Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-11-06
News Briefs
From, the Treasure State

/ town. He had lived here for 81 years
LEwISTOWN- w. Reed, IS
/ formerly rancher of eastern Fergus
county. died here after an illness OF
about eight years.
HELENA The war production
board has begun a roundup Of all nom
essential typewriters in Montana for
purchase and distribution among the
armed forces.
BILLINGS-Gale D. Whitney. presi-
dent of the Montana Motor Transport
association, announced here the or
ganization will hold its annual con-
vention in Billings. Nov. 2O-2l.
BUTTE Benjamin H Holcomb.
Livingston. was elected president and
director of the Montana Society of
Certified Public Accountants here at
the closing session of the society's 1912
convention. Billings was chosen as the
1918 convention city.
GREAT FALLS-Word has been re-
ceived of the death of Roy Smith, 48
OF Los Angeles. He was born in
Stockett. the son of the late Joseph
Smith. and lived for several years dur
ing his youth in Great Falls. He was a
World war veteran.
GREAT FALLS-Mrs. j. w Porter
Of Great Falls was elected president
of the Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women at the biennial convention of
the group at the Kelsey Memorial. AL
officers of the district youth council
were renamed.
FORT BENTON-T-he Fort Benton
C. Y. C. will open a liquorleSs night
club Nov 7. The C. Y. c. has rented
the Hume building on Front street
and has named it Victory hall There
will be no liquor sold at the hall and
any person showing signs of intoXica-
ton will not be admitted.
GREAT FALLS-Mrs. Anna NJ. Nal
bach. 81, widow of Herman Nalbach,
one-time Great Falls city treasurer,
died suddenly at a local hospital. Her
husband, who died in 1915, was en-
gagged in the tailoring business here
many years, thereafter was city
treasurer for u years.
LASGOW-Forrest E. Smith, Sc,
Great Northern trainman and Valley
county resident for 80 years, died in
Minneapolis hospital. Smith came to
Valley county in 1908 and home
steaded IA miles northeast of Glasgow.
He had been employed by the railway
since 1917.
HELENA-The state fish and game
department sold 202 beaver hides at
auction for S4,309.25. Game Warden
]. S. Mcfarland said the hides were
sold to Beckman brothers of Great
Falls and L. M. Goldberg of Helena.
The average sale price was S21.30 a
skin.
BUTTE - Sam HUE, 65-year-old
physician here, has placed young
army at the disposal of Uncle Sam.
HUE has II sons, 6 of whom have al
ready entered the army. The others
are all engaged in war work while
awaiting their calls. His two daughters
and wife, residing in San Francisco,
are working on defense projects.
GREAT FALLS-A solemn pontifi-
cal mass here marked the 25th ami
versary of the ordination to priest
hood of the Most Rev. William J. Con-
don. bishop Of Great Falls.
The ceremony took place in st.
AIMS cathedral. The Most Rev.
Charles D. White, bishop Of Spokane
delivered the sermon. Bishop Joseph
M. Gilmore Of Helena attended.
GREAT FALLS Joseph ]. Stillman,
81, Kalispell, formerly Of Great Falls,
died at Havelock, Ontario. The body
will be brought to Great Falls for
burial Stillman was born May 20, 1891,
in Rochester, N. Y. He spent many
years in Great Falls as an insurance
representative, leaving here only four
years ago to make his home in Kali
ispell.
GREAT FALLS John Richards, "a,
of Kalispell, who died recently, had
resided In Great Falls for AZ years be-
fore going to the F1athead county seat
to live six years ago. He was foreman
in the machine shop of the A. c. M.
company here for number of years,
also was foreman at the Great Falls
Iron works. He helped to organize the
old Black Eagle band and played in
it for many years.
HELENA - The WIPES Montana
conservation section reported more
than $50 pounds of old furs have been
contributed to the nations war effort
by residents of this state. E. j. Kelley,
head of the section, said some $50
pounds came from Park county resi-
dents, and about 600 pounds from
Lewis and Clark county. He said the
furs now on hand would make about
IT'S vests for merchant marine sailors
on duty in northern waters.
BUTTE Mrs. Charles ]. Kelly,
widely known Butte matron, died re-
Gently in Minneapolis A native of
Boston, Mrs. Kelly came west with her
parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Peters, when she was a girl in her
early teens The Peters family located
in Anaconda, where Mr. Peters entered
the mercantile business and became
one of the outstanding pioneer citizens
of the Smelter city. It was in Ana
conda that Mrs. Kelly, then Miss Mary
Peters, received her early education
in the public schools. She later at
tended finishing school for girls at
nHori of