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VOLUME 28. NUMBER 29
BELT, MONTANA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 5, 1922
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE!
Tighe Appointed
County Prosecutor
Considerable comment was indulged
in by our small town politicians when
the news was received of the resig
nation of County Attorney Howard G.
Bennet, but so far no better reason
than that stated by Mr. Bennet him
self for the move has been advanced
Mr. Bennet handed in his resignation
to he board of county commissioners
late Friday afternoon, and he board
at once appointed Chief Deputy W. J.
Tighe to the position. Mr. Tighe in
turn appointed Fred A. Ewald as
chief deputy and Julius J. Wuerth
ner as deputy county attorney to
serve under the new regime.
"I am retiring to attend to my pri
vate pracice," said Mr. Bennet. "and
for no other reason. I believe condi
tiens in Great Falls are on the eve
of the greatest showing the city has
ever known, and I desire to devote my
time to the building up of my own
business. I have had experience with
both Mr, Tighe and Mr. JüwaM in. of
fice, both having been deputies under
me during my time as county attor
ney, and I can commend them as fear
less, as well as tireless and efficient
officials, and with Mr. Wuerthner
added I am sure that the work of the
office will go ahead to the best inter
esta of the people of Cascade county,
Mr. Tighe is one of the best officials
it has ever been my pleasure to
meet and his appointment as county
attorney by the board of county com
missioners was a deserved Compli
Mr. Tighe, the new county attor
ney, is well known in Belt, and his ap- ;
proval here,.and there is no question
but he will make good in the office,
He has served as chjef deputy county
attorney under County Attorney Ben
net for three years and he has taken
an active part in the preparation and
trial of all the leading cases tried
during Mr. Bennet's tenure of office. I
Ho has been fearless in the prosecu
tion of violators of the law and is a
strong advocate of the prohibition
!
ment to a deserving official.
pointment meets with general
ap
law.
®*n> ca(k:i icutv in uemniK wun vioib
tions of that law. that constant, per
sistent. real efforts to enforce the
law, are less expensive and bring
about better results than sporadic at
tempts, yith long delays intervening ;
such attempts; He believes that by
the cooperative and systematic work ;
of the sheriff's office and county at- !
torney's office the prohibition law
can be enforced.
On Tuesday Mr Ewald declined to
accept the chief deputyship under Mr.
Tighe and expressed himself as not ?
in «coord with the past ami present
incumbents of the county attorney's .
office, and intimates that Mr. Ben
net's eulogy in. regard to his own
(Ewalds) work in the office is "pure r,
b "? k ", T . „ k ,
County Attorney Tighe states that
m the interest of economy that for ; N
the present at least he will not ap
point any deputy to succeed Mr. (
Ewald, but will attempt to carry on Tj
the work of the office with the assist- Rj
ance of Mr. Wuerthner.
When County Attorney Bennet '
made his appointment of deputies
there were no ex-service men to ap
point, the^service men having not yet
returned; when the service men re-!
turned Mr, Tighe offered to resign
and give a place to a service man, but
Mr. Bennet felt that the duties of
the office were such that he needed
Mr, Tighe who had then become fa
milirar with the duties of the office. 1
Mr. Tighe states that he intends to
strictly enforce the prohibition law
as well as other laws. He says from
his experience in dealing with viola
r
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W dliam t luhr, an all-around athlete
has accepted the task of making a
winning team of the Belt Valley High
basket shooters. Mr. Fluhr believes
he has the material here to nut the
Fluhr to Coach B V. H.
School Basketball Team
team on tW basketball map and- in-1
tends to do so if hard and conscien
tious practice count for anything.'
As yet he has not completed the line
up for the season, but has discovered
a lot of promising material which is
being tried out every evening at the
gym. Mr. Fluhr knows the game 1
himself and has the faculty of putting
pep into his associates and real re
suits are anticipated under his coach
The team- will play the Chou
mg.
teau boys at Fort Benton tomorrow
evenmg.
DISTRICT COURT CALENDAR
TRIMMED OF 224 CASES
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Civil actions numbering 224 were
dismissed from the district court
docket Friday for want of prosecution, j
All these cases have been pending In
in district court for the past three
years, with no action taken in any of
them since the date of filing. District
Judges J B. lioslie and H H. Ewing
ordered a spec ia l ra t li n g of the cat--K,
endar to dispose of these actions.
The dismissal of these serions does
not accomplish much in the way of
relieving the present congestion of the
file*. according to Clerk of the Court,
Alex Remneas There «re approxi- j
mutely 1,600 live cases on record now j
in hia office. Not all of the actions
are at issue, Mr. Remneas said, be
raiist- of failure to serve the summons
on the defendants. Many of the cares ■
will be tried during the February term [
of court.
Renames Cate as
"Black Diamond
ff
The new proprietor of Belt's old-}
; est eating house took charge of the
j business Sunday morning, and the
j impression was conveyed to the pat
rons in short order, that Mr. O. . H.
Johnson knows his business. Not that
the former proprietors were lacking in
knowledge of how a restaurant should'
be run,for there was no fault to be
found on that score, but the smooth
ness and dispatch which marked the
service of the new force in shtrange
surroundings clearly indicated a famil
iarity that only comes with long ex
perience.
Mr. Johnson states that he has come
to Belt to stay. He likes the place
and he likes the people he has so far
met. He also likes the business out
look and while he don't propose to
tear up the earth, all at once, he is
already planning to make "several im
provements in his place of business to
conform more in accordance with his!
ideas of what a real, u p - to - da te cafe
should be. To be more in keeping
with local traditions and geseral ap
propriateness, Mr. Johnson has de- 1
cided to rechristen the cafe and
henceforth it will be known as the
"Black Diamond Cafe.'' Quite a
few changes are contemplated in the
interior arrangements. First, the
dining room will be redecorated and
the floor laid with battleship linol
euni. the present booths will be re
placed by a larger dining hall with
tables and separated from the lunch
counter by a partition with curtained
passageways. It is probable also
that a door will be cut through the
wall between the cafe and Wilson's
ice cream establishment, in order that
diners mty be served with ice cream
without the necessity of going outside.
Mr. Johnson says he intends to
serve the people of Belt with the very
best the market affords at all times,
'cooked in the proper maner and with
the cleanliness that the highest san
itary authorities demand. He will
keep the cafe open for the present
until 12 o'clock at night and if the
business warrants intends to make it
an all-night cafe,
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u aSC u^ e i SS nuf * aS am ® n f l !j e . a,X
schools. The general fund d.a
fributed amounts to $191,947.91
leav,n * 4 * *" the ^easnry. and
; $ 18 - 63 2 Per capita on the
children of the county.
; „ l. he 5 1X schoo.Is at Great
! £ al1 . 8 ' Ca8cade - Belt > Stockett-Sand
Simms and Ion Shaw, re
ce,v ® » 9 7.682.96 in the apportion
"**?£. The a PPortionment by districts
g , 1 " 8 s« 11 ' 011 ar ® a8 follows;
? J, _ j r „„ u -a
Stockett-Sand Coule. 2 .n8.„l
. . , R , ,7
^Belt 31o.74
£ ^ ' 'SSS'SS
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; N jh 244079
ßj wm w 219 48
( p , uw >
Tj m Butte g W
Rj ^ vi , le 7453
Willow Creek 24222
Rrijlrr^an oobTi
Belf Park 354 01
Roosevelt 521 70
Tk e„n ? —• j
to Th |i f!° ^ T apportioned to
i the different high schools of the
jcounty:
I Great Falls
! Cascade
Stockett-Sand Coulee
Belt
Simms
^ or * Shaw
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r Coun ' y Superintendent of Schools
Jan ®, Keen ®y >> a8 J ust imisnea ap-j
PorDonment of th e general school
f uud of the county among the schools
Tax Apportionment
Gives School Gash
$65,843.65
6,263.48
9,175.58
11,484.67
2,397.34
2.508.23
Odd Fallows Install Of
ficers and K. P.'s Elect
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tbe Goal v alley Lodge No 54, I. O.
O. F„ was held last week resulting
in selecting the following: J A.
Light, N. G.r Lester Brodic, V. G.;
The semi-annual election of officers
Herbert Barber, secretary; Lawrence
Farmer, financial secretary; Albert
Castner, treasurer; D. W. Burnett,
trustee. The installation of the offi
jeers took place last night at the lodge
rooms. The appointive officers will
be named at the next regular session
of the lodge.-*
j Monday evening the regular session
of Cascade Lodge, Nof 39. K. of P., th#
following were elected as officers to
serve the ensuing term; J. A. Kier
stead, C. C.; Ernest Siegling. V. C.;
Mik* Kaasler, prelate; A- L. Wmaton
of B and S.; Tho s, N »bU, M. of F.;
M. at A.; Arthur Samuelson, I. G.;
Archie Sommerville, 0, G,; G«io. Hub
ber, M. of W ; !>■ praybeai. physi
clan. ' The installa^ton will be held
j next Monday.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES
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Rev. J. N. Cbeanut. D D., will con
duct service* at at Episcopal church
next Runday morning All an- cor
Chas. F. Rice, M. at B. ; Otto Venohr,
Idially invited to attend.
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The Belt Volunteer Fire Depart
ment has discovered the secret of
in „ th people of Belt and vicinity
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what the y want in the wa y °* enter
tainment, if the results of their sec-!
ond annual carnival is to be taken as
a guide. Belt has entertained large
gatherings on festive occasions dur
ing summer holidays, but no indoor
function has ever met with the success
as an entertainment and in a financial
way as the revivil of old time amuse-j
ments put on as an annual event by
the Belt fire fighters. The carnival
held last Friday and Saturday even-1
ings brought out even a larger crowd
than that of last year, although the
total receipts were a trifle less. Even
I at that the boys are more than sotis
fied as under present conditions, and
the fact that the carnival followed a
unusual a <- ti v ity in the «min ge
ment line, they did not expect the ex
traordinary success of their first ven
ture. The total receipts approximated
mi me iigiuug euunmiciu
tbus placing the taxpayers' as sharers
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f oT tbe two nights and there will
j be a handsome profit which will be
expended f or fj re fjgrting equipment
A noticeable feature was the smooth
ness with which every detail 0 f. the
program was carried out, the pro
meters and their assistants evidently
pro fiti n g by former experience. Not
a comp laint was entered at any time
and everybody apparently got a run
for their money ^ ig mea * t a can ,.
fu i supervision over all the depart
ments and lotg of haH work by thoae
who contributed their time and efforts
k th a „, ir .
The idea of the carnival was simple
enoUfrh Briefly it was an atte mpt
h°n?h' Ct ^ ^ °! ^ to " fF
hall the various recreations that tre
Pion-r. of .u p p„. f ,l
have indulged in The licensed gam
, blm ^ hoU8 f: the da "ce hall and the sa- ;
]oOI l 7**5 ^Tto* W to 8Up P ly CUr .' '
rent funds and the Chinese Restaurant
to ? t6r Vilf to"^ Were tl ?® thin ^
J» 4 ■"P | P h *J ^ . *«»uemc a t and
b £ U -* ht ? t b ® ^ b made the
affair a financial success.
B •» estimated that 500 peopk
WeFe ln . attendance each night of the
carnival and it was real work for
tbo#t> ^ve their Service« to op?r-;Ml8s
ating the various devices for separ
atjng the crowd from their money
Inese were mostly members of the
department and volunteers, being fully
repaid by the unqualified success of
the whole affair. AH entered Into Hie
spirit,of the occasion and probably en
joyed it as much as those who had
nothing to do but amuse themselves,
Nevertheless the department desire
to extend their appreciation to at!
those non-members for their coopéra
ion and realize that they owe much for
The carnival opened at 8 o'clock
Friday evening the crowd arriving at
the appoined hour. The Sagebrush
hank was the first place visked where
current funds for the evening could
secured. The bank was presided over
by A. L. Winston and Chas F. ok
and was a busy institution every min
ute of the time during the.entire car
nival. The funds furnished upon ex
ceadinglv liberal terms were current
at all place* in the hall and the rou
lette wheel in charge of ffm. Miller
and Phil Leveille. faro bank presided
over by L. J. Clergy, J. W Leland
their interest and assistance.
OVER THREE-FOURTHS CITY TAX IN
-According to City Treasurer
Provin's report to be filed tonight
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with the city council, 77 ,l-3 per - cn
of the t*». list of the City of Belt
haa been collected The total amount
to be collected was $13,841.98 and to
date $10,702.80 ha* been paid into the
treasurer's office, leaving $3,139.89
to be collected. According to Mr.
Provin this compares favorably with
the collections made last year, i on
sidering the conditions at present oh
taining.
By far the larger part of the de
Irnouencies are traceable to the ex
! and R. H. Bemis and the black-jack
giv-'ffame operated by Lee Turner and
' John Jaap wert> "° on doin K " good
* I business, which continued through
'1 out the carnival. The arrival af a five
piece orchestra under the leadership
of Mrs. R. G. Parker, pianiste, as
sisted by Miss Alice Beaudry, ' inlin-j
ist«-; M. T. Messelt, violin and sax-!
aphone; Phil Dunstan, trombone, and
Raymond Millard, traps and xylfn
: phone, called the dancers to the
floor and while the crowd was too
I dense for much more than a "mill-!
ring around" they seemed to enjoy!
themselves hugely. The only inter
1 mission in the dancing was to give
: managers of the floor, Ben Thor
| sen. Will Millard, A, Want«; Ernest
; Troutman and Cal Sharrard, time to
! collect the tolls, while there was a
a (constant stream going to the res
ilai-raaL ami bar^ lhe former being
' hanilivd in an expert mander by'
! Chars. F. Rice, Earl Rector and dar
j enoe Summen ille, The bar was
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Thos. Davis presiding, relieved uc
casionally by Judge Olson, collected
numerous fines while order was main
; tainetl by.^heriff N H Browning a n4,
j Deputies Dare-Gray and E. W. Bur-[
nett. One fellow who called hlms.df
| 3 A. Kierstead, opened up th^-iiofor
; loa« "soap game' but was promptly
pinched though he had disposed of
( most of his wares. Old timers
claim to have recognized him as the
original "Soapy Smith."
The prize waltz was a feature of
'h. fim ...nin,, (u% fifty eoupfc.
competing. The judges gave the
award of $5.00 to Mrs Ben Thorsen
and William Johnson. Much interest
was displayed in the ladies popular
«•», c.r«.t With ,-ch pwrt.«.
current funds a ticket was iMued.
; the voter writing the name of h.s j
' ch ° IC !, a , nd d «P 0S " tln « ln the ba,Iot bo *
provided. The votes were counted ;
day - and te . n °' c,ock the
ond evening the winner announced. !
The committee chosen to roun.the :
votes found over 50 names, the high
est ^ing Miss Nelie Klimas with
IL876 vote.; Mn Ben Thorsen 10 -
400, and Miss Ebba Lundell, 9,750.
TClimas~was declared Thé 'Winner'^
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ably managed by Mike Kessler and
1 Ed Peterson and did a rushing b "*-1
mess. The kangaroo court, Judge
amid great applause and was pre- :
sented with a beautiful pearl necklace.
(». W. Merkle making the presentation
speech in his usual graceful and easy
manner. Mr. Merkle took desperate
chances by appearing in full dress, i
claw-hammer coat, opera hat and all. u
but fortunately the gathering was !
tolerant and he got away with it. I
Miss Klimas was prettily .emharrased
and not being equal to the speech
called tor by the crowd, responded 1
with a song and received an encore. ;
We almost forgot to mention that
she was also crowned queen of the
carnival,
cosmopolitan gathering, cowboys and
cowgirls, negroes and Chinamen, the
elite and the commoner met and
mixed. The be-diamoned and-light-.
fingered gambler hobnobbed with the.
sheep herder and nabob and «very- !
body stayed to the finish with two
holidays ahead to make up for lost
sleep, and it required it if the testi-l°
mony of thos«- who stuck faithfully
to the job for the two nights is to be
relied upon.
a brilliant and
It was altogether
A
;
cessive cost of the 1919 sidewalk
"matmetion which in the case of
many vaeant loU on side streets.
nmotmt „ prmbtia ^fy to eonfiaeation.
7^ f, na) ootPom<; Q f the problem
these lets present to the city is
pretty hard to guess, hut it will he one
that will engage the attention of the
city council for some lime to come,
Aside from the delinquencies in these
lots referred to, the list is remark
ably small and In most cases for ineig
nificant amounts. Property upon
which taxes are delinquent will be
sold at public auction January 20,
1922.
ID School Board Dis
I cuss Retrenchment
board were present at the regular
routine business of allowing the cur
All members of the Belt school
rent mon Gily hills and accepting the
resignation of Miss Alice McFadden,
teacher of the 6th grade, was quickly
disposed of, and then the perennial;
Z, discussion of the question of school j
boys infesting the pool halls was en- '
tered into with the result that all pro
prietors of poc# halls be requested to
^ follow the example of Mr. Harris,
'' who has forbidden all boys attending «■
school to frequent his place of bus
iness.
Miss Treo Knutson of Portland, N.
Dak., arrive«! yesterday morning to
take the position of teacher inthe 0(h
grade, made vacant by the resignation
Misa Alice McFadden.
The statement of Clerk John S.
Pearson of the total of tax collections
the district, amountig to $15,667.64,
called the attention of the board to
tb e ^ uot tbat * be y'' ar *y expenses of
operating the schools of this district
exceeds by a large margin the rev
tnues. A few hundred dollars are ex
l ,ecte( * t0 ^ *dded through the trans
!W '^ 00 * money of outside dis
j tricta from which pupils are attending
the Belt schools, but this will not by
" ny means m *l ce U P the deficit, in
r ^ ac t will be but a very small item,
.Tentative discussion of ways and
means did not present anything tan
Kib l e in the way of « solution, and
the statement of one member of the
board that "the difficulties of financ
ing schools was a very common com
plaint among most of the districU of
the state" did not convey a great^^bis
amount of comfort to the members of
the local board. While many sugges
1 tions toward economy in the way of
combining different departments
were put forward, to most of them in
surmountable difficulties presented
themselves at once, the result being
J nothing definite was arrived at. The
matter will undoubtedly serve as a
topic for discussion for some time.
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*" e w e*teni play given by the Kp
j worth League last week was conceded
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1 r t . Henderson olaved a
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of ,, „ .. ixirne^efV.nkev a*
if- Br °l"'." R h an t d h ifTi
«nLndWlv white
Ted Johnsori t^ing tin tvtrt
of ; r ' , hr (1 . notice^ Ts to b»
JüîrAÂ"' * *
Eleanor Peters as Floise nlaved
thr „™Zf awest.r^, ^ro.ne in toll
m !f aahio n t her work boinfr pra ^ d
u v _n Fhh« I nnH«ll «nrt Hnfh
thf foj? "Ï" U»' «"
wi f t . and the latter as the major's
j d hU; aIgo djd we „ and thp othpr
* minor characters in the play filled in
; nicety
The League expects to produce two
! more nurrberj , ^ spri nr hoping
: th<fPeby t o pay in full for their new
j 7 hj ' ar
The play ' was" a financial success,
- „„ about , 80 was clearpd in the two
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1 by all present to be one of the finest
"*-1 entertainments put on this season,
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i
: jq ew Year's day in Belt was a sam
ple of thf . b<Mjt e f forta of the weather
; n hamlintr ouf nerfeet winter
W( . a ther. A warm sun and balmy air
«lu.rt of the »now the
i riay winding up with a gentle rain in
u be eV ening
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Valley Post No. 101, American Le
gion, will be held in the K. of P. hall
neX t Thursday evening,
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ne - 10 wh,ch 8,1 Ud,ea el,,f,ble for
Legion to Discuss Or
ganization of Auxiliary
The next regular meeting of Belt
In order to
the auxiliary are cordially invited.
A short program of entertainment has
been arranged and the subject of the
; auxiliary will be discussed. The mem
bers of the post desire it to be under
is not—as some have intimated a
branch of the Legion designed for the
purpose of providing "feeds" and en
U rtainment for the male « of the or -
jigmal organization.
The Women's Auxiliary is com-j
posed of the mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters of all veterans of the
world war who served in any branch
of the U. S. army and navy between
April 6. 1917, and Nov. II, 1918
The meeting next week is held for
the purpose of determining the
amount of interest in the matter by
the ladies themselves snd if sufficient
interest is manifested the work of or.
iganization wllf begin at once —■-
Leland Picks Up
Party Joy Riders
! carT , iva rï**yed too strong for four
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a8 a result Deputy Sheriff J. W. Le
; Tre attractions of the Firemen's
; land, upon telephone advice from
I Falls, am-sted Gus Kost,
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j William Heed in the K.
' while they were enjoying the delights
of the carnival about midnight Sat
unlay evening. The boys, none of
whom were over 17, had stolen a
«■ Ford car from Charles A. Martin of
Great Falls, while the owner, who
was attending a New Year's eve
church program. He reported the car
stolen about ten o'clock Saturday
night. It was recovered before mid
night and returned to the owner Sun
iday morning before dawn. The car
1 was not damaged beyond being liber
ally coated with mud, the officers
said.
of P. hall
Sheriff Bob Gordon notified Dep
uty Sheriff Leland by telephone and
then with Deputy Sheriff Guy Pr.lagi,
started for Belt where he found tho
arrest had been made Sheriff Gor
don incidentally visited the carnival,
gave the roulette wheel and faro hank
the "once over", sited up the cur
rency in evidence with a look
preme disgust on his countenance, left
the halL The sheriff, however, had
better luck when he visited Jimmy
Danno's place, the Burlington soft
drink establishment, wrere a poker
game was in progress with sute
enough money in sight It resulted in
Jimmy taking a free ride to Great
Falls to keep the sheriff company,
is not exactly a uniqu * exper
ience for Jimmy, neither is the in
side of a jail anything new in his
life. He was recently released from
a term in jail for bootlegging, and
promised to be good. Jimmy's in
tentions may be all right, but his
performance lacks technique. He was
mixed up in a shooting scrape here
several months «go. for which Tony
Moretlo is now serving « term in the
pen. His establishment has been un
der surveillance by the authorities
* or 8ome time now
The quartette of youngsters to
gether with the confiscated car was
tak< * n in char « e b y De P u *y Sheriff
Pala » fit ' and taken to Great Falls
With
pea ranee in public after the arrival
j n s r4 , taken to her home
j n Great Fall*, the officers with
holding her name in deference to her
parents,
The boys fold the sheriff that they
did not intend to steal the car, but
j uat want<1<1 a nde
D»nno was released Tuesday under
.»300 bonds, while the boys are being
held while the case nf John Ballos,
who is charged with furnishing liquor
10 theTn ia ot- Ballos denies
selling them liquor, but was identified
by Koat Ballos is an employe
of th< ' P° o1 hal1 in Great Fa,,s '
of su
£he laiys was a young girl
condition did not permit her ap
b»
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STEVE ELY REMAINS
HEAD OF FEDERATION
Charles Gilden df Bear Creek, elec
ted president of the Montana Feder
i ntion of Labor irt October by a vote of
1,888 to 1,698 is not to take office be
cause of ineligibility, it was an
nounced Thursday in Helena by John
T. Taylor, secretary of the state feder
ation. Stephen Ely, incumbent, who
made the race against Gildea. will
continue in office, Mr. Taylor said.
Gildea's membership in the coal
miners' union at Bear Creek was de
clared forfeited for non-payment of
dues, Mr. Taylor announced.
Florek Sells Meat Mar
ket to Great Falls Party
Mr. and Mrs. Colgren and children
of Great Falls have taken up their
residence in Belt, Mr. Colgren having
! concluded a deal by whu h he become^
i the proprietor of the Central Cash
Meat Market, operated for the past
j 10 years by F. S. Florek. Mr. Col
; gren will take possession of the mar
j ket next Monday,
Mr. Florek is as yet undecided as
i to his future movements, but will
probably remain in Belt for the pres
ent at least, to look after other inter
ests. He still retains ownership of
his ranch located in Armington
Coulee, upon which he slaughter
house used in connection with the
market is located.
John Florek, who has been associ
ated with his father in the market,
expects to leave soon for the coast
and may locate there if he finds a
suitable opening.
County j^uditor r. U. Kooaevelt
la8 t Saturday afternoon announced
tha t he had decided to reduce his of
fftrr force m the mtcrests of eomomy,
and to that end had accepted the res
ignation of Mins Mary Hanson, who
has been one of the very efficient dep
utie» in (hat office for the past three
vear* Miss Hansen ha* had charge
largely of the outside work of the o.f
fice, and worked in conjunction with
the Res! Pros* in taking eare of the
need* of the outside por. Mias Han
sen will be given a vacation of a
month beginning Sunday, January 1,
her resignation to take effect Feb. I.
COUNTY AUDITOR ROOSEVELT
ECONOMIZES IN OFFICE