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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
7
Weather notes for Montana show mostly unchanged temperatures with partly cloudy skies on Wednesday and Thursday. Temperature readings include highs in the mid 60s and lows around the 40s, with 0.10 inches of precipitation in the last 24 hours. Local items feature obituaries, business ads, and community notices including a funeral shipment for Andrew Mailette and marriage notices for East Helena and Great Falls residents.
Jacob C Blacker dies at the Masonic home in Helena age 38. He was a member of King Solomon Lodge and the oldest Mason in Montana. Burial to Radersburg with arrangements by J Flaherty and Kohler. unclear if a local service will be held. The obituary notes surviving children and relatives across several cities.
Senior pupils of Deaconess School in the Valley present two comedies Never Again and The Man Outside tonight at 8 13 in the school assembly room. Public invited. Graduation tomorrow at 8 15 with trustees to a 6 o'clock dinner. Graduates listed: Benton Mason Garlow Bernice Kyle Donald Lorente Maguire Norman H Parks Elizabeth Williams. Annual pupils recital last night featured various performances and the Camp Fire Girls ceremony.
George W. Carter a longtime railroad man and banker died at 1 am Tuesday in a St Paul hospital after a major operation. He was 39 and served as chairman of the arbitration committee of the Order of Railroad Conductors. He helped organize the Brotherhood bank in Minneapolis and was a director there. He also presided over the State Bank of Dakota City and had interests in banks in Cody Jackson and Homer Nebraska. He was active in Masonic lodges since age 21. He leaves a wife Mrs Will Campbell a son and daughter and four sisters. Mrs Campbell and son Bill Campbell Jr left for St Paul after his death. He planned trips with Mrs Campbell to Yellowstone and Glacier parks.
A New York broker receives new currency and orders it made into pads at a stationer to keep money clean. Berlin reports milk consumption at about half prewar levels with widespread use of substitutes.
Dr Hadleigh Marsh of the state livestock sanitary board announced a positive rabies diagnosis from a sheep dog at the 5 T ranch in Choteau. The dog died there and the brain showed Negri bodies. Vaccination plans were ordered for Choteau and Great Falls dogs to prevent spread. The state veterinarian notes the disease was likely brought into Montana by jitney tourists.
Montana range horses could supply a 2 000 head broken and 3 000 unbroken contract bid for Mexico. J C Kinney of Tucson proposed the deal asking for 90 to 1200 pound dark colored geldings and mares aged 3 to 8 years. Secretary J E A Phillips notes Montana ranges can supply the required stock from wild bands despite farmers' concerns.
A large number of Lewis and Clark county pupils passed the recent eighth grade exams with good credits. East Helena student Robert Millegan led with a 93 average. list includes many names from Marysville Lincoln Wolf Creek Birdseye and local districts.
James F. Weaver commander of Lieutenant Joyce post Veterans of Foreign Wars at Fort Harrison was elected state commander at the encampment closing session in the Eddy Rose room. Resolutions praised Fort Harrison cooperation and urged the Veterans Bureau director to revoke restrictive orders and reopen review of certain disability claims.
At Camp Erickson the 163rd infantry band from Bozeman performed ahead of a Veterans of Foreign Wars delegates’ honor. guardsmen drill in attack and reorganization while machine gunners practice close order and marksmanship. Headquarters and howitzer units train in communications and mounted formations. Battalion parade opened scores of athletic events with Paneball and baseball results: Service over Mowitzer 10 to 4 and Lewistown’s Company K over Wilsall 11 to 2.
C A Rasmusson, collector of internal revenue in Montana, announced the appointment of new personnel at the Butte office. Otto J Jensen of Anaconda, WWI veteran and former clerk in Deer Lodge county, and Miss Mary Gilbert, a four year stenographer in the Missoula land office, will serve as division stenographer and stamp clerk. Both fill vacancies and take effect on July 1.
A tourist car from California was struck by a street car yesterday afternoon at the Benton Stuart street intersection. The auto suffered considerable damage but no occupants were injured. names of the tourists were not ascertained.
The noted astronomer Camille Flammarion bequeaths his heart to his birthplace Montigny-Le-Roi along with 10 francs a bust and a portrait. He writes that his heart beat there for the first time and the wishes to have it taken from his breast and offered to his birth place.
In Montreale readers learn the Baffin Bay Eskimos fish from a parlor set up inside an igloo. They drill a hole in the tee floor to access water and catch fish during the winter month.
Gov. J. E. Erickson will preside at the opening of Yellowstone National Park. He and his family travel from Helena to Butte then Idaho Falls for the Thursday 10 a.m. ceremony. Attending governors include Nellie Ross George Dern and Charles C. Moore. The party plans to stay at Old Faithful Inn and Canyon Hotel before returning home Saturday.
Clark Millspaugh resigns as advertising and display manager at the New York store, effective July 1. He will move to a coastal city to establish an advertising office. Millspaugh, with three years at the New York store, earned national prize recognition and his work featured in Retail Ad Review. A successor will be announced later.
Four nurses received diplomas at the Bozeman Deaconess hospital school of nursing during the annual graduation exercises in Bozeman on June 16. The graduates included Milli- and others.
Bridger resident cent Young Myrtle An derson and Dorothy Hilliard Glendive and Janet Northy Roberts heard the commencement address by Rev Charles M Donaldson former president of the Intermountain Union college.
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