Show I I NORTHWEST NOTES Montana's quota of In the United States student nurses' nurses reserve e has been exceeded 22 applications having haying been received ed Miss Hazel Hunkins of Billings Bi one one of the suffragists who were on a hunger hunger hunger hun hun- ger ger strike In the Ule District of Columbia 1 Jail was released last week weel The summer session of the theIo l Io State Normal college clo closed August 22 ending the most niost successful term teun inthe inthe in la lathe the history of the Institution Farms In the district between Belgrade Belgrade Belgrade Bel Bel- grade and Manhattan Mont suffer suffered stiffened d crop losses aggregating half hru n a million dollars dollars' as a n result of a at l ic- ic Livingston was chosen as the place place- for or tho the annual meeting In 1019 1010 by the Yellowstone-Glacier Yellowstone Bee Line Une association association tion at Its Its Its' a annual convention at Choteau R Reports ports from Washington show Y that Montana has haa dropped from eleventh to thirteenth place In the standing of the states ii sted according to the sale of thrift samps The two year two year old daughter of Mr Ir and Mrs Dudley Phillips of Dillon DUton Mont was drowned In a n large Irrigating irrigating ing ditch which flows through the eastern eastern east east- em ern n part of t town wn J The old ld slag dumps at nt Argenta Mont are being hauled to Dillon DIlion In la l large rge trucks and sent to nearby smelters where the silver and lead ti are being at a profit r J Unlimited support of the cause of ot the th United States In the world war was pledged by the Grand Army of the tho r Republic at the closing session of Its A at Portland second fifty second encampment The committee In charge of the county coun coun- t tj ty fair and Pow Wow at Dillon Mont at a request from the farmers and N ranchers of th the community has de decided de- de tided to call off the roundup this year With the selection of Great Falls as as- next j years year's e ears ear's rs r's meeting place and mel the election election elec elec- 7 tion of f officers to serve during the en ensuing eul- eul suing year the Grand Lodge of Montana Montana Mon Ion tana Masons was brought to a close at Billings Shipments of coal from southern Wyoming W for the week ending August Augut 17 aggregated 2430 2436 irs ears while wIllie the shipments from Utah Utah- were 2121 cars cais which was an Increase e over oer the shipments ship s l x ments of the previous week r Overcharges for fuel totalling over r are being Mien gher I bv hy the Washington Wish Wash Wa hIngton h- h l Ington state mite fuel administration to the Red lied Cross and Washington coal consume eon con sume l. The to collected d the money from COil coal I d dealers who made th the o overcharges the government set the coal price prices No o more st state te banks will be organized organized or or- In Montana as long as the war continues unless for some ver very exceptional e cep 4 i reasons which are aie not likely to a arise according to State Examiner H H. S S. S Magraw 1 who stated last week i that he will discourage the organization tion of such banks anks J fj The board of trustees of the First a Presbyterian terlan church of Bozeman man Mont 1 and the official board of the- the Methodist 1 t church of that city at a t. t joint meeting decided to place to-place place before before- the members of the congregations of both churches a proposition for the the- uniting of the churches for the period of the war i Assessment Assessment returns from various i r. r counties in Montana 1 are ace sa said III to show X the u usual ual divergence of values and and- startling although rather common discrepancies discrepancies dis dis- according to state officials A year ago when county assessors met with the state board of equalization an all effort was made to establish consistent A J grades of valuation I A. A D D. Prouty is in jail at Helena charged with second degree assault I the crime being an assault on MI Miss s sAddle JY Addle Addie of Helena The Thet r t I 1 h his is In a hospital and probably will not live as her skull Is fractured Prouty Prouty- Is a scion of a Montana family of th the first prominence and a divorcee He He- denies the charge In response se to a peti petition Hon from the the- farmers and grain growers rs of Big Horn the Montana 1 council of defense r has requested all county councils of f defense e peace officers ers and ot others rs t to give attention to the guarding of elevators elevators elevators eleva eleva- tors and grain depots at shipping points at the time when a n g great eat bulk of grain Is being harvested 1 and nd ship ship- Y ped pod The tuberculosis survey surrey now now being conducted conducted under auspices of the Utah Public Health association and anel the state been completed completed completed com com- board boar of health has now lIOW rn In half of Utah co county nt- nt with nith gratifying r results acc according to announcement announcement announcement an an- y issued by Frank W. W McClere McClore Mc- Mc Clere Clore secretary of ot the Ute association Jack Harmon Harmona a a native of Finland of-Finland Finland 50 m years years years-of of age age was killed at the Hill Bill camp of the Mines s Timber company on Mill Creek In Montana when the tongue bolt of the wagon which he was loading with Ith from the mountain to the flume fiume broke and anel caused the wagon to lurch Jurch a against a n stump in a aravine aravine ravine rl throwing h him m violently to the right of the wagon an and causing instant death |