Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-09-25
News Briefs
From, the Treasure State


dent of Butte for Al years, died at the
family home.
LEWISTOWN i Elmer Ross Brown,
who suffered a stroke, died in a local
hospital Brown had been deputy
sheriff for 10 years.
KALISPEL-The city council has
voted not to ask deferment from mill
tary service for any city employe and
not to grant leave of absence TO en-
ployes entering defense industries.
BUI'TE-Arthur Guary, IS, resident
of Butte and this district for Sc years,
died at the family home on Nine Mile
boulevard, following long illness. He
was native of Quebec, Canada.
GREAT FALLS-Mrs. Mary Brown,
81. wife of Ralph Brown, died at
local hospital. Mrs. Brown had lived
in Great Falls for 81 years. Her hus-
band is employed by the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co.
YELLOWSTONE PARK - Yellow
stone park had I'll. 097 visitors this
year, only BIB percent of the number
entering in 1871, when the park
counted 538,0O5. Hotels closed Aug. 81
this year. Last year they remained
open until Sept. II.
HELENA-The United States en-
ployment service office here says rs
negro workers from Oklahoma have
been placed on sugar beet farms in
Big Horn county and that others are
expected to arrive soon. The county
urgently needs about 900 workers.
NKTcCNYYT tic nr0 nf
Kalispell has been named president
of the western Montana district of the
Farmers Union. Claude johnson of
L. Schrock of Stevensville was named
secretary treasurer.
GLASGOW-The body of Charles
Stecker, SO, Haxby rancher, the last
to be recovered in an accident which
claimed the lives of seven people on
Fort Peck lake last June II, was To-
Gated on the margin of the Big Dry
creek arm of the lake about 20 miles
south of Fort Peck.
BUTTE-The Rev. E. NJ. Bramer of
Westby, Mont, will succeed the Rev.
old Hill Lutheran church, early in
Neste of Anaconda, who is assisting
here during the time before the West
by pastor arrives.
BILLINGS William Woods, rs,
retired stock buyer and former
freighter, died of a heart ailment.
Woods got his start in the livestock
buying business when he worked with
crew which provisioned the crew
building the Northern Pacific track
east of Billings.
BOZEMAN-Swine breeders in the
breeders association called the Mid
land Empire Registered Swine Breed
ers association, E. P. Orcutt extension
livestock specialist at Montana State
college, has been informed Headquar-
tiers of the association are at Billings.
HELENA D. Lasley, 68,
resident of Billings from about 1912
until 1920, and of Butte after that,
succumbed to three weeks illness at
the Fort Harrison veterans hospital.
He served as private in Company B
of the Missouri volunteers during the
Spanish American war, from July,
1893, until May, 1899.
BUTTE-Dr. Charles R. Miller,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Hamilton, was elected moderator of
the Presbyterian church in Montana
at the fifieth annual meeting of the
Synod of Montana here. DR.. Miller
succeeds the Rev. Charles R. Murray,
pastor at Billings. DR.. Miller has been
serving as state clerk of the synod.
HELENA state board of par
dons approved a release from prison
of Melvin A. Payette, now 80, a prin-
cipal IL years ago in one of Butte's
most sensational murder cases. Pay
cite was 10 when sentenced to prison
March %, 1880, for killing Mrs. Chris
tina Wilson, g., Butte rooming house
operator, with an iron pipe.
HELENA-There are plenty of
BUSES to transport Montana school
children for the current year, reports
to the office of the state superin-
tendent of public instruction indicate,
but officials think some of the avail
able buses may be reqnisitioned for
other transportation service before the
school year ends.
HELENA-The Montana railroad
commission has protested a recent
order of the office of defense trans
portation requiring full carload ship
ments OF all commodities Commits
sioners said it would be virtually i'm
possible for mustard seed growers to
comply with the order because the
seed is raised and marketed in small
lots.
HELENA-The navy's 18th vasualty
list issued from Washington confirmed
a report of several weeks ago that
Ensign Thomas Dennis Moore, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Moore of Helena,
was missing. Moore was leader in
scholastic and athletic affairs at
Helena high school. He was mem
Der of the Crimson Bengal football,
basketball and track teams.
ROMAN P. Swee, who died
here after several months illness, was
one of the early settlers of this ter
ritory. He located in Roman in 1910,
ND