The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-02

nOmdS y. MCCarVel, SIKH
WARD alderman and president of the city coun.
Gil, is the new mayor of Anaconda, succeed.
ing Mayor Frank Provost who died recently
BUTTE-Heat from the sun was believed
responsible for the explosion Of a jar of gas.
oline on the back porch at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas F. Heaney. The blast die
little damage.
HAMILToN-John Tatro. "a. resident OF
corvallis 30 years, died at his home there
a lew days ago after an extended illness. He
was a native of Quebec, Canada, and lived
IN Butte several years before he moved to
the Bitter Root valley. He was a farmer and
carpenter.
Observation-Disclosures of the Alexander
Macdonald chapter of DeMolay swung into
action here this week in preparation for the
state convention of the order which is to be
held in Kalispell, April 16, II and 10. Tom
Lacher has been named general chairman and
will supervise all plans of the convention.
LIVINGSTON-The annual summer camp of
the CONGREGATIONAL churches of this district
Will be held at Camp Miminagish on the
Boulder river July 7 to 16, inclusive. The Rev.
Carl Calhoun of Billings has been selected
camp director, and Mrs. Margaret Bro of
Chicago will be in charge of social activities.
BUTTE-Beatrice Case, S, received a frac-
tured arm when she was caught in a washing
machine a few days ago. While her mother
was hanging out the washing the little girl
threw the lever that started the wringer.
In a moment her arm was drawn into the ma
chine.
HELENA-Death Mrs. Phoebe F.
Train, Sc, a pioneer of the west and resident
Of Helena for so years, who passed away q
few days ago at her home in Kenwood. Widow
of the late E. H. Train, she was a we'll
known, respected and beloved resident of this
vicinity.
BUTTE-William Newton Dunstan, 10, of
Butte, has been appointed to the United
States naval academy at Annapolis, Md, by
Congressman Joseph P. Monaghan. Dunstan
graduated from Butte high in 1885 and now
is attending a preparatory school at An
napoliS.
MISSOULA-In keeping with the practice he
started some time ago, Police Judge Hugh
B. Campbell continued his war upon drunken
drivers and fined Robert Emerson 500 and
sentenced him to serve 80 days in the city
jail when Emerson pleaded guilty to a charge
of driving while intoxicated.
BELGRADE-Mrs. Cecilia Girdner, Gallatin
county pioneer, died at her home here a few
days ago at the age Of "a after a lengthy
illness. She was born in Illinois, and was
was married to John Gilbert Stuart who died
in 1907 and to Howard Girdner, who died
in 1880. Four sons and three sisters survive.
OH III 4AilS VI 1sOO -
State university at Missoula led all
other units of the Greater University Of
last month. State college at Boze-
man was second, Northern college at Havre
third, Normal at Dillon fourth, Eastern Nor
NAL at Billings fifth, and Mines at Butte
sixth.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with his companion at
a floating bottle, T.. w. Symmonds Jr., 10,
injured when a bullet ricocheted and
pierced his right leg about two inches be-
1nnr tL4 IN@~ nlx@ ,n--A
an operation and the bullet, of .22-long
caliber, was removed. 1t was found partly
Embedded in the bone. His condition is report
I'd good.
CHINOOK-Chapman Pennock of Hogeland,
Blaine ~county's oldest Civil war veteran,
-eached the age of SO on his birthday March
"a. He served in the ranks of the 18th New
York cavalry throughout the war, and re-
ates a great many interesting tales of his
Stationed for six months on