Belt Valley times. [volume], December 25, 1924, Image 1

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VOLUME ft. NUMBER 28.
BELT, MONTANA,
T, DECEMBER £5, MS4.
IXJBPK* TSAR IN A0TANOR
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BURLINGAME TO
CENTERVILLE IS
WOMEN FRIDAY
A fair-«»ad crowd at the Auditor
ium last Friday night saw the Cen
terville basketball team trim the lo
cals to the tune of 14 to 8.
This eras the first game of the seu
sou for enr high school squad and
considerable interest eras shown by
the townspeople in the result.
Numerous cere of Stockett and
Sand Coulee people brought their con
tingenta of fans to witness the game.
The preliminary was played by the
first and second teams of the fresh
men, who wallowed through four
was subordin
ated to wrestling and onfy the will to
win was admired in the dogged per
sistence of the players. The second
team were victorious by a score of 7
quarter* in which aid»
"• a
The main event of the evening was
hardly started before it was evident
that the visitors had the locals out
classed. Brit made one field goal
while the Stockett-Sand Coulee bunch
made seven. Only one foul was called
and that on Centerville.
Snyder was the star for the visitors
while it is impossible to select s Belt
player who stood out above the rest
M. L. Crouch was ref«
The line-up follow«;
Outer «file
Snyder (6) —... Sanderson (1)
Right Forward
Broquist (4).McCafferty (2)
Newmack
Left Forward
Chesbro (4) . . ..
Center
Simoni*
+ + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + +
Banos .
. . Snook
Right Guard
Leslie ........
Note
- Left Guard
After the game a dance was held
to which a large number remained.
The p ts ceede of this part of th« en
tertainment are to be used in defray
ing *he expense of three high school
hoys to the vocational conference
As we understand IK the Great
Northern Railway
furnishes free
mas supply the rooms, but the boy»
are required to furnish their own
meals. A sufficient sum was realized
tat this purpose.
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MONARCH
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Sunday night He
visited foe mine« to HughesviUe and
toft for his home to Butte Monday.
. Henry Daniela and Chaa. O'Kennan
drove ant from Great Palls W
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(Continued from last week)
Char lee Becfcstrom returned from
W. MaxweiL «tato mim
day and visited hors a abort ttose.*
They were aa their
y to Hugfaes
viQe after spending several days in
the Electric City.
Neihart Monday ediere he delivered a
load of beef.
Mrs. L Oraker came home from the
F«lis Friday where she had spent foe
week shopping and visiting.
Cert SakUne of foe W. H. George
Undertaking parlor was a brief vis
iter her« Monday white on his way to
Neihart on a professional call.
Oecar and Adalph Anderson ware in
ftwm their ranch at Ktohey Wednéa
day.
to I
at
They had been Bring at
. foe
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LKWBflWWK.Cad Crack «S
roy
for
on
torafo bring made for 1926 dHja at «8
VOLF POINT
koé.amif M fNspOs te 16Î2, now
baa
Senator James M Burlingame of
Great Pails and Mias Eloiae Corbin
of Hammond, La., wiü be married at
Hammond *»n Dseember 27, accord
in* to wedding invitations received
by friends of Mr. Burlingame hers
Monday. The wedding will take pises
at the Grace Memorial church of that
city at 6 p. m. Immediately after (Be
wedding, Senator and Mrs. Burlin
game wit! leave on
a wedding trip
which will include Cuba, the Panama
Canal, and Washington and New
York. They will return to Greet
Falls about January 15 to make their
home. Mias Corbin spent last
mer in Great Palls, Senator Burlin
game is one of the early residents of
Great Falla, having established hia
residence there 88 years ago.
sum
WALTER SAYS EARL IS
GETTING GUN-SHY
On Monday W. C. Blomqoiat and J.
E. Healey drove out to visit Frank
Sheldon in Mr. Blomquist's car. Wal
fred Sheldon and wife were in town
and Mrs. Sheldon rode back with these
gentlemen in order to escape Awing
the bitter cold south wind.
As they were driving merrily along
something exploded with the noise of
a Big Bertha and the acrid smoke of
a modern gun. The noise and smoke
seemed to come from the heater in
the bottom of the car. Mr. Blomquist
stopped and investigated but found
nothing and they proceeded m foefr
way. Waiter says that the only re*
son that Bari did not leave his seat
when the explosion occurred was th« t
Ws hair, standing straight up, wedged
him tight in hia place.
Subsequent investigation proved
that in
period
-82 special rifle shell had rolled down
into the heater and had now exploded.
The copper shell was badly shattered
but the bullet was hardly marred.
PROMOTOR OP BIG FIGHT
RECOUPS HIS LOSSES
Jim Johnson, mayor of Shelby, to
day has hie second chance within
few months to recoup the fortune he
lost in promoting the Dempsey-Gib
bons fight, staged }n hia town July 4,
1928. A well drilled by e syndicate
of which Johnson is the head, recently
brought in a well in the Kevin Sun
burst field that was estimated by ex
perienced oil operators to be good for
10.000 barrels production every 24
at!
T* 1 « well is a gusher, foe stream of
oil hurled from the casing top hitting
the crown
block continuously for 28
minutes before it subsided. Since
(then the well has flowed continuously
rising to the top of the derrick at in
teevak.
JohMM1 ^ to have lamt
to flW) {>00 ti%m
1 ^^ * ** ***
Christmas entertainment this
( Wednesday) evening at 7:80. A
8:000 P**™* *nd treat for Sunday
• cho ° l
Sunday services, U a. m. and 7:80 j
P. m. in charge of Oovfodaie Gospel
Te * m ' . 1
Sramiy school ,t 10 a. m
''XL tu. „
Watfo-night urnes December 81.
banning at 8:80 p. m.
Banquet, literary program and de
bate Saturday, Dee. 27, in K. P. h«»
9:90 p, m
CHURCH NOTH
Hany T. Bteeg, pastor.
You are welcome at all there
rices.
GEEAT PALLS — Kevin Sunburst J
fk>W *^* *M proàaemg weite Md
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4JX»JS60 foot rerniri
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GREAT FALLS - Pipe line deliv
«ries firm» C«t Creek for October werrfL
m.m barrel., and from Kevin-Sw,
barst I29J9I barrels J
— Valley hotel is to he
» capacity, to cos* 840480. I
BILLINGS -s- 12 carloads tu rke y s
loaded out from thte seetion.
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In common with the average business man,
the Belt Valley Times has not made a barrel of
money the past year. We have got by and ...
fed that in doing so we are about on a par with '
our neighbors.
Times have been nolle too jfixxl and If we"
have managed to merit the good will of a majority li
of our patrons and te be read by oar subscribers
we shall be satisfied. We feel a debt of gratitude
to the people in the valley who have treated us
with such considerstie«, and white wishing our
readers the compHmeaets of the »mam, we prom
tee that eg the tiuwk Improve The Brit Valley
Times will keep pern.
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Industrial Review
HAVRE— Six carloads of 11,600
turkeys, worth near I45JMM, shipped
this year. '
LEWTSTOWN — American Legion
plans to finance a 176,000 memo rial
building.
Sidney — 100 teams hauling gravel
for concrete foundation for |!. 500 , 00 o
sugar factory.
SHELBY — Royal Canadian Syn
dicate, with 18,000 acres American
rights, will drilL
KEVIN — Allen No. 4 well, Big
West property, has 1000 feet oU at
1418 foot depth
LEWISTOWN — Eleven cars of!
bogs loaded out in three days.
LAUREL — Local beet growers re-1
cehre first payment of $208476 on
38446 tons beets.
Christmas turkeys, worth 1114,000'
shipped in ftv« days.
SIDNEY — Local organizations
pledge aid to WflHaton North Peko-1
to, irrigation project, omitted from
federal appropriation list
LIBBY _ Ex^nrttonal n . B .r
ti ^tT predicted for 1926 bv well-in
formed mining mm
onfr^M^teto lït
J £?" 86 W ' '
u 8 " ,p or * f Butte
WHITBFISH — Cite eonaril votes
fw* water, light* and caretaker fat
city skating rink
MEDICINE LAKE — 486,000 bash
els of grain, 80 per cent of crop, al
Sheridan coun
ty produced 10,724^00 in now wealth
during 1924, an average of more than
I UK» per capita; fobs included all
farm and mine products.
GREAT FALLS — 18 carloads of
PLENTYWOOD
ready shipped out
WOLF POINT — With no bogs
shipped from Roosevelt count* in 1921
fofoyejtf «[«retteim lOtTeartoad» wiD
go from here, worth $2)566 a car J
FALLS — Montana
* a? • trik « 25.000,600-f^t gasser
HELENA — For year ending Oct.
Hrmtewa produced over 2600JK»
**™*
MISSOULA — 999 acre* timber i«]
Kamk*« National Forest sold at $96,
per acre. WMta phse brought t* per
thousand fast.
MONTANA wheat shipments, Au
gust to November, were 17,168 cars.
Total ear shipments for November
wer* 40.894.
CUT BANK — Greet Northern has
sprat $116,000 in rebuilding Cut
Bank river bridge.
HELENA — Petroleum county,
segregated from Fergus county by
popular election, will b eco m e separ
ate unit February 22.
MISSOULA — Manganese mining
in Granite Valley becomes important
industry, three or four cars being
shipped dally.
HAVRE — Oxford block, recently
burned, will be rebuilt at cost of ap
proximately 185,000.
MILES CITY — Stete Industrial
school contracts for three building«
to cost $48448
GREAT PA1 I.S hnr*.
for ^.
tinano^ h pi !, be built for
*
Bg '* JWG8 " Moddrell wall, Mid
Ü** F*wspect in Big Lake district,
flow« oH at 8848 feet Drilling con
015 Luce tease, at 2770 foetj
PBtn,,n, *»1« is to be continued. i
CHINOOK — 40,000,000 foot gaas
er rtrock at 1000 feet by Montana
*"**** *0™ «trocture. Reduc
tkm plant planned to extract g.roline
rrmteni
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GREAT FALLS — New leaaes for
*** ^ 28 000 ^
** * <fc<rrw,BOn Consolidated com
Wayne structure,
ÜWBi ll
SHDNSTy — New Holly sugar foe- !
BUTTE — Contract let for 8180,
000 Elks' Temple.
'to east $1,600,000 is first to to
to Aasenca since world war,
LEWISTOWN —Oil royalties paid
com-ifNH^S. land office for Septem
b«r pète *9,4«»,99. 1
r^tLS - WM. «P
Line company earned 13,93« barrels
from K evin-Sonhuret field during
October
GSHHT PALLS — Rising price of u(
tine may lead to reopening Douglas
nfoss sw Fbw creek i
BASKETBALL SCBBDULB
Jan. 2 -0 pen.
Jan. Kte-Caseade at Belt.
Jan. 16-17—County tournament
Great Falb.
Jan. 28—Belt at Omtorville.
Jan. 24—Great Falla at Belt.
Jan. 29—Moccasin at Belt
Jan. 81—Belt at Cascade.
Feb. 6— Opm. V « . ' ! - '
Feb. 18—Shelby at Balt.
Feb. 20—Choteau at Brit
FIRE UNDER WHTTKHS REPORT
ON BELTS FIRE HAZARDS
Located on both sides of Beit
Creek, about twenty-five miles south
of Great Falls, on foe Great Falls
Billings branch of the Greet Northern
R ailway, The population as Niven by
the 1920 United Stabes Genaue was
064; present population estimated
1,000. The town is the center of a
coal mining and agricultural dtetrict.fi*'«
The town enure an area of one'*
m** forty per sent el
Mela Street
) varies from «fast*
square e
which is
fCastner
' «wem
ty-ftv* I
foet in width;
are uniformly sixty feet The tow»*
Me is practically level, grades a»
«WÜwl None of the streets aw
paved, end et times are in very poor
condition. i
There u no United States weather
teMsa» at Belt, hut reseeds frira fosi
•tetloK at Retenu, located ahmri sJ8
test —
lag twwnty-ftro mites «a hour
on the «veregs of ninety-eight times
« year, their prevailing direction be
ing from the west. Records alee
show that snowfall it such as to
a moderato interruption to traffic.
Extended parted« of
and hot dry weather are mod
erateiy frequent.
No records ere kept of firs tosses
but from information Um losses
the past five-year period have been
moderate
Firs Fighting FedHttea.
Water System—Ownership: Orig
inally installed by a private corpora
tion in IBM, but owned by the city
since 1918. The water system is ra
der the saner«! supeevtrion of
mayor and city council, with a de
tailed employee in immediate charge
of operation and maintenance. There
are no records or maps showing the
general location and •!«« of mains,
hydrants and gat« valves.
GeneraVOntlinc of System—Sup-;
ply is taken from well located on foe
bank of Belt Creek, raised by pomp
to steel tank, then by gravity to
tribu tion system.
Source of Supply—A timber lined
seepage well, located about 100
from the wf«t bank of Belt Creek
about one-third of a mile south of
the P rinci P*l mercantile district, is
14x26 feet in aise, and excavated to s
depth of 52 foot through gravel and
cUy - Th * W * H * ribb ^ with Z inch
ri«»k «> »*« b>eb posts, with foe up
^ 16 {eet „^forced with concrete.
Water stands in well within If feet
of the top, and It is claimed that the
water level remains practically the
same st all times.
Equipment—A 60 H. P., 2200-volt |
Westinghouse induction motor is dl
connected to a two-stage Wor
thingUm pump, with a rated capacity
f »■**«"• Pf
5 lDC *> roc4lon "«»• * nd ***'
discharge. Under present conditions
pump delivers about 186 gallons per
minute
Pumping Station-1. . deUcbea.
ont .-,tory. shingle roof stone building
woo< j ending. Pump is located
in a pit about 8 feet below the g«n
oral ground level. Concrete
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Power wiring is in conduit; light wir
ing is open Store to* t. Ca re and
cleanHnees, good.
side protection.
Etectnc power 1 » supplied by the
JS*. Ita, from th,it
aUt ions. atom
twL ^ f * e m]teg J >um g fr „ ice line
pumps i. part of foe local distrub
j on t y t rcm Which Î* severely ex
through town. •
(Continued « last page.)
No instete or out
Montana Power Company, over a
On New Year's «v» the Balt Dam
men, than whom Hm» la no
progressiva body in tbs stets, wt» put
on their annual frotte at tbs K, «f F.
hall in Brit
There will be only one night «f f*sv
but this night will be stretched to
cover the endurance of ray of foe
young folks. It wiU probably tern
from 8 p. m, to g *. m„ whom foe
jdrlty of the «semen go m
There «HU ha -something doing
minute and there will he a»
for misring any of It Um
will have a pood crowd—they atomy«
do—and they will make same atony,
at(h«t just as like at not they wifi ham
e^wid and spend that money for a
track, or an «»tension Sadder, er
Bandrud feet of hose, or some stun«
**»t which increase* our for« m.
*•«*•. »rites as steep better 8a
a»d *
Th« best «1 musicians wBl he fti iwi
084 iMtfra ** | r _
** *>• «« to add m four tew
** r ***> ***** to ta» «ssii« jwsr «f -
?ort# wlH ** wkomcéi for e «tagte«
*■ • haPMT «mwi and the fire
V? f* 8 '
Wk 0*v Obaidte
f*" 1 B,,îy W®
*Hte tees
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foe on* wtoch iß of fm «heute atetiy.
Whrit mmrn- for the Nori&ariww,
eiasn dbowdsr fer foi Yanks, end fof
Dancing, vaudeville «tunte, any «I«
«uw« you want, and a crowd out for
• Mg time will feature the affair.
If you min it you will be accused
'Iof growing old.
for
SCOTT LEAVITT WILL GMT
CHAIR ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
I At the conclusion of Ife*
rose!on of eengreaf, which «nark» Um
expiration of tho 68th congress, ft to
Scott Leavitt will become
of the house Indian affair* committee
which will mean transferring fols Im
portant poet from New York to Men
tana. But one member «8 foe rspafo
licen aide of the committee outrank
ing Mr. Leavitt will be in foe 69tb
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*** ** ®°F»* G Jrimson «N
j 8outh just sleeted for his 6th
consecutive term, but who about a
jf®* r **> became chairman of foe
| W0Tl d war veterans legislative com
mittce. It is understood that he de
sires to retain this pines, and since a
|™«nb«r can bold hut one chairman
j ^P- Mr Leavitt is to tow for
P®* 4 now hrid by Indian Affidrs
Chairman Horn«- P. Snyder of New
j York, who did not seek redaction
Indien affair« committee a year age.
Mr, Leavitt placed at the head of sev
en other new republican members,
giving him a rank of sixth from foe
top. Thé only two republican mem
tors defeated on November 4 had
pi««, ,b«,d of him on this commfc
tee, Sidney C Roach of Missouri
R c . ^ole of Ohio. Johnson's desire
n0t to ^ up U * oth * r chairmanship
In drawing lots for seniority on foe
and
eliminates him, and Snyder and F. W.
Dallinger of Massachusetts were not
candidates for redaction.
In addition to Indian affairs. Mr.
Leavitt holds membership on foe Ir
rigation and reclamation, public lands,
mines and mining, and railways and
canals committees, Bet one Montane
representative to date has held a
house chairmanship, he being Tam
Carter, who wa« head of th« games
and mining committer white «erring
»rating in Montana show 38,868, mem
loaded in September,, with-$8,487 Ibr
September. 1921
as Montana's first congressman, back
in 1891.
BUTTE
Improved at coat of 86 069
HELENA — Eleven mlhomte m
Peoples Chitrrii toing'
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