The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17

The monthly meeting of the Club
was we'll attended on Saturday and
a very instructive program given.
Mrs. Chas, Leighty had charge of
the entertainment. Songs were sung
by the congregation. Mrs. Paul
Beresford gave an entertaining read
ing, a solo by one of the Toole
Lake children, a three part dialogue
by the Toole children, duet by
Mrs. Leighty and Mrs. Carpenter
and two selections by the Toole
Lake orchestra consisting of Mr..
and Mrs Chas. Leighty and Verne
and Art Whitmarsh were much ap-
preciated
H. P. Weydemeyer, president, pre-.
sided and read the resignation of
Mrs. George Shea, Jr., as secretary.
A. c. Mackey was promptly given
a unanimous ballot for the office.
Mr.. Weydemeyer then called on DR..
Lowell to talk to the members on
the proposed community hall prof.
ect DR.. Lowell gave brief history
of the efforts made in the past by
him and others in an effort to get
this project approved. He cautioned
regarding the danger of criticisms
sent in to headquarters which serve
to confuse and prevent action. He
then described the plan being pushed
at present and explained the floor
plans, which were roughly outlined
on the board The hall would
be 40x80 feet with full basement
consisting of kitchen and dining
room, large dance space on the
main floor with club room and
toilets attached also stage and
two dressing rooms. The plan was
copied from the halls now being
used in Yellowstone park. Dr. Low
ell pointed out that the material to
be salvaged from the old mill do
mated by H. Mccullough will be suf-
ficient to complete the wood work
except for floor, roof and finishing.
WPA labor may be obtained and
funds for purchase of materials
from a recently created WPA fund.
At a past meeting of the club Ed.
Staples, A. c. Mackey and George
Shea had been appointed by the
Club to act on the hall committee to
cooperate in anyway possible to OBJ
tain the building
Mr.. Knapp of Rexford was then
called on to talk on timber cutting
in the Kootenai forest. Mr.. Knapp
gave an instructive talk on man
ner of disposing of timber products,
prices, profits allowed purchasers,
use of proceeds by the forest serv-
ice, exchange system, why but one
mill is patronized, prospects of flu
ture timber areas to be added to
Kooteuai AREA. He answered sew
eral questions asked at the close
of his talk. II was fine to learn
that under the present schedule of
cutting our forests will last per-
manently under government super
vision barring fires or other I'm
avoidable obstruction; rs per cent
of all forest income goes to the
county to offset taxes which would
be coming in if the land were pri-
vately owned and 10 per cent of
this amount is used for school pur-
poses. Last year the forests
brought $11 300 to Lincoln county,
the largest income of any county in
Montana from such a source. Dead
or down timber may be purchased
at half the regular price for home
use and some sections are set aside
for commercial use at the same
price.
Due to the fact that Mr.. Weyde-
meyer was unable to be present at
the last meeting of the Club, his
suggestion that farmers from the
other end of the county be invited to
the Institute and entertained will
not be carried out this year since
the Institute begins on this Friday
but he urged the members to keep
this in mind for another year. 1t
was decided to answer roll call at
the next meeting on Something
I'll never do again.