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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1928
Page
6
A Helena area weather summary shows fair and warmer conditions on Tuesday with cooler readings by Wednesday. The page includes numerous public notices and local items such as meetings, legal filings, store ads, and community updates from June. Names and places appear across the county, with details on water rights, probate, and local club gatherings.
Governor J Y Erickson will review the 13rd infantry this afternoon at six o clock with Colonel Erastus Ti Williams and staff in the reviewing stand. Lewis and Clark county princess contestants will accompany the governor. Dinner tonight will be in the meal hall with Colonel Williams. A parade on Main Street at 430 pm tomorrow will be fed by the 163rd Infantry band. The annual military ball follows at Shrine temple by the American Legion where the county princess is announced with Phi Sheridan’s band providing music.
A Philadelphia mother of three recounts relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during and after childbirth. She reports immediate improvement in dizziness weakness and nervousness and says she would recommend the tonic to friends.
Lt. H G Klemme, Montana National Guard chaplain, tells Kiwanis on age of progress during Zero Hour observances. He notes rapid 20th century advances, technology driving change, yet stresses core honesty, kindness, and service remain. Local crowd enjoys dinner and music as Miss Hazel McLaughlin and George Mason sing.
The VM C A camp at Camp Miricke starts Wednesday after a weather delay. Directors Morris Sanford and Harold Anderson oversee a smaller group, with at least 30 boys attending the summer outing running until July. Weather typically clears in a few days, officials note. About 20 000 California oil field workers receive seven days of study aid.
Janet Thibaudeau with 73,500 votes leads the annual Lewis and Clark county princess contest sponsored by the American Legion. Katherine Wisebeck is in second place and Bertha Anderson third. The legion committee announced a winner last night in the Eddy Rose room and further instructions were given. The contest closes tomorrow with the military ball where the winner will be crowned. Phil Sheridan's orchestra will provide music.
The Continental Oil Company sent in a check for 72373.53 covering the three cent gasoline tax for May. State Board of Equalization Chairman James H. Stewart called it the largest single monthly payment to date and predicted June will rise even higher under the new gasoline tax law.
Helena Elks lodge hosts a noon luncheon at the Eddy Rose Room with Louis Troule piano, Nick Smurro singing, and Bob Hanson monologue. City Commissioner Ray Wine presides. program committee includes Charley Streedbeck and Ray Thistlewaite. A special initiation for about 20 candidates is planned tomorrow with a banquet at 6 30 PM at the Elks home on Broadway and a program with surprise features.
Intermountain hosts a summer program for both college and high school courses. Small turnout allows close instruction in fields like botany biology teaching education psychology sociology economics analytics short story physics and French. High school offerings include English Latin modern history physiology geometry algebra physics ancient history commercial arithmetic and economics. The Georgia tax note states unmarried residents age 30 must pay six dollars annually.
Dr Arthur Jordan reports state lab results on local dairy milk and cream samples. Most dairies meet standards. several exceed or approach fat and solids limits while a few fall below with high bacteria counts.
Mrs Isabel Marks received a city council permit to add and remodel a residence at the corner of Howie and Lawrence streets for five thousand dollars. The two story frame dwelling will have a stucco finish, shingled roof, and concrete foundation. H Lindstrom was authorized to build a fifty dollar garage on the south side of Broadway between Montana and Oak. A permit was issued to Trenry Tatre to reschedule a building at a cout near Rodney.
Fred Stark, famed Helena advertising man now with a Boise Idaho firm, reports a serious operation nearly killing him but he has recovered and is back at work. He writes to Roy Gibbons of the Lik lodge praising the doctors and hospital care and noting his improved health and renewed vigor for advertising duties.
Charles Stafford, 24, killed his father Robert F. Stafford with a baseball bat at their Erlanger home. A Lexington preliminary hearing freed him, Recorder H. E. Oliver ruling the act was justified as the mother faced a knife threat from the father.
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