The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-07

The regular meetings of Lumber
and Sawmill Workers Union No
1881 will be held the End and Att
Tuesdays, at o'clock sharp. !
Mrs. F. A. Baker and little daugh
ter returned to their home IN Mis-
soula during the week, having come
TO Libby to attend the funeral of c
Eugene Racicot.
Mrs. Louise Galloway, left during
the week to return to her home II
Bellingham. Wash. having come tc
Libby to attend the funeral of hel
brother, c. Eugene Racicot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monte Bockman and
small son of Spokane were in Libby
over the weekend visiting with Mr.
Bockman's mother, Mrs. Herman
Bockman and with other relatives
Miss Dorothy Zawadke left Sun
day for Kalama, Wash, where she
has teaching position for the year.
She attended summer school at the
Cheney, Wash, College of Educa-
ton.
Chas. D. Rowe returned Friday
from Portland where he had been
called by the serious illness of a
sister He left his sister much i'm
proved and able to return to her
home from the hospital.
Libby friends will be interested
in the news that r. A. Gowan, UNI
til recently located here as resi-
dent engineer for the bureau of
public roads, is now stationed at
Bend, Ore, on a rush job.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Moriarty and
son Michael of Seattle and Mrs. Carl
Hall and Mrs. Martha Bettine of
McCleary, Wash, arrived in Libby
Monday for few days visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Crotteau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer SWitzer and
family returned to their home here
Monday morning after a vacation
in the east. Their son. Billy, re-
NAMED in Minneapolis where he
has entered st. Thomas college.
Mrs. Waffensmith and Mr.. and
Mrs. Sutton and children stopped in
Libby Friday for a visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Westman. They
were on their way from the west
coast to their home at Aiken, Mimi.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smiset and Mr.. and
Mrs. Art May of Potlatch, Ida,
spent Sunday and Monday visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Westman. They
were greatly impressed with Libby
and said it was the cleanest and
prettiest little city they had ever
seen.
Willis w. Christianson of Downey,
Ida, arrived last weekend to take
over the duties of assistant man
ager of the local Penney store. Mr..
Christensen has been associated
with that organization for a num-
Der of years.
DR. + ] Friedrich, Jr., of Tilla-
NOOK, Ore, arrived here last Sat
urday to visit at the Thomas Z.
Long home. Mrs Friedrich and
family have been visiting here for
some time. They will return to
Tillamook this weekend
/. Lief Erickson, associate justice of
the Montana supreme court, was the
main speaker at the Labor Day cele-
bration here Monday He was ac-
companied TO Libby by Mr.. and
Mrs. Perry S. Melton of kalispell.
Mr.. Melton is the editor of the
Labor Journal of that city. >
Mr. and Mrs. E. ]. Carlson and
son Raymond motored to St. Maries,
Ida, over the weekend, visiting
there with Mrs. Carlson's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Lamphere. They
also took Miss Mary Roy to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Roy,
after her visiting here all summer.
Misses Vesta Knoke and Solveig
Ramlo returned last Friday and took
up their positions as teachers the
first of the week. The two young
ladies spent the majority Of the
summer at Greeley, Colo, where
they attended school. After that
they motored to the San Francisco
fair.
Mrs L. P. Peterson and Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Russell and children of
Seattle, formerly of this city. were
visiting with friends and relatives
here last week. Master frankie
Russell had spent the past month on
Pipe creek and liked it SO well that
he plans to come back as soon as
school is out next year. The group
left for Seattle Monday