Glacier County chief., 1940-01-05
News Briefs
From, the Treasure State

HAvRE5The annual meeting Of the
Marias Irrigation association will be
held here Jan. 8 in the office of the
Hill county commissioners.
WHITEFISH-Mr. and Mrs. Don
Libbey and son Of Bolton have gone
to Washington, D. c., for the winter.
Libbey is superintendent of Glacier
national park.
BILLINGS-Mrs. Harry Carpenter
has been named Montana women's
director for the Finnish relief fund
The appointment was made by John
G. Brown of Helena, state director.
GREAT FALLS Twelve hundred
head of elk were counted on the North
fork of Sun river by Bob Cooney, game
patrolman in the Sun river district
for Lewis and Clark national forest.
NASHUA-Robert Murray, basketball
coach and eighth grade instructor here
to continue his studies at the State
university. He will be succeeded as
coach by Otto Gilbertson.
HANILTON-James A. Chaffin, SO,
who crossed the plains by OK team
from his native Missouri with his par
entS in 1864, died at his home east of
Corvallis. Chaffin had spent almost
his entire life in western Montana.
| DEER LODGE-William J. Paul, So,
widely known Deer Lodge attorney and
former state legislator, died at his
home here. Death was due to heart
attack. Paul came to Montana in June,
1904, from Laurel, Ia.
| WHITEFISH-The new boat ordered
for the Whitefish Sea Scouts has ar
rived and has been christened the Sea
Scout ship Whitefish. Purchase of the
boat was made possible by the assist
ance of the local Rotary club.
HELENA-Bishop Ralph L. Hayes,
former bishop of the Helena diocese
of the Catholic church, was heard in
Christmas worldwide broadcast from
the vatican. Bishop Hayes is now presi-
dent of the North American college in
Rome
BILLINGS-A resolution opposing
application of United Air Lines to pur-
chase and acquire control of Western
aeronautics authority by the Billings
Commercial club. A hearing will be
held on the proposed merger at Wash
ington early in January.
DILLON George W. Lowell, SO,
prominent Dillon resident, died recent
ly at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Emmy Meyers. Highmore, S. D. Lowell
had only recently disposed of his bust
ness interests here and moved to South
Dakota. The funeral was held here.
HELENA-The Montana highway de-
partment has ordered U. S. highway
| No. 2 from Libby creek to Troy in
with a gross weight, concentrated on
any one wheel, of more than 800
pounds per inch width of tire.
ANACONDA - Anaconda health au-
thorities have closed the isolation hos
pital opened early in November to care
for encephalitis sufferers. Twenty
seven patients were cared for at the
hospital during November and Deem
Der. No new cases Of the disease have
been reported here since Dec. IA.
HELENA-For the second consecu-
tive year, Montana has placed in the
big 10" of the American Legion for
quota on Dec. l, State Adjutant Her
bert Kibler has announced. The Legion
has 5,029 members, 1894 percent of its
quota of 6,O34.
GREAT FALLS-A thorough survey
of traffic conditions in Great Falls,
undertaken by the works projects ad-
ministration under the sponsorship OF
the local police department, has just
been completed. The survey was one of
a city of this size and gave employ
ment to a large number of persons
for about six months.
HELENA-State Purchasing Agent I.
S. McQuitty has bought 1878 pounds
of smoking and chewing tobacco at
total cost of So, 48977, a six months
supply for distribution at the state
penitentiary, the state hospital, and the
school for the feebleminded at Boul-
| der.
LIVINGSTON-The quality of Park
county livestock is improving from
year to year as the result of extension
service livestock projects in which
breeders, farmers and ranchers are
agent, credits the annual livestock
show and sale with stimulating inter-
est in better livestock.
HELENA Montana produced about
1,775,000 Christmas trees during the
1889 season. 10 percent more than were
harvested in 1888 the forest service
estimates. About 700 men were en-
ployed in the yule harvest, which
starts about Oct. 10 each year. The
forest service believes Montana's an
nual tree production will eventually
reach $500 900 trees annually.
SDNEY-Tom Spellman, "a, last
survivor of the Civil war in this part
of Montana. died here recently. SPELL
man was with company E, Illinois in
fantry. at the battles Of Vicksburg and
Shiloh. He was a government con-
tractor at Fort Buford in 1872, a pio-
neer Of the Black Hills stampede in
1876, and operated a bus between Bill
lings and Coulson before the arrival
of the railroad.
Water at drinking temperature