Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18
News Briefs
From the Treasure State

GREAT FALLS-Emmett G. Angiand
of Great Falls will succeed John w.
Bonner as secretary Of the
Montana railroad and public service
commission on June l.
ANACONDA-The Croatian Brother
hood, fraternal organization, win hold
its 10th convention here July %. Dele
gates from Great Falls, Lewistown and
Butte are expected to attend. The con-
ventionS are held only every four years.
NusSOULA-Matt Pelto Of Great
Falls and Betty Olson of Missoula were
adjudged the best actor and actress
at the Little Theater tournament held
here in conjunction with the state in
terscholastic track meet.
KALISPELL - The first privately
owned airplane In the Flathead region
was delivered recently to four local
business men-H HALEY, his son,
Harry: G. S. Williams and j. b. Burns.
The plane is a Taylorcraft 4O-horse-
power, two-passenger monoplane.
GREAT FALLS-The State Fedora
ton of Garden Clubs will convene here
Nav % and "a with the Great Falls
Flower Growers club as host. Mrs. Il. }.
Lapee is program chairman. A tour OF
outstanding gardens in the city VIII be
a program feature.
BUTTE-Ray j. Macdonald was re-
elected president of the Butte chamber
of commerce at the annual reorganiza-
ton meeting. Kenneth Christie was re-
elected first vice president, Malcolm
Grillis second vice president, and A. j..
Davis Jr., treasurer.
TOWNSEND-Towns has started
a campaign to build sewage dispose!
system. Engineer Oscar Baarson OF
survey and an estimate Of costs, which
will be betrayed by issuance OF mu-
nicipal bonds.
BUTTE-Dr. Ettore Peretti, assistant
professor Of metallurgy at Montana
School of Mines, has resigned to accept
an assistant professorship at the School
of Mines, Columbia university. Bernard
D. Guilty, a former resident OF Havre,
and a graduate Of McGin university,
has been named to succeed DR.. Perett-
GREAT FALLS-Dr. Frank Rade-
maker Of KalispeI was elected preS1-
dent Of the Montana Association OF
Chiropodists at a two-day conference
held here. DR.. G. E. Mitchell Of Billings
was named vice president, and DR.. Q.
G. Martinez Of Great Falls, secretary
treasurer.
KALISPELL-A countrywide Farmers
Union picnic has been set for June
is, with its location as yet undecided.
An address by M. w. Thatcher, gen.
eral manager Of the Farmers Union
Grain Terminal association and chair
man Of the national legislative COM
mittee, win be featured.
SHELBY-Pat McElliott, Toole coun-
ty agent, has been elected president
Of the Shelby Junior Chamber OF
Commerce. Alfred Klingler was elected
vice president, Clinton Core, secretary,
and Harold Wyseman, treasurer.
Twenty members of the Shelby junior
chamber will attend the state conven-
ton in Great Falls.
Glacier national park
was 80 years old on May IL President
william Howard Taft issued the proc
lamation setting aside its 1884 square
miles Of Alpine grandeur IN May, 1910.
Hugh Monroe, Hudson's Bay trapper
known to the Indians as Rising VOL,
Is believed to have been the first white
man to see the region.
GREAT FALLS-G lendive was Sc
lected as the 1871 convention city and
Andrew r. Rochne. Glendive mayor,
was named president of the final ses-
sion OF the 1910 convention Of the Mon
tana Municipal league here. Charles
A. Hauswirth, Butte, was named first
vice president; William DiSsly, Lewis
town, second vice president; F. o.. WI
liams, Kalispell, third vice president.
M. j. Nee Of Anaconda and V. N. KeSs-
Ter were reelected secretary and treas
urer. respectively.