Carbon County news., 1936-09-18

Wednesday night. Cards furnished
the entertainment with four tables
in play. Honors went to Miss Mar
garet Whitehead and Mrs. r. w.
DeBourg. Mrs. Greenough received
many lovely gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Puutio and
Mrs. A. w. Harvey arrived here
from Chicago Friday after receiv-
ing word that their mother, Mrs.
Alfred Puutio, was seriously ill at
the St. Vincents Hospital at Bill
lings. They visited several days
with Mr.. Alfred Puutio at Red
Lodge and left for Chicago Tues
day morning by motor.
Word has been received from
F. L. Purcell, Fromherg, to the
effect that a Fromberg- Clark's
Fork exhibitor, entering seven peck
exhibits at the Richland County
Fair, just closed, received blue rib
bons for Great Northern Red Chile
and pinto beans and wrinkled peas.
Red ribbons were won for navy
beans, smooth peas and white oats.
County commissioners in ses-
sion here last week passed a res
olution of intention to create a
rural improvement district in the
town of Belfry. Such improvement
will consist of street lights; pay
ment and maintenance of which
will be paid through assessment.
A petition asking for such, an i'm
provement was presented by 60
per cent of the Belfry taxpayers.
John E. Powers, democratic cam
didate for state representative
from Carbon county, returned here
Tuesday afternoon from Great
Falls where he attended the state
Bourbon convention. Mr.. Powers
stopped off in Billings on his way
home. II contacted some of my re-
publican friends in Billings in an
attempt to solicit few nickles to
get the Donkeys out of Maine,
chuckled Powers. He reports no
luck, however.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Parker,
Delta, Col, and DIR. and Mrs. JOS
eph Parker, Telluridek, Col, ar
rived here last Monday for a visit
with Mrs. Charles Parker's mother
and sister, Mrs. Castle and Mrs.
C. R. Schmidt. The visitors left for
their homes Wednesday morning
accompanied by Mrs. Castle who
will spend the winter with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Parker at Delta. They
left via the new highway through
Yellowstone Park.
Notification has been received
here from the Billings Navy re-
cruiting station of the enlistment
application Of John William
Hershberger, Roberts, son of
James B. Hershberger. John is
graduate of Roberts High School.
He will be called for enlistment
when designated by the Navy de-
partment to fill the quota for
this district. His application has
been approved by the recruiting
officer at Salt Lake City.
w. w. Flashman returned Tues
day from a trip through Yellow
stone Park. After picking up his
son Rodney Flashman, who had
been employed at Canyon, Mr..
Flashman journeyed to West Yel-
lowstone to look over some of the
curio shops there. While there he
made arrangement for the shops
to handle pictures Of scenes a.
long the Red Lodge-Cooke City
route to Yellowstone, Between Yel-
lowstone and Canyon Mr.. Flash
man ran into snow storm.
Congenial visitors at the news
paper office Monday were Lon
Cook, Seattle, publicity agent for
the Milwaukee Railroad; E. w.
(Shorty) Talmage, Joliet, and
James West, manager of the Mont
aqua mineral wells. Cook, who is
a noted photographer, took his
first journey over the new Red
Lodge Cooke City highway, and
said the beauties of the road
should be one of the nations most
powerful magnets to tourists. i
Mr.. West presented the newspaper
force with a number of large
Montague cantaloupes, a strain
which he developed after five
years of breeding.
w. J. Mccormick, Missoula at
torney and once U. S. congress
man from the second district, has
left for Cambridge, Mass, where
he will attend the Tercentary Gel
ebration of the founding of Har-
ward University. The occasion will
also be the thirtieth reunion of
his graduating class. Mccormick,
who is prominent Republican,
wrote to o. H. P. Shelley here
notifying him of his intention to
leave the state. He is accompanied
BY his daughter, Angela, and they
expect to return to Missoula early
IN October.
Mrs. Hope Williams Reed, known
to the stage and screen as Hope