. Mr. Hoon added newspapers for remailing must be weighed at the stamp window and have correct postage affixed.
The text notes that red is the preferred color in Chinese culture while green is viewed as unlucky. It contrasts color beliefs and implies cultural associations without broader context or events.
Salt Lake City Utah August 1 AP executives of the National Wool Growers Association announce the National Ram Show will bring 3 000 rams from 50 states to the Salt Lake stockyards. Historic flocks and renowned rams from top breeding lines will be showcased as demand is expected to be strong but prices not likely to reach the 1919 peak.
The president of the American Federation of Labor declares today that the open shop movement has passed its crest. He sees this as a direct step forward in solving the country’s economic troubles and urges continued momentum in labor policy.
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