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THE HELENA DAILY INDEPENDENT THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1925. MONTANA STATE NEWS IN EHHHDTC KPfriFSUM Deer Lodge, Sept. 30. Deputy State Examiner A. E.

Williamson handed in a report to the board of county commissioners of Powell county yesterday in regard to the shortage stated to have been found in the books of former County Treasurer M. F. Hayes. The statement was as follows: "In view of the extraordinary results of the special examination of the books and records of the office of the county treasurer as conducted by me during the past 10 days, I herewith submit a preliminary report of such examination in order that you may take such immediate action as you may deem necessary. A full detailed report will be submitted at the earliest possible date." Receipt! Not The examination disclose a.

shortage in the accounts of former County Treasurer M. F. Hayes in the aggregate of $6,804.75, made up of a cumber of items, which include: Item No. 1, school district warrant for item No. 2, State of Montana warrant, inheritance tax for distribution item No.

3, school district No. 11 bonds sold to the State of Montana, item No. 4, State of Montana warrant in the amount of $831.11 in payment of gasoline license and tax for distribution. For these items no receipts were issued and the amounts were never accounted for." Mr. Williamson further stated in the report that any person might have been working in the treasurer's office or any of the other county offices without having the slightest intimation that said funds were being held out.

The Powell county attorney has notified the bonding company to send their auditors here and they arc expected within a few days. Doctors Prevent Woman From Dying of Dose of Poison Sept. 10 o'clock Monday night, an emergency case was brought to the hospital when Eva Collctt, proprietress of a rooming house, was given first aid for lysol poisoning, she having been said to partially drained a small bottle of the drug during a spell of dc spondency. The treatment proved successfu and she was said to be out of dangc the following morning. While friends were taking her to the hospital her room was ransacked and upon returning to the rooming house, Eli Peterson caught a mat in the act of robbing it and grapplci with him for several minutes before the prowler escaped.

Sheriff Mooncy and Officer Gor don were summoned and followed a trail of blood spots to the Dilloi hotel and arrested John McFartii there on the allegation of being thu man sought. Survey is Made Hardin Highway; Begin in Spring Billings. Sept. on the new Billings-Hardin highway, a link in the Custer Battlefield Highway which will eliminate the Hogan hill and give almost water grade for the entire distance, will be started early in the spring, according to Highway Commissioner W. J.

Mulvaney, who has returned from a special meeting of the state highway commission held at Helena Friday. A shortage of help in the office of the chief engineer imposed by the meager appropriation made by the last legislative assembly is holding up commencement of this project, Mr. Mulvaney said in detailing the program on the work the commission has made. Preparing "Among other matters considered by the commission," said Mr. Mulvaney, "was the report of the chief engineer on the Hardin-Billings project.

The location survey has been completed and the data the engineers' office. It is being worked up and specifications will be prepared as a preliminary to a call for bids. Because of the shortage of help, I doubt very much the specifications can be gotten out so that a call for bids may be issued much before 30 or 60 days. The engineers' office is handicapped due to restriction on expenditures for help the appropriation makes. "Everything possible with the limited funds at the commission's command has been done to speed this project.

A great part of construction work is to be paid by the Indian bureau in view the fact that the road traverses the Crow Indian reservation for mosi of its distance." By Way of Coburn. The new road will be built by the way of the Peter Hoe ranch to Coburn, thence along the old Toluca-Cody railroad grade to Toluca where it will join the present roa into Hardin. At no point, Mr. Mulvaney said, is the grade encountered so heavy as to necessitate shifting gears on any make of car Expenses of building the road to Summoned to Kill Stray, He Finds It Blooded Airedale Anaconda, Sept. many weeks of association with the canine i a of the city and feeding out of garbage pails and upon dry bones, Peggy, an Airedale pup, has come into her own.

Patrolman Tom Edmunds was recently called to a residence in the outskirts of the city by a woman who demanded that he kill a stray dog that had been disturbing her garbage pail. The officer went reluctantly. He found a little Airedale ready for a frolic. He just couldn't pull the trigger. As a dog fancier of long experience he saw the animal was no common mut.

He found that she measured almost exactly to the requirements of a prize-winning Airedale. He found, furthermore, that she is an exact duplicate of "Peggy," a famous Airedale he sold in Marion, Ohio, some time ago. So precise was the resemblance every particular to the old "Peggy" that he cannot imagine how she could be other than Peggy's daugh- Peggy's children have been sold all over the country since she went to Marion. Officer Edmunds is going to find out. In the meantime Peggy has a home.

Dad Gomes to Take Back 4 Runaways; Return in an Auto the the city jail, for Monday night the by reservation line will Yellowstone and be borne Hor counties. Wheat is Threshed by Light of Auto Miles City, Sept. Holland of the Ingomar district, is said to be the only farmer in southeastern Montana who has threshed his 1925 crop by artificial light. The John Mcti- ner outfit from Vananda pulled on to the Holand place about 9 o'clock ir the evening. Mr.

Holland, anxious to get his crop threshed, backed an automobile truck so that it lights were thrown on the machine and supplementing this light with lanterns, told the crew to proceed. By midnight 250 bushels of grain were threshed and a midnight supper was then served. Roy McCool and Albert McClain this fall in the same vicinity threshed 1,900 bushels of wheat and 1,750 bushels of oats. Watson, Sept. 30.

Those going from here to the Springs to attend the Legion smoker were Leslie and Arthur Watson, accompanied by their wives and Miss Luella A. Watson, the party returning Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bingham also attended.

Archie Watson and Arthur Moran went to the Missouri valley Monday after a load of vegetables and wheat. The cattle bought of John L. Carlson by the Townsend Cattle company passed here in the snowstorm bound for Townsend. They were being driven by William and Walter Ragen and followed by John L. Carlson in a car to convey the bedding and camp outfit.

Maxie Sartcr was here with the Sarter cat'Ie to join the Carlson drive, the cattle also having been sold to Ragen Bros. Warren Hawkins and Ruth Burtt went to the Missouri valley Saturday with tome of the Burtt furniture, and were met by a truck at the Wall ranch, where the loads were transferred and taken to Townsend. Mr. A. P.

Moran will leave in a few days for Denver, for a months visit with her sister, Mrs. Josephine Sherman. Little Jean Raleigh who with her parents is now residing in Seattle, was recently knocked unconscious while at the play at school. She has rallied and the attending physician finds her condition favorable. Meagher County News Martinsdale, Sept.

Lucas was a visitor here from Ringling. Miss Marguerite Moore, Miss Helen Moore, Miss Helen Baxter anc James Law, of Lcwistown, spent the day at the Moore ranch, returning home by auto. Miss Rose Martin and Harold Darnell, Harlowton high school students, spent the week-end at their homes in Wartinsdalc G'erroll Evarts left to enter the State university at Missoula. Miss Eileen Barrows, of Buffalo spent the week-end with her aunt Mrs. W.

W. Coates, on her way to Missoula. She will begin her second semester of work there. Mrs. Glen Holmes has returnee from a month on the coast, greatly improved in health.

Mrs. Henry Van Camp entertained the Aloha Bridge club at the final meeting of the season. Mrs. George Lyons was the winner of the prize for high score, Mrs. Harry Dean, the guest prize, and Miss Marian Coates received the consolation prize.

R. A. Martin, manager of the ranchcts of the Bair Corporation, shipcd 4,500 wether lambs on October 1. Shippers were unfortunate in striking exceptionally bad weather this week. Mrs.

Ralph Good and sons came from Harlowton, and with Mr. Good spent a day at the Moore ranch, turning later in the evening to Harlowton. Miss Jessie Biennan of Kalispell, visited Mrs. Jerry Brccn and Mrs. Perry Moore, on her way to Chicago.

Miss Bierman is a student in Rush Medical college, taking her final work this year. Mrs. Moore and W. Galvin accompanied her to Judith Gap, she took the train 'or Chicago. An interesting visitor recently here was William Wylcs, of Santa Barara, California.

Mr. Wylcs has not seen Montana for 45 years, and be- orc his return to California, spent sonic time in Helena, Lcwistown and Great Falls. He was a guest of W. W. Coates, whom he knew in the early eighties.

Haul Todd, of Hartowton, spent the week at the ranch and in town. 1e is still incapacitated by an injury his leg, received in the shops it Harlowton. Mrs. W. B.

Galvin drove to Har- owton to attend a bridge luncheon ivcn by Mesdamcs Daems, McGrath, McCabc and Van Aykc. Mrs. Harden and Mrs. La Brie held high score and received handsome awards. Mrs.

W. W. Coates and daughter, Jarion, and Mr. Mecce, returned rom an interesting tour through astern Montana and Wyoming, 'lieir first stop was at Roundup, where they visited Mrs. Van Alstint nd Mrs.

Sayrc. While visiting Mr. nd Mrs. Hilliard and family, at iheridan, they were entertained at lie batons' 'dtidc' ranch, made famous by Mary Roberts Rinchart and ther western writers. Billings, Sept.

P. Raymond, of Minneapolis, father of one of the four runaway boys detained Sunday morning by the police at arrived in Billings on Northern Pacific train No. 1. The youths were taken into custody here early Sunday morning upon the receipt of a telegram from the superintendent of police of Minneapolis, asking that they be detained. The return trip wil be made in the touring car, which is the property of one of the boys.

There is no reason why the lads should have run away from home, Mr. Raymond told the officers Monday night, as they have everything that they want. Wolf Point Family Motors 5,000 Miles on Eastern Journey Wolf Point, Sept. and Mrs. Fred Small and Miss Erma Small have returned from a seven Weeks' auto tour in which they covered more than 5,000 miles.

They were accompanied home by Mrs. L. E. Page of Boston, a sister of Mr. Small, who will spend the winter here.

Their route took them to Buffalo via the Great Lakes, across New York state through the White mountains. Thev spent three weeks in Maine am drove more than 1,000 mites in that state. Among other points they visited was West Quoddy lighthouse, the most easterly point in the United States, Numerous points in Massachusetts and New York were visitc.d. Miss Small brought back with her an interesting collection Passamaquoddy Indian basket work STARTS UP WITH Billings, Sept. big task of converting from 200,000 to 250,000 tons of sugar beets into sugar, workmen at the factory of the Great Western Sugar company here began the 1925 campaign Monday.

The factory whistle will summon three shifts of men daily until the last beet is sliced and started on its course toward the sugar bowls of the country. The factory wheels started at 7 o'clock Monday morning, according to W. P. Hogarty, district manager, and in every department the work is well organized and going with full steam ahead. About 700 men are employed at the factory on the three shifts.

About 10,000 tons of beets had been unloaded at the factory by Monday morning. Farmers and laborers in the fields are digging very rapidly, the weather bting adapted for quick work. Digging started as soon as it was possible to get into the field after the rain early in the week. The rain served to loosen the ground and has made the work much easier. The tonnage to the acre will be the largest of any year since 1912, judging by the early returns, according to Mr.

Hogarty. The beets arc in very fine condition. The sugar content on the beets thus far harvested is about 15 1-2 per cent which is about normal for this time of year. The factory will be running at the capacity speed of 3,000 tons a day almost from the start. Mr.

Hagarty accidents anticipates, and or unfavorable barring weather conditions will be maintained at top speed until the close of the campaign. Last year the factory ran 110 das'S, but the acreage this year has been reduced nearly one- third with the building of the factory at Sidney and the run will be correspondingly shortened. Indian Newlyweds Bar Mother-in-Law Glacier Park, Sept. Indian "newly weds" tho Glacier National Park reservation start their life of connuhia bliss in an independent state mind. No mother-in-law is in their tepee.

There is an unwritten Indian law that young married folks live in their own lodge. Saves "heap much" talk and "many Indian sign is the con- census of opinion concerning this arrangement, after "millions ol moons" of its operation. Belgrade News Belgrade, Sept. and Mrs. Still Huling have left for their home at Auburn, Calif.

Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Marden and family and Mrs.

Drake left by auto, for Moscow, Idaho. Arthur Shcpperd, accompanied by is aunt, Mrs. Clarke Switzlcr, and Louise and Ralph Frcck, all of Buttc, spent the week-end at the home of his mother, Mrs. Emma Shepcrd. Rev.

Mr. Reudink, pastor of the Holland church, was a guest at the home of Rev. and Mrs. R- W. Orr on Monday.

Mrs. W. W. Casper entertained he members of the Bridge Lunch- con club at her home in Bozcman. a dainty luncheon the afternoon was spent with cards and ligh score went to Mrs.

J. B. Robnson. Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Stacey, who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Dicfcndcrfcr and also us parents in Bozeman, left for their home in Long Bcarh, Cal. Dan Fisher of Seattle was a business calcr in town. A large number of the members of the Belgrade chapter of the Eastern Star went to Bozeman to ttend the reception and meeting of the Lily of the Valley chapter. Rev.

and Mrs. R. W. Orr motored to Helena, accompanied by their daughter, Agncssc, who will attend the Intermountain Union colege this term. Dr.

Newman and Rev. Mr. McLean of Helena, were calling on friends in town last week. com one IN mui CISES Great Falls, Sept. of the 76 defendants brought to trial on liquor charges during the present term of U.

S. district courl Great Falls were convicted, Assistant United States District Attorney Francis A. Silver, who was charge of prohibition prosecutions, announced. Three defendants were acquitted although co-defendants in each the three cases had been convictec pleaded guilty continued over the term and three were dismissed EVIDENCE ITTHUE HE ADMITS AN IHACCURAC IN FORMER TESTIMONY IN PROCTOR CASE Chicago. Sept.

30 -Colone A. A. Sprague. treasurer of Genera Leonard Wood's 1920 picsidentia campaign today testified that state n'cnts he had made before th- senate which campaign expenditures of preside! tial aspirants correct in all in 1920, were details. Cclonel iprague so stated unde: crcss-txamjpation in federal court in the suit brought against him bj Colonel William C.

Proctor, cinnati soap manufacturer, ant chairman of Wood's campaign, fo collection $50,000, representing half of a note for $100,000 to de fray campaign expenditures, whic'. Proctor claim's Spragu: signed him as a co-guaranteer. Spragui claims he signed the note mere ly as an official of the bank whiin loaned the money. Merely Colrntl Sprague defended his testimony before the senate committee by expressing the belief that thi committee's i a launched merely to l.Ml the cam paigns Wood and Lowden, former governor of Illi- noii. The part of the testimony he gave before the senate hich was in particular coni vcrsy, was a statement that he made in reply to an inquiry to Senator Reed as to what endorsements were on the note i.ow in controversy.

His senate committee test! mony Miowert that he replied, "Colonel William Proctor sr.d and under fi-rther questioning, sail lia expected to help pay the note and beilever- he was previously or had Three cases were Chinese Laundryman Tells Police He Was Drugged and Robbed Billings, that two Sept. aware men were sacking his place while he struggled vainly against effects ot an anaesthetic they had administered. Quong Chong, a Chinese laundryman whose establishment is at 2816 First avenue south, lay helpless on his bed while midnight marauders stole his watch, valued at $85, and currency and silver approximating $5 according to report made to the police. Quong said the robbery occurred early last Thursday morning. Entry to through the laundry a window was gained the rear.

Quong was sleeping upstairs and he believes he was drugged, probably with ether. "Smell like gasoline," he said in accounting for his condition of helplessness while the burglars took his watch and money from a vest hanging on a nail at the foot of the stairs. Quong expressed the opinion that an outside man kept watch while two others went through his place in search of loot. The laundry was the scene of robbery a couple of years ago when Quong's predecessor was shot in the arm while resisting a holdup. People suspected of responsibility for the robbery Tiy Quong have abandoned their old haunts the police have found.

WON'T LET BOY OF 10 TELL ABOUT MOTHER Buttc, Sept. (IP)--Refusing to permit a boy of 10 to appear as a witness against his mother in contested divorce case of Mary Mcngon versus Gregory Mengon, Judge W. E. Carroll of the dis- Irict court here today disqualified liimself after testimony for the ff had been concluded, and in Judge J. J.

Lynch to hear case. "No 10-year old boy is going to testify in this court against his mother," Judge Carroll said. If Judge Lynch consents to hear he case all the evidence that has )ccn presented will have to be rcsubmitted. The sudden termination of the divorce trial, which las been on for two days, is without precedent in the Silver Bow county courts. Sioux City, Sept.

(IP)-- Two 'ears in the women's reformatory at lockwcll City was the sentence im- ioscd upon Mrs. Lillian McKce, con- essed slayer of her 15-day-old baby. Mrs. escaped more severe sentence because it could not be proved in what slate the infant WAS killed. i OIL PHUCT1 row Tork.

Sept. 3)--(API--The daily average gross crude oil production in tho United Stntes de creased 24,200 barrels for the week ended September 2R, totalling: 2.107,400 barrels, according to the weekly summary of the American Petroleum Institute. Tho dally average, production of Smackovcr, heavy nil oil field, decreased 7.200 barrels. The daily average, production tn the United States, excluding creased 17,000 harrels The a i a' erago production oast of California was 1,454,300 barrels, a decrease of Oklahoma shows a daily average production of 4SK.530 barrels. decrease of MOO; Kansas decrease of 200: Texas 76.lino.

ft. decrease of 653; east-central Texas 86,100, a decrease of SOP, tral Texas neTc.lSe. of 300; north Louisiana 47.7;i.\ a. decrease of 50; Arkansas 212,350. a dcc.aase of 6,450: Coast a decrease of Southwest Texas 43, 150, a decrease of 300: eastern 107.030, a decrease of 00; 2f0 a decrease of 550; Montana 3t0, a decrease of Colorado 4.00.1.

an Increase of 200; New Mexico 4,000, no change; California 000, a derieasc of S.003. Pally average Imports of petroleum at principal ports for the week ending September 2f were 200,286 barrels, compared ivlth 13S.573 for tho previous week and 153,730 for tho four weeks ending September 26. Dally average receipts of California oil at Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports for the week ending September 26, were 51,300 barrels, compared with 83,000 for the previous week and 75,465 for the weeks end- Ing September 26. No changes were reported In crude oil prices for the major districts. Pennsylvania crude, Bradford district.

Is quoted at 83.13 a barrel: all other grades being quoted at from J2.70 to J3.05. Mld-Conllnenl crude oil Is bolus quoted -at $1.1 to S2.4S. according to the gravity of tho oil Gulf Coast crude, grade is quoted at J1.50 a barrel, grade at 11.25. California prices' range from 90 cents to 12.30, according to gravity of tho oil. Basin News Basin, Sept.

Waasman was returning from Boulder Valley night when his car was struck by a Ford. His auto being put out of commission he walked to Basin for aid. He narrowly escaped serious injury. Sam Dawc was up from Boulder visiting at the J. H.

Rule home. Glenn Seamen of the Lowlands was here on business. Miss Alta Kylcr of Boulder visited here with friends. Bernard and Mary LcRoy who arc attending Boulder high school spent the wccK-cnd here with their mother, Mrs. Robert LcRoj'.

Mike Sullivan who worked at flic Jib for over a year, was out from to spend the week-end with friends. He is now employed at the Great Northern Depot. Earl Williams was a business caller at the county scat. Edward Ycagcr and daughter, Marguerite, went to Butte fo be present at the christening of the former's two daughters. Mrs.

Ycager returned with them. The Mises Louise and Helen Stcelc were out from Butte to visit. The Stecle family formerly resided here. Mrs. Lena Kostad and children, Catherine and Arthur, accompanied Professor and Mrs.

Wahl up from Boulder for a few hours visit with riends. Mrs. A. B. Stabler and son.

Bcn- nic, have returned from Seattle, where they were guests of Mrs. Stabler's mother, Mrs. Rccd. HI FOR HIS PART IN LETTING WEALTHY BOOZE CHIEFS OUT OF BASTILE Chicago, Sept. ment wss promised today to tin "highcr-up5" involved in the startl ing lory of whoesalz bribery Cook coi'nty officials by Terrene Druggan and Frank Lake, wouth ful bet: barons, unfolded in Judg? James H.

Wilkerson's court here when judge indica'ed that. Peter M. Hoffman sheriff, would be made 10 suffer for the lax revealed. Druggan and Lake, sentenced to serve a year each for contempt federal court for operating a padlocked brewery, testified they paic thousands of their reputed millions for all-day, over-night and weekend absences from the jail, and other privileges. Not Often at JaiL Sheriff Hoffman, for two decades an outstanding figure in Chicago politics, admitted in testimony today that he had read the jai rules once but did not remember them, 'and that he had been to the jail, housing more than 1,000 prisoners, 50 times in the past year He disclaimed entire responsibility for the favors shown Lake and Druggan, and sought to fix that responsibility upon Wesley Westbrook, discharged jail warden, and for 28 years Chicago's "honest cop." New York, Sept.

30 ()--In dicted for sending a poison pen letter through the mails to Arthur H. Marks, millionaire tire and organ manufacturer, Mrs. Lydia Locke Dornblaser, singer, is being sued fcr 5250.000 for defamation of character by Mrs. Marks, formerly Mrs. Margaret Hoover of Pittsburgh.

Mrs. Dornblasrr has been marric'l four times. Marks was her third husband. Her second was Orvillc Harold, Metropolitan opera tenor. Her present husband has been described as a bond broker and her private secretary from whom she estranged.

He is a good-looking youth. Her first husband was A. W. (Prince! Talbot, racetrack gambler, whom she killed at Reno in 1909. She was acquitted because of his deathbed statement that the shooting was accidental.

Marks settled $400,000 on Mrs. Dornblaser, when they were divorced last fall, $100,000 of which was put in trust on condition that she would not annoy him for i years. The good behavior pact was cut in half shortly after the divorce, counsel for Marks avers, when she attempted to palm off a bogus check on him. Court proceedings in New York resulted in the child being returned to a sanitarium in Kansas City. Counsel (or Mrs.

Dornblaser said poinson pen charges were an attempt by a to get out of fill filling the trust fund agreement. Seattle, Sept. 30 W) Engine No. 2517 of the Great Northern railway pulled into Seattle today, 110 hours from the time it left here for St. Paul, establishing what is claimed as a world's record for long distance.

Twenty- four engineers and 24 firemen were used on the trip, which totalled 3,600 miles. The engine left Seattle Friday with 18 express cars loaded with silk from Japan. It arrived St. Paul Sunday and shortly aftcr- ivard coupled onto nine cars of fast mail train No. 27 from the Atlantic coast and pulled them to Seattle.

The usual engine division is from 125 to 150 miles. The 2517 is one of eight locomo- ivcs recently purchased by the Great Northern and is of the heav- cst and fastest type of passscn- gcr engine built for trans-conti- ncnlal lines. Lincoln County Lake Stocked with Sunfish Trov, Sept. Troy Sportsmen's association received a shipment of sunfish from the state hatchery at Somcrs a few days ago. Glen Savage mmcdiatcly took them out to Savage ake, where they were planted.

This the first shipment of this species of fish ever received in this community and it is believed they will do well here. Twenty cans were into Troy, many of the fish )eing fingerling length in size. Troy's Water System Given Capacity Test Troy, Sept. new water ystem has been tested A test of illing the huge 100-gaIlon water tank at the roundhouse was made. This ank was filled in 2 hours and 10 minutes and at the same time most if the sprinklers of the city were use, as well as all other sources water being used.

This, together with other tests made recently, is laimed to prove that Troy has a vater supply which will amply take arc of its needs for years to come. Patent leather shoes which shine ith a mother-of-pear effect, arc cinf introduced in England (or men. First-of-Month Specials Sugar Beet Sugar, 100 Ibs S7.25 Cane Sugar, 100 Ibs $7.50 25 Ibs. Cane Sugar $2.00 Powdered Sugar, Ib lOc Brown Sugar, Ib 10c Bar Sugar, Ib 15c Helena and G. V.

Butter, Ib 55c 2 Ibs. for $1.05 Sego Milk, tall can 10c Case $4.50 5 Ibs. M. J. B.

Coffee $2.65 Fancy Bulk Coffee, Ib. 50c 2 Ibs. for 95c Tea English Breakfast, Gun Powder and Japan Tea per Ib 65c Monarch Green Tea, 1-lb. tin 85c Guittard's Premium Chocolate, Ib. 4oc Guittard's Premium Cocoa, Vfc-lb.

can 25c 25 bars Electric Spark Soap $1-00 Palmolive Soap, 12 for $1.00 Wigwam Syrup Small size can 25c Medium size can 40c Large size can 75c Gallon size can J1.55 School Boy Peanut Butter 1-lb. can 30c 3-lb. can 85c 5-lb. can $1.30 Soda Prem. Crackers 50c Fruit C-grade Jonathans box $2.25 Extra Fancy Jonathans box $3.25 Extra Fancy Delicious box $4.25 Concord Grapes 50c In 10 basket lots 45c Montana Strawberries crate $3.25 Pickling Cucumbers, Cauliflower, Red and Green Peppers, Pickling Spices, Heinz White Wine Vinegar.

Budweiser Malt 65c Rose Hops 10c Budweiser Beer, case $3.50 Canada Dry Ginger Ale, 12-oz. bottle 30c Dozen bottles $3.15 Special for Today Friday and Saturday 49 Ibs. Mountain Pride Flour g-lb. sack White Com Heal 25 Ibs. Sugar 22 rolls Toilet Puppr 8 No.

2 cans Tomatoes 7 No. 2 cans Shepherd Corn No. 2 cans Sunkist I caches, eacn No 1 cans Tall Pmk Salmon can JO-oi. Hewlett's Jell'es, botltc Snow-flake Castile a Carton Fcls Naphtha Soap Jonathan Apples, box I SL90 81.00 J1.00 20c 20c Me Re Vno 53.25 Heiser Finnegan Grocery Company SOUTH MAIN STREET EASTomfWEST Effective September 16th, train 238 will leave Helena at 10:10 a. m.

instead of 10:55 a. making a direct connection at Shelby with the NEW ORIENTAL LIMI TED for Spokane, Pacific Coast points and western Montana, reaching the latter the same day. Also direct connection with the NEW ORIENTAL LIMITED going east by Leaving Helena at 6:20 p. m. Evening train to Butte will leave Helena at 5:05 p.

m. instead of 6:25 p. arriving in Butte at 8:25 p. m. For information Call or Write S.

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