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OFFICIAL PAPER OF CARBON COUNTY AND CITY OP RED LODGE
RED LODGE DAILY NEWS
VOL. 2. NO. 151.
CARBON COUNTY NEWS
VOL. XII. NO. 13.
RED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935.
BIDS FDR DAM
CALLED JUNE 15
Red Lodge Creek Dam to be
Started Soon After
First of July
Bids for the construction of the
Red Lodge creek dam, largest of
four water reservoirs panned for
the Rock creek irrigation project,
largest in the state's water con
servation plan as drawn up by Gov.
F. H. Cooney and other Montana
officials, have been called for June
15 by the state water conservation
board.
The announcement was made
Thursday at Helena and call for
the proposals is published in this
issue of THE NEWS.
announcement
word from Washington, D. C., that
federal government officials had
given their final approval for a
grant of $826,000 in public works
funds for the construction of the
Rock creek water conservation sy
stem.
The Red Lodge creek dam, the
main structure of the system, calls
followed
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for the construction of three weirs
and an earth dam and appurtenant
structures on a site selected near
the Wilson school house.
Building of the structure will en
tail the clearing of 7 acres, plow*'
ing of 18 acres, stripping of 125,
380 cubic yards of earth and the
excavating of 75,870 cubic yards of
solid rock and 335,600 cubic yards
of sand and gravel.
The embankment willl require
944,800 cubic yards of earth and
the back fill 66,330 cubic yards of
earth. Structural excavation will
require the removal of 1,860 yards
of earth and rock.
v Into the structure will go 1,800
lineal feet of drain tile, 68,000
feet of lumber, 118,126 pounds of
structural steel, 7,600 pounds of
structural iron, 1,455 cubic yards
of concrete and 750 square yards
of paving, besides minor items in
cluding gates, valves, gauges and
other equipment.^
The Red Lodge creek reservoir
when completed will be 110 feet
high, 2,250 feet in length and 25
feet in width at its top. It will be
an earth-filled structure with its
face surfaced with rock and con
crete.
All labor for the project is to be
furnished through the Ipcal feder
al reemployment office and it is
expected that a crew of 50 men
will be put to work immiediately
on award of the contract in clear
ing the dam site. Three hundred
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LOCAL GUN CLUB
OFFERING PRIZES
Sponsor Three Contests to
Rid County of Crows
And Magpies
Prizes for the extermination of
crows and magpies and the eggs
of these field pests are being offer
ed to county hunters in a series of
three contests sponsored * by the
Red Lodge Rod and Gun club, M.
H, Mann, president of the club an
nounces.
One contest is now in progress
and closes May 31. Other contests
are spaced two weeks apart.
Prizes offered include $2 for
first place, $1.56 fop second place,
$1 for third place and 56 cents for
fourth place. Contestants are
scored on points as follows: for
heads of old birds, either magpies
or crows, 5 points; for heads of
young birds, either magpies or
crows, 3 points, and for eggs of
either magpies or crows, one point.
Contestants are declared winners
in the order of number of points
scored.
The contest closing May 31 will
be followed immediately by a new
contest extending to June 15 when
another contest will be started im
mediately with July 1 as the clos
ing date. Winners of the May 31
contest will receive their prizes on
Monday, June 3.
The local club is making an ex
tensive campaign this year against
the magpie and crow population of
the county. The club's contests are
expected to entice many young
men and boys inter the field in the
war to exterminate the pests. '
Highway Construction On New
Scenic Route To Park Is To
Be Resumed Soon, Is Report
Resumption of highway con
struction work on the new scenic
Red Lodge-Cooke City approach
rOad to Yellowstone park is expect
ed to get underway this year with
in the next two weeks, it was said
here upon the arrival ,pi| gQ&à offi
cials this Week. ;*■ *"
Harry È. Mitchell, resident en
gineer of the highway construc
tion, arrived here early ,Saturday
evening from federal (bureau of
public roads district headquarters
at Portland, Ore., for this season's
activities.
Mr. Mitehell is now getting ar
rangements under way to resume
highway work on the new scenic
park route as soon as possible. He
is located at the bureau's head
quarters in this region at Richel
lodge as formerly.
Sunday, Mr. Mitchell reported
driving to the third switchback
along the Rock creek canyon wall.
Snow prevented further travel
past that point. Snowbanks are
beginning to soften and melt in
the higher regions, it was stated,
and it is believed that the warmer
weather of the next two weeks
will enable opening of the high
COUNTY 4-H CLUB
WORK CONTINUES
ON THE INCREASE
Five New Clubs Formed in
Week Bring Total
To Twenty-Six
With the organization of three
additional clubs in Red Lodge, one
in the White Horse community,
one in Luther and one in Fromberg
the past week, the total number
of 4-H clubs in Carbon county has
risen to a total of 26 with a total
membership well over 225, the
county extension office here re
ported.
Many enrollment cards of newly
formed clubs are coming in daily
at the local office, it was said.
Of the new clubs 'formed, Mrs.
Marion Pogue wiff act as leader
of the Luther girls' clothing club,
Miss Gertrude Oliver as leader of
the Red Lodge first year clothing
club, Mrs. 0. R. Heck as leader of
the second year clothing club of
Red Lodge, Mrs. Florence Skinner
as leader of the breakfast club of
Red Lodge girls, T. J. Davenport
as leader of the White Horse baby
beef club for boys and Miss The
resa Arrington of Fromberg as
leader of a clothing club at From
berg.
Miss Pauline Bunting, assistant
state 4-H club leader, was in Car
bon on Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, visiting girls' clubs at the
rate of eight clubs a day, giving
instructions and assisting such
clubs in getting started.
County Agent O. P. Roberts has
been visiting boys' clubs of the
county in ithe same capacity, giv
ing his assistance and advice.
Several more clubs are expected
to complete organization in the
next few days, it was stated, and it
is desired that all dub enrollments
be as near complete as possible
by June 1, so that all members
can get started on their projects.
MEMBERS OP COUNTY
WOMAN CLUBS MEET
WITH STATE LEADER
Representatives of six woman's
clubs in Carbon county met with
Miss Blanche, L. Lee, state home
demonstration agent, at the county
extension office here Monday and
laid plans to carry on home dem
onstration work in a limited way
in the county for the coming year.
Clubs represented at the meet
ing included: the Luther Woman's
club, the Draper Community club,
the Red Lodge Woman's club, the
Clear Creek community P. T. A.,
the Joliet .Sunshine club and the
Edgar Woman's club.
A tentative program was drawn
up Monday and a meeting of dele
gates slated for next fall, when a
home demonstration specialist will
come to the county to give train
ing in this specialized work.
A bee's average load of nectar
weighs about half as much as the
bee itself. -
way for the resumption of work
this year.
The resident engineer reported
that rock slides had been numerous
along the new route during the
past winter and spring and said
that it would require considerable
labor to clear the rock falls.
While highway work is not feas
ible on the plateau section of the
route, where considerable sui'fac
ing and oiling remains to be com
pleted tips year, the S. J. Groves
and Sons company, Minneapolis
contractors of the surfacing and
oiling work on the major units of
the new road, put crews to work
Tuesday on the 59-A forest section
of the route south of Red Lodge.
The crews, according to D. G.
Bell, local company superintend
ent, are engaged in clearing drain
ditches and culverts and in pre
paring the road surface of the
nearly five-mile stretch prepara
tory to the start of oiling opera
tions. The oiling operations,, the
superintendent said, would get un
derway as soon as favorable
weather sets in.
The Groves company opened a
local office for their operations in
this region at Red Lodge this
week, it was also announced. The
office is located in space in the
Improvement, block and is in
charge of Frank Leese.
RODEO COINS NOW
IN CIRCULATION
Coins Commemorate Scenic
Highway and 1935
Celebration
A new medium of exchange
made its appearance here Friday
when the Red Lodge Rodeo associ
ation distributed locally several
hundred dollars worth of rodeo
souvenir coins, commemorating the
1935 show on July 4-5-6 and the
new scenic Red Lodge-Cooke City
approach highway to Yellowstone
National park.
The coins have a face value of
50 cents each and are good in
trade at all local business estab
lishments or redeemable in cash at
the United .States National bank in
this city. The coins are void after
July 8, 1935, and must be redeem
ed on or before that date.
One side of the new half-dollar
souvenir piece bears a reproduction
of the switchback section of the
Red Lodge park approach highway,
while the reverse side displays a
pitching bronco, together with
show dates of the 1935 Red Lodge
rodeo.
H. C. Olcott, chairman of the
rodeo association committee in
charge of this unique advertising
stunt for this year's show, urges
that all local citizens cooperate to
give the coins as wide a circulation
as possible. He points out that the
amount represented by each coin
is on deposit in the local bank and
can be secured at anytime up to
the expiration date.
RED LODGE SHUNTS
DAYLIGHT SAVING
Plan Is Abandoned Friday
Night After A Two
Weeks' Trial
Daylight saving time has been
tried here and found wanting.
The city of Red Lodge, after less
operation, stopped
16 o'clock Friday
than two we
its clocks,
night, turned the hands back an
hour and continued business "as
usual".
Requesting the resumption of
mountain standard time, Mayor G.
A. Jeffery said many protests had
been heard against the "save-an
hour" schedule since it became ef
fective on May 11.,
Failure of other towns in the
county and rural people to adopt
the plan made things confusing
here, he said, and caused some city
merchants to protest that they
were losing much of the out-of
town and rural trade because of
the earlier closing hour.
. More than 1,506 people _
written biographies of Lincoln.
LIFE OF LOCAL
Alvin Adams, 19, Slips and
Falls Beneath Wheel
Of Vehicle
Alvin Adams, 19, son of Mrs.
John Leckie of Red Lodge, was in
stantly killed near Billings at
11:30 a. m. Monday when he was
crushed beneath the rear wheel of
a loaded six-ton truck driven by
his cousin, L. W. Stetson of Bil
lings.
Young Adams .slipped and fell
beneath the wheel while attempt
ing to board the moving vehice,
which was engaged in hauling soil
for a PWA project in Billings.
Shortly before the accident,
Adams had ridden in the truck.
with his cousin to the scene of the
loading operations, five miles
north of Billings on the Acton
road. He was seeking employment
on the project and interviewed D.
Cleveland, contractor and his form
ed employer, on the subject.
The youth, it was said, stood
watching loading operations for a
time when suddenly he saw the
truck driven by his cousin start
for Billings and, apparently decid
ing to return with his cousin, at
tempted to board the vehicle while
it was in motion.
Eye-witnesses said Adams miss
ed his hold on the sill of the open
cab window and fell to the ground
under the truck. A six-wheeled ve
hicle, the dual right rear wheel
passed over his chest, crashing his
shoulder and several ribs and
causing an inteShag^ Ämorrhage.
He was dead when rushed to a
Billings hospital by nearby work
men.
Besides his mother here, young
Adams is survived by his step
father, John Leckie, old-time resi
dent of Red Lodge and Carbon
county. He leaves also a sister,
Mrs. Lester Stinson of Roberts,
and five brothers, Crescent of Ro
berts and Jack, Leonard, William
and Elmer of Red Lodge.
Funeral services are being con
ducted this (Wednesday) after
noon at Roberts. Interment will be
in the cemetery there .
GREAT FALLS JOB
GIVEN LOCAL FIRM
BODY
Red Lodge Plumbing Firm
Gets Contract at State
School Building
The Red Lodge'Plumbing and
Heating company hete was award
ed a contract for the installation
of plumbing and heating equip
ment in the new state school for
the deaf and blind to be erected at
Great Falls. /
Award of the contract to the lo
cal firm was made llpy the state
board of education at Hëlena Mon
day-when bids for the school's con
struction were opened. The Red
Lodge company was the lowest
bidder for the plumbing and heat
ing of the new construction, sub
mitting a figure of $18,696.
The figure was only $24 lower
than the next lowest bid for plumb
ing and heating, submitted by the
firm of Garrahan and Pinski of
Great Falls.
Total cost of construction of the
new state institution is $137,426.
Contract for general construction
work was let to Pappin and Son
of Great Falls for $112,361 and
contract for electric wiring and
fixtures went to the Palmquist
Electric company of Great Falls
for $6,375.
The Great Falls contract is the
second large building contract to
be awarded the Red Lodge Plumb
ing and Heating company. The lo
cal firm recently completed a
$16,060 contract for installation of
plumbing and heating in the new
Powell (Wyo.) high school, the
first P. W. A. construction to be
let in Wyoming.
Henry Albert, president of the
firm here, was present Monday
morning at Helena when jthe state
education board members opened
bids for the Great Falls school.
Phone your news items to No. 9
Jin Jßemomnt
Tribute will be paid to the following soldier dead in impressive
ceremonies arranged here for tomorrow by the local post of the
American Legion:
CIVIL WAR
Red Lodge Cemetery
Patrick Adams
Charles K. Brown
Alonzo P. Edick
Mr. Forbes
O. C. Hotchkiss
Thomas Jones
John P. Lantz
M. H. Lucas
Major Lyman
C. R. Pomroy
John Henry Cemetery
A. Fenten
S. B. Henry
M. L. Long
Charles Stuart
WORLD WAR
Red Lodge Cemetery
Harry J. Alden
Dale J. Bowlen
Raymond C. Bowlen
Bowlen
Frank Carlevato
Prank J. Castagne
Harold S. Croonquist
John R. Fairgraves
George Graham
William Hyvonen
William S. Johnson
William R. Kerr
.Charles Lantis
Walter Lantis
Julian J
Edward
John A. Murray - ._
Maurice J. Power's
Pete Yonkoski
Bearcreek Cemetery
Walter Brown
Andy LaBardo
George Lodge
James B. White
. LeBrun
Miettinen
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Red Lodge Cemetery
John F. 0'iShea
George W. Taff
John Henry Cemetery
Fred Williams
In France
Jalmas Bakka
WAR VETERAN OF
BEARCREEK DIES
Edward B. Bunnell Passes
At Ft. Harrison on
Sunday
Edward B. Bunnell, 59-year-old
Bearcreek war veteran and former
employe of the Montana, Wyo
ming and Southern railway, died
at the Fort Harrison veterans'
hospital at Helena early Sunday
morning following a long illness.
Mr. Bunnell had been seriously
ill for sometime past and entered
the veterans' hospital at Helena
for treatment on May 1,4.
He was a veteran of the Span
ish-American war and served as a
sergeant of Troop C, 1st cavalry,
in the Philippine Islands and other
fronts during the war.
For many years tie was employ
ed as an engineer by the M. W. &
S. railway, operating the railway's
gasoline motor coach out *f Brid
ger and more recently the motor
bus on the highway. Ill health
forced him to retire from the rail
way service more than a year ago.
His widow and one child stîWive
at the family home in Bearcreek.
The body will arrive from Hel
ena at Bridger early Thursday
morning. Funeral services will be
conducted in the afternoon at 1:30
o'clock at the Methodist church
there. The Clark's Fork post of
the American' Legion will have
charge and interment will be in
the Bridger cemetery.
RECEIVE PERMITS
A supply of non-resident auto
mobile license permits has beerf
received by Sheriff J. R. McFate
for issuance to out-of-state tour
ists and visitors to Carbon county
who plan to operate a motor ve
hicle, bearing foreign license
plates, within the county limits for
a period of not more than 36 days.
WHEAT GROWERS
FAVOR PROGRAM
County Growers Vote More
Than 6 to 1 For
Continuance
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Carbon county wheat growers
voted 413 to 68 for continuance of
the government AAA wheat allot
ment program Saturday at eight
county polling places, E. R. Ding
us, secretary of the Carbon Coun
ty Wheat Production Control asso
ciation, reported.
"We are pleased with the out
come; also thé number of votes
cast was larger than expected",
the Carbon association secretary
said.
Voting in the national referen
dum was carried out in Carbon
county at polling places at Red
Lodge, Belfry, Bridger, Fromberg,
Joliet, Boyd, Roberts and Luther.
The voting throughout the coun
try carried 6 to 1 in favor of con
tinuing the government program
while Montana wheat producers
A
$4,696 JUDGMENT
IN HYMER COURT
CASE IS AWARDED
Claim is Based on Terms
Of California Decree
Of Divorce
Judgment for $4,696.46 was a
warded Helen E. Hymer in her
suit against Katherine H. Blanch
ard, administratrix of the estate of
the late W. E. Hymer, at a session
of Carbon district court here Tues
day^ before District Judge O. F.
Goddard.
The plaintiff, divorced wife of
the deceased, based her claims on
the terms of an interlocutory de
cree of divorce granted her by a
Los Angeles, Cal,, court on Oct. 29,
1928, ordering payment by the de
ceased of $160 temporary alimony,
$500 attorney fees, $2,500 perman
ent alimony and $50.50 court costs.
Prior to the time of his death,
it was alleged, the deceased made
no attempt to make payment as
ordered by the California court
and following his dearth here on
Nov. 27, 1933, claims of the plain
tiff presented Katherine H.
Blanchard, as administratrix of
his estate, were refused, it was
charged.
Besides the principal sum,
which included interest accruing
at the rate of 7 per cent on the
amount granted by the Los Ange
les court from the time the decree
was issued, the court Tuesday al
lowed the plaintiff $8.50 court
costs. Judgment was granted by
default of the defendant.
In the matter of the liquidation
of the Joliet State bank, the court
Tuesday heard a petition to sell
real estate. On failure of a pros
pective purchaser, Otto Pearson, to
put in appearance, sale of the pro
perty to Adolph Eik for the sum of
$100 was ordered. The sale involv
ed over 300 acres of land near
Joliet and Eik through his pur
chase assumes payment of all
taxes levied and assessed against
the property, the court order cited.
The complaint of P, C. Hicox et.
al. against Nels Rogness was also
taken up at Tuesday's court ses
sion. It alleged that Rogness for
the past two or more years has
failed to comply with a court de
cree to construct and maintain a
measuring box for water used by
him through the Bailey ditch. He
also failed to contribute his proper
share of expenses in maintaining
the ditch, it was charged. On the
basis of the complaint the court
ordered Rogness to refrain from
diverting any water through the
ditch until he satisfies the court
that he has complied with the pro
visions of the decree to build the
measuring box and maintain his
share of expenses. Any violation
of the order, it was cited, will be
deemed in contempt of court.
favored continuance by a majority
of more than 15 to 1.
The Carbon county vote was cal
culated at slightly more than a 6
to 1 majority in favor of the AAA
wheat program.
MEMORIAL DAY
SERVICES TO BE
HELD TOMORROW
American Legion Post Here
To Be in Charge of
Ceremonies
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Impressive Memorial day ser
vices are planned here for tomor
row morning at Washington hall,
according to officers of local Car
bon post No. 17 of the American
Legion which will be in charge of
the ceremonies.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the program is
composed of Ted Schmidt, A1 Ahl
strom and Leo Hasterlik. The ser
vices are slated for 9 a. m.
The servicés will be in charge of
N. A. Stacey, commander of
the local legion post, with J. Ed
ward Nordstrom as chaplain. Musi
cal numbers will be rendered by
Mrs. Al DeVoice and Mrs. Dell
Hatch and by a quartet, personnel
of which was unnamed.
The speaker of the day will be
Don Pay, high school extemporan
eous speaking contest winner. Taps
will be sounded for departed com
u
rades by Bugler Kenneth Thomas.
Playing of "The Star Spangled
Banner" and the benediction by
the Rev. A. B. Cornelson of the
local First English Lutheran
church will conclude the services at
the hall.
Services at the Red Lodge ceme
tery will follow. These will be in
charge of Commander Stacey with
J. Edward Nordstrom as chaplain,
Leo J. Hasterlik as sergeant-at
arms and J. J. Gleason in command
of the firing squad. Taps will be
sounded by Buglers Kenneth and
Dave Thomas.
The committee in charge reports
that the cemetery flag-pole, blown
down by a storm last fall, has been
replaced with a new steel pole and
that all exsoldiers' graves have
been decorated with evergreen
sprigs and flags.
The committee requests all ex
service men to report at the legion
dug-out" at 8 a. m. tomorrow for
selection of color bearers, color
guard and firing squad members
to participate in the ceremonies.
Immediately following services
in the local cemetery, legionnaires
will go to Natali's cafe where re
freshments will foe served. All le
gionnaires planning to attend the
Custer Memorial services at Har
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FINNISH MATRON
PASSES FRIDAY
Mrs. Abel Sàastamainen Is
Claimed by Heart
Ailment
Mrs, Abel Saastamoinen, 47,
died in this city at 1:55 a. m. Fri
day of a heart ailment with which
she had suffered for the last two
years.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
Workers' hall. Mr. Matt Errkila of
the Red Lodge Finnish Lutheran
church officiated, interment being
in the local cemetery. Pallbearers
were Andy Pollari, Arvid Paavola,
William Bakka, John Lampi, Kris
tian Wertanen and Alex Kallio.
Mrs. Saastamoinen was born
Hilda Elina Lapinoja at Kallajoki,
Finland, October 28, 1887. She was
married in that country August
14, 1964, to Abel Saastamoinen.
She came to the United States
February 17, 1906, first settling at
Chisholm, MinuuC
On August 17, 1907, Mrs. Saas
tamoinen removed to Red' Lodge
with her husband and had since
been a resident of this city. Mr.
Saastamoinen survives.
Fifteen / children were born to
the couple, ten of whom survive..
The surviving children include six
daughters, Mrs. Viola Kentta,
Rayola, Bertha, Martha and Flor
ence Saastamoinen of Red Lodge
and Edna Saastamoinen of Helena,
and four sons, John of San Fran
cisco, Cal., and Arthur, Charles
and Dan Saastamoinen, residing
in this city. Children deceased are
Auni, Wilma, Matt, Benhart and
Raymond.
Besides her husband and ten
children, Mrs. Saastamoinen is
survived by two -grandchildren
and her mother, two sisters and a
brother in Finland.