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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Transient Caught Stealing
Suit of Clothes at Penney's

A transient who gave his name
as John Ryan was caught In the act
of stealing a suit Of clothes from
the J. c. Penney store Saturday
Ryan and two companions entered
the store, one of the men saying he
wished to buy pair Of shoes.
While Assistant Manager Roy Ped
erson took him back to the shoe
department, the other two men loi-
tered in the front of the store. One
of them stood so as to screen the
other from Mr. Pederson's view,
when Ryan picked up a suit OF
clothes and hid it under his coat.
The plan was clever one but
they failed to take into considera-
ton Miss Margaret Sleizer, who was
working in the balcony She saw
the whole performance and gave the
alarm. Mr.. Peterson followed Ryan
across the street and charged him
with the theft, finally reaching I'M
der his coat and recovering the suit
of clothes. In the meantime Miss
Sleizer had called the sheriff's of
flee, the officers arrived on the
scene and Ryan was taken into Gus.
tody. The other two were not held
Ryan was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Haigler Monday morn
ing, pleaded guilty and was giver
fine of $50 He later gave hi
name as John Hogan.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
State Expenditures
Higher, Says Report

The march issue of the Montana
is now being distributed.
A letter that accompanies it to the
editors of the state says that the
March issue deals primarily with
state finances.
While the general fund is NOV
ing out OF the red, the debt obi
cations are considerable, capitol
building bonds are in default, and
expenditures have increased almost
as fast as income. The pay roll
and expenses of elective offices and
long established boards, commissions
ard institutions have not advanced
to any great extent but new depart
ments and new services that were
at first established to meet an emer-
gency are now set UP as regular
parts of state government and will
probably continue to demand the
same heavy expenditures.
Continuation of the present scale
of expenditures depends upon con-
tinued revenue yields of which there
is too much optimism. About DC
per cent of the general fund revenue
is derived from liquor profits thai
have steadily declined since las
July. In January and February, 1887
before the retail liquor law was ir
effect the state monopoly showed
profit of 1886, 1876, compared will
S180,3i7.13 for January and Febru
airy, 1888, a reduction of approx
mately 80 per cent.
With all the increased revenu
from other sources property take
are over Ia millions higher tina
/ in 1886. Tn spite of steady redue
ton in numbers of school childre
since 1890 and an increase in stat
funds, local school levies have bee
sharply advanced to meet create
educational demands.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Libby Mon Given
MiIitory Funeral

A large number of old-time
friends gathered at the Gefnpf
chapel Sunday afternoon to pay
their last respects to Charles w,
Richards, 80 year old resident and
Civil war veteran who died IN LID
by on Sunday, March 8. The serv-
ices were in charge of the American
Legion and full military honors
were paid the departed comrade IN
the burial rites.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. r. ". Crater, chaplain OF
the Legion post, who gave an ex-
celIent address and dWelt on the
services the old veterans of the Civil
war had rendered their country ano
their generation. He referred tC
the dwindling ranks of the old vet
Grams as typified by the presence OF
only one other Civil war veteran
Mr.. Lou Getner, 96 years old anc
the sole remaining veteran OF tht
war of the Cos living in Libby.
Burial was in the Libby cemetery
with old time friends and neigh
bors acting as pallbearers. They
were A. w. Grambauer, A. L
Thompson, Peter Hughes, M. A
Shanahan, J. P. Fuller and james
Harris, Jr., acting in behalf of hi
| father.
l.. Appropriate hymns were sung b,
the Legion Auxiliary quartet con
sisting of Mrs. r. ". Crater, Mrs. W
c. collars, Mrs. J. A. Krall and Mrs
Elwood Brown, with Mrs. Ira Mile
at the piano.
The only relatives able to com
for the funeral were DR.. and Mrs
Charles w. Richards of Phoenis
IN. ". a son.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Libby Boy Has Port in Greet War Game
Being Played in Pacific by u. S. Navy

A great war game was started
Tuesday by the United States navy
off the west coast of the continent.
For a month and half the ma
tons powerful forces will work out
war problems as nearly identical
with war conditions as it is possible
to make them.
Probably few of us realize, as we
read of those maneuvers, that boys
from Libby and other parts of Lin
coin county will be taking an active
part in them. Henry A. Nelson is
Libby boy who will be in the thick
of this make-believe war. He has
been with the navy nearly three
years.
ITO Battleships Involved
Some time before dawn on the
morning of Tuesday, March Is, ITO
sleek gray Warships with over 500
planes aboard steamed out from
their anchorages under sealed or
ders bound for some secret destlna-
ton in the great triangular area ex-
tending from southern California
to Hawaii and thence to the Aleu-
tan Islands of Alaska For period
of six weeks, all men and ships will
be working and operating under
simulated wartime conditions. Radio
will be silencrd and all cornmunica
ton with shore suspended, together
with long periods of darkened ship,
t high speed runs, and many hours
will be spent each day manning the
battle stations. But to give the men
well-earned respite from these
strenuous exercises, the fleet will
anchor in Hawaii for period of 10
days. This time will be devoted to
shore leave for the men; they will
be entertained on shore by dances
dinners, special fetes of all kinds
and best of all, special sightseeing
tours Of the island and all its in
teresting and unrivaled scenic spots
Among these men will be approx
mately six to seven hundred boys
who enlisted at the Salt Lake City
Recruiting Station from the Inter.
mountain area during the past three
years. To some of them it will be
their first participation in fleet
problem, and many of them will get
their first glimpse of the Parade o.
the Pacific. To a very few, who
enlisted within the past three OF
four months, it will be their frs
sea voyoge. But, though the many
drills and exercises are sometimes
strenuous during any Fleet Prob
lem, the men enter into the wal
games with great enthusiasm, ane
the recreational visits in new anc
strange lands more than compensate
them for the weeks spent at ses
under wartime conditions.
viii Visit Hawaii
During their brief stay in Hawai-
they will have the opportunity o
INDUCING in the sports of million
aires. They can 60 surf-riding O
swimming at the far-famed waikiki
Beach with it's mile-long rollers
On the beach they will see the fam
Gus Royal Hawaiian Hotel and tn
nearby Lalani Hawaiian Village
which is especially interesting du
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17

to the fact that it is an authentic
portrayal of community life in Old
Hawaii. The Village furnishes en-
waiian girls dancing the hula-hula
accompanied by a real Hawaiian
string orchestra. After the enter
tainment the spectators are always
invited to join the performers IN
one of their native feasts which
they call s'luauh The main entire
at luau is poi, consisting of sort
of mush, made from the root of the
taro plant, and tasting much like
boiled starch. Poi is eaten with
the fingers and is classed as one,
two, or three-finger poi. Three
finger poi is in the more liquid form,
and requires three fingers to scoop
1t up, tWo-finger is less liquid, while
one finger poi is the most solid,
requiring only one finger.
Many Points of Interest
Other points of great interest are
the Academy of Fine Arts contain
ing remarkable exhibits of Hawai-
ian and Oriental art, the Aquarium,
containing hundreds. of fine speci-
mems of multi-colored tropical fish;
the Capitol, formerly the Royal Pal
yaraf of the Queen OF Hawaii the
pineapple canneries, largest fruit
canning plants in the world, where
the boys will have the unique ex-
perience of drinking from fountain
spouting pure pineapple juice; ka-
piolani Park, containing polo field,
tennis courts, ZOO and an aviary;
Bishop Museum, located in the ka-
'mahameha School grounds, finest
collection of Hawaiian and Poly
nesian curios, relics and historical
specimens, Halaekalar the largest
crater in the world; Kilauoa, the
Pit of Eternal Fire." largest active
volcano in the world; the Pail, world
famous highway and observation
point; and the Giant Fern Fields
where ferns grow from Is to 81
feet in height. D
The people of Hawaii all speak
English but frequently insert color
Continued on page 81
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Libby Bowlers Get
Into The Big Money

Libby bowlers who entered the
tournament at Spokane last week
came home with some of the big
money. Lud Ludvikson took first
place in Glass c singles with score
of 702 in three games. This score
also gave him a tie for first, in
singles, for all classes. John Lovick
and Dick Butt took second place in
Glass c doubles with a score of 1855.
The Libby men report the tour
nament highly successful one, with
the largest crowd ever in at
tendance.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Big Gold Vein
Opened at Viking

Frank Humphrey, superintendent
of the Viking mine, gold property
south of Libby, was in the city the
first of the week, at which time 1t
was learned that a new body Of rich
ore was being opened at the mine.
The new ore is estimated to run
several hundred dollars to the ton,
according to reports submitted to
the officers by Superintendent
Humphrey.
The new vein il said to be large
enough to require from three to five
years to work it through. the mill in
conjunction with ore from other
veins. The mill now has capacity
of 60 tons daily, but it is planned
to enlarge the mill to hundred
tons daily.
The Viking is working day and
night shifts and has operated all
winter. Twentysseven men are en-
ployed
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Will Develop
Large Ore Body

In a report to the stockholders
of the Glacier Silver Lead Mining
company, Thos. r. Toole, president,
outlines plans for future operations
of the company.
Development work at the mine
has been continuous since March,
1886, says President Toole, and much
important progress has been made.
No. tunnel has been extended be-
yond the fault, which was major
movement of over 700 feet horizon
tally, and rs to 100 feet vertically.
The vein has been contacted be-
yond this fault and raise of 35
feet has exposed the vein that was
contacted through the diamond
drilling. This raise will be contin-
ued through the ore body to the
Na.21and= Nc. levels.
Two hundred feet south of the
fault on the main level, ore was
found over width of six feet, which
appears to be of profitable milling
grade. None of this ore has been
removed below this level, and it is
part of our program to sink on
this ore body as soon as milling OPP
erations have started.
With the recommendation of your
company's engineer, your board Of
directors have formulated the fol.
lowing program: We propose to ex,
pIore the vein above the main tun
mel contacted by the diamond drill
north of the fault, for the reason
that this vein on the surface, il
the surface cuts and other exposure
showed the highest grade ore eve
exposed in the mine. liz it contin
ues vertically downward this or
should appear in the vein above tn
main tunnel level and again on tn
|, No. 3 and No. levels above. 1t
our purpose to open up and develo
this territory by means of drift
! and raises up to the good showing
ON the surface, a distance of over so
J feet. 1t is expected that this dc
! velopment program will develo
Il enough ore 10 start and keep tn
) mill in continuous operation 70
several years.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Feathered Tribe Comes
Back to Libby in Flocks

Our feathered friends held an
early spring convention on the
lawn at the court house Sun
day. And that we will have
large numbers of these cheer
full summer visitors this year
is evidenced by the flocks OF
them that congregated on the
lawn at that time. James
Reedy reports that he counted
over hundred robins and Ii
meadowlarks on the lawn at
one time. He says he judges
there were fully 200 robins
there when he made the count.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
WOOL OUTPUT Low.

Montana wool production in 1887
dropped to 24768,000 pounds, Jay
G. Diamond, federal statistician re
ports. This is decline Of 4,583, 006
pounds from the 1896 output, and
places Montana in fourth place
among wool producing states, in
stead of third. Texas, Wyoming and
California outrank Montana. Cali
fornia was fourth in 1886, During
1887, there were 2,580,O0 fleeces
compared to 3,l56,000 in 1896. Av-
eraFe fleece weighed 9.6 wounds
in 1887: in 1886, they averaged 9.3
pounds.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Annual School Election
Comes on Saturday, April z

The annual school election comes
this year on Saturday, April 2, at
which time two trustees will be
chosen.
The trustees whose terms expire
are Mrs. Paul Church and Joe
Kujawa.
The polls will be in the grade
school building and will be open
from Il o'clock noon to p. m.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
POST FISHING RULES.

April 18th has been set as the
date for annual reorganization
of the Montana Fish and
Game Commission, to be held in
At this meeting regula-
tons governing fishing for the COM
ing year will be discussed and
sportsmen groups are invited to send
delegates.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Entertain Double Ten Club.

The members of the Double Ten
club enjoyed an evening at pinochle
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Neils Saturday night. At the con-
clusion of the games it was found
that Miss Isabel McGrade and Chas.
d. Rowe had won high score hon
ors, while low scores fell to Mrs.
Chas ID. Rowe and w. E. Dexter.
Dainty refreshments were served by
the hostess.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Mrs. j. r. Brindley Hostess.

The members of the Les HUT club
were guests OF Mrs. J. T. Brindley
at a 1870 bridge dessert Tuesday at
ternoon At the contract games
high score prize was won by MRS
Mary Hargreaves and second high
by Mrs. George Langsdorf.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17

An BIZ pound son was born to MIR.
and Mrs. Delbert Bowen on Sun
day, the 18th. The young man has
been named Gerald Delhert.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17

DIR. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, protege
of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who was
recently named to the key position
of minister OF the interior In the
Austrian cabinet, following the
agreement between Austria and
Germany which brings The two ma
tions into closer relations.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW

Those who unuy depressed view the political
state of the world today merely have lost perspective It
is rate both consong and stimulating to read the latest
prophecy of that prince of prophets H. G. Wells Like the rest
he has crystal into which he gazes but few
with him in his amazing combination of perspective
tion and range of awareness.
"The of today he declares sis healthier better
informed better fed it, clothed housed with greater of
movement and leading fuller and interesting life than the
of 1885, Life in 1888 he nfes Judging from ten
denotes the last half century, will be less cellular than
with the schooentered community replacing the
household the social unit Our descendants will be free
candid agreeable and healthy than their Streets roads
gardns architecture and clothing will reflect this and
freedom and their houses and Clothes particularly will be
utonzed by the materials which science just begin
ming to develop
This outlook based Wells assumption
fortunately not beyond question that political dictatorship
it's suppression of freedom of thought inquiry
lis not likely to reach the point where will scientific
progress
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
Frank Bowler
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters of Administration
on the personal estate of Weltha
Mason, late of Worcester County, de-
ceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to ex-
hibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or before
the 18th day of July, 1888. They may
otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefits of the said estate. All per-
sons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment
Given under my hand this 9th day of
January, 1888.
JENNIE v. LAMBERTSON
Administrative
Test: Paul Jones, Register of Wills
Jan 7-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
Mona, Va. News

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin burlington of
Melfa, spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. B. P Paradee.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bunting spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. D.
F. Miles.
Mrs. L. L. Colona spent Monday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. P.
Paradee.
Mrs. Fred Tull and children, Myr-
tie Louise and Edward, spent Friday
evening with Mrs. d. P. Miles.
Mrs. H. C. Nottingham and grand
son, Linwood Willis, Jr., spent the
weekend with Mrs. F. A. Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. P. Paradee spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs.
George Chapman of Greenbackville.
Mr.. F. A. Miles is in the Marine
Hospital in Baltimore, Md, for OBJ
servation and treatment. We hope
he will be helped and soon be home
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
Sat-, January 70, 1888

At the hour of Three o'clock in the
afternoon
In front of the Parker House,
PocomOke City, Md.
All that lot or parcel of ground sit
uate, lying and being in Pocomoke
City, Worcester County, Maryland, on
the southwest side of Willow Street,
having a width on said Willow Street
of AZ feet and a depth of 80 feet,
adjoining the property of l.. Paul
Ewell on the northwest, the Armory
of the Maryland National Guard on
the southwest and the property for
merly owned by Cornelia Davis and an
alley on the southeast, being all and
the same property conveyed by the
mortgage aforesaid, and also all and
the same property conveyed to the
said John w. Reid and Katherine D..
Reid, as tenants by the entireties,
from the said John Edwin Powell and
wife by deed dated August 20, 1929,
and recorded among the land records
of Worcester County, Maryland, in
Liber B. B. No. 7, folios 401, etc.,
together with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon and all the alleys
and ways thereto belonging or in
anywise appertaining.
This property has the use in COM
mon with other owners and occupiers
of an alley fourteen feet in width
running northwesterly from Second
Street along the Davis property and
also strip fourteen feet in width ex-
tending from the Armory property to
the Davis property, this strip being
about twenty-eight feet from said Ar
mory property to said Davis proper
ty. This property is improved by a
brick and concrete restaurant and
hotel building and is commonly called
"Reid's Hotel and Restaurant" It is
we'll located and should be of interest
to anyone desiring a good business
property. There are twelve bed
rooms.
Terms of sale CASH.
Title papers and revenue tax at the
expense of the purchaser. Taxes paid
to January 1, 1888. Possession on
ratification of sale.
l.. PAUL EWELL, Trustee
Jan. 7-4t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1888
POLITICS DOMINATING BUSINESS

AS business magazine recently sad ut to Washington
has been largely 1929 1t praboby more true
today Politics has become the dominating
factor situation and the business outlook
late Washington was the Presidents
statement made at press to the tha ne
ca mentioned banking hodg % c Of out sd NOT
sutonay will be finally decided by the Supreme Court this
the Administrators policy of eliminating
believed the President looking into other fields His state
mnt greeted with both wonder and in financial
securities represent which wholly partly
to accurately gauge the effect wholesale withholding
policy until Mr. Roosevelt clarifies and explains his views and
poses.
holding company declaration coming top of the recently
inaugrated movement further illustrates the wild
it's original less revolutionary detectives and Congress
We oe % % swe empase tho
mendus cleavage of opinion that exists between the Admnistra
ton and American business-at-large.
Less-headlned but of unusual interest nvestiga-
ton the subject of employment which Senate committee
vestgaon means scandal hunt This one was very different
the committee honestly wanted information and the questions
the questionee.
witness Federal Reserve Chairman Ecces
has long advocated immediate attributed
slump to the soldiers bonus payment which accentua
costs for the railroads. lack of expansion by utilities and the
power He said it was necessary to reduce oon
trOled prices and wages which high"
Another witness General Motors William Knudsen who
described the dilemma the industry amazingly
fast drop and used buying spoke of ar psychology
attitude toward business similar opinion was
expressed by Robert Wood Sears Roebuck President who said
that business lacks confidence and scared and observed that
the has ben dubbed the head many times
Wood also said that number of specific factors led the
stump Gudng in the spring of 1885, steiza
ton OF god increased Federal Reserve requirements fact
that private spending did not take the slack when the
ment began slowing down of its emergency activities
All OF these witnesses likewise agreed that abnomay large
and early winter The inventory situation grad
uay being corrected and in industries figures
facts which the economists who upurn
spring put their hopes.
SO the debate In the meantime business
induces have not changed much lately Improvement in some
lines offset by further declines in Others
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-28
CAUSE AND CURE

B. c. Forbes, noted writer subjects of
hits the nail pretty squarey the head believe his
recent article the Causes and Cure of the Depression
possess practically every ingredient essential
except Forbes and that confidence
'"Ihs ingredient can be supplied only by Washington.
"Out of all these conferences being held President
cit with who have played constructive part making
great it profoundly to be hoped that good viii come
that political backbtng will subsde that cooperation develop
that unemployment will take the place of expanding empoyN
ment that good times will shortly suppan wholly
essay bad times causing much suffering people
impering national future"