Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-12-04

tana Deaconess hospital and Scottish
Rite Temple association benefit large
ly. Givens' estate had = gross value Of
S76. 6l9.58 and a net value Of 464,0o6.-
81. consisting largely Of real estate.
Inheritance taxes OF S3.45520 were
paid.
BUITE-Dr. Jacob Thorkelson Of
Butte. former Congressman. filed q
81 800 900 libel suit In district court
against Walter Winchell, AcFadden
Publication, Inc. O. J. Elder. c. H.
Shattuck, Ernest c. Heyn. Sheppard
Butler and Luke p. OKeefe. Thorkel-
son asserted q series Of articles written
by Winchell, entitled Americans We
Can Do Without" which appeared in
July and August. 1912, issues Of Liberty
magazine, injured his good name and
reputation. OKeefe is q Butte maya
zine dealer.
BUTTE Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
Womack, pioneer Butte couple. mark
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
They were married in Spokane. Mrs.
Womack came to Butte as child and
attended local schools She was stu
dent at Butte high school in 1887. She
was a niece OF John N. Dovenspeck,
who came to Montana in 1854. one of
Butte's early-day residents. Mr.. Wo-
mack, who is a native Of Louisville,
KY, says he is great grand nephew
of Daniel Boone, colorful frontiers
man OF that region in the early days
of the republic.
NETHERLANDS. Kate Tuttle, 88,
died at her home here Thursday
morning after an illness of five weeks.
The eldest of nine children, she was
born in Ohio, and when small child
came with her parents to Iowa. In 1888
she was married to Dave Tuttle,
prominent settler on Fish Creek. The
couple came to Fish Greek to make
their home and resided there until
1896, when they took up homestead
and built a home at Renova. Mr..
Tuttle died in 1907 and Mrs. Tuttle
and her son remained on the home
stead until 1886 when they came to
Whitehall to live.
HELENA-When Fred Polk, member
of the first special service force at
Fort William Henry Harrison, meets
his brothers, two Of whom are also IN
the armed forces while another IS
engaged in war work, stories Of excit-
ing war experiences will be told. Fred
has been at Fort Harrison since Sept.
l. One of his brothers, Platoon Serg.
Woodrow Polk, is with the Marines
somewhere in the Pacific" while an
other, Serg. Wiley Polk, is with the
Army medical forces at Camp Barley.
Texas. The fourth brother, Brown
Polk, of Alameda, Calf, is working on
the home front supplying the weapons
his brothers need.
GREAT FALLS - A gas explosion
rocked the Sally Ann bakery, blowing
out the west wall OF the building, in
juring one employee and resulting in
extensive damage to equipment. Archie
Parks, operator of the bakery, esti-
mated damage in excess of $4,000. A
baking oven in the establishment,
valued at $1,000, was buiged and
warped from the blast, while the
building itself was ripped from its
joists in many places. Sole casualty
was Fred Carlson, a baker and the
only employee in the building at the
time, who suffered shock and severe
burns about the hands and feet.
RUTHERFORD Linton, y, pioneer
mining engineer in the west and for
mer president of the North Butte Min
ing Co., died at his home in Los
according to word received by
Carl ]. Trauerman, secretary of the
Mining Association of Montana. Lin
ton was born at Hudson, O., and re-
ceived his education at Washington
and jefferson college, Washington,
Pa, and the Imperial Polytechnic
school, Berlin, Germany, His early ex-
perience was obtained at industrial
plants in the east. From 1906 to 1910
he was a member Of the engineering
firm at Atwater, Linton g. Atwater OF
New York city and Duluth, MINI. The
later Max Atwater Of that firm was
formerly manager Of the Butte & Su-
perior Mining Co., and the Davis-Daly
Copper Co. Linton was president OF
the North Butte Co. from 1918 to 1928.
He was president of the Clay Products
Institute Of California, former vice
president Of the Los Angeles Chamber
Of Commerce, and director OF the
Mining Association Of the Southwest.
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