Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-10-24
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died at a ranch near Stevensville, after
topping into a 22-foot well.
HAVRE.-Missoula will be the meet
ing place Of the 1912 convention Of
the Montana Nurses association.
HEIENA.-The Montana land board
has authorized sale Of 10000. 900 board
feet OF spruce from the Saltwater
state forest in Flathead county.
SCOBEY.- Winnie Moulds has been
named acting chief of police here by
Mayor Harry Hanson following the
resignation OF Joe Gilmore.
Observation-Disclosures will send 229
men to the army during November,
the state selective service headquarters
| announced
HELENA.-Ed Walker, automobile
dealer, will head this years roll call
campaign in Lewis and Clark county
for the Red Cross.
DEER LODGE-Population at the
state prison here decreased from 493
prisoners at the end of August to 474
at the end OF September, the state
board OF examiners reported.
HELENA. September flow of the
Yellowstone river near Corwin Springs
averaged 2,238 cubic feet a second as
compared with 1855 for that month
during the period from 1911 to 1910.
HAVRE-Gerald Casman, 81, who
died here, was the proprietor of the
Oldest continuous drug business in this
city, the Havre Drug Co. Masonic fu-
neral rites were held.
GREAT FALLS.-Mike Sayatoyich,
head of the county department of
public welfare, was elected president
of the Cascade County Federation of
Social Workers.
SCOBEY. - Charles Humbert, 80,
who died after an illness of three
years, was one of Daniels county's
earliest homesteaders He came to the
county in 1909. At one time he owned
the largest herd of cattle in the county.
HELENA Eustace LIE Master of
Spokane, president of the Washington
Society of Certified Public Account
ants, will be the principal speaker at
the annual convention of the Montana
c. P. A. society at Helena Oct 3O-3l.
BILLINGS.-Four hundred thousand
| dollars in improvements and extern
sion Of pipelines at the Billings Gas
Co.'S Garland and Elk Basin fields
in Wyoming will be completed by Dec.
| l, j. E. Moore, company manager, said.
HELENA.-Anne T. Beckwith, for
mer superintendent of st. Peters hos
pital here, has been appointed secre-
| tary of the state board of nurses
examiners. She succeeds Edith l..
Brown, resigned.
HELENA in five of the
six units of the Greater University of
Montana dropped nearly 500 from to-
tails of year ago, the office of the
university's executive secretary at Hell
ena reported.
HAVRE.-The Salvation Army dedi-
Gated its new building here, with Col.
Archie Laymen, social secretary of the
organization, giving the dedication ad-
dress. Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Hi-Line Ministerial association
participated in the ceremony.
BILLINGS.-Rockwo Brown. at
torney, c. M. Holiness, insurance man.
and E. j. Maynard, livestock specialist,
have been appointed to the board of
directors of the Midland Empire fair.
They succeed j. w. Currie, president;
Ben Cardwell, vice president, and j.
w. Foote, all of whom have retired.
HELENA.-M on ia n as unemploy-
ment compensation payments for Sep
tember-S67, 783-were the lowest of
any month since the Job insurance
plan was lnaugurated, Barclay Craig
head, chairman of the unemployment
compensation commission, said. ONLY
few more than l,400 jobless workers
received benefits last month.
HAVRE.-R. G. Linebarger, publish
er of the Havre Independent, was
elected president of the North Mon
tana Press association. w. L. RAIDER of
Stanford was elected vice president
and Frank MILESTONE, Cut Bank, re-
elected secretary. Leo Sanford, Chi
nook, and George Tout, Harlem, were
named directors.
MILES CITY.-George O,Brien, Sill
yer Bow county treasurer, has been
elected president of the Montana
Young Democrats organization. Jock
West, Billings, was named vice presi-
dent; Oliver Lem, Wolf Point, secre-
tary; Armand Tom, Miles City, treas
urer; w. w. LESLEY, Bozeman, national
committeeman, and Rosetta Nugent,
Forsyth, national committeewoman.
Named state committeeman were VIII
liam Mannery, Helena; James O'Brien,
Roman, and Shorty" Saylor, Winnett.
Margaret Anderson, Miles City, and