Death 5 Caused by Bullet Near Butte
The body of Thomas Prendergast, former auditor of Silver Bow county and street car man, was found early yesterday with a bullet wound to the head beside a 32 calibre Mauser pistol. A gun shell and empty cartridge were nearby. ownership of the weapon is unclear. Prendergast left Ark cigar store around 1 pm and died about 2 20 am, with neighbors reporting a shot heard.
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Dakota Alley
Iron Street
Prendergast
Fiva
County Commissioners OK Pay-Per-Day Jail Board Policy
Butte Montana resolution sets 2.50 dollars daily board from fines of prohibition violators for jail keeper costs. Excludes federal prisoners. County notes total daily jail cost about 2.30 dollars per inmate with fines split 50 50 between general fund and law enforcement fund. Counties Lewis and Clark and Deer Lodge use different daily deductions.
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Butte
Janu
Prohibition
County General Fund
Law Enforcement Fund
Lewis and Clark County
Deer Lodge
Forty Students Enrolled in Montana Forestry Short Course
The winter quarter at the Montana State University marks the 15th anniversary of the short course for forest service employees. Forty men are enrolled with over 100 applications. each applicant requires a personal recommendation. The program lasts three months and has increased registration fees by $15.
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Misosul
Tau
State University
Forest Service
University of Idaho
Montana
Universities of
Washington
California
Oregon Agricultural College
Bette
T. C. Spaulding
Forestry School
Ranger School
U. S. Forest Service
Comptroller of the Treasury
Montana School of Forestry
Northwest
School of Forestry
Ranch Change Hands With 4000 Acre Hereford Plan
Marius Anderson, an Missoula financier, buys a half interest in the Carl Riddick ranch of about 4000 acres across the Yellowstone from Sidney for 30000 dollars. New owners plan immediate stocking and a pure bred Hereford operation on land including lower bottom fields with irrigation from Bennipeer creek. The property has historical note as a sheep ranch dating to the 1860s and once supplied stock for a U S Army captain.
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Sidnes
Marius Anderson
Nalispell
Carl Riddick
Sidney
Bennipecc Creek
Yellowstone River
Montana
Bennipeer Creek
Win
Norton
United States Army
Ground Gives Way Kills Circle Coal Miner
Jan. 22 Circle resident Ed Palmerton was killed when ground collapsed while he dug lignite about five miles on Grp creek. The frozen dirt buried him except for his head. his 12 year old son aided by other diggers. Palmerton, about 45, leaves a wife and eight children.
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Circle
Ed Palmerton
Palmerton
Bozeman Library Reports 12 915 Books and 921 Documents
Bozeman city report shows the public library holding 12 915 books and 921 government documents. In 1924 101 new volumes were added while 479 wore out and 4 were destroyed to prevent contagion. Circulation reached 21 839 with 445 readers and 816 magazines circulated.
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Bozeman
Bozeman Public
Geneva Cook
Edgar Plans Second Annual Farm Day With New Features
Edgar Jan 22 The Edgar Rod and Gun club will hold the second Farmers Day at Edgar on the last day of February. More than 400 people attended last year for instruction fun and a feast. Prizes were donated by the Billings Gazette and Great Western Sugar. more firms may contribute. Committees for music cats livestock judging sports and the woman’s program were appointed. Speakers from the state college at Bozeman will attend. Everything is to be free and attendees are asked to leave purses at home unless they stay for the dance.
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Edgar
Edgar Rod and Gun Club
Billings Gazette
Great Western Sugar Company
State College
Bozeman
Plans Approved for $400000 Salmon River Bridge Route
State authorizes construction of two Salmon River bridges and a connecting highway opening a western Montana route. Idaho Lemhi County contributes 180000, bridge costs 85000, work to begin after snow clears with April 1 kickoff, linking the Park to Park highway near Big Hole mountain in the Bitter Root area.
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Hamilton
Jan
Salmon River
Montana
la Boise
Idaho
Big Hole Mountain
Bitter Root
Lemhi
Montana Line
Teacher Accused of Assault Denies Charge in Montana
Jay Billings reports Miss Edith Horton, Duck Creek school teacher, pleaded not guilty to maltreating pupil Gerald Brings. Bond posted at $100, case to be heard soon. Accuser Anna Brings says the boy was struck with a stick and shovel. neighbors split on punishment. Horton has taught locally since Christmas amid trustees divided over resignation.
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Aliss Horton
Yellowstone County
Woman asks information on Wallace alias Roy Walsh
Mrs H Jacobs of Hammond Wisconsin writes Sheriff Mullen seeking details about Albert Walter Schoonover alias Roy Walsh who faces hanging at Boulder on February 14 for the murder of Al Johnson a Reno merchant. She says she knew him from age six when in his grandmother’s care and that his mother took him away leaving him to face the world.
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Deer Lodge
McGuire to Head Butte Company
Great Falls reports John W. McGuire of Seattle named manager of the Butte Wholesale Grocery Company as the Ryan purchase of the Butte house is finalized. W. M. Fergus, longtime head, will split duties among Havre Great Falls Butte Billings and Sheridan to allow more time in Montana and Wyoming operations.
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Great Falls
W. M. Fergus
Ryan Wholesale
Monctana
Wyoming
John W. McGuire
Seattle
Wash
Butte Wholesale
Butte
George W. Ryan
Ryan Mercantile Company
Fergus
McGuire
Butte Flow
Havre
Ryan
Billings
Sheridan
Wyo
Butte Red and Gun Club Merges to form Butte Gun Club
Montana’s oldest trap shooting group the Butte Red and Gun club merged with the Rocky Mountain Rifle club to form the Butte Gun club. The Butte Rod and Cun club has dissolved and papers of incorporation filed for the new organization which offers modern equipment for rifle and trap shooters at the Rocker range.
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Montana
Butte Red and Gun Club
Rocky Mountain Rifle Club
Butte Gun Club
Butte Rod and Cun Club
Liewest
Big Club
Rocker
Fruit Bearing Trees Killed by Sudden Cold
Kalispell Montana January 22 The blizzard of December 15 followed by an unusually warm December destroyed many fruit trees along Flathead Lake. State horticulturist W L Shovell says nearly all trees in the Rocky Bar area may be dead and orchardists report widespread loss of sweet cherries pears and plums with even Metatosh showing winter kill after a sharp temperature drop from 58 above to 27 below in a day and a half.
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Kalispell
Flathead Lake
W. L. Shovell
Lige Rocky Bar
Walton League 15 Organized in Park
Yellowstone Park chapter of the Walton League formed with Norace M. Alebright as president and 44 members. Br. Je. J. Sawyer is vice president C. A. Linsley secretary and Julius Greer treasurer. Leader names and roles listed. Location Livingston January 22.
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Livingston
Yellowstone Park
Norace M. Alebright
Br. Je. J. Sawyer
C. A. Linsley
Julius Greer
Forty Businessmen Summoned to Capitol for Grand Jury
Great Falls list grows near forty as witnesses are called to Washington to appear before the federal grand jury in the District of Columbia. L C Stevenson head of Sunburst Oil and Gas is among those summoned for February 7 along with A Beardslee and E A Newton. Other dates range February 7 to 15, with Campbell related leases in the Kevin Sunburst field under scrutiny.
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Great Falls
Washington
Federal Grand‘ Jury
the Supreme, Court of the District of Columbia
L. C. Stevenson
Sunburst Oil and Gas and Associated Companies
Kevin-Sunburst
Gordon Campbell
Mc Stevenson
Beardslee
Kevin Sunburst
E. A. Newton
Falls National Bank
Campbell
Breakfast and dinner menu and a potato cheese dish recipe
The text lists meals and a detailed baked potato cheese recipe with steps for preparing force potato mix, stuffing potato skins, and baking. It includes breakfast items like cereal and French toast, plus a served dessert suggestion and a long rice cooking method. It is accompanied by a vintage recipe note from 1923.
Miller wins suit over artificial arm injury claim
In Los Angeles a judge awarded $40,000 against Kahn Miller in a civil suit by Mrs. Marta Toth. She alleged Miller struck her with his artificial arm while disputing over tenancy. Miller testified the arm was not worn that day, kept in a closet at home.
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Associated -Press
Los Angeles
Byv
Kahn Miller
Marta
Toth
Miller
Ulm Cascade gravel road project eyed by county
Great Falls area officials ask the Montana state highway commission to authorize completing the Cascade Road link between Great Falls and Ulm. The six mile gravel stretch atop Gora mountain to Ulm would connect the cities as a federal aid project under a cost share of 53 percent federal and 47 percent county, about ten thousand dollars, or potentially two thousand if a proposed gasoline tax share arrangement is adopted.
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Great Falls
Ulm
State Highway Commission
Board of County Commissioners
Gora’ Mountain
Ulm Mountain
State Commissioners’ Association
Couny
Pair Arrested After Local Mews Notice Leads to Capture
Livingston report says a garage man's attention to mews columns helped identify a man George Weiler and a woman wanted for swindling and passing bad checks. They were tracked via ticket purchases to Spokane where authorities detained them for requisition by Sheriff J W Mountjoy of Boulder.
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Livingston
J. W. Mountjoy
Boulder
Clarence. Gilbert
George Weiler
Clinton
Missoula
Focal Ratage
Matt
Northern Pacific Ticket Office
Spokane
Mounjoy
Gilbert
Milhiser Named Resident Manager for Holly Sugar
Sidney reports C. Milhiser and his wife arrived after an overland trip from Torrington to assume duties as resident manager and agriculturist for all Holly Sugar holdings on the lower Yellowstone project. Milhiser previously worked for Great Western Sugar as agriculturist in Billings and partnered with W. L. Lawson, the Sidney sugar project early explorer.
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Sidney, Jan
C. SS. Mithiser
Holly
Corporation
Yellowstone
Torrington
Wye
Milhiser
Great Western Sugar Company
Billings
W. L. Lawson
Sidney
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Websters New International Dictionary
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G& C. Merriam CO
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Mase
U.S.A
SPAP
Pinchot Hall
The
Forest School
United States
State Forester of Montana
District No. 1
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Circle Man
By Williams
Taps
OHE
Wisconsin
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Head Butte
Walton League
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Satya
NEA Service
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Washington—Railroad
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas Paints
Omaha
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ulm Cascade
Helena Light & Railway Company
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