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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1925
Page
7
Thunderstorm chances on Tuesday give way to mostly dry weather Wednesday with little temperature change. Various local listings mention Madison County businesses and services, a baby clinic at 1:30 pm, upcoming funeral arrangements for Mrs Lucy Maricle, and community notes from Helena Rug Co, O- Matic Oil Burner, and the Knights of Columbus secretary’s vacation plans.
County Chairman Sam D. Goza called a Wednesday meeting at 7 30 p m in the Commercial club room to discuss canvassing for a $2 500 county share of the American Legion national endowment fund. Five minute talks by Gov John B Erickson Judge Albert J Galen and others scheduled.
The city council placed on final reading a resolution of intent to form an improvement district for paving on Clark Street and adjacent routes. Protests from 260 property owners regarding extended Davis Street storm sewer were received and referred to City Attorney Troy Carmichael for a report next Monday. A building permit was issued to M B Millegan for a porch on Lot 2 Block 8 Bussette Addition.
The Lewis and Clark fair board approved the premium list prepared by Vice-President Tom Hertis and county agent L G DeVore. The list will be issued in pamphlet form for distribution and longtime supporters are asked to provide the same premiums as before. The board considered amusements for the state fair and tentatively approved a program expected to be premier in the northwest. President Penwell departs for Lewistown on state fair business as announcements follow contracts and railroad rates for the exposition.
A Northern Pacific official argues that Pacific coast opportunities for wage earners are not better than elsewhere and urges home making or starting capital. Seattle’s job market is at saturation with locals retaining posts, and outsiders are advised to bring capital to survive likely unemployment. The migratory labor flow from the southwest to the northwest has begun.
The Helena boy scout council will formally accept the new charter tonight at 8 o clock in the Placer grill, including Jefferson and Broadwater counties with Lewis and Clark. The program features invocations, musical solos, remarks by Fudge A. Horsky, and a dramatization of the Scout oath and laws.
Members of the Women’s Relief corps delegation to the joint encampment of the G A R and Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary in Anaconda have returned home praising the event. Delegation members include Mesdames Emma Redd Mary Lee Ellen Taylor Ida Jennings Annie Malden Henrietta Douglas Helen Hambridge and Phoebe Train.
Los Angeles report details Dr. Thomas W. Young a Beverly Glen dentist who killed his wife Grace with somnoform then entombed her in a cement cistern. He describes the method to detectives in a calm, unsettling interview while visions of wealth and the Grogan millions loom. The District Attorney calls the slaying the first link in a planned wholesale murder scheme, and Young hints at future plans as he requests a cigarette.
A string of travelers from Butte Great Falls Chinook and other towns arrive or depart Helena. L Helm Stallman Cramer Chalkley Maby Atherton Piggott Tomkins Maher Fullerton Gear Donald Fremm Bossier Toole and others are noted at the Placer hotel or en route to Seattle Lancaster Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles. Former Governor Toole returns from Great Falls with family.
Joe Schandl once a Billings resident now held in Milwaukee faces a governor authorized return to explain missing a promised $80 diamond ring and a 6 o clock June 6 deadline. He supposedly slipped the ring on and claimed it could not be removed before boarding a train eastward. Police opened a manhunt following the incident.
The funeral of Mrs Balkenhol will be held Thursday at 9 am in the Cathedral of St. Tielena. Burial follows at Resurrection. Arrangements by Herrman and company. She died yesterday at 311 Flowerreesirest, aged 83, a native of Germany. Survived by husband, 10 children and several grandchildren. family resided in Marysville 28 years, Helena 15.
Rome, Fine 22. Premier Mussolini closed the fifth annual Fascist congress with a harsh jab at Anglo Saxons while outlining past glories and future tasks. He announced ending honorary memberships, saying one must write a work surpassing Dante or discover a sixth continent or pay a debt to the Anglo Saxons.
The spring reunion of the Helena Scottish Rite bodies opened yesterday at 1 o'clock with degrees from the Lodge of Perfection. Today concentrates on the Chapter Rose Croix with the fifteenth degree at 2 30 and the eighteenth at 8. Music by the Scottish Rite choir and orchestra accompanies the sessions.
The annual closing exercises at St Marys of the Mount House of the Good Shepherd saw five graduates from each department receive diplomas from Bishop John P Carroll. Special awards were given for writing, bookkeeping, stenography, and proficiency with typewriters, plus certificates from shorthand and national colleges. The program featured student performances including pantomime Enchanted Nights, a vocal piece The Golden Key, a cornet duet Face to Face, and an orchestra number Perfect Melody. Class mottos highlighted Build for Character and Not Fame and Accuracy and Thoroughness with corresponding colors gold, white, blue, and white.
In place of the scheduled speaker Yelsercay the Elks quartet entertained Kiwanis members and guests. George Mason Joe Grieg Clark Millpaugh and Ben Wahle were assisted by Mrs. Mason. George E Boulware urged support for the Legion endowment drive. Norman Winestine spoke on Peace in Europe to applause. J Victor Kohler provided humor and O L Brackman offered a Harry Richter biography. Paris scene reports Dr Emile Roux presenting a curative treatment for syphilis to the academy of sciences.
A prohibition agent squad pursued a whisky runner whose car, faster by 90 miles per hour, pulled ahead before a failed differential ended the chase. The runner returned later at a slow pace and offered to help. The car had unloaded and hidden the cargo during the pursuit.
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