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Treasure State Tabloids The recently completed handsome and spacious new home of the Butte Lodge of Elks was formally dedicated November 21st. At its last regular meeting the Glendive city council voted to buy the east half of block 43 in Prospect Heights as an addition to Lloyd park. This gives a desirable addition to the beautiful park around the swimming pool. Three hearses abreast bore the bodles of Mrs. Ottilia Schmidt and her two daughters, Mrs. Madeline Borrelli and Miss Bertha Schmldt, victims of a tragic shooting at Butte, to their graves. Mrs. Borrelli shot and killed Mrs. Schmidt, her mother, and Bertha Schmidt, her sister, and then killed herself at the family home. At Granite park in the wilds of Glacier National park the summer tourists have fed so much chocolate candy to the black bears that the animals got into the habit of staging a comeback for more goodies by climbing onto the roofs in the dead of night. In order to keep the beggars from disturbing the sleep of the tourists, the roofs of the chalets were spiked with inverted nails. Dillings policemen set a high mark in crime detection for ambitious sleuths when they arrested Frank Haskins, a school janitor, on a charge of stealing 75,000 cigarets from a wholesale house and recovered all of the plunder before the victimized firm had discovered its loss. Haskins, it is said by the police, confessed the burglary and aided them in recovering the loot, theft of which started several weeks ago. Margaret McIntyre, 11-year-old member of the Scobey 4-H clothing club, was awarded highest honors in Daniels county when clothing club articles were judged at County Agent A. W. Warden's office. By winning the first place in the county, Miss McIntyre is awarded a one-year scholarship in any institution of the University of Montana. The scholarship will be available at any time the recipient is ready to go to college. C. J. Russell, receiver for the Baker State bank, is now paying out checks on a 15 per cent dividend. This makes a total of 45 per cent paid by this institution and Mr. Russell states there will be more in the future. The largest check is that of Fallon county, amounting to $5,981.35, and the smallest is for 2 cents. The total amount of this dividend is $33,957.75, which is divided among 473 creditors. Miles City, Mont.-Ed Robbins, of the Coalwood neighborhood, spent much of his time this summer raising a flock of fancy turkeys for the Thanksgiving market. The birds were all fat and in fine condition when Robbins came to the city to have a tooth pulled. He returned home in the evening and found that someone had driven to his home in a truck and had stolen more than $100 worth of the birds. c The Rev. Arthur D. Sloate, superintendent of the Yellowstone district for b the Montana Children's Home society, fi has returned to Billings after visiting the northern part of the state for two b weeks, Mr. Sloate says that the work of the society is going along better a than ever before in every part of the state and that during the past year it placed 282 children in homes, besides aiding 62 other children by helping the parent to keep them. More than 2,800 children have been received as wards of this society Mr. Sloate said, and placed in homes.