Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
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HELENA-Montana farmers and IA
Dor unions are almost unanimously op-
posed to any plan to move japanese
into Montana to do farm or othel
work. Gov. Sam G. Ford says.
BUTTE-Mrs. Hazel Ruhle Good. ~
who died after a two-months illness
was a native OF this city and the
daughter Of pioneer Butte residents
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Ruhle.
DIILON-Theodore Nelson, 81, who
died recently, was widely known
Beaverhead rancher and one-time
county commissioner. A native Of Nor
way. he came to Dillon In 1881.
HELENA-Mrs. Katherine Grossman
80. who died here, was former resi-
dent OF Augusta, having lived in that
vicinity quarter Of century. She
was a native OF Russia.
HINSDALE- Genevieve post
office has been closed and patrons In
| the small inland town will receive their
mail henceforth on the star route op-
Grated by Thurlow Charles. The post
office was established in 1915.
HELENA-Despite tire rationing and
freezing OF 1912 model automobile
sales, traffic on primary roads in Mon
taxa in January was only percent
below the all-time record travel vol
ume In the same month Of 1871.
TOWNSEND-Rex Stuart, SIS, who
died OF injuries received in a train
collision In the Townsend yards. was
veteran Northern Pacific engineer
A resident Of Livingston, he had been
with the railroad since 1906.
ANACONDA-Mrs. Jeanette Evans,
SO, who died in Butte where she had
been visiting. was a pioneer OF the
Deer Lodge valley. She lived on a
ranch few miles west Of Anaconda
and had been here since 1854.
HAVRE-Marilyn Higgins Of Boulder
was elected Montana good citizenship
pilgrim at the state D. A. R. con-
vention here. She will make trip to
Washington in April under the spon-
sorship Of the Montana D. A. r.
HELENA-The Montana Association
Of Life Underwriters elected A. T.
Schultz Of Helena president and voted
to meet at Billings in 1913. William
Preston, Great Falls. was elected vice
~ CSlucllL dIlu -. w. WOltcIIO1 VI k1cl-
ena, secretary-treasurer.
BOZEMAN-A cash contribution for
vocational agriculture and Future
Farmer work In Montana for the cur
rent year has been announced by the
Milwaukee railroad through r. W.
Reynolds, the roads commissioner OF
agriculture.
GREAT FALLS-Mr. and Mrs. ]. R
Hobbins of New York have sent the
Rotary club here large and valuable
collection of postage stamps for the
use of its stamp club at the State
School for the Deaf and Blind. Hob
bins Is president Of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co.
HELENA-The Montana board of
examiners has ordered additional fire
protection at the state mental hospital
at Warm Springs through construction
Of steel fire door. The door will be
installed, with automatic releases, on
the projection booth at the hospital
movie.
TOWNSEND-Mrs. Agnes c. Brown
who died here after long illness, had
been a resident of Helena for 80 years
prior to 1899. A native of Minnesota,
Mrs. Brown was married In 1901 and
three years later she and her husband
moved to Glendive, going to Helena
In 1909.
BUTTE Senator w. E. Kelley OF
Powell county told the Butte Exchange
club here that the American people
should be told the facts concerning
the war and were entitled to learn
1n no tt,a L. ~
uncertainty Of knowing what Is &C.
tually taking place that "unsettles'
the people, he said.
STEVENSVILLE+ Rus
sell David Elmore, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Gilmore, was killed at a
ranch near here when tree, cut down
by his father, struck him. The child
with his brother, Allen, 4, had been
placed in an apparently safe place
but the falling tree struck another
and was DETECTED. striking the child
HAVRE+R. D. Bedinger, regional
manager of the civil aeronautics au-
thority, of Seattle, has advised j. F.
M. Travis, chairman Of the airport
board, that resolutions recently adopt
ed in connection with development OF
the city-county airport have been ap.
proved by the CAA administration
The airport was certified last fall as
necessary to national defense.
BILLINGS -Permits authorizing
grazing in the Buffalo creek cooper
alive state grazing district in the
northern portion Of Yellowstone coun-
ty we're granted to 80 ranchers and
farmers In 1941, according to John
Folkerts Of Shepherd, secretary of the
district. The permits were for the
grazing Of 3,671 head Of cattle, 4,55s
sheep and 157 horses.
GREAT FALLS-George G. Smithey
u. who died in q hospital here, hat
been = resident Of Montana for 81
years and was long identified with
the livestock industry. A native Of
Harrisburg, Mo-, Smithey moved t.
Billings in 1884 and for several years
was connected with some Of the largest
stock ranches Of central Montana, in.
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