Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-24

local station last year became an air
WAYS reporting station. sending six
reports daily direct to Chicago.
CHESTER-T. A. Busey has been
named chairman of the Liberty county
committee to aid in celebrating the
presidents birthday Jan. 30. H. E.
Bassford is vice chairman and George
Brennan, treasurer. Plans are being
made for dance at the high school
gymnasium to raise funds to aid SUI
ferers of infantile paralysis.
HELENA Funeral services were
conducted here for Mrs. Theodore
Rrantley, 49, widow OF a Montana
chief Justice The Rev. c. E. Whittier
of the Presbyterian church officiated
and burial was in Forestvale cemetery.
Mrs. Brantley died in Dillon at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Hazel
baker.
GREAT FAILS-A. L. Sharp, local
representative Of the Northwestern
National Life Insurance Co.. has been
placed on the company's 1910 honor
roll because Of an exceptional volume
OF insurance written by him during
the year, officers Of the concern an
nounced In a communication received
here recently.
PARADISE-State highway No. 8,
running from Missoula to Spokane,
is now officially known as U. S. high
way No. 10, alternate. The road passes
through the Flathead Indian reserva-
ton. The American Association OF
Highway Officials approved the change
last July but the order did not be-
come effective until Jan. !.
GLACIER PARK - Christmas seals
to the amount of $40 were sold in
Glacier Park, reports the chairman.
Mrs. J. R. Rice. The local association
elected to apply its returns on the
salary Of nurse for this community.
Since no money has been drawn for
the last few years, the amount Will
be s6527.
HELENA-The Montana Safety
council has placed l6 billboard re-
productions of painting by Hayden
Hayden. American artist. at import
ant highway intersections of the state.
Otis A. Fisher, council secretary. said
the billboards were part Of a program
to caution motorists against taking
chances in traffic.
CHINOOK-Jack Erwin, SO, who
came from Texas some so years ago
as a cowpuncher with a trail herd.
died from q paralytic stroke. Erwin
operated horse ranches, first in the
Bears Paw mountains, then near the
Canadian line and later in the breaks
Of the Missouri river south of Chinook.
In recent years he lived at Hays and
for the last couple Of years in Chinook.
BUTTE T. Dickinson, 3d.
year-old Butte man. who came 70
Montana from Detroit. Mich. more
than IS years ago and remained in
the state, stepped up to a window In
the county treasurer's office at Butte
few days ago and bought his driv-
er's permit and license plates for a
1880 car he owns. Workers in the
treasurer's office said he is the oldest
registered car operator in Silver Bow
county.
BUTTE-Charles White, 30, pioneer
carpenter and contractor and a char
ter member of the local Carpenters
union, died at the family home fol-
lowing an illness Of five days. White
was native of Bouc Touc, N. B. He
came to the United States more than
a half century ago. settling first in
Boston, Mass, and later in st. Paul.
He came to Butte So years ago while
constructing bridges for the Northern
Pacific railroad company.
THREE FoRKs-Mrs. Agnes d.
Lindsay Sauer, pioneer Montana ma
iron, died at her home in Three Forks.
Born in Autherglen, Scotland. June
8, 1866, she came to this country as
a young woman and had resided in
Montana for the past SIS years. She
was married to william Sauer at Gen.
trail, S. D., Feb. Is, 1883. and later
went to Butte by stagecoach route
from the Black Hills in South Dakota
She had been a resident Of Three
Forks since 1912.