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All 2016 Mobile Home tax statements in Phillips County have been mailed.
If you have not received your bill(s) please contact the Phillips County Treasurer's Office IMMEDIATELY at 406-654-1742. The first half of 2016 Mobile Home taxes are due by 5:00 p.m. on or before Tuesday, May 31, 2016 and the second half taxes are due by 5:00 p.m. on or before Wednesday, November 30, 2016. If the first and second halves are not paid, the amount payable is delinquent and draws interest at the rate of 5/6 of 1% a month after the delinquency until paid and 2% must be added to the delinquent taxes as a penalty (MCA 15-16-102).
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11/2016)
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EDWARD A. AMESTOY,
Cole, Amestoy & O'Brien, PLLP
P.O. Box 1280
113 South 2nd Street West
Malta, Montana 59538
Phone: (406) 654-2541
Attorneys for Personal Representative
MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF PHILLIPS
Probate No. DP-16-8
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
MONTE W. MAVENCAMP,
Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed, return receipt requested, to: Mary Ann Barnard and Fred W. Mavencamp, Personal Representatives, c/o Cole, Amestoy & O'Brien, P.O. Box 1280, 113 South 2nd Street West, Malta, Montana 59538, or filed with the
Clerk of the above Court.
DATED this 25th day of April, 2016.
\s\ Mary Ann Barnard,
Mary Ann Barnard,
Personal Representative
\s\ Fred W. Mavencamp,
Fred W. Mavencamp,
Personal Representative
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/2016)
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PUBLIC HEARING
The City of Malta will conduct a public hearing May 10, 2016 at 5:20 p.m. in the council chambers of city hall. The purpose of the public hearing is to receive public comments concerning the Amending the Municipal Code 5.44.080 parking on dwelling premises. First reading May 10, 2016. Second reading and adoption May 24, 2016. Persons and/or their agent(s) may appear in person or send written comments to Mayor Shyla Jones, PO Box 1300, Malta, MT 59538
no later than 12 noon May 10, 2016.
(Published by Phillips County News 4/27, 5/4/2016)
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PUBLIC HEARING
The City of Malta will conduct a public hearing May 10, 2016 at 5:25 p.m. in the council chambers of city hall. The purpose of the public hearing is to receive public comments concerning the Amending Ordinance 441 and 438 setting a new fee for zoning permits. First reading May 10, 2016. Second reading and adoption May 24, 2016. Persons and/or their agent(s) may appear in person or send written comments to Mayor Shyla Jones,
PO Box 1300, Malta, MT 59538
no later than 12 noon May 10, 2016.
(Published by Phillips County News 4/27, 5/4/2016)
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Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Federal Primary Election
to be held on June 7, 2016 will close at 5:00 p.m., on Monday, May 9, 2016.
*NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the Phillips County Election Office located at the Courthouse, 314 S 2nd Avenue West up to and including on Election Day.
Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can complete and submit a voter registration card, but you will need to return to the Phillips County Election Office on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot.
All active and inactive**electors of Phillips County are entitled to vote at said election.
**Inactive electors may reactivate by appearing at the polling place in order to vote, by requesting an absentee ballot in any election, or by notifying the Phillips County Election Administrator in writing of the elector's current address in the county.
Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing at the Phillips County Election Office located at the Courthouse. If you have moved, please update your registration information by filling out a new voter registration card and submitting it to the county election office.
If you have questions, call the Phillips County Elections Office at 406-654-2423.
DATED this 15th day of April, 2016
Marian S Ereaux, Phillips County Election Administrator
PO Box 360, Malta MT 59538
(Published by Phillips County News 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/2016)
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The Town of Saco has the following items for Bid.
All bids must be to Saco Town Hall by Wed., May 11th, 2016 at 6 p.m. Sealed bids can be mailed to Town of Saco, Attn: Bid, P.O. Box 330, Saco MT, 59261. The town holds the right to accept reject or deny any or all bids. Items will need to be paid for at the acceptance of bid. All items have to be removed from current location by May 27th, 2016 at 5 p.m. All items are sold as is.
• 2008 Lonestar 28ft gooseneck dual tandem axle trailer with dovetail, flip over ramps and dovetail center pop-up.
Very little use (minimum bid $7000)
• 12’x16’ building on skids, 8ft 2x4 walls, insulated, heater, metal roof, one door, one window, approx.
8 years old (minimum bid $4500)
• 3pt rock/yard rake, model# HLR84, 7ft, approx. 10 years old
• Misc. plastic gas line (has been exposed to sunlight) sold as one. Approx. 100ft of 2” yellow IPS SDR11, approx.
1000ft of 2” black IPS DR11, approx. 300ft of 4” black IPS DR11
For more info call town office at 527-3312 (leave message)
(Published by Phillips County News 4/27, 5/4/2016)
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Brian D. Lee
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
P.O. Box 790, 158 Main Street
Shelby, MT 59474
Phone: (406) 434-5244
Email: [email protected]
Attorneys for Morris Brenden, Personal
Representative of the Estate of Agnes Bethel
MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PHILLIPS COUNTY
MONTANA-DAKOTA UTILITIES CO., a corporation, Plaintiff,
vs.
MABELLE FAIRMON; ERIC LARSSON; W. C. GULDE; O. R. HAWVER; FRANCIS ELLIOT; M. V. JOHNSON; OLLIE BELL BETHEL; EDDY P. TSCHABOLD; MRS. NORA ZOOK, MRS. MINNIE M. PAGE, MRS. ANNIE LAIR, FRANK B. GUINN, OSCAR A. GUINN, EDNA BESSIE GUINN, MARGUERITE GUINN, MRS. OLLI COLLISTER, ALBERT H. REEVES and EDWARD G. ELLIS, heirs at law and devisees under the Will of W. M. Guinn, deceased; BIG DOME OIL AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation; and PHILLIPS COUNTY OIL AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation,
Defendants. Judge John C. McKeon
Case No. DV-1944-3500
NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Morris Brenden, Personal Representative of the Estate of Agnes B. Bethel (“Movant”), has recently filed herein a “MOTION FOR ORDER QUIETING TITLE TO OVERRIDING ROYALTY INTEREST” (the “Motion”) in which Movant requests the Court quiet title to all claims of the other defendants named in the caption above in and to a 2.50% overriding royalty interest (“ORRI”) carved out of Federal Oil and Gas Lease Serial 057728, Great Falls which covers the following described lands in Phillips County, Montana, and that title to the ORRI be permanently vested in Movant:
Township 33 North, Range 32 East, MPM
Section 35: SE¼SE¼
Township 33 North, Range 33 East, MPM
Section 19: NW¼SE¼, SE¼SE¼
Section 21: E½SW¼, W½E½, NE¼SE¼
Section 22: SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼
Section 26: NE¼NW¼
Section 28: NE¼SE¼, NW¼NE¼
Section 33: NW¼SW¼
Section 35: SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼
For further information, the Motion, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon the Motion will be held in the courthouse at Malta, Montana, on June 13, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object to the Motion.
Dated April 19, 2016.
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
By: /s/ Brian D. Lee
Brian D. Lee
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016)
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PETITION FOR AUTO GATE
At a regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, a petition signed by several residents and taxpayers of PHILLIPS COUNTY was presented to the Board requesting An AUTO GATE will be placed at the following location:
Township 29 North, Range 32 East P.M.M. Located in the SE
Corner of NW1/4 Section 6
A by-pass gate must be provided for trailing cattle or moving machinery when necessary.
A hearing will be held on said petition on Monday May 16, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Commissioners' Room at the Phillips County Courthouse, at which time anyone may appear either for or against the said petition.
Dated this 26th day of April 2016.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Marian S Ereaux, CLERK
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11/2016)
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the requirements of Section 2-2-302, MCA, the Board of Trustees of Dodson School District 2A-C intends to consider hiring Francine Stiffarm as a cross country coach and assistant girls' basketball coach, and Wendy Hopkins as athletic director/game manager for school year 2016-2017 at the regular board meeting to be held on May 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the school library. Francine Stiffarm is the daughter and Wendy Hopkins is the sister of Board Chair Iris Kill Eagle. If you have any questions, comments or objections prior to said board meeting, please direct
all such inquiries to:
Gary Weitz, Superintendent
Dodson School District No. 2 A-C
Phone Number: 383-4361
Fax Number: 383-4489
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4/2016)
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Brian D. Lee
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
P.O. Box 790, 158 Main Street
Shelby, MT 59474
Phone: (406) 434-5244
Email: [email protected]
Attorneys for Morris Brenden, Personal
Representative of the Estate of Agnes Bethel
MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PHILLIPS COUNTY
MONTANA-DAKOTA UTILITIES CO., a corporation, Plaintiff,
vs.
EDWARD V. BETHEL; MAUD SMITH; heir of Grant Smith, deceased; J. C. ZELLAR; CHARLES E. KNIGHT; PETER MARSH; ERIC LARSSON; H. E. JOHNSON; E. B. COOLIDGE; ANNA ARMSTRONG; J. W. MCKEE; MAY CAVANAUGH, JUNE ANITA CAVANAUGH and HAZEL MAE JACOBSON, heirs of Arthur Cavanaugh, deceased; EDNA M. WAIT; OLLIE BELL BETHEL; OLE AAKRE; EDDY P. TSCHABOLD; HARRY W. SHOOK; F. E. BARNARD; F. E. DILLON; SARAH GRIFFITH, MRS. ANNA GULDE; J. A. WILL; HUBERT RIEDESEL; ARTHUR P. LAHR; W. B. RICHARDS; WILLIAM C. GULDE; EDWIN P. WING; MRS. ANDREW FOWLER; DEL LOWRY; PHILLIPS COUNTY OIL AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation;
and DAVIS AND SHOOK CO.,
a corporation. Defendants.
Judge John C. McKeon
Case No. DV-1944-3504
NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Morris Brenden, Personal Representative of the Estate of Agnes B. Bethel (“Movant”), has recently filed herein a “MOTION FOR ORDER QUIETING TITLE TO OVERRIDING ROYALTY INTEREST” (the “Motion”) in which Movant requests the Court quiet title to all claims of the other defendants named in the caption above in and to a 2.50% overriding royalty interest (“ORRI”) carved out of Federal Oil and Gas Lease Serial 057386, Great Falls which covers the following described lands in Phillips County, Montana, and that title to the ORRI be permanently vested in Movant:
Township 32 North, Range 32 East, MPM
Section 10: S½NE¼
Section 11: SW¼NW¼, S½NE¼, N½NW¼, Lots 8 and 9
Section 12: NE¼, S½NW¼, Lot 9
Township 32 North, Range 33 East, MPM
Section 06: Lots 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, SE¼NW¼, NW¼SE¼
Section 07: NE¼SW¼, NE¼NE¼, N½NW¼, Lot 2
Section 17: Lot 2
Section 18: SE¼NW¼
For further information, the Motion, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon the Motion will be held in the courthouse at Malta, Montana, on June 13, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object to the Motion.
Dated April 19, 2016.
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
By: /s/ Brian D. Lee
Brian D. Lee
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016)
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Brian D. Lee
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
P.O. Box 790, 158 Main Street
Shelby, MT 59474
Phone: (406) 434-5244
Email: [email protected]
Attorneys for Morris Brenden, Personal
Representative of the Estate of Agnes Bethel
MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PHILLIPS COUNTY
MONTANA-DAKOTA UTILITIES CO., a corporation, Plaintiff,
vs.
IRVIN C. SMITH; EDWARD V. BETHEL; M. R. NELSON; ROWLAND VAGG; WILLIAM SESTAK; LUTHER M. HOHAM; E. B. COOLIDGE; ANNA ARMSTRONG; MAY CAVANAUGH, JUNE ANITA CAVANAUGH and HAZEL MAE JACOBSON, Heirs of Arthur Cavanaugh, Deceased; MRS. NORA ZOOK, MRS. MINNIE M. PAGE, MRS. ANNIE LAIR, FRANK B. GUINN, OSCAR A. GUINN, EDNA BESSIE GUINN, MARGUERITE GUINN, MRS. OLLI COLLISTER, ALBERT H. REEVES and EDWARD G. ELLIS, Heirs at law and Devisees under the Will of W. M. Guinn, deceased; OLLIE BELL BETHEL; J. H. BRASS; F. E. BARNARD; F. E. DILLON; SARA GRIFFITH; ERIC LARSSON; MRS. ANNA GULDE; J. A. WILL; MRS. ANDREW FOWLER; HUBERT RIEDESEL; ARTHUR P. LAHR; W. B. RICHARDS; WILLIAM C. GULDE; W. D. MILLER; DEL LOWRY; C. E. TAYLOR and ETHEL M. TAYLOR, his wife; JOHN BECK; GEORGE FRESHOUR; PHILLIPS COUNTY OIL AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation; and BIG DOME OIL AND GAS COMPANY, corporation,
Defendants.
Judge John C. McKeon
Case No. DV-1944-3505
NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Morris Brenden, Personal Representative of the Estate of Agnes B. Bethel (“Movant”), has recently filed herein a “MOTION FOR ORDER QUIETING TITLE TO OVERRIDING ROYALTY INTEREST” (the “Motion”) in which Movant requests the Court quiet title to all claims of the other defendants named in the caption above in and to a 2.50% overriding royalty interest (“ORRI”) carved out of Federal Oil and Gas Lease Serial 056765, Great Falls which covers the following described lands in Phillips County, Montana, and that title to the ORRI be permanently vested in Movant:
Township 32 North, Range 33 East, MPM
Section 01: S½S½, S½NW¼, Lot 3
Section 02: S½S½
Section 03: N½S½, SE¼SE¼, S½SW¼
Section 04: SW¼SE¼, SE¼SW¼
Section 05: E½SW¼, S½NW¼
Section 08: N½NE¼
Section 09: NE¼, E½NW¼, NW¼NW¼
Section 10: N½NW¼
For further information, the Motion, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon the Motion will be held in the courthouse at Malta, Montana, on June 13, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object to the Motion.
Dated April 19, 2016.
LEE LAW OFFICE PC
By: /s/ Brian D. Lee
Brian D. Lee
(Published by Phillips County News 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016)
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Adam Olschlager, CROWLEY FLECK PLLP
500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, P. O. Box 2529
Billings, MT 59103-2529, Telephone: (406) 252-3441
Attorneys for Petitioner
MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PHILLIPS COUNTY
Fidelity Exploration & Production Company, Petitioner.
No. DV-01-032
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Scout Energy Group II, LP, as successor to Fidelity Exploration & Production Company, has filed a fourth petition to amend the trust created by order of the Court on October 23, 2001 in order to add to said trust Bernard Arnott, the Lillian I. Crossen Trust, Juanita M. Daly, Darlene Pearson, Gary M. Rathbone, William Dunbar and/or their unknown successors in interest, as unlocatable owners of an interest in the minerals underlying the following described lands located in Phillips County, Montana:
TOWNSHIP 31 NORTH, RANGE 32 EAST, M.P.M.
Section 2: SW
Section 11: E/2W/2
TOWNSHIP 31 NORTH, RANGE 34 EAST, M.P.M.
Section 17: 1 acre tract located in the NWNW
TOWNSHIP 32 NORTH, RANGE 33 EAST, M.P.M.
Section 3: Lot 2
Section 13: S/2
Section 14: S/2NW, N/2SW
Section 26: N/2NW
Section 27: N/2NE/4, N/2NW
Section 28: N/2NE
TOWNSHIP 32 NORTH, RANGE 34 EAST, M.P.M.
Section 5: SE
Section 30: E/2SW, Lot 3
Section 31: NENW
TOWNSHIP 33 NORTH, RANGE 33 EAST, M.P.M.
Section 33: SWSW
and for an order authorizing the trustee to hold funds payable to said unlocatable owners and, if necessary, execute oil and gas leases to Scout Energy Group II, LP.
The hearing on said petition is set for Monday, the 13th day of June, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., in the courtroom of the courthouse in Malta, Phillips County, Montana, and any interested person may appear and contest the same or
object to the relief requested by the Petitioner herein.
Dated this 19th day of April, 2016.
CROWLEY FLECK PLLP
By /s/ Adam Olschlager
(Published by Phillips County News 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/2016)
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