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XHE CARBON COUNTY NEWS
CONTINUING THE CARS WN COUNTY CHRPNICLE
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$2.50 PER YEAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 25. 11124.
RED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY, MONTAN A .
VOL. 1 NO. 41.
GTONFED OF PROPERLY
^TRAINED AIR FORCE
U. 8. AWAK,
EQUIPPED
President is Making an
Effort to Put Service
on Footing of its Own.
CURRY BILL IB IMPORTANT
By Edward Percy Howard
Washington, D. C., Dec. 23.—France
has 50,000 aeroplanes in actual serv
ice.
Japan has seventeen factories work
ing night and day turning out aero
planes,
England has an air Admirality and
a startling national development In:
aeronautics.
America invented the aeroplane, bat
America has no air service worthy of
consideration.
These facts have burned themselves
Into the mind of President Gollidge.
Quietly he has been digesting the
growing comment of the press on this
subject. Calmly and without any
splash he has been analyzing the sit
uation relative to our national de
fense. Now, without any dramatic
message he has set out to give Ameri
ca her proper and sensible place in
the air.
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The President; is disposed to believe
the aeroplane is destined to supplant
the battleship as our first line of de
fense. He is determined to know
whether his judgment is correct. He
has put the subject before ««. expert,
board and ordered a thorough invest 1 -
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gation and report. While the war
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experts are working out their prob
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lem the President has sent to the
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Budget Bureau for facts and figures
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cohering the small appropriations al
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lotted to the various government <le
par men of ai n,p a.u purposes.
tVant Air Department and Secretary
Peculiarly, while the President is
thus pressing his inquiry, Charles F.
Curry, representative from California,
has introduced a bill providing for the
creation of a department headed by
a Secretary of'Aeronautics who would
have a place in the cabinet and direct
the entire aviation plans of the gov
It is not known whether
in the Cabinet
eminent.
this measure comes as a result of
conversations with the President or
indirectly at his saggestitm, or
whether the provisions aie the sole
creation of Mr. Curry, but there is
reason to believe the Pres ident
every
looks wifte favor an the most
Unies* the poJiijca! drago* shows
its head sqeh a measure staiids a
strong chance of adoption. Cœrtaixily
it will lead to a gmater umfiratto«
■ The Pnudeat
m longer ta jar
it ttea aervica to awasaha aa the mn
of
other governmental bodies to be cut
out whouavar a fiuaaeiai pain is felt
Th. «aval paiicy « i the «oMrnmeat
fairly w«H defined. The navy
will be kept up to the full treaty
Here and tnere compiami is «« «
that the development in aeronautics
is so electrical that aa soon as one
type of aeroplane is built it is ob
Toe 1 resident, however, pays
attention to such arguments. He
knows that the scrapping of aero
planes is as noth ng to the cost
scrapping battleships.' He senses the
fact that one daredevil American with
some high explosive and Yankee pluck
can sink a battteahip with its thous
and or eighteen hundred men in
less of influence or politics.
etnafth. hut a* aas«*. Thé* it is felt
will peewit of reasonable eapmnditur*
for the fievetopmeot of our air service.
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suggested, throng* the mere ,ex
te^e use of aeroplanes by the Post
Offic department, »mit ks^n,
theagh some of the members of Con
gross who are strongly in favor of a
aeronautic programme be
Whether the expansion will come,
vigorous
lieve this would be a wise way to
meet the situation. They contend that
a great air mail service should be es
tablished and bring to the govern
ment such income as it might be reas
onable to expect. The balance of ihe
cost could properly ue charged to the
cost of peace.
President Senses Va'ue of Yankees
rn the Air
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THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BEGINS UBS
WEEK. ITS CONTAGIOUS-WATCH OUT
^ wi1h th : 8 isfU( , we begin a series
J €dHor of the News believes to be among the
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ho?t of the various services offered to newspapers. It seems that the cross-,
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word puzzle has taken the place of the fads of the past several years, and;
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>s be! ner -".loved by both voung and old--the cross word puzzle, radio and
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Iwbbed hmr are the absorbing topics of the moment. In 1921 Coue was the
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rape: 1922 and 1923 everybody was play n" Mah Jong and yodelling "Yes,
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Wc Have no Bananas", and the end of 1924 sees us playing less Mah Jong,
^ ^ ^ , n th? , rrOBS word that w , forget to
Everbody's doing it—one sees the pazzle fans on the train, in Aie street c. es,
^ ^ ^ New Y „ k . Nöt , thy may be . but they
have got to figure out that puzzle.' We are told th«t the cross-word puzzle
was a favorite form of diversion in Armenia and Persia 600 years ago.
So we are glad to offer to our readers one puzzle each week, with'the answer
appearing in the issue of the following week and another one just as inter
es ting to keep you going and help you constrain your couriosity to see the
answer one week hence.
early, aad it may pe an inducement to get up earlier and beat the other mem
hers of the family in solving that "mazy puzzle",
We believe you won't care about going to bed so
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it 1ÖÖL HoLDS A
CHRISTMAS TREE
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principal social events;
^ ^ week vag ^ Chriatmaa portj
hcU *t .the teigte adhaaJ JtoaAay <•>»■
^ ^ the faeolty and Ae entiae kjgk
given Ant
which (consisted dl:
dhrtetea* daw»-The Seaier*
Paper ...IsuacRa Jonakovieh^
Montenegro Sole
Dialogue
ftano Solo.— Mias Edith Graham
Vocal Solo
Wiwdftud TWmun
Hary Ravage
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Cheyenne.--Nellie lay o ■ ■ 8
cm <f Wyoming am w °*
of the late Governor Ross as mu e<
no one to w tness her induction mo
of.office January 5, and will issue no in
citations, she sad.
She desires the inauguration .
mopy to be as simple as
cause of the tragedy of the circum
the,stances which are response for my
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(of o. nee.
Harvey Graham
.. Sarah »rfeeaJ
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Gladys SatSwan
Prophecy--—
Reading ..
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c# ved Ä g f t -pb* rest of tli* twn
wm gpe;lt in 4 iae ing, followed by
a del-clous lunch served by a coauait
tee.
BE ARCREEK TEAMS
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IN BASKET BALL
A Anilide header basket ball game
was held here Friday evening at the
high acbanl gymnasium whea the local
hojw an» girls played the > ■ h art
te » jw and rgtrln, the local tea au
wwteriouB iia both games. The
for On> ghfia -.was 18 to 20 in favor
the local gMs. The local boys won,
the score being :6 to 17.
The Ulne-qp itor the girl's te ase
The fey, team* were a. follows:
Roberts- -Reyn.o CentaliU and Tiro
jHomi, forward,-; James Deany and
Sam Hll atH WilfaH Mornn, guards:
Snfetitutes. Miles GasUin and George
Hunt.
I BeavereeV—Godfrey Shumeshek and
^ Rokura forwards; Phil Hoble,
center: Harvey Graham and Howard
Freeman, guards; substitute», Murray
and j 0 hnson. Their next gam« will:
be January 2 on the local floor when
, they will meet Edgar.
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Hagen fanwastta. Esther Wilson and
j j^ünpe W.aitoq. centers ; Florence
I Gaston and Bertha Wilson, guards,
^„titute. Ellen Aberhangssen.
( Bearcreat- Mar, îUikitis and An
nlç Kk forwards; Josephine Baa
tin and Nell Kane, craters; Mary Lai
kilis and Agent Me Neal. Guards; sub
otaulc> urana ..i.
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One Hundred Sacks
of Christmas Mail
Destfoyed in Fire
pn., Dec. 23—One j
pristmag mail were i
jly today when the <
go, St. Paul, Min
ta railway company
wight fire from an
pu! burned to the
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Worthington, j
hundred sacks ofj
destroyed here g|
mail car of Ghty
neapolis «MOM
six are;dead in
MONTANA DUE TO
A TBÉFIC STORM
Tobogganingpnnpcraturos heralded
'ard and southward
at cost ten lives in
n States and brot
ice and snow to the
a movement
of a cold wa
the Rocky
sub zenrol
Mofihtai
noi
W temperatures pre
|k Pacific coast from
■ter to the normally
Mslifornia.
teix deaths indirectly
le storm. Four per
w<
Monta
attributed ^
sons were klilad when a train struck
in Helena in a bilzzard. Rudolph
streetcar
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which was,stricken by a Great North
c J^V^nln o' TilZn and
George Benjamin, of tl d
Henry C. Norton, who l.ft a
land young b^by were
a car
Houle, moto*m»n of the
ern
of; .
! * n .'overheated »tove.
Rotary plows were used to clear
railroad track« In the Glacior National
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Park region where drifts 10 feet deep
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blocked the trains.
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Stockmen «re reported as having
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an abundance of hay and losses ai«
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heM to n,,rma '
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; his accilent.
suffocated in a Bozeman fire, due to
The icy- blasts extended into Utah,
' New Mexico and Colorado.
SANTA Ci AUS' M AIL
HEAVIER THAN E -ER
Washington. Pef. 23,-^The heaviest
mails in the history of the jwataloerv
ice are being handled today as the
result of the posting yesterday wf an
over-Sunday accumulation of Ckrl * t '
mas c : fts and greetings.
Meantime, adeem weather from
the Alleghenies to the Rockies has
slow«d up train service, bnt the* *an
d cap is being omcome.
Spurred by the «M« -that undxrno
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work after II o clock on Christ
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mas day nor report earlier that morn
iBft tteaa usual. ewpk»yaa uf U»e
service are slriva* la "etaun np" on.
time.
TVe ««Blanche of greeting cards and
of
gift pKkajtn litwufty is awwnipn«
s
«u over the eauatry, hut
petal official* ara aaufld os t all that
ai« " llnld tj jMUhal xif
fldals, cm the basis of current reports,
era* iaautier
will
have beau pc»i«d terasa yl* to
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BABY blKUNtH >
PâÇttS AW AT
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The Angel of Death «««red ^
home of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sironeu
122 North Hnggin Avaun. and claim
ed for hi, own their little seventeen
: month old daughler, Mah.1 Rachel on
Tuseday morning at «ne «dock. Her
j death which was quite »»dden was
j !ue to gastro mtoxicarion. Funeral
ervlces will be held from the home;
I on Thursday December 25. Intern-!
J ment will be made In the Red Lodge
| cemetery with B. Downard in charge.
The sorrowing parents hava the sym
pathy of a large circle of fr.ends in
their bereavement '
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O. H. P. Shelly, editor of the
on TuesÜ4y lreni a thre( ,
'weeks business trip to Chicago, New
York and Washington, D. C.
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to be tmm 26 to M per
than last year.
SUPREME COURT
1 DECIDES THAT ROY
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Walsh this year and the ''Peace on
Earth, Good Will to Men" will have
an empty ring in the ears of the con
j vieted slayer of Albert S, Johnson,
' store-keeper at Renova. The Supreme !
court of Montana in an opinion hand
ed down Tuesday morning decreed
that Walsh must pay the penalty for]
his crime on the scaffold. Walsh who j
is confined in the state prison at Deer
Lodge, following his transfer from the
Jefferson county jail at Boulder, will
be returned to Boulder where the
death sentence must be passed upon
him again and the dale fixed for his
execution.
The opinion was written by District
Judge Joseph R. Jackson of the Butte
district, sitting for Justice Rankin,
disqualified. All of the members of
the court concur.
Walsh was tried for the murder of
Johnson and was convicted and sen
tenced to hang. While confined in the
nly jail at Boulder, he escaped and
recaptured after many months in
Missouri, where he was then in prison
Helena, Dec. 23. (Special)-—It's to
a cheerless Christmas for Roy
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cou
was
for robbery.
I Appeal from the conviction was
taken by Walsh's attorneys who pre
aented a number of alleged errors by
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1 Sn * the • dmiMlon of the 1 ' CKed con '
d fes ^ n of Walgh The supreme court
t ftnds no reason to exclude this teatl-j
mony. nor the oraltestlmony of Bher
iff Knight, or any other objectai testi-,
j mony, or to find any reason for up
setting the verdict of guilty or the;
sentence passed.
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ANACONDA COPPER
RESUMES PAYMENT
' OF IT'S DIVIDENDS
New York, Dec. 23,—Christmas dis
tributiohs to .stockholders, in the form
resumed or extra dividends were
declarcd today by the Anaconda Cop
per company; the New York, Ontario
ftnd We9tern Railway, the American
Can company un d Lord ami Taylor,
the the paymBnts aggregating $3,680,056.1
an ^ of paymen ts by the
t ' i Anacoru i tt company took Wall Street
j. Hurprlgt>j as was shown by the fact
^ ^ g(jared two poinU with
has r fcw minuteg after the announce
^ mBde _ whj , e jt wag n0
gecrct th#t the copper companies had
by the rL , cent creases in
• th. price of the red metal, which now
^ arQUnd 14 3 . 4 _ 7 . 8 wntt 8
pound, it was generally expected that
the question of dividends on the cop
iper stocks would not be taken up un
I til the spring of next year. With
i three million shares of »60 par value
stock outstanding, the dividend wil
on.
and
hut
amount to »2.260.000.
that
I The directors authorised a quarterly
payment of 76 eeata a ateare, payable
xif- IPebruary 1« to teoldars of record Jan
usry 17. Dividend» were omitted on
IFebruary 26, 19*4. the last payment
of 76 cents having been made on Jan
will
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thitt dividend ,4,rectors
C '"'b^'^thedmectors,
^ng of the war. Payment.
(were ditinued last February,
^ ldt , d w .hon the prevailing conditions,
' mitlook for tne copper marke.
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on a «ajr
Her H A V K 4 Ä\ I AI.NJ
was K'MMWnrvnu asaaaa
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home; |yl!il/l/j|li\| HllJItll/ia 1
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mîm Mary Castagne, daughter of
Mr. and Mr*. A. 4. Castagne, became
in tb e bride of Frank Clark on Monday
at Billings, the Rev. Father Pattite t'
Billings performing the ceremony
News,'Miss Castagne attended high school
, in Red Lodge, where her parents re
side. Mr. CTark formerly lived in
Red Lcd 'C and is now employed oi
the Irrigation Project at Lather. Th.
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John L. Cable
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Representative John !.. Cable, Re j
publican, of Ohio, li . i idured In the
bouse a bill which prop «es that
should the house to il si null full to
elect s President after a deadlock,
the secretary of stale would uitomab
Ically become President. If anything
prevented the secretary of slate from
assuming the Presidency, (he next
ranking cal net mendier would take
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Montana tops the market with the
rri e. -ece'ved for its best wheat.
That prices paid th's year for wheat
of 1924 are good is shown by a let
commission house in Minneapolis.
1 When a carload of Montana wheat
MONT/ NA WHEïï
LEADS IN PRICE
j sells for $1.86 a bushel the maximum
I price seems to h ive been reached,
The letter conta, ned the folowing
I statement ;
"Last Saturday we gold a car of
I Montana Nit. ! hard spring wh ■ ,
j testing 62.5 pounds to the bushel, 16
I per cent gluten, at $1,85 per bushel,
wh'ch was on the basis of 31 cents
over our December future at the rime
of sale. This is the highest market
price paid on our spot market for any
wheat on this crop." '
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Montana Wheat Brings $1.98 5-8
Helena.—What is thought to bo the
highest price paid this year for wheat;
; has just been received by A. K. Pros
cot t of Helena for a carload of mar
j quis. sold for $1,96 5-8 a bushel to th.
| Imperial Elevator company at Mm
i neapolis. The wheal was from Mr.
Prescott's Rudyard, Hill county, farm.!
i Marquis is a variety of hard winter:
| wheat .
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CHRISTMAS PAGEANT,
TO BE GLEN TUESDAY
NIGHT AT THEATRE
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A program of Christmas carols and
appropriate tableau will be given by
the children of th* grade schools of
on
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Rad Lodge on Tuesday .1 the Roman
Dieatre. This is the annual Christ
mas festival, and the pageant which
will be given by several large chor
u»*s of selected voices, promise* to
i **> both beautiful and entertaining
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! Mwg»™ 1 Dexter ami the choruses
lh( , Wthj gixih , 8<îv .nth
^ ^ with Mi8s GrMce
^ Gardner and MU» Moatie Peterson as
heating. wWIeMis. Marian Drew will
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The evt 'J lU _' f
Shepherds " "The Am Wta. Men"
and "The Manger of Bethlehem" are
I J fea ^ r68 ot ' he «*"•»" 10
he presented. The number of children
taking pan in the program is assur-]
JnCe ^ ' h T Tk * l
voire * **> ma ^ e *b* P" Ktant both in-,
| spiring and phasing,
Admission will be twenty-five cents,
The proceeds w 11 be used to defray
j ibe expenses of the music memory
j contest which will be an event of lhe:
j t . al .i y tpr n g.
CONGRESS MAKES
A NEW RECORD
Washington, Dec. 22.—Congress
has adjourned over the Christmas
holidays after attaining what the
RADIO IMPROVE
MENIS ARE RAP
IDLY DEVELOPED
The Third Annual Radio Exposition
was recently held in Grand Central
Palace, New York. Those who watch
ed to see who collected the greatest
number of advertising phamplots and
asked the most questions, found that
boys from ten to eighteen years old
were in the lead.
Thé most powerful loud speaker in
the world was demonstrated by the
General Electric Company. It has a
range of five miles and is designed for
use in parks and large auditoriums.
Radio and the loud speaker are go
ing to make it possible fol - *he student
and thinker to compete for political
honors with the leather-lunged orator
of the past who had all th ' advantage
in reaching the public ear through the
spoken word,
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MRS. KOSONEN
LAST THURSDAY
With unified systems and high
powered broadcasting, the public will
receive increasing service from radio.
I After an "im-r- of but several days.
Mrs. Peter Kosonen expired Thursday
. . , (H . ul hospital, her death
^ g^at number of
fj ., andB a))( , ln , mediaUt relatives. most
i f w)||>m rwdd# in this c jLy. Mrs.
Ko()ont . n wa| ( orn ,e r ly Miss Mary
Warila, and was (torn twenty-seven
She leaves
years ago In Red Ledge,
two children, Mahle and Elma, her
mother Mrs, Sophia
husband, her
Warila and five brothers, John, Waino,
Fred, Otto and Berhard. She Is sur
vived also by four sisters, Mrs. Ferd
jnand Kos|d Mig „ viola Warila ami
^ Hp , en WbH , 8 b11 of wh om reside
in Red Lodge, and a sister, Mrs. Polus,
residing in Hollywood, California. The
funeral was delayed to await the
arrival of Mrs. Polqs, but was held on
afternoon, with R. G.
Wednesday
Martin in charge and Rev. Erkklla of
I flc|atln „ interment was mud in the
, ^ ccmetery The M ympauiy
community is extended to the
, j fnmüy Btl d many friends of
w ,.nmn who mourn her
^ ^ de .th.
WILL DISCUSS ROW
TO REDUCE LOSS' OF
LIFE IN THE MINES
Washington Dec, 22.—Means of
reducing the loss of lift in the coal
I mining Industry wifl be considered
by a national conference to be called
Mr | y j n t he new year by President,
ß po jj d g ei
The department of the Interior ami
bur(!(|U of minet have already
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■ The Carbon County High School
j Basket Bali Team went to Edgar on
| Friday evening where they defeated
i the Edgar High School team by a
gcore 0 f )2 to 8.
taken step* to arrange for the confer
and invitations will be sent out
after the governors-elect In the
principal coal mining states take
. office.
ence
soon
The meeting will include the repre
sentatives and the governors of the
principal coal producing states and
federal and state authorities, and rep
resentatives of the management and
workers of the industry.
CARBON C5UNTY
HIGH WINS GAMES
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This is said to be
the first defeat the Edgar team ever
suffered on its home floor. Saturday
night they played Park City here and
were again victorious, the score be
i ing 21 to 13.
1 leaders regard aa a good record io
legislation accomplishments in the
first three weeks of the present short
session.