Man charged with gambling complains he was fired upon
Chateau March 19 George Rochford of Bynum, recently released from Teton county jail, faces a potential deeper charge after Bret Read of Bynum claims Rochford shot at him with a gun in Rochford's house following a gambling game at a pool hall. Read was arrested for gambling, pleaded guilty and paid a $30 fine. Rochford was rearrested.
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Chateau
George Rochford
Bynum
Teton County
Collins
Bret Read
Rochford
Read
George Coffey
Billings Mulls Gravity Intake for New Water Supply
City officials discuss securing a new Yellowstone intake and a gravity pipeline extending one and a half miles to the filtering station after Montana Power abandons its dam and station. Mayor and council authorize data on right of way costs and construction expenses. City engineer Earl M. Sneckenberger outlines the plan and pending steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Earl M. Sneckenberger
Water Department
Yellowstone
Montana Power Company
Courtess
Montana Power Compar
Vga
Varsity Professor Sets Summer Speaking Tour
A university professor launches a summer speaking tour after a light teaching schedule. The itinerary includes multiple campuses as part of a broader outreach program to engage scholastic groups and the local community.
Fairs in Montana fixed gates and schedules announced
Plans set for circuit meetings with managers and secretaries. A schedule assigns fairs in Sheridan Forsyth Lewistown Billings Missoula and Bateman with fairs and racing on set dates from September 10 through October 2 to avoid conflicts. The organizer Jeust Tammond of Billings will distribute materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miet
Winimuin
Jeust Tammond
Bilings
Igate
Sheridan
Forsyth
Mont
Lewistown
Billings
Bateman
Missoula
Levise
Jazz Sheik Who Fights Ordered to Pass Dances Butte
Tommy Degan of Butte admitted stepping on a fellow dancer’s toe at Winter Garden. He apologized, then fought. Judge Dan Shea found him guilty of disturbance but suspended the sentence with a six month ban from the dance hall.
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Butte
Tommy Degan
Winter Garden
Regan
Dan Shea
Degan
Tommy
Shea
This Old Register Exhibit Heads to State Library
Lewistown March 19. An old Day house register from 35 years ago, once a leading central Montana hotel under Jacob Holamer, is on display in Leiden Drug window. The page bears signatures of James Fergus and many local pioneers including D A Meagher, Granville Stuart, N M Erickson, George W Cook, J W Bayliss, F R Stoddard, T P Douglas, C Ndail, W D Deaton, G T Copledge, J A Viall, and others. Also shown are two vintage Main Street photos, one with a freight outfit.
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Lewistown
Jacob Holamer
Montana
Leiden Drug Company
James Fergus
D. A. Meagher
William Fergus
Granville Stuart
N. M. Erickson
Leiden
Addition to Fergus County Creamery in Lewistown
Work started this week on additions to the Fergus County Creamery in Lewistown to create a one story brick building 50 by 55 feet with a rebuilt front wall. The existing office quarters will move to a temporary site, and the new facility will become 90 feet deep by 7 feet wide. Equipment and construction are expected to cost about $16,000, the largest project announced so far in 1923, signaling strong faith in the creamery’s future.
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Lewistown
Fergus
Fergus County
Big Booze Conspiracy Foiled by Officers
Three half pint liquor bottles were seized by local customs officers during package inspections in Great Falls on Wednesday. One bottle labeled sample no value traveled from Norway to Shawmut Montana in Norwegian French and English. Two bottles from Germany to Anaconda were marked no value and labeled Curacoa. The liquor contains 42 percent alcohol and addsressees have been notified.
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Great Falls
Norway
Shawmut
Montana
Germany
Anaconda
Local notes and events from Hobson and area
Montana Milling president Fairbank returns from west coast trip. Spurgeon of Buffalo visits for assessments. Helena residents visit Hobson family. Mrs Mae Lewis returns from Los Angeles. Girls Glee Club concert planned at Murray hall under Miss Catherine YouTuber. Measles flu and pneumonia concerns in schools, no fatalities. Powder River official Westfall visits town. Carol Leeback treated for bronchial pneumonia. James Raw Jr. called to Reno for business.
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Mae Lewis
James Raw
Los Angeles
Glee
Catherine YouTuber
Murray Hall
Hobson
Westfall
Powder River County
Carol
Anthony Leeback
Moore Hospital
James Raw, Jr
Reno
Ismay votes to build city light plant bonds
Ismay residents approve a 59,000 bond to replace the aging system with two diesel motors a 15 hp unit for day service and a 25 hp unit for heavier loads. The setup will deliver 40 hp for peak loads. Clifford Sweet of Ismay Light and Telephone Co arranged to sell his motors wiring and poles to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ismay
Clifford Sweet
Tsnay Light and Telephone Company
Vit
Beater Not Damaging Lands When Warden Came
State Game Warden Phil H Buckley toured Joplin en route from the Marias river area where he reviewed a trapping permit appeal by Thomas W Kinread. Kinread claimed beaver dams flooded hay meadows, leading Buckley to withdraw the application. Buckley’s district covers Blaine Hill Liberty Toole and parts of Couterau north of the Missouri. Two trapping permits were issued for beaver on Sand creek and Birch creek Bear Paw mountains. Buckley carried blank fish fry forms for Big Sage creek stock with W C Kester editor of the Farmer. A Joplin rod and gun club may form after the Commercial club vote next Wednesday March 23.
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Ts. Hy Joplin
Phil H. Buckley
Harlem
Joplin
Marias River
Thomas W. Kinread
Kinread
Buckley
Blaine, Hill, Liberty and Toole
Clouteau County
Missouri River
Andy Arson
Sand Creek
Birch Creek
Bear Paw Mountains
Albert Hoganson
Bear Paws
Big Sage Creek
W. C. Kester
The
Farmer
Commercial Club
To Run W. B. George as Billings Mayor
Friends of W B George a former mayor and state senator prominent in Billings development circulate a petition to nominate him for mayor The field already includes Charles Spear alderman and Ray Andersom former police judge and justice of the peace who are filing petitions for the mayoralty race
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Billings
W. B. George
George
Charles Spear
Ray Andersom
Justice, of the Peace
Choteau Acantha Opens New Office Space
Choteau Montana owner E L Jourdon nais has moved the Choteau Acantha into the former Montanan building after renovation. New equipment is added as the two papers remain separate with the Montanan being discontinued and the Acantha continuing publication in Choteau where it has run for 30 years.
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Choteau
E. L. Jourdonnais
Choteau Acantha
Choteau Montana
Montanan
Acantha
Chateau
Local Student to be Associate Editor of College Journal
Missoula reports Waoodard Dutton of Helena Fred Martin of mute and Jesse Lewellin of Pow all Wyoming will be associate editors to the Kaimin for the spring quarter Vivian Corbly of Bozeman will edit and publish the first issue with the new staff on April 3 Winifred Wilson of Billings is exchange editor Wilfred Melhaher of Bowdoin is the new sports editor and Charles Guthrie of Choteau is a columnist
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Missoula
Waoodard Dutton
Helena
Fred Martin
Mute
Jesse Lewellin
Powall
Wyo
Kaimin
Vivian Corbly
Bozensan
Winifred Wilson
Billings
Wilfred Melhaher
Bowdoin
Charles Guthrie
Choteau
Dry Bottom Greek 5 Now One Dry WET Agent Caught
Dry Bottom crock has gone dry after a raid by a city and federal unit led by agents Murphy Holter Gerty Reddyt and Powell. two stills were found in an old tunnel, including a 150 gallon hip pocket flask replica and an 80 gallon unit. about 80 gallons of finished liquor were dumped into Dry Bottom creek. eight barrels of mash and equipment were destroyed. Henry Francini was arrested as a witness and Jack Silverton was jailed on a $400 bond, accused of supplying the operation. Also noted, Canada expressed sympathy for tornado victims to President Coolidge through the British ambassador.
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Cherry Creek
Henry Francini
Jack Silverton
Silverton
Dry
Detroit Free Press Moves to New Downtown Home
The Detroit Free Press nears completion of a 14 story building on the former Fort Shelby site, in the downtown business district between Cass Avenue and Wayne Street. The paper, founded as a weekly 94 years ago, will occupy the entire block with six main floors plus an upper level, housing editorial and mechanical staffs.
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Tietroit
Associated Press
Fort Shelby
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Detroit Tree Press
Cass Avenue
Wayne Street
Montana murder case near Geyser shocks Palo party
Charles Pallo, a Finlander, is jailed in Missoula county for murder near a Geyser ranch Sunday night. Kosti, Pallo’s best friend, was killed by a gunshot during a drunken dispute. Pallo claimed to have fired at an approaching figure, accidentally killing Kosti instead.
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Stanford
Charles Palle
August Kosti
Geyser
Kosti
Palo
Kelly
Pallo
Pallois
Basin News Briefs From Butte Helena Visit Families
Basin Basin reports social notes and local movements. Mrs August LGrbert and daughters visit F L Melcher in Butte where he recovers from a broken leg. Kathryn Morgan visits her father in Butte. Oliver Drenville and Matt Sands of Neihart in Butte guests. Mrs Louis Kain visits Helena. LeTour bakery opens with Anna Belle Fleming assisting. Kate Kirby and Marjorie Gillick honor guests in Butte. plan to reside in Helena. Sheriff Mountjoy and others connected to Hanson death attend radio concerts.
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Williams
C.E. Bartick
Helena
LeTour
Anna Belle Fleming
Kate Kirby
Marjorie Gillick
Butte
Dave Kirby
Miss Kirby
Miss Gillick
Bute
John Mountjoy
Ned Paradise
Judge
Let Knight
Undersherif
John. T. Hanson
Matt Kasela
Arthur Loiselle
John Guillio
Tach
Butte Shifts and Local Visitors Highlight Mining Notes
A crowded week in Butte features residents and visitors tied to mining interests. D. W. Shanks, a San Francisco mining engineer, inspects the Jib mine while James Lowry returns from Helena after his father Joseph Lowry underwent surgery. Clyde Darby attends the Ralph Filcher funeral as Filcher dies after leg surgery for gangrene. Others include Mrs. P. C. Comeau, Mrs. John Gendrew, and families linked to Butte, Cataract district, Basin creek, and East Helena mining claims. The radio quip from Harrisburg Telegraph ends the item.
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Atwater- Kent
A. S. Mooney
Butte
D. W. Shanks
Shanks
San Francisco
P. C. Comeau
James Lowry
Helena
Joseph Lowry
John Gendrew
Daugher
Clyde Darby
Ralph Filcher
Filcher
Joseph B
John* J. Filcher
Joseph DB. Fischer
Boulder
Joseph Stevens
Stevens
Mathe-Ferguson
Cataract
Henry
George Mayer
East Helena
Basin Creek
Talmadge Rhodes
Ed Wild
Jess Ripley
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Rastus
Fergus Co. Creamery
Hobson News
By Williams
OL Mothuh
Choteau Newspaper
Canada
Ottawa
Joseph Pape
Governor General of
Coolidge
Washington
Peter the Great
Edward Faust
Helena Girl
Mary Flening
Florence Jackson
Boston
Women's Industrial and Vocational Union
Miss Jackson
Basin News
Harrisburg Telegraph
Independent
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