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Newspaper

Helena Independent

Location

Helena, Montana, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1929

Page

7

Weather summary for Mentanar Monday and nearby areas

Northwest weather remains unsettled with rain and thunderstorms across Montana Nevada Utah Idaho Oregon and Washington. Temperatures range from the 60s to mid 80s with reports of rain at Yellowstone Park Helena and Missoula as a low pressure system drifts east of the Divide. Local ads note services from Kings Store Marceling Green and Struths Beauty Parlor plus a card party tonight at St Helena hall. A government naturalist reports a buffalo skull found in Glacier National Park dating many years back.

Helena P.m Los Angeles Portland St Bays-Minteavall Ealt Lake Citys San Francisco Seattles Spokane Williston Yellowstone Park Mississippi Continents Plains Rocky Mountain Canadian Dakotas Montana Nevada Utah Idaho Oregon Washington Mies City Yellowstone Pare Geeraen Havre B. J. Elrod Glader National Park Grinnell Stader Rocky Mountain Range

Personal notices of arriving residents and visitors in Helena

A long list of arrivals and visitors includes J W Kerr from Cheteau, Collins or Nera from Butte, Dick GIN from Townsend, Cotran from Great Falls, and many others from Kalispell, Helena, Great Falls, and surrounding areas. Also noted are Fish and Game officials planning a joint conservation meeting in Yellowstone in August and National Guard troops arriving for camp at Port Harrison. An appeal requests car donations to Shriners for trains arriving in Helena.

Cheteau Collinn Butte Dick Gin Townsend Jackson Fish and Game Fish and Game Commissioners Montana Wyoming Utah Idaho Yepowstone Park

Rev John C Wiley Considers Helena For Permanent Home

Rev John C Wiley of LeRoy New York spoke at First Baptist Church last night on The View point of a Christian He is en route to the Northern Baptists convention in Denver but will stay through Sunday to preach His wife a Wells College graduate and two children remain at LeRoy Measured praise from Rev Meechley of Bozeman who heads the Montana Baptists convention The church trustees will pursue Wiley as a potential permanent pastor

First Baptist Church John C. Wiley LeRoy New York Wiley Northern Baptists’ Sonvention Denver Colo E. K. Cur‘thy Bozeman Montana Baptists’ Convention Helena Rochester Seminary Rochester Wellesley College LeRoy Meechley Hellena

Prisoners Held in County Jail Now Number 20

The county jail holds 20 prisoners, a larger than usual number, with many federal inmates serving time for bootlegging and drug use. Several awaiting trial. names include John Breck and others. Charges span burglary, larceny, assault, unlawful entry, drunkenness, and immigration status.

John Breck Ed Vancé Bill Macaretti Melvin Nicholson Louis Megan R. J. Wood Dolly Brown Harvey James James Johnson John Mantz Mary Martell Jim Landon Canada Jon Thompson Winston T. Chavez Walter Jonncon Hast Helena Peed Roberts Ed McRae Harry Chester Nicholson Cenade B. A. Cannedy

Great Northern Unveils Fast New Empire Builder Service

Great Northern announces the Empire Builder will gain daylight routes from Chicago to the Pacific coast with earlier departures from Chicago and Tacoma Seattle and Portland. The system uses electric and burning locomotives and lighter ballast for cleaner travel and longer miles of cinderless rail. The Cascade tunnel and track relocations enable a cascade crossing comparable to the Rockies. Fast mail trains prove on time and reliable, with Silk trains matching schedules. Glacier Pack Limited to be discontinued June 10.

Great Northern Chicago Pacific Coast Searce Northwest J. F Pewters Enighg Tacoma Seattle Portland Cascades Cascade Rockies St. Paul Empire Builder Seattleton Puget Sound St Paul Glacier Pack Limited

Hand-mate slip description in fine georgette with coin dots

A hand-mate slip described in apple green georgette with coin dot detailing. The garment features shorts and braalsero style elements, bound with green georgette at the Vall edges and a refined hand finish.

Ermshall

Indians to Take Part In Dedication of G N A R New Fast Trains

Chief Two-Guns White Calf and a Blackfeet delegation travel from Glacier Park to Chicago for the Great Northern Empire Builder dedication. Dancer Fish Wolf Rohe and Chiefs Owen Heavy Breast Yellow Kidney and bride join the ceremonial train event. White Calf, famed for buffalo nickel likeness, will be heard on a national broadcast as Blackfeet songs and dances highlight the program.

Two-Guns White Calf Glacier Park Chicago Great Northern Fish Wolf Rohe Owen Heavy Breast Yellow Kidney America

Postal Telegraph Sets Aside 5 Million for Pensions Plan

New York June 2 The Postal Telegraph Cable company commits 5 million dollars to a new pension and benefit plan covering about 20 000 employees starting July 4 The plan mirrors International Telephone and Telegraph with retirements at 65 for men and 53 for women plus optional retirements The fund grows to provide full pay during illness injury and death benefits for dependents and a monthly pension linked to service and earnings The plan overseen by a five member committee includes detailed death benefits and disability provisions and a 1 000 cash death benefit for work related deaths

New York Postal Telegraph Cable Company International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation Postal Clarence HM. Mackay The C. A. Comstock W. E. Leigh M. D. Howell R. M. D. Howell

Reference Works and Children's Books at the Tielena Library

A roster of children's publications and reference books available at the Tielena public library led by acting librarian Mrs. Mabel Afiller. Included are titles such as Gay's Year at Hartford, Martin's Adventure, Eliza and the Ives, Becky Landers Frontier Warrior, and many more across fiction, history, travel, and reference sections. The Hel ena public library reference room offers additional works like Who's Who in Colored America, New World Atlas, Harper's Atlas, and dictionaries, with a mix of classic and contemporary volumes.

Mabel T. Afiller Tielena Public Library Gay Hartford Talls Aspinwall Sunset Island Martin Asquith Casserley Eliza Ives Field Gardiner Parmenter U. S. Marines Bolt-Wheeler Seaman Becky Landers Frontier Skinner Dobias Cartwright Hall Alice la Prade Bowser the Hound Bur Gess Peter Rabbit Burgess Granny Fox Wigewam Eastman, Jrazitian Eells Helena Public Lbrary Mabel ‘Smiller America Boris Damon Baerdeker New World Atlas and Gazetteer Reynolds Scribner’s Hannigan Universities Alliance Richards Harper's Atlas Fox Putnam's Putnasy's Elyon Fowler Browne Douglas Edwards Grocott Lawsap Copeland Treasury National Education Association Ridpath Godey Lady's Book and Magazine Cendey Webster's New International Dictionary

Ranger Uses Windmill Driven Generator at Glacier Park

Park rangers in remote Glacier park zones lack socket power radios yet enjoy reception. Ranger Finetach of the St Mary Lake district struggled with recharging wet batteries until he solved it by using a car generator driven by a windmill built from a hone.

Glacier Park Finetach St. Mary Lake District

Boy and girl run away from Great Falls

Sheriff says a brother and sister, minors, ran away from Great Falls. The girl aged about 15, five feet tall with dark wavy hair, wore a pyjama outfit. A boy’s description was not given. They were last at Elliston after the girl bought a Helena ticket. authorities alerted.

Slater Great Falls Neer Lodge Sheriff Elliston Helena Gatun Lake Panama Canal

The Story of Gold Discovery in Yellowstone City

Story recounts how gold was found in August 1864 near Emigrant Gulch and Yellowstone River region, led by Shorthill, Weaver, and Frank Garrett. They joined larger parties, traced the source, then mined for two years, yielding about $50,000 in gold before operations waned and Yellowstone City declined into ruin.

Yellowstone Wal David KR Shorthill David B. Weaver Frank Garrett Weaver Northwest Shorthil Colorado Missouri Omaha North Platten Fort Laramie Bozeman Trail Montana Powder River Tongue River Big Sara Yellowstone Emgrant Gulch Livingston Thomas Curry Alderguich Jim Bridger Yellowstone Cuy Greenbacks Gante Sumer Yellowstone City

Methodist Church at East Helena Summer Program Outlined

The East Helena Methodist Church schedules a summer program with a 10 am Sunday school, Hi Leaguers final spring meeting before September, and Rev Rob L Meyers delivering the last conference-year sermon. A large turnout is expected, with announcements after July first for youth assemblies and annual conference dates. The ladies aid hosts a community supper on Tuesday, June 10 at 3 pm on the church’s first floor.

Witter Robi. L. Meyers Young People's Assembly Anl Ehnech

Competitive Tests for Army Flyers Due Soon

Final competitive examinations for appointment as second lieutenants in the Air Corps will be held June 24–29 and October 21–26, 1929, to fill vacancies created by the Air Corps Act of July 2, 1926. Eligible are graduates of the Air Corps Primary Flight School and Advanced Flying School within six years, cadets nearing graduation, and those with at least 200 hours in the air including 75 solo and 100 hours in service-type airplanes. Exemptions apply to some college graduates for mental exams, but none for the flight exams.

Air Corps Regular Army War Department Air Corps Advanced de- Haviland Douglas Ste

O. K. Announces New Folding Motor for Lake Boats

The O. K. garage unveiled four folding Sportwin Evincade outboard motors to be used on Hauser Jake this week. The compact 43 pound unit folds into a travel bag sized form, standing 23.25 inches high and 12 inches wide when collapsed. It can power a canoe or boat up to 3.4 miles per hour and is praised for portability and simplicity. Four motors have been sold to Helena residents.

T. O. K. Garage Hauser Jake Pew IT. O. K

Greek from Butte taken to Warm Springs asylum

Sheriff Purcell yesterday moved Long Savar a Greek miner from Butte to the Hospital for Mental Diseases at Warm Springs after an insanity hearing. He was declared insane after an inquiry on Saturday and ordered confined. He caused bedlam at the jail Friday night keeping inmates awake with continual disturbance. Authorities report no clear motive or origin of his arrival in Helena.

Long Savar Butte Warm Springs Savar Helena Iffie

Special Rates for Knights Templar Meeting Held Here

J B Pewters of the Great Northern railway announced special rates for a Grand Commandery of Knights Templar meeting in Helena July 22 23 with tickets at one and a half fares on the certificate plan from all Montana points sale July 8 to 24 final return July 29. A fare and a half rate from all Montana to attend the Montana State Elks association in Butte July 5 6 is available July 2 to 6 with final return July 9 and also on the certificate plan.

J. B. Pewters Great Northern Railway Grand Commandery Knights Templar Helena Montana Montana State Elks’ Association Butte

Solitary Captive Arrested After Wedding Publicity

One county prisoner was jailed Sunday after a Saturday night wedding. Willian Swan, described as a halfbreed, drank at the celebration and faced charges of drunk and disorderly. Police took him to jail where a session with Police Judge Padbury is planned.

Willian’ Swan Swan Padbury

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