The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

Mrs. James Nemetz of Lehman
Mont, arrived in the city last nigh
and is the guest of Mrs. Susaf
Carlton.
1 Ford Fertilizer 75c per sack. Elk.
cellent for lawns and gardens
Standard Motors. /
/ Lloyd A. Bower was in the city
| Tuesday and Wednesday from
his Mountain Meadow Ranch on
Thompson lake
Mrs. M. D Rowland entertained
Mesdames Bonner Hooks, Dexter
Shaurette and Hal Hall at her home
Saturday evening.
The Rev. c. P. Dame of White
fish was in Libby Sunday night and
conducted evening worship at the
Presbyterian church.
Miss Helen Martin left during the
week for Spokane where she was to
enter the nurses training school at
Sacred Heart hospital.
Mrs. Amy Martin and daughter of
Whitefish were in Libby Sunday Wis
iting with Mrs. Martins parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. r. Gibson.
Mrs. Forrest Lintner left Tuesday
noon for Wolf Point where she will
join Mr.. Lintner. who has a sales
position with an oil company there.
John Hughes of Tacoma, Wash,
visited with his mother, Mrs. f. ].
Hughes, last Thursday and Friday
Mr.. Hughes returned to Tacoma Sat
urday.
Earl Lovick returned to his home
here last week to visit with his
parents during the spring vacation.
Earl is freshman at the university
of Montana at Missoula.
Mrs. r. r. Richards and son John
went to Missoula week ago to ioin
Mr.. Richards, who had been there
some little time. All three re-
turned to Libby Sunday.
|. v. Anderson of Missoula and
Howard Drake of Occur d'Alene
arrived here Sunday and spent Mon
day assembling data on the cost of
production of lumber. The men are
members of the forest service.
Herbert Hamann returned last
Saturday from a two weeks visit
with his parents at ST. Cloud, MINI.
He reports lots of snow in that part
OF the country. This is his first trip
back there in five years.
II. R. Richards, executive assist.
ant of Kootenai national forest, re-
turned from the regional office at
Missoula on Sunday. Mr.. Richards
spent the past two weeks attending
a conference on office procedure,
This is the first conference of this
nature to be held in years and i'm
provement IN the present system
was sought.
Ernest Richards, Leslie Leigh, Me
chanic Sid Peterson and Machine
Operator Hurd spent three DAYS in
Spokane recently attending forest
service meeting and night school
put on by the Austin Western Ma
chine Co. The group also visited
several warehouses in that CITY to
gather ideas for Improvement on
warehouses here.
Supervisor Karl A. Klehm an
today that the forest sery-
ice showboat will be here from
April 2 to 8. The showboat con-
sIsts of motion pictures pertaining
to the department. Mr.. Klehm said
that he intended to show the pic
lures to as many outlying schools
and districts as possible If the roads
are passable enough to make travel
possible.
Ed Kemp reports that his parents,
MI. and Mrs. w. RI Kemp, plan to
leave California in time for visit
at Raymond, Wash, and to arrive
home in Libby shortly after the LIST
of April. Neither Mr. nor Mrs.
Kemp have enjoyed very good
health while in California. Mr..
Kemp was taken i'll while enroute
to the southern state and has felt
rather poorly ever since, and Mrs.
Kemp was recently confined to her
bed by illness.
M |. Davis spent few days in
town the first of the week. coming
in from his McGinnis Meadows
ranch. The chief purpose of his
visit was to pay call on Charley o. /
Rowe, who has been confined TO
his bed for many weeks The two
men were boyhood chums and often
fished out of the same stream in
the Bearpaw district, said Mr.. |
Davis. Mr.. Davis was glad to see
Mr.. Rowe somewhat improved in
health before he left for home.
1t turns out that a young girl,
Helps, was the one who
found the watch on Parmenter
creek that had been lost 30 years
but finally returned to its owner,
Mrs. Dan P. WEIGH, in San Jose,
Calf, Mrs WEIGH being the former
Bernice Barr Maybelle found the
watch about year ago but had been
unable to find, until recently, what
had become Of Bernice Barr. Solv-
ing the mystery. she at once sent
the watch to rer Maybelle lives
with her parents near the James
Mahoney place west q. town