The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
New Officers
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Installed At
Lions Meet
J. A. Krall to Direct Activi
ties of Club for Ensuing
Year.
KIENITZ REPORTS
ON HIGHWAYS

In spite of the discomfort of a hot
day and evening, goodly number of
Lions turned out Monday evening for
their dinner and meeting at the Turner
Tavern. The meeting was presided over
by President-elect j. A. Krall. Follow
ing the dinner, recently elected Of
: ficers were installed, with Lion Will
liam Herbert officiating Those installed
were:
j. A. Krall, president.
Chas. D. Rowe, LIST vice president
E. ]. Driear, End vice president.
James Harris, 3rd vice president
James Christie, secretary
Paul Church, tail twister.
William Kemp. lion tanner
Board of directors-W William Herbert,
G. S. Webb, L. S. WEIGH, DIR. J. w.
Church.
The chair announced the appoint
ment Of the following standing commit
tees stating that he had been assisted
in their naming by the board Of direct
ors- The first one named is chairman
IN each instance.
Road committee-W. F. Kientz. L.
S. WEIGH, VIM. Herbert
Camp-site committee-A N. Rich
ard, AN Hoffman, J. K Dwinnelle.
Federal building committee-Paul
Church, who is authorized to enlist the
aid of any member he desires.
Civic improvement committee-M. d.
Rowland. W. H Kemp. James Harris.
Publicity committee-Chas. D. Rowe
Finance. auditing and brsiness
methods--Paul Church, James Christie,
Harold Miller
Membership and attendance COM
mittee-W. G. Seims, Clay Parker, Lud
Ludvikson.
Lions education-L. S WEIGH.
Highway News
Lion Kienitz Of the highway COM
mittee read letter he had" received
from L. J. Croonenberghs of the state
highway commission in which Groom
enberghs stated the Is mile stretch
west of Libby was still on the COM
missions program This includes the
four miles of unimproved highway near
Kootenai Falls. Croonenberghs thought
oiling could not be reached this year
as federal specifications were being
changed and he doubted if specifica-
tons would be received in time for this
years work
Marshall Murray stated that while
he and M. D. Rowland were in Mis-
soula recently they called on Engineer
Clark senior highway engineer Of the
bureau of public roads They told En-
gineer Clark that everything from this
end was ready for the letting of adj
ditional contracts and were given 10
understand that the bureau desired 10
let contract early in August for a
five-mile project extending toward
Libby from the work now under way
on Swamp creek.
William Herbert spoke on the ad-
visibility Of attempting to get an APP
preparation for road construction TO
mines. He suggested the road leading
to the Glacier mine district, saying
that road serves a number of ranches
and also leads to district where here
are several mines under development.
Lions Church and Dwinelle also made
suggestions in this connection. The road
committee was instructed to work on
such project
Federal Building.
Paul Church reported that Libby's
application for federal building had
been placed on the approved list. He
also stated letters from Montana solons
in Washington stated they would do
everything possible to push the project
along Lion Church as chairman of the
finance committee also reported on an
audit Of the clubs books and made
some suggestions as to finances.
P. v. Klinke, well known Lincoln
county citizen from Fortine, was pres
ent as a guest of Lion Rowland. He
was introduced and was asked to speak
and responded expressing his enjoy
ment of the evening and extending an
invitation to all the Lions to call on
him whenever they should happen to
be in his neighborhood.
The closing feature of the program
was a talk by Chas D. Rowe, he hav-
ing been requested to tell the Lions
some of his travel experiences. He
spoke Of the trip from New Orleans to
Tampa
Spice was added to the evenings
program by number of songs in which
all joined with Lion Clay Parker play
ing accompaniment on the recently
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