The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-04-15
Small Troy
Boy Lost On
Mountain Top
Three Year Old Lad Spends
Night Alone In Snow
And Rain.
FOUND ASLEEP UNDER
FIR TREE. UNHURT

TROY. April 14-(Special to Western
News)-4Where's my daddy" were the
first words spoken by little Kenton
Helmar.S3- year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Halle Helmar of Troy when he was
found Tuesday curled I'D asleep in the
snow under fir tree after having been
lost all night on mountain and in the
snow and rain.
The little boy was found about l
o'clock Tuesday afternoon by Harry
Ford mile and half southwest of
Troy ON the top of mountain. He
had been missed by his parents
since o'clock of the previous day.
Kenton had gone down town about
$3.50 Monday afternoon with his older
brother Johnnie and friend Gerald
Hewitt. to buy some candy. Johnny and
Gerald went to the Fl. c. Weidner
store to buy their CANDY and Kenton
to the Troy Commercial When the
two boys returned to Join Kenton. they
could not find him. SO started around
town in search of him. Failing to find
the little boy, they went home and
told Mrs. Helmar that they didn't know
where Kenton was. She sent them
down to look again but TO no avail
The parents became frightened and
started to look for him themselves and
pot others to help them. BY o'clock
Monday evening everyone in the town
was thoroughly alarmed and about 200
men were out with lights and flash
lights searching for him along the
railroad tracks. river and creek banks,
in empty buildings. holes and over the
mountain. until midnight Some even
STAYED out until 3 and o'clock In
the morning
Tuesday morning men and boys from
the fourth grade through high school
were organized under Deputy Sheriff
&C. o. Hoisinston who had rome from
Libby to search again for the missing
child,
About II o'clock noon, Lester Sny-
der and Fred French returned to town
reporting that they had found tracks in
the patches of snow on the other side
of the mountain. Immediately group
of men went up there Arriving at the
top, they snread out Shortly shouts
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Ford saying that he had found the boy.
Earl P Sanford was with Mr.. Ford,
and carried the lad down the mountain
to town.
Mr.. Ford said Il found what looked
to me to be fresh tracks and followed
them. | could see where he had gone
over logs, small trees and sometimes
the imprints of his two little hands
where he had fallen forward in the
snow found him curled up in the
snow lying under fir tree asleep. The
first words that he said were. Where
my daddy?' Assuring him that he would
see his daddy soon, picked him up.
AS soon as he was brought down, he
was rushed to DR. Fornan where he
was examined and put to bed at the
doctors home where he could be un-
der his direct care. He is now suf-
fering from exposure, shock and severe
bronchitis. He was soaking wet.
When Kenton was asked why he
went up the mountain, he stated that
he wanted to find hunting ground.
The route followed by the little boy
was up a mountain exceedingly steep
and over rough, broken ground. How
he ever made the climb is a surprise
to everyone.
Mote Word from Troy this morning
is that the little boy is getting alonE
fine and will suffer no i'll effects from
his all night adventure)