Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-20
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DuLON-A total Of $3.50. 900 board
feet Of timber was taken from Beaver
head national forest last year. w. B.
Wiley. supervisor. said
BILLINGS Irving F. Wyatt, 80, who
died Of an embolism, had for the past
four years been a reporter and feature
writer for the Billings Gazette.
HEIENA-The state railroad COM
mission has granted permission to the
Railway Express Agency. Inc. to add
a l0-cent emergency charge on most
shipments in intrastate commerce.
HELENA Civilian defense methods
are shown in films which will be avail
able to participating members Of the
Montana state library Of visual aid to
education.
BOHEMIAN - Contractors are pre-
pairing to start work on the $500 900
Bozeman airport at Belgrade. follow
ing approval OF the contract and as
surance of funds for the work.
HAVRE-John A. Carlson, rs, recent
death victim, had resided in this vi
cinity for nearly 30 years. Carlson. a
farmer and miner, was a native Of
Sweden.
PHILIPSBURG - Frank A. Beley.
who died in a hospital after a brief
illness. came to this community in
1889. In the early days he worked as
a millman at the old Hope mill.
BUTTE-The First Baptist church
here recently celebrated its Goth an
niversary with a dinner in the church
auditorium. Fan Cannon Jr., presented
a historical sketch Of the institution.
BUTTE-William linn, driver of a
car that struck and killed Mrs. Susan
NJ. Christian, IS, was sentenced by
District Judge J. J. Lynch to serve Al
years at hard labor in the state prison.
ANACONDA-The Rev. Daniel B.
Harrington, assistant pastor at St.
Peter Catholic church here for three
years, has been named pastor of the
Sacred Heart parish at Roman.
MISSOULA-This city led Montana
points in army enlistments for Feb
ruary. The state total was 275, with
Missoula furnishing At. Billings fur
nished a, Great Falls Al and Miles
City 80.
IS, who died recently. was a we'll
known Anaconda resident for Al years.
Born in Michigan, Miss O'Keefe came
to Anaconda from Hancock, Mich,
shortly after the turn of the century
DILLON-Calvin Patrick, 6s, who
died in Rupert, Idaho, was born here
and operated a ranch in this area I'M
til 1900, when he left for Idaho He
had engaged in farming at Rupert for
the past Is years.
LAUREL-Albert A. LaBar, who died
In Butte, was manager of the Laurel
branch Of Thompson Yards, Inc, lum-
Der and building supply dealers. He
had been in the lumber business 80
years and was native of Iowa.
BILLINGS-The Montana highway
patrol has lost two more men from
the Billings district to the armed
forces. Gordon K. McDermid was
called as a marine reserve officer and
Glen L. Schulz enlisted in the army.
GREAT FALLS-A heroic rescue by
City Fireman James Siebert was null
lifted a day later when the child he
rescued, Garlic Rovai, died in a local
hospital. Siebert rescued the child
from her burning home on Eighth ave-
nue. north.
WISDOM Robert Hughes, 80, pio-
neer Montana rancher, died at the
home of his son, Roy. at Eugene, Ore.
Hughes was born in Missouri and
came to this region when a young
man. For many years he operated a
ranch in the region of Ralston.
DILLON-James E. Phillips, 81, who
died at the ranch home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Roy Webster, near here, was
born II years before the start of the
Civil war, fought Indians with the
United States army before the Custer
massacre, and was resident of
Beaverhead county for 60 years.
HYsHAM-The Yellowstone irriga-
ton district is on a cash basis, has
money in the bank and is well on
the road to recovery from its financial
ills, E. J. Mccormick, secretary, said
here. The district is one of the oldest
irrigation systems in this section of
the state.
DILLON Several county officers
have been re-appointed by the Beaver
head county commissioners. DR.. George
L. Routledge and DR.. w. H. Stephan
of Dillon were renamed county physi-
clans, while Dr. F. M. Poindexter, also
Of Dillon, was reappointed health Of
ficer.
ANACONDA-Mrs. Deborah Notes.
tine, 86. who died recently, was pio-
neer resident Of the Anaconda district.
Born in Canada, she came to the Deer
Lodge valley in 1882. year before this
city was founded. She had lived on
a ranch In the east valley for the last
SO years.
GREAT FALlS-On April 4, when
voters here go to the polls at the
annual school election, they will de-