Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-06-06
Treasure State News Briefs

June IS to 10, as originally planned.
I cancellation OF the convention was
considered after the national orders
annual meeting was called off.
BUTTE-Naval Cadet Frank Tamil
ETH. "a, a native Of Walkerville, died
AT the Naval hospital in Jacksonville,
Fla. after a months illness. He was
the son Of Mrs. Antoine Bertoglio and
a graduate Of Butte high school and
I Los Angeles City college.
sIDNEY-County Attorney Claget T.
( Sanders has left here as a volunteer
I officer candidate and Milton @. An
derson of Helena has been appointed
bv the county commissioners to sue
coed him. Anderson viii carry on the
law practice Of Sanders and Anderson.
GREAT FALLS-Thomas K, Ora
ham. department foreman for the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was
elected president OF the Great Falls
Junior Chamber of Commerce. Two
vice presidents, Alex Blewett and DR..
Jack Terrill, we're elected.
HELENA-An invitation to serve as
Nontana's representative on q seminar
dealing with After War-What?" at
the National Education association
convention in Denver. has been accept
ed by Fred o. Robinson, director Of
vocational education at Helena high
school
GREAT Graduating classes
of the Deaconess and Columbus hos
pital schools of nursing were honored
here at the annual banquet of district
6, Montana State Nurses association.
About 100 graduates and association
members attended.
LEWISTOWN-D. Francis Crowley,
81, who died at his ranch near here,
was Lewistown postmaster from 1894
to 1910 and was native Of this city.
Since 1910 he had operated the family
ranch, founded by his father half a
century ago.
BUTTE - Matt Hoefner, Missoula,
Northern Pacific crane operator, died
of burns suffered when gasoline he
was pouring ignited, enveloping him
in flames. v. j. Hobart, 25-year-old
car checker in the Butte yards, risked
his own life to drag Hoefner from the
BAKER-A I2-foot length of pipe
fell on the right foot of Herb Desper,
town marshal of Ekalaka. Brought
here for treatment of a crushed toe,
he learned that his aged mother, Mrs.
Sam Hamilton Of Baker, also was in
the hospital. She had broken her arm
in fall
HIT TINA The .ko4o - zEo..4,... 1.~.l
to the supreme court from
decision Of the Lewis and Clark county
district court holding unconstitutional
statute providing for a tax on nat
lral gas piped from the state. The
decision came in suit against the
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.
GREAT FALLS-C Completion of the
cascade county home for the aged was
assured here when the county COM
nissionerS awarded a contract to Rude
Z Krail for remodeling and recon-
Itruction Of a building to be used for
hat purpose. The contract was let on
! bid of $7,977.
HELENA njamin F. Boyer, IT,
Who was found dead in his home at
he Barnes-King mine near Gloster.
lad been engaged in mining in the
darysville and GloSter districts since
1872, except for the years 1895 and
007, when he went to Alaska with his
lrother.
SHELBY-Harold Moffatt drove his
ar into the engine of a Great North
IN passenger train here and lived to
ell about it, Moffatt's brakes failed to
lold and the car and the locomotive
net at crossing. The car remained
Ipright but was skidded around SO it
topped facing In the opposite direc-
ion. Moffatt escaped with slight
ruises and was able to drive away
rom the scene.
GLENDIVE - Joseph John Stipek,
Tho died here, was a pioneer merchant,
tockman and landowner. Born in
;zechoSlovakia in 1870, he came to the
United States when II. He was first
mployed at Miles City and came to
Slendive in 1894. opening a saddlery,
mems furnishings and general store.
Re furnished most of the outfits of
owboys riding the range for stock
in the early days.
White-lpped peccaries attacking in
erds are so dangerous that these pig
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