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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1925
Page
7
unsettled midweek with likely rain across Montame. local notices include service ads for rugs cleaning moving and tires, and a May 22 tourist rate detail. craft class at Helena Woman's club meets this afternoon. note filed for $300 promissory debt in district court against Herbert Brady and wife.
Washington May 12 Approximately 5 000 000 acres of land held by the Northern Pacific Railway company can be recaptured by the government. Forest service attorney D F McGowan told the congressional land grants inquiry that the land could compensate for alleged illegal sales by the railroad. James B Kerr for the railway called the position astonishing noting 1885 foreclosure and private sales of about 3 900 000 acres against public auction requirements.
Governor and Mrs. John Erickson plan to attend the Norse-American Centennial at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St Paul on June 6 7 and 8. The event marks the 1825 voyage of the Res taurationen known as the Norwegian Mayflower. Lt. Gov. W S McCormack will act as governor in Erickson's absence.
National Hospital Day was celebrated by Hospitals of the Capital city and Fort Harrison US Public Health Service hospital to honor Florence Nightingale. Large crowds visited St Peter's St Johns and the Veterans Hospital with guides by Boy Scouts. A Red Cross program featured Mrs Foley L Waters and musical performances by Intermountain Glee Club Hayden Trio East Helena Band and Sisters of Charity at St Johns. Mrs J E Erickson headed a reception committee at St Peters with open house at the nurse's home and teas served by a coordinated group of attendants.
B F Leinard a Lincoln stockman pleaded not guilty to malicious killing of horses in district court arraignment before Judge A J Horsky. He was released on cash bail of 1040 after arrest by Sheriff Jim Barnes and Deputy William Bossler days earlier.
Bozeman and Livingston visitors fill Helena as H M Grant J H W Flicke J B H McElroy Winton Werdemeyer and others arrive on business. Great Falls Great Falls Red Lodge continue to send names through the Placer hotel. White Sulphur Springs and Billings residents are listed as visitors.
National day activities drew large crowds of visitors to Fort Harrison veterans hospital and St. John's and St. Peter's hospitals in Helena. Tea was served 2 to 5 at the fort, with musical numbers by Mrs. Foley Waters, the Hayden trio, Intermountain College Glee Club, and Smelter band performers. Scouts guided guests. Legion Auxiliary hosted. St. John's welcomed by Sisters of Charity and nurses. St. Peter's tea led by Mrs. John B. Erickson. A large reception committee and many volunteers arranged teas and entertainment for guests and staff.
Jury brought in verdict after deliberating into the night in the case of Mrs. C. F. Kelleher against the Helena Light and Railway company for alleged damages. The panel included foreman Charles R. Brazier and jurors R. S. Baxter, Thomas Williams, H. R. Apple, Roy Allen, J. S. A. McCormick, Glen Miller, Frank Aagard, Dan Blomgren, Homer S. Cooper, H. Weinreiter, and T. W. Hillis.
Enrollment for salesmanship psychology and personal development classes at the Commercial club under University of Montana auspices proceeds well. Names include H Fligelman Norman Winestine Nellie Kenyon and Grace Manning among others. Brewer will speak at the high school Rotary and Intermountain college. governor Erickson calls department heads to statehouse for a Brewer address.
Helena Montana highlights a high school Vigilante Day parade with a staged stagecoach holdup on Main Street across Sixth Avenue. Pupils portraying pioneers gamblers and vigilantes ride a parade route featuring a Covered Wagon miners and cowboys. Committees led by Jed Stark and Ande Burke organized the event with a picnic at Broadwater afterward.
B J Walliams of The Paraffing Companies predicts sales conventions will move to radio. He spoke on KGO in San Francisco with an audience of about a million listeners. Williams, a prominent sales manager, will continue weekly talks, including Types of Selling, as sales teams nationwide follow his broadcasts.
Roy Houger a former Great Northern railroad brakeman from Hayie, convicted in the 1923 Walter bank robbery, has minimum term reduced by one year by the governor. He is eligible for parole immediately and was confined March 31, 1924. A May 26 pardons board hearing will review clemency.
Richard J. Lally of Mount St Charles wins first in the state intercollegiate oratorical contest judged unanimously by Associate Justice John A. Matthews Lester H. Loble and John G Brown. Williams of Intermountain Union takes second with a defense of youth morals and Weydemeier of Aftoniana State College places third advocating Montana resource conservation. Prizes: 39 to Lally, 20 to Williams, 19 to Weydemeier.
A tree will be planted by the Woman's club donor in Hill Park this afternoon at 4 30. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. The club gave the tree under a resolution adopted by the Federation of Woman's clubs in Los Angeles.
Mrs Alice E Lees widow of Charles Lees died yesterday at the family home 922 Sixth Ave aged 61 Arrangements were incomplete last night The body is at Herrmann and company's chapel Survived by son Joseph Lees Helena and daughter Mrs William F Bossler Helena plus eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren from Helena Chicago and elsewhere
John Sheldon and Miss Ethel Knudsen both employed by the U S Veterans Bureau wed in Boulder last Saturday friends surprised by the ceremony. The bride was transferred from Minneapolis to Helena recently. Sheldon heads the storeroom at the bureau office.
Scallon and Wine, attorneys for Charles P. Gross of Oakland as trustee, filed in U S district court a foreclosure action on the Jib Consolidated Mining property in Jefferson county claiming a mortgage in excess of 263000. Stockholders seek injunction in Boulder. Trustee to seek transfer to federal court. Defendants include the mining company and others.
The May Montana crop report notes 60 percent spring sowing by May 1 with favorable soil. rye and hay crops strong though winter wheat suffered 70 percent abandonment due to severe winter. Expected barley 2.846 million bushels, rye 2.03 million, hay and pastures near normal, spring planting well advanced, but farm labor tight.
Mrs. Janet Rowand of the Red Cross is pursuing job opportunities for Joe Korelevich, a Russian immigrant who arrived ten years ago and lost an arm and a leg in a railroad accident. He trained in telegraphy at a Spokane school and graduated Lincoln County High School. He is willing to take clerical or elevator work, though no telegraphy positions are available, and a contact number is provided.
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