The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-08-08

Henry Yoppe of Fortine was a
business visitor in this city yes
terday.
Miss Jean Vinion and Miss vir-
ginia Beccari left Sunday for Mis-
soula to enter ST, Patrick's school
of nursing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Switzer, Jr.,
Miss Norma Switzer, Harry Karnes
and Mr.. Whitehouse motored to Pol
son Sunday where they visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Karnes.
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Chef re-
turned last Friday from trip to
Seattle where they purchased fall
and winter merchandise for their
store.
Visitors at the Paul Church home
this week are Mr. and Mrs. John
Camoncind. Miss Mary Carter and
Miss Cora Carter, all of Boise. The
ladies are sisters of Mrs. Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baney, son
Duke, and daughter, June, have
spent the past week vacationing in
Yellowstone and at the fair in Great
Falls. They expect to return home
Sunday.
Rummage Sale Saturday, Aug. 10,
in Community Room. Court House,
by Senior Methodist Aid. II
Dean COPYRIGHT of Spokane was
visitor at the home of his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Court
right in this city last week Dean
left for Tacoma the first part of
this week to enter the army.
Mr. and Mrs Al Huffman left
Sunday for Great Falls to see the
fair. From that city they expect
TO journey to Fl Benton to visit
with Mrs. Huffman's father, DR..
Kaulback.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Liebe left
Monday for their home at Owa-
tonna, Mimi. after visiting here
with Mr.. and Mrs ]. w. Farris and
elsewhere in the West. They are
the parents of Mrs. Farris.
At the end of beautiful drive
along the kootenai, you will find
good home cooked meals at the
Montana Hotel in Eureka. l0-11
r. r. Veldman, Dick Veldman,
Paul Gehrke and Butch Stalarczyk
motored to Spokane last week END.
Mr.. Gehrke stayed in that city, Mr..
Veldman journeyed on to San Fran
cisco and Dick and Butch returned
home Sunday evening.
J. Turek and Miss Antoinette
Eisenmann of Milwaukee, Wis, ar
rived in Libby Tuesday for visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Leigh.
The visitors are relatives of Mrs.
Leigh, the two ladies being sisters.
They expect to spend about month
in Libby.
Board and room for school chill
aran Mrs. Lloyd Hunter, Phone
151-W. 1t
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Hamor and
son, Punky, were visitors at Poison
Sunday where they went to attend
the annual regatta. At that city
they met and visited with Mr.. and
Mrs. Rudy Moholt, Miss Lois Ha-
NOR and Glen Hamor, all of Mis-
soula
Mrs. Ed Brandt and her mother
in-laW left last Thursday for Spo-
kane in response to a message stat
| ing that son of the elder lady was
seriously i'll Ed Brandt. who was
on business trip to his other ranch
holdings near Poison. went into the
city somewhat later.
This morning Mrs. Harry Moe
made the announcement that the
PIT. A. dance will be held at the
high school gym this week instead
of the American Legion hall. 1t is
proposed to have the dance here reg
ularly until school starts. Prices
are Is cents for stays and Is cents
for couples
Improvements very pleasing to
the eye are being made this week
on the Central Service station
which is operated by L. ]. Brown.
The front Of the building is being
completely re-modeled, glass front
being installed The roof over the
driveway is also being replaced and
new sign painted on the roof.
Recently the driveway was covered
with solid concrete which prevents
dust from circulating as it did be-
fore.
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Thomas
and two daughters arrived in Lib
by Friday for a short visit at the
James F. Harris home, leaving Sat
,urday for their home in Tacoma,
Wash. Mr.. Thomas will be remem-
bered as having been undersheriff
in Libby under Sheriff Wave Brown
and also as forest service en-
ployee. Mr.. Thomas is a civil en-
glneer and is now engineer in charge
OF construction of large dam near
Tacoma. He left here % years ago.
This newspaper never likes to
miss additions to the population of
our growing little city, especially
when that addition has been made
by the birth Of lovely little girl.
But now and then the reporters
overlook one of the little ladies and
as consequence sometimes we have
to apologize to an outraged daddy.
Little Darla Nell put in her ap-
pearance on July 26 at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob McGrew and we
hope she will excuse this belated
report of her arrival to take up her