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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22

WASHINGTON is now OBJ
vious that John Nance Garner is a
real candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President next year
whether President Roosevelt chooses
TO run for a third term or not.
Incidentally, there is one mystery
about Garner which ought to be
cleared up right now. He is far
from being sphinx, just as Calvin
Coolidge was far from being a
sphinx. But Garner is and Coolidge
was protected from quotation by a
simple rule governing his relations
with newspaper men Coolidge
would talk to them, and let his views
be stated, but under no circum-
stances could quotation marks be
used.
1t was to get around this difficulty
that the newspaper men, while Cool
idge was President. invented the
mythical White House Spokes-
man. Lots of people throughout
the country assumed that there real
ly was a Spokesman" They were
right. II was Calvin Coolidge.
Just SO, in the present instance.
when newspaper men hear that Gar
ner is advocating something, or do
ing something, and ask him about
1t, they cannot put quotation marks
around what Garner says in reply.
But they can print the answers. and
they can say that Garner said them.
In fact sometimes they stretch it
bit, for Garner very obviously has
another political rule in addition to
avoiding direct quotations, which
is that he denies nothing
There was slip-up on this. Incl
dentally, a few days ago in connec-
ton with the Hatch bill to outlaw
participation in the election of gov
eminent workers in the elections of
federal officers (the original bill
would have made possible participa-
ton IN primaries and the election of
delegates to national conventions
as WELD. A young reporter as
stunned because Garner did not saw
ne could not be quoted as saving
TINS bill would be Flaw before we
quit that 1t was all right to quote
him. So he did.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
EVERYTHING
IN
MERCHANDISE
KOOTENAI
Mercantile
DIRECTORY
Libby Montana
Libby, Montana
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

Commercial Club meets every 3rd
Thursday. Karl A. Klehm, presi-
dent, Bonner Hooks, secretary.
American Legion Auxiliary Lodge
No. 81 meets LIST and 3rd Thurs
days. Mrs. Ed. Holmgren, presi-
dent, Mrs. Russell Whitefield, sec
rotary.
Lions Club meets every End and
18th Mondays. James Christie, pres
ident Paul Church, secretary.
Libby Womans Club meets End
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in community
room OF court house. Mrs. Gordon
Cornell, president. Mrs. Paul
Church, secretary.
American Legion Post No. 97
meets lst and 3rd Thursdays at the
Legion hall. James A. Krall. com
mander, Vernon Crotteau, secre-
tary.
Libby Farm Woman's Club meets
lst Wednesday, Mrs. John Fuller.
president, Mrs. Monte Carol. secre
tary.
Libby Junior Woman's Club meets
second Tuesdays at 8 p. m. in the
community room of the court house.
Mrs. Donald Hargreaves, president
and Mrs. William Baeth, secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
BOLYARD
GROCERY and MARKET
Best Quality
Merchandise
Phone los
LODGES

|. O. 0. F. Cabinet chapter No. GO
meets every Tuesday evening. Floyc
Peterson, Noble Grand and Ernes1
Davidson, recording secretary.
A. F. & A. M. Libby Lodge No. 81
meets End and 4th Thursdays al
| Masonic Temple. Otto Nordstrom
w. M, VIM. Anderson, secretary.
Royal Arch Masons, Libby lodge
| NO. 50 meets LIST and 3rd Wednes-
days at Masonic Temple. Frank Up
ham, High Priest, J. F. McCully
secretary.
Order of the Eastern Star. Libby
Chapter No SO meets lst and Bird
Tuesdays at Masonic Temple. Louise
LIE Due, w. NJ, Marie Jaqueth, sec
rotary.
Libby Moose Lodge No. 1899 meets
End and 4th Mondays at Moose hall.
Wm. VanderWood, Dictator, Gleason
Pitcher, secretary.
Royal Neighbors, Mountain View
Camp No. 1853 meets End and 4th
Wednesdays at the Moose hall.
MRS. Mae thinner, oracle; Mrs. Ag-
mes Larsen, recorder.
Medora Rebekah Lodge No. So
meets lst and 3rd Mondays at |. O.
Q. f. hall. Hester Dunn, Noble
Grand and Ruth Hampton. secretary.
A. 0. u. w. meets the End Friday
OF each month at the Legion hall
Virgo Dutton, w. M and L. J.
Brown, secretary
Libby Chapter De Molay meets
lst and 3rd Mondays. Masonic Tenn
pie. Gene NOVEL;, Nj. c.; Fred
Clark, scribe.
Rainbow Girls meet second and
fourth Mondays at Masonic Temple.
Lenore Martin, w. A.; Phyllis De
Rosia, secretary, Mrs. Harold Hall,
mother advisor.
Women of the Moose, Libby
Chapter No. sos meets on the first
and third Tuesdays at the Moose
hall. Bessie Smith, Senior Regent
and Babe Warner, recorder.
Iheta Rho Club No. 27 meets 1st
and Bird Tuesdays in |. o. O. F.
Hall at tbs. p m. Dorothy Becker.
president; Celia Ann Nolop, vice
president; Eleanor Rodgers, record
ing secretary. Hester Dunn, advisor
officer.
Libby Townsend club No. meets
on the first and third Fridays of
each month in the community hall.
at 300 p. m. E. M. Bitterman. pres
ident; Ellen Clary, secretary.
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CALL FOR BIDS.

The Board of County Commission
ers, Lincoln County, Montana, will
open bids July 7, 1889 on one Diesel
Crawler-Type Tractor and one Hy-
draulic-Operated Road builder.
Complete specifications are on
file in the County Clerk and Record
er's office.
The Board reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all bids.
Dated this seventh day of June,
1889.
Board of Lincoln County Commits
SlonerS,
RAY c. FROST,
JAMES MAHONEY.
CHET O. HOISINGTON.
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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
Ursus Americans
A Fascinating Panhandler

GLACIER NATIONAL. PARK
June 20-If you should happen to
meet big. black haired panhand-
4 Ter named Ursus Americans on
your next trip to Glacier National
Park, don't give him anything to
eat.
j The bear, as most of us call this
shaggy beggar, is such fascinating
fellow that Superintendent D. S.
Llbbey has found it necessary to re-
new the annual warning that visi
tors must not feed the bears.
There is nothing dangerous about
bears SO long as they are not fed
or molested, the superintendent
said. In fact these big fellows are
normally among the Parks most
interesting and we'll beloved inhab-
itants. But when human beings
feed them. they become 'pauper-
lied. beg for food, and forget how
to forage for themselves. Some
times these bears then turn to a
life of crime and must be destroyed
by park officials.
= THE risk of injury in feeding
bears is serious, because a bear can
not understand when all the food
is gone, nor is he always careful
not to bite the hand that feeds him.
Taking pictures of bears is quite
safe if the photographer is careful
not TO approach them too closely
nor to get between mother and
her cubs.
Remember, bears at a distance
are safe bears; bears fed or fooled
with are dangerous bears.
The feeding, touching, teasing, or
molesting of bears was declared H.
legal in Park regulations approved
on December %, 1887, by Secretary
of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY
ORDER OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE SHOULD NOT BE
MADE.

In the District Court Of the Elev
enth Judicial District of the State
fof Montana, in and for the County
Iof Lincoln
In the matter of the estate Of Ben
Larson, deceased.
Esther Larson, the administrative
of the estate of Ben Larson. de-
ceased, having filed her petition
herein praying for an order of sale
OF the personal property and all of
the real estate Of said decedent for
the purposes therein set forth.
1t is therefore ordered by the
Judge of said Court that all persons
interested in the estate of said de-
ceased appear before the said Dis
trlct Court, on Tuesday, the 9th
day of June, 1889, at nine o'clock
a. m. Of said day, at the Court Room
OF said District Court, at the Court
House in Libby, County of Lincoln.
TO show cause why an order should
not be granted to the said admin
istratriX to sell SO much of the real
estate of the said deceased and the
personal property as shall be neces-
Sary.
And that copy Of this order be
published at least once a week for
two successive weeks in the West
ern News, weekly newspaper
printed and published in said Lin
coin County.
j F. LOCKWOOD.
Judge
Dated June 10, 1899.
BLACKBOARD & BLACKBOARD,
Attorneys for Administrative
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Try TO Prevent Opening Up
" General Tax Situation

Democratic leaders in CONGRESS
are doing their utmost to prevent
any further opening up Of the gen
eral tax situation. For instance
Chairman Robert Doughton Of the
house ways and means committee
has been flooded with requests for
brief hearing from various indus.
tries which are being subjected 10
special taxation, just as radios Is
per cent?, Doughton has crisplv told
one and all that there is no desire
to hear testimony on this. and hae
refused requests even for as brief
period as 10 minutes. (This han
pens to be the time the radio indus.
try requested.)
The average person who BUYS
radio, Of course, does not realize
that he or she is paying any tax At
all. The radio people would like to
have partial exemption. They
claim that they find a certain COM
petition in other house furnishings
and appliances. Thus. they con.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

No longer any doubt that
Garner is a real candidate for
the Democratic nomination
for President Democratic
leaders are doing their utmost
to prerent further opening up
of the general tar situation
l. {. c. hearings disclose
that Canadians hare grabbed
the shipment of the bulk of
4mericdn-grolrn luheat.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
Never Any Difficulty in
Finding How Garner Stands

But while the old New York World
attacked Coolidge bitterly for put
ting out propaganda under Quota
tlon marks assigned to the white
House Spokesman" present critics
OF Garner, in magazine articles and
elsewhere, are attacking the vice
president on the other flank. They
are assuming that he really never
says anything. Naturally Gamers
other rule, about no denials Dro-
tects them in this inaccuracy. A
denial would sound sort of silly anv-
how.
But the truth is that any reputable
newspaper man in Washington has
very little difficulty in finding out
where Garner stands on ANYTHING
though he will come home without
the bacon if his editor insists on
quotation marks.
Another type of comment from
New Deal sources which Garner bas
had to take, or break his rule bv
denying, is that he is really in fri
sympathy with the New Deal. and
that all the newspaper stories about
his being the brains behind some Of
the anti-New Deal strategy on Capt.
tol Hill are the bunk.
This has1bout ended, however.
for the simple reason that It has
been so obvious what Garner.>did
IN the court fight, his attitude about
Letting the cattle get little fat
on them" referring to business
tthls was said to the President face
to face by Garner more than
year ago and was quoted to news
paper men by others presently and
his known views and activities in
other controversies, that TO write
any more about his being a 100 per
cent New Dealer would merely
make the writer absurd.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22

tend, they would like TO have the
cabinet containing the radio exempt
ed, because as an article of furni-
ture it is, in sort of way. COM
peting in the housewives mind with
fancy table TO occupy particular
corner.
They also complain of another
type of competition. The family
budget may be such that it is a ques-
ton of whether to buy a radio or
a washing machine. OF course, the
latter is not taxed, while the radio
is taxed per cent.
Nov what's the use of taking up
the committees time with an argu-
ment like that" an old member
said TO young radio man. You
know perfectly we'll you could not
get anywhere. All we could do
would be to decide that as between
the purchase of an article to save
the good wife's back and a radio
the government had no choice but to
encourage the washing machine"
Business Interests Hold
Their Fire for the Senate
As matter of fact, however,
most business interests having an
idep that they might get somewhere
in the tax changes are not figuring
on the house at all. They are hold
ing their fire for the senate. There
are two reasons for this. One is
that the house is determined to rush
some sort of tax bill through. Until
that is Gone the business interests
won't know exactly what they have
to fight against, and what to fight
for.
For example, if their proposition
is contained in the house bill as il
is passed, then all they have to do
is to watch to see that the senate
does not strike it out Anyway, they
would have a chance in conference
when the drafts of the bills as
passed by the house and senate are
adjusted by the conferees.
II their proposition is not con.
tanned in the house draft, then they
will have more time, and more op-
to work for a change by
the senators. Almost any industry
can count on active support from
few senators-if from no one else
than from the senator's from the
states in which their industries are
active. Besides, one senator can
often force changes in any bill. For
one thing he can discuss the matter
on the floor, taking up the senate's
time, until the cows come home, a
privilege which the individual mem
Der of the house does not have. The
representative time is doled out
to him in very small doses and
with even the subject matter re.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
CHURCHES

CHURCHES
First Lutheran Church
Harold Olson, Student Pastor
St. Johns Lutheran
II. L. Pfotenhauer, Pastor
Methodist Episcopal
II. w. Woods, Pastor
st. Lukc's Episcopal
Arthur B Ware, Pastor
Christian Science
First Presbyterian Church
hev. Albert M. Hart, Pastor
Calvary Pentecostal
T. A. Dalton, Pastor
st. Joseph's Catholic
Edmond Taylor, Priest
Church of God
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-06-22
NOTICE OF SALE.OF COUNTY
BONDS.

Notice is hereby given by the
Board Of County Commissioners Of
Llncoln County State Of Montana
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Important Facts Cleaned
At /. c. c. Freight Hearing

AZ I. t. Z. Freight fearing
Nobody paid much attention to
hearings conducted by the interstate
commerce commission in which the
operators on the old Erie canal
the New York Barge canal to be
exact - protested against the cut
in freight rates on grain by the rail
roads from New York to Buffalo.
Actually the hearings brought out
some facts which are not only high
ly important to everybody in this
country who pays taxes, but have
very definite bearing on several ma
jor proposals in the offing, including
the St. Lawrence seaway, IVA, riy.
er development all over the coun-
try, public power, etc.
What the railroads did was to re-
dnce the rate per bushel on grain
from Buffalo to New York from ST
cents TO cents fiat. The canal
operators claimed that this would
ruin them-that they had to have
differential under the railroad rates
because of the. longer time required.
higher insurance, etc.
The funny part OF the whole bust
ness is that the railroads didn't
make that cut in grain rates this
summer in order to take business
from the Barge canal. They did il
to get some of the business back
which the Canadians have lbeen TAX
ing from them, and taking incident
ally, without the aid of d st. Law
renee seaWay, for which Uncle Sam
would pay half the cost.
Canadians Grab Shipment
Of 1merican.Crotcn Hheat
Last year, it was testified, n ,O0O.-
900 bushels Of American wheat were
shipped abroad through Canadian
ports, as against only 10000, 900
bushels shipped via United States
ports. The percentage Of wheat
which moved through the United
States ports to export in 1892 was
rs. In 1898 this had shrunk to % |
per cent. Bear in mind that in all
instances these quantities and per-
centages of wheat refer exclusively
to wheat grown in the United States.
Canadian wheat moved, of course. /
almost exclusively through Canadi-
an ports.
The American city most interest 4
ed in all this, of course, is Buffalo.
The big idea of the Barge canal
was to make commerce through
Buffalo. New York state has spent
untold millions with this objective.
first to build the original Erie canal.
before it was realized that the rail91I
roads were to become the big
freight movers of the country, and
before trucks were conceived, and
hen later to make the waterway a
Dig modern development, when il
vas rechristened the Barge canal.
Like so many other waterways,
1oWever, the results have never
justified the expectations. II is not
air to criticize the original concept !,
because that was before anyone
'ealized what the railroads would
become. 1t seemed then that wheat
and other goods from the Great
lakes region and westward. NOV
ne by water to Buffalo, and then
rans-shipped to barges for New
ork, would provide a growing tide
y commerce ample TO justify the
expenditure.
'p"ii 81 "dioair44-wNt' Seruiesi
Evening star., 1939-06-20
From the Social Calendar Of Washington
By the Way
Blame

Mr. and Mrs Bae de Sibor dinner at their
attractive house Twentyt evening party
originally planned the
Street
dinner out under the stars
AT dinner at the De Sbour
and white print, who told
trip with Chancey Parker and Tod Barry
Neville looking about 16 gown with tnv puhd
SKIRT Edward Gardner and Joseph Alsop.
Betsy Mary de Sbour pink peated rock
and fresh despite the night.
The De Sibou blue and beige cocktails
peofe
1t always is in this extremely welrln menage.
Later on at the club practically society
still
dance floor His included Carui Mr.
ana MIS- Moran McConhe, Margot
floor IN very polka with
sheer frled blouse while Nike
pad loot on the cool lawn of
blue
rentof Tor the
mowers on the u
on her shoulder Mrs Rogers Barker Scott
T1nsey Garnett and Randall
Mr. Mrs Lawrence Mr. and Mrs Walter
Chappe Mrs Florence eweyn young
Lawrence jr.
Another Rusts party where We saw
Mrs George PulVer, Mrs Gregg
Mrs Sutherland Mayo Mrs Mendoza Co..
Francis Harrington, Christopher BramWeI
William MacCracken there and others
we saw on the lawn tripping the light Mrs
Col and Mrs Joseph Cecil Ralph HILL Robert Boiling
Thomas Moorehead Comd Snow Mrs William
Mann Florence Harris Roy Britten Browne
Barbara Beale and Mr. and Mrs
Mr. and receiving CONGRATULATIONS on the
birth of This the Thorons They already have
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Residential Social Notes
Mrs. w. n. Doak Entertains
Guests in Virginia Home

Mrs. William N. Doak, widow of
the former Secretary of Labor, has
had as her guests for few days at
her home, Notre Mid, in Virginia
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Hiatt of
Glenellyn. Ill, and Miss Muriel
Stevens Of New York City.
Mrs. Edwin S. Broussard. widow of
Senator Broussard. is visiting her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
Felix Broussard, at their home on
Illinois avenue. She arrived from
New York, where she visited the
Worlds Fair with her cousin. Nine.
de Barle, who has returned to her
home in France.
Mrs. Broussard has a wide circle
Of friends in the Capital and will
be the guest of honor at a number
OF parties in the next few weeks.
Mrs. James E. Barnes and her
daughter, Miss Dorothy Barnes,
have as their guests Mrs Harry F.
Ostrander and her daughter, Miss
Alice Ostrander, of Seattle, Wash.
Mr. Eben F. Comins has left
Washington for the summer. He is
motoring out to the San Francisco
Exposition and from there to the
Southwest, where he is planning to
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Mr.. Holley Will Wed
Miss Ruth Nerlund

The Rev. and Mrs. Olaf John
Nerlund of Jersey City, N. j., an
nounce the approaching marriage of
their daughter, Miss Ruth Olive
Nerlund to Mr. Wesley Roger Hol-
ley, jr., the son of MI. and Mrs,
Wesley Roger Holley Of Takoma
Park
The wedding will take place July
80 in Takoma Park.
The young people are under ap-
polntment to go to Toxic. Japan,
where they will enter a language
school for year. Later Mr.. Holley
will be the field and home mis-
slonary secretary in the Japanese
Union Conference of Seventh-Day
Adventists.
Mr.. Holleys brother, Mr. Leighton
Folley, went to China as mis-
sionary several years ago and is
now stationed in Peiping, Hopei,
China.
Evening star., 1939-06-20

carry on his set Of Drawings of In
dams" that he has been doing the
last few years in Central America
and South America. He will return
in the late fall
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene n. Foss left
last week for Boston. where they
will be for a short time to select a
home for next winter, after which
they will go to Sugar Hill. N. H, to
spend the summer with Mrs. Foss'
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mar
shall Brown. in their summer home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foss gave up their
apartment some time ago and have
been in the Tracy place home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard r. Richard
son of Norfolk and their tiny daugh-
ter Marjorie will leave today to re-
turn 10 their home after a visit here
with Mrs. Richardson mother, Mrs.
James Emlyn Jones. Mrs. Richard
son and their daughter have been
here for a fortnight and Mr.. Rich
ardson joined them yesterday to
motor home with them. Mrs. Rich
ardson rode in the recent horse
show in Norfolk and won several
ribbons
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Mrs. Blair Planning
To Return Here
In the Fall

Mrs. A. M. Blair, formerly OF
Washington and of ST. Louis. Mo,
will return to Washington to
spend next winter. She has been
living the year round for some
years in her summer home at
Annisauam, Mass, but will take
q house here in the fall.
Mrs. Blair was a debutante
here and after her marriage to
the late Mr.. James L. Blair made
her home in st. Louis. After
her widowhood she returned to
her old home and renewed her
interest in music and musical af-
fairs in which she was prominent
as a girl.
The Rubinstein Choral Club
was organized for her and she
was it's conductor through many
brilliantly successful seasons. She
also conducted the now defunct
Monday Morning Choral Club
and Y. w. c. A. Chorus, all COM
posed of women singers.
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Weddings Announced
Miss Virginia Lee Day Married
To MIR. Theodore w. Chase, Jr.

Miss Virginia Lee Day, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewis Day
of Arlington, Va, and Mr.. Theodore
Woolsey Chase, jr, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chase of st. Johnsbury, VT,
were married Saturday. June 10.
The wedding took place in the
Mount Vernon Place Church, the
Rev. DR.. John W. Rustin officiating.
The bride was escorted and given
in marriage by her father and her
wedding gown was of cornfloWer
embossed marquisette and she car
ried a bouquet of brides roses.
Mrs. Oliver Martin Shipley of
Washington was matron of honor,
wearing lime green embossed mar
quiSette and carrying pink roses.
The bridesmaids were Miss Mary
Lee Chase, and Miss Elizabeth Lord
Chase of St. Johnsbury, sisters of
the bridegroom. and Miss Faith Bell,
Miss Betty Kay Foster and Miss
Susan Hensley of Arlington, Va.
They also wore lime green en-
bossed marquisette and carried bride
roses and cornfoWers.
Mr.. Charles Carter Kline of Wash
ington and Philadelphia was best
man and the ushers we're Mr. Hugh
c. G. Chase of Milton, Mass; Mr..
Robert T. Olds of Arlington and
jackson, Tenn; Mr.. Nye S. Spencer
of Washington and Lynn, Mass;
Mr. William w. Sprague of ST.
Johnsbury, and Mr.. Joseph R.
Turner of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chase will make
their home in Schenectady, N. Y,
after wedding trip to Kennebunk
Beach, Me. Mrs. Chase attended
the Washington and Lee High
School, George Washington Uni
versity and Arlington Institute. Mr.
Chase attended ST. Johnsbury
Academy and Drexel Institute of
Technology. He is member Of Phi
Kappa Phi, Blue Key. Tau Beta Pi,
Scabbard and Blade and Eta Kappa
Nu fraternities.
Guests from out of town included
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King Day of
Columbus. Ohio; Mr. Theodore w.
Chase of st. Johnsbury, father of
the bridegroom; Mr. and Mrs. Philip
H. Chase of Philadelphia. and Mrs
Hannah H. Williamson of Phila-
delphia.