Shortage of 6804.75 Found in Former Powell County Treasurer Books
Deputy State Examiner A E Williamson reports a 6804.75 shortage across several items in the late M F Hayes treasurer accounts. No receipts were issued for school warrants and bonds, and funds were not accounted for. Bonding company to audit soon.
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Deer Lodge
A. E. Williamson
Board of County Commissioners
Powell County
M. F. Hayes
State of Montana
Williamson
Doctors Prevent Woman From Dying or Dose of Poison
Eva Collett a rooming house proprietor was treated for lysol poisoning after reportedly draining two small bottles amid despondency. She recovered by morning. A prowler was caught in the act of robbing her rooming house. John McFartin was arrested at the Dillon hotel on suspicion of the crime.
Wheat Threshed by Auto Light in Montana Fields
Ole Holland of the Ingomar district is said to be the only farmer in southeastern Montana to thresh his 1925 crop by artificial light. The John Metz nee outfit from Vanarida arrived around nine p.m. and lighted the field using a truck and lanterns. By midnight about 250 bushels were threshed and a late supper was served. Roy McCool and Albert McClain also threshing nearby this fall yielded 1900 bushels of wheat and 1750 bushels of oats.
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Miles City
Ole Holland
Ingomar
Montana
John Metznee
Vanarida
Holand
Holland
Roy McCool
Albert McClain
Watson News reports local travels and incidents from Sept 30
The Watson community lists several trips and movements to the Springs and Missouri Valley. Leslie and Arthur Watson with wives and Miss Luella A. Watson attend the Legion smoker. Maxie Sarter joins the Catisnan drive. Cattle movements by Townsend Cattle Co and Raven Bros pass through in winter snow. Jean Raleigh, resident with parents in Seattle, was knocked unconscious at a school play but has recovered.
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Maxie Sarter
Catisnan
Raven Bros
Warren Hawkins
Ruth Burtt
Missouri Valley
Burtt
Rail Ranch
Townsend
A. P. Moran
Denver
Colo
Josephine Sherman
Jean Raleigh
Seattle
Highway Work Begins On Hardin Road Project
Highway Commissioner W J Mulvaney announced spring start for the Hardin route linking the Hardin Billings highway along the Crow Indian Reservation. Funds are limited by a meager appropriation and staff shortages delay bid specifications though survey data is in hand. Construction costs will be largely covered by Yellowstone and Big Horn counties with Indian funds paying for the reservation section.
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Killings-Hardin
Custer Battlefield
Hill
W. J. Mulvaney
Helena
Legislative Assembly
Mulvaney
Hardin-Billings
Engineers’ Office
Commission
Crow Indian Reservation
Peter Hoe
Coburn
Toluca
Hardin
Thhe Reservation
Yellowstone
Big Yorn
Martinsdale Social Roundup Reveals Visits and Events
Meagher County News reports visitors and local happenings from Martinsdale and nearby towns. Entries include guests from Ringling Lewistown and Kalispell, school students at Harlowton, trips to Missoula Chicago and Wyoming, bridge prizes in Martinsdale, and a healing visit by Mrs. Glen Holmes.
Summoned to Kill Stray Finds It Blooded Airedale
Sept 30 At Anaconda Patrolman Tom Edmunds was called to a city outskirts residence by a woman who feared a stray dog. He found a young Airedale resembling the famed Peggy and unable to shoot. Peggy's likeness to the old prize suggests she may be Peggy's daughter. Peggy has a home now while her offspring are sold nationwide.
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Anaconda
Peggy
Tom Edmunds
Marion
Oldhio
Edmunds
Dad Comes to Take Back 4 Runaways in Billings
Bilings report states F P Raymond of Minneapolis, father of one runaway, arrived by train to fetch the four youths detained at the city jail after a Minneapolis police telegram. The group will travel home in a touring car owned by one of the boys, per Raymond. He questioned why the boys ran away, saying they have everything they want.
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Mr. Raymond
Wolf Point Family Motors 5000 Miles on Eastern Journey
Mr and Mrs Feed Small and Miss Elisa Small returned from a seven week auto tour covering over 9000 miles with Mrs L By Page of Boston joining for the winter. They traveled via Buffalo across New York to the White Mountains then spent three weeks in Maine visiting sites including West Quoddy Lighthouse. They gathered Passamaquoddy Indian basket work from the trip.
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Jessie Bierman
Kalispell
Jerry Breen
Perry Moore
Chicago
Bierman
Rush Metical College
Moore
W. B. Galvin
Judith Gap
William Wyles
Santa Barbara
California
Wyles
Montana
Helena
Lewistown
Great Falls
W. W. Coates
Vant Todd
Harlowton
van Ayke
Harden
la Sirie
Mra
Marion
Meece
Wyomin
Roundup
Mel. van Alstine
Sayre
Wolf Point
Feed Small
Elisa Small
West Quoddy Fighthouse
United States
Massachusetts
New York
Indian Newlyweds Bar Mother-in-Law at Glacier Park
Glacier Park Montana September 30 read of Indian newlyweds at Glacier National Park reservation choosing independence from mothers in law. The unwritten Indian law favors couples living in their own tepee with less talk and fewer gestures as they start married life in an independent state of mind.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Glacier National Park Reservation
Local Belgrade Personal News and Visits
Belgrade residents travel to Auburn California Mostow Idaho and Long Beach California for family and business visits. Local social activity includes Bridge Luncheon club at Bozeman with high score to Mrs Rabingen and Belgrade Eastern Star members attending Lily of the Valley chapter in Bozeman.
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Belgrade
Ell Hyling
Auburn
Calif
Mea
L. E. Marden
Derke Jel Byante
Mostow
Idaho
Arthur Shepperd
Clarke Switzler
Louise
Ralph Freek
Butte
Emma Sheperd
Reudink
Holland Church
J. W. Orr
W. Wi. Casper
Bridge
Bozeman
J. B. Rabingen
Clarence Stacey
Robert Diefenderfer
Long Beach
Cal
Dan Fisher
Seattle
The
Eastern Star
Lily of the Valley
R. W. Orr
Helena
Agnesse
Intermountain Union Colege
Newnan
Mel Lean
Sugar factory starts up with 700 on payroll location
Billings reports the Great Western Sugar Company begins the 1923 beet campaign with 700 workers on three shifts as 10,000 tons of beets are unloaded. W. P. Hogarty says capacity will reach 3,000 tons daily. weather eases digging and sugar content runs about 15.5 percent.
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Great Western Sugar Company
W. P. Hogarty
Hogarty
Hagarty
Sidney
Convicts Majority of 76 Liquor Defendants at Great Falls
Great Falls report says sixty seven of the seventy six defendants brought to trial in U S district court on liquor charges were convicted during the term. Assistant United States District Attorney Francis A Silver led the prosecutions. Three defendants were acquitted and three cases were continued and dismissed.
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Great Falls
U. S. District Court
United States District
Francis A. Silver
Chinese Laundryman Drugged in Early Morning Robbery
Quong Chong a Chinese laundryman at 2816 First Avenue South reports two men entered through a rear window early Thursday, drugged him with ether, and stole his watch worth 85 dollars and about 5 dollars in currency and silver. He suspects an outside lookout while the others searched the shop.
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Billings
Quong Chong
First Avenue South
Quong
Court bars 10 year old as witness in Montana divorce case
In Butte Judge W E Carroll refused to let a 10 year old boy testify against his mother in the divorce case Mary Mengon versus Gregory Mengon. He disqualified himself and asked Judge Gr J Lynch to hear the case. The trial, after two days, was abruptly halted. In a separate note Sioux City reports Mrs Lillian McKee received two years in Rockwell City reformatories for slaying her newborn.
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Butte
Mary Mengon
Gregory Mengon
W. E. Carroll
District Court
Gr. J. Lynch
Silver Bow
Sioux City
Sept
Rockwell City
Lillian McKee
Sprague Says Senate Testimony Not Entirely True
Col Sprague, treasurer for Wood 1920 campaign, testified in federal court that parts of his prior statements to the Senate committee on campaign expenditures were not entirely correct. He defended his Senate testimony as biased by the committee’s aims and said he signed a note with Col Proctor as a guarantor merely to aid a bank loan.
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Chicago
A. Sprague
Leonard Wood
Senate
Tal
Sprague
William C. Proctor
Cicinnati
Wood
Proctor
Coronel Sprague
Senate Committee
Frank C. Lowden
Tili
Reed
William Froctor
cTayseli
Habla
Daily average gross crude oil production declining in week
U S crude oil production fell for the week ended September 35 per API summary, totaling about 2.104 million barrels daily. California and Texas regions showed declines. New York area and other districts reported mixed changes with price quotes mostly steady across major districts.
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New York
API
United States
American Petroleum Institute
Smackover
Ark
Alifornia
Oklahoma
Kansas
North Texas
Texarse
Cen Itral
Texas
North Lonigiana
Arkanaan
Barrala
California
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Pennsylvania
Bradford
Gale Coast
Basin News Local Social Roundup and Visitors
Basins area notes list Bil Waasman’s night accident near Basin on his return from Boulder Valley and his escape with slight injuries. Visitors from Boulder and Butte stop in, including Miss Alta Kylee and Bernard LeRoy, Mike Sullivan at Great Northern Nepal, and Edward Yeager with daughter Marguerite. Mrs Yeager and family travel to Butte for a christening. others visit relatives and attend social events in Basin.
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Basin
Bil Waasman
Boulder Valley
Sam Dawe
Boulder
J. 7
Rule
Glenn Seamen
the Lowlands
Alta Kylee
Bernard
Mary LeRoy
Boulder High School
Robert LeRoy
Mike Sullivan
Butte
Nepal
Earl Williams
Edward Yeager
Marguerite
Steele
Lena Kostad
Katherine
Arthur
Professor
Wahl
A. B. Stabler
Bennie
Seattle
Chicago Sheriff Faces Punishment in Bribery Case
In Judge James H. Wilkerson's court the sheriff Peter M. Coffman was hinted to be punished for lax jail conditions tied to a bribery scheme involving Terrence Craggan and Frank Lake. Druggan and Lake testified paying thousands for jail absences and favors, as Sheriff Hoffman denied full responsibility and blamed ex-warden Wesley Westbrook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Igher-Unt
Cook County
Terrence Craggan
Frank Lake
James H. Wilkerson
Peter M. Coffman
Druggan
Lake
Hoffman
Cicago
Holy Terror Sued for Defamation in New York Case
In New York on Sept 30 a defamation suit seeks $230,000 from singer Lydia Locke Dornblaser by Mrs. Marks over alleged poison pen mailings. Dornblaser, a four time wife of Arthur H. Marks, faced prior cases including a 1900s Reno shooting acquittal.
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New York
Arthur H. Marks
Lydia Locke Dornblaser
Marks
Margaret Hoover
Pittsburgh
Dornblaser
Orville Hareld
Metropolitan Opera
A. W
Prince) Talbot
Reno
Cent
Kansas City
Great Northern Engine Sets World Distance Record
Engine No. 2517 of the Great Northern completed a 3,600 mile run from Seattle to St Paul in 110 hours with 24 engineers and 24 firemen aboard. The train carried Japanese goods and joined fast mail No. 27 from the Atlantic coast. The locomotive is among eight new heavy speed engines for transcontinental service.
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Seattle
Wash
Great Northeen Railway
St. Paul
Japan
St. Pan
Atlantic Coast
Great Northern
Lincoln County Lake Stocked with Sunfish
The Troy Sports men's association received a shipment of sunfish from the state hatchery at Samera and planted them in Savage lake. This first sunfish shipment for the community included twenty cans with fingerling sized fish. officials expect good results.
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Troy
Sept. M
Troy Sportsmen's Association
Samera
Glen Savage
Savage Lake
Troy Water System Test Charts Strong Capacity
Troy's new water system underwent a capacity test at the roundhouse filling a 100 gallon tank in 2 hours 10 minutes. While the tank filled sprinklers and other water sources operated to prove the supply meets city needs for years. Patent leather shoes with a mother of pearl effect are being introduced in England for men.
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Troy
Roundhouse
England
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Watson News
Hardin Highway
Meagher County News
Martinsdale
John Lucas
Ringling
Marguerite Moore
Helen Moore
Helen Baxter
James Law
Moore Ranch
Rose Martin
Harold Darnell
Harlowton High School
Gerrold Evarts
State University
Missoula
Eileen Barrows
Buffalo
Glen Holmes
Henry van Camp
Aloha Bridge Club
George Lyons
Harry Dean
Marion Coates
R. A. Martin
Bair Corporation
Ralph Good and Sons
Mr. Good
Wolf Point Family Motors
Indian Newlyweds Bar
Belgrade News
Basin News
Bastile
Holy Terror
Lincoln County
G. W
Guittard
Abe
Concord
Canada
Mountain Pride
Hewlett's
Castile Son
Garton
Heiser & Finnegan Grocery Company
South Main Street
Shelby
NEW Oriental Limited
Spokane
Pacific Coast Points
S. A. Garrity General Agent
L, B. Woods, A. G.F
G. AL
State Nursery & Seed Co
Fuller Ave
Independent
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