Glacier County chief., 1939-03-03
Treasure State
News in Brief

FRAZER-Ray S. Pentland. SUPER
intendent of the Frazer school, has re-
signed, effective at the close of this
school term, and Edwin Lerum of Hoag-
land has been elected to take his place
HARLOWTON Mrs. Gay Murray
and son. Gaylord, moved to Martins
dale, where she will open a drygoods
department in her husbands store.
Murray also owns the Wheatland gro
Gerry here.
LIBBY-C. K. Spaulding, assistant
supervisor of the Clearwater national
forest for the last two years and in
charge of timber sales, has been trans
ferred to the Kootenai forest to fill the
place left vacant by George Stoltz.
LIVINGSTON-Leo Cremer, Shaw
NUT rodeo impresario, was awarded the
contract for furnishing the stock,
equipment and speciality acts for the
!4th annual Livingston roundup next
July 2, 3 and 4.
HARLOWTON-State Highway Pa
trolman Maurice Lean moved his fam
lily from Helena. He is the first resi-
dent patrolman here. The district has
formerly been covered by Patrolman
Jones and Dell of Townsend and
Roundup.
MISUNDERSTANDING precipitation
on the western Montana watershed of
the Clark Fork of the Columbia river
was 81 percent of normal from Oct. i,
1898. to Feb. l. 1899, the bureau of agri-
cultural engineering reported to w. E.
Vaughan. federal meteorologist.
BUTTE-Mrs. Mike M. Fogarty, g.
was resting well at st. James hospital
after doctors performed a rare opera
ton on her in mailing her broken hip
together with a 3-inch steel nail. The
nail will be removed when the frac-
ture heals
NEW DEAL-Funeral services for
ADDISON E. Fry, IS. were held at the
GLASGOW Holland funeral chapel and
burial was at Glasgow. He resided at
New Deal for five years. where he con-
Quoted hotel. Death followed a long
Illness
MISSOULA-Missoula County At
torney Edward Dussault banned all
illegal gambling devices. The order in
cluded bank nights" at theaters. Sew
eral slot machines have been stolen
here in recent months and Dussault
estimated 300 were operating in the
county.
HELENA-Ralph Anderson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson, narrowly
escaped death when a gun exploded
and he was shot in the left Jaw. The
bullet came within a remarkably short
distance of vital spot, shattered three
teeth and stopped in his mouth. He
spit it out
BIG TIMBER-The John P. Camp
bell ranch, five miles east of Melville
on sweet Grass creek, was sold to the
=: A. Harris Co. of Minneapolis. Newt
Pierson of Mossmain, will be the man
ager when possession is taken which
will be on May l. The ranch comprises
$500 acres and will be used for cattle.
DILLON-Archie M. Arbuckle, rs,
and his wife, Mrs. Lillian M. Arbuckle'
IA, were found shot to death in their
modest two-room dwelling here. Fol-
lowing, an Investigation, police ex-
pressed the belief that Mr.. Arbuckle
shot his wife and then turned a .38
caliber pistol on himself.
WHITEFISH-J. G. Coombs of Butte
purchased from the Lindlief Fur Co.
six female mink of the Yukon variety,
which he will use for breeding pur-
poses at fur farm he is starting in
the Big Hole basin. The price paid was
$50 each. Lindlief still has 81 mink
and % silver fox at his farm south
west of Whitefish.
BILLINGS-Directors of the Noun
tain States Beetgrowers Marketing as
ISOLATION reelected F. E. Huddleston of
Billings president of the organization.
Speakers at the annual meeting said
the present outlook for the sugar in
dustry Is a reduced market with a
corresponding effect on crop acreage
for 1899.
LIBBY-Mrs. Mary L. Peterson died
at the Libby hospital from a paralytic
stroke. She was 80 and one of the first
pioneers of Libby. She came to Libby
with her husband in 1892 and settled
on the property now known as the
Midas mine. They were the first to
start developing the property. Later
they moved to Libby Her husband died
a few years ago.
WALKERVILLE-A dearth Of candi-
dates for city office was overcome when
Miss Danny Lou Daniels filed a NOM
mating petition for mayor, and r. p.
Jameson filed for alderman. There has
been no city election held here since
1888 because there were no candidates
for office.
HAvRE-George w. Dewar, 81, for
mer fire chief Of Havre, died at the
Columbus hospital in Seattle. Burial
was In Havre. Funeral rites were held
at the Presbyterian church with the
Rev. Conrad Wellen officiating. Dewar
was member Of the Seattle fire de-
partment for nine years. He came to
Havre In 1911. Dewar, on Feb. 3. 1915.
became the first paid fire chief Of the
city, . position he held until he re-
signed on Oct. II. 1898.