The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-06-02

Mrs. George Fenny and son
Dwight drove into Libby Tuesday
from Minnesota for a visit with
their nephew and niece, Mr. and
Mrs. Gus Delzer.
Mrs. Lee Tinker joined her hui
band last Sunday after teaching in
Popular this winter. Mr.. Tinker
operates the Calso service station
on highway No. 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon erotteau and
family drove to Kalispell on Sun
day and attended Memorial Day
services at the Soldiers Home at
Columbia Falls on Monday.
interesting souvenir of some
airplane crash was received by the
]. Neils Lumber company the past
week. II consisted of several air
mail letters badly scorched.
Mrs George Winchester of Oak
land, Calf, arrived in Libby Mon
day and will conduct her class in
voice for several weeks, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs Walter Neils,
Miss Dorothy Bauer of Great
Falls and Miss Florence Bauer of
Kalispell are visiting with their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bauer.
They will be here the entire week.
Billy West returned last week
from Medicine Lake, Mont, where
he had taught in the high school the
past school year He will spend the
summer with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. West.
w. F. Kienitz will leave Friday
night for Seattle and will sail on
June from Vancouver B. c., for
the Hawaiian islands on a business
trip. He expects to be gone four
or five weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Leigh and
Lionel Shaurette motored TO Clarks-
ton, Wash, and visited over the
weekend with Mrs Shaurettes
father. Mrs. Shaurette, who had
been visiting there, returned with
them.
Men working on the new swim
ming pool are making preparations
this week to lay the steel which
will be the base for the concrete to
be poured next week. Seepage from
the Kootenai last week during the
high water delayed work to some
extent.
Miss Jean Kienitz returned Sat
urday from several weeks spent at
Merrill, Wis, and other midwest |
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car for her father, w. F. Kienitz,
and was accompanied by her cousin,
Miss Ruth Kienitz of Merrill, who
will spend the summer here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Fennessy, ac-
companied by Florence and Tommy, |
went to Spokane last Thursday to
attend the graduation of their son
Joe, Jr., from Gonzaga university
Miss Margaret Fennessy came from
her years teaching at CheWelah,
Wash, to attend the exercises and |
then accompanied the family home
to Libby for the summer.
L. G. Klenck reports an item that
will interest many Libby people. 1t
was the death during the week of
Rush Parnell, at Kalispell. KlenchI
says he will be remembered as
negro who frequently came to Libby
to play with the KaGspell band in
The earlier years and with orches-
.ras. He was wonderful musician,
especially on the trombone and pi-
ano, and could make either instru-
ment talk, says Mr.. Klenck. He
Was so years old at his death and
lad lived in Kalispell most of his
life.
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Wagner have
,ented the Grandjean house on Min
aral avenue for the summer and are
expected to arrive in Libby within
.Wo or three weeks They have
'on attending the Iowa State Coll
ege at Ames and a daughter in
nigh school at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
md Wagners plan to come to Libby ,
IS soon as the young people have
finished with their studies for the
summer vacation. Mr.. Wagner is
he highway contractor who has the
sraveling and oiling contract at
libby.