Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-06
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BILLINGS Harry C. Carpenter
Of this city has been reelected presi-
dent OF the National Association OF
Pro-America.
BOZElIAN-The Montana Order OF
Eagles will hold its 1912 convention
here July 1918. local aerie officers
said.
HELENA-Twenty-f Monta
young men, trained in sheet metal
work at the NYA center here. left
recently for Seattle and Jobs In the
shipbuilding industry.
BUTTE-Percy Frazier, retired Scout
executive Of the Silver Bow area coun-
Gil, with Mrs. Frazier, have left for
Seattle, where they will make their
home.
HELENA-Delmar G. Lesson, Helena
newspaper man and author OF the
column The Prospector in Last
Chance Gulch," has gone to Salt Lake
City TO join the navy.
HELENA-Martin F. Poets. rs, who
died at his home here. had lived in
Helena for 40 years. Born in Germany,
he came to the United States in 1884
and settled in Helena in 1900. He was
a stone mason.
BUTTE-The ranks of the old-timers
were thinned with the death of Mrs.
Julia Lowney. 70, who had been a
resident of Butte for the past so years.
She was the mother of Alderman Ed
Lowney.
MISSOULA-Ralph Dougery, "a, in
surance adjuster. was killed when the
car he was driving plowed into sign
pole in front of a MiSsoula service
station, throwing him through the
window and breaking his neck.
HELENA - The Salvation Army,
faced with the task of handling from
20 to 25 tons of waste paper a week,
has suggested that Montanans dispose
of accumulated paper in cases where
such accumulations constitute fire
hazard
BUTTE-Daniel j. Sullivan, SO, and
Henry Don EaneS, both veterans Of
World war l, were among recent death
victims here. Sullivan, who fought in
the battles Of Meuse and Argonne. was
a native Of Michigan and came here
with his parents when a child. A miner,
he lived in Butte for 40 years.
HELENA-Henry Rossman, IS, who
died at his home here, arrived in Hell
ena in 1882 and had lived here since
He was one of the old-time business
men of this city and widely known
throughout the area. Born in Germany,
he came to the United States when
a young man.
TOWNSEND-Rex Stuart of Living
ston and Lloyd Chisholm of Helena
were injured when a Northern Pacific
helper engine and local freight,
switching in the yards here, were in
was the engineman on the helper en-
CINE and Chisholm the fireman.
HEIENA-Father George S. Lam
bertus, pastor of the SITS. Cyril and
Methodius church in East Helena
since 1881, died at st. Johns hospital
Of heart ailnent Father Lambertus
was ordained in Montreal in 1918 and
shortly after came to Montana. His
first post was that of assistant pastor
at ST.. Patrick's church in Butte.
GREAT FALLS-Joseph A. Blissen-
bach, 40, who died here, was manager
of the Grogan-Robinson Lumber Co.
He long had been prominent in civic
life of the city, taking an active part
in community projects, church, lodge
and Boy Scout work. A native of Min
nesota, he came to Montana IS years
ago.
HELENA - Indications that Mon
tanas plea that the United States-to-
Alaska highway be routed through this
state had been rejected came in q
telegram to the governors office from
Representative Jeanette Rankin. She
said: Have learned Alaska route def
mitely settled. Public announcement
soon. Disappointed cannot make better
report"
GREAT FALLS-Claude E. Hoppin,
prominent local insurance broker, has
been declared an amnesia victim and
committed to the state hospital for
institutional care. He left his home
one morning recently, apparently nor
NAL, and late that night wandered
bewilderedly into the police station,
and when confronted with his wife, re-
garded her as a stranger.
BOzEMAN-"Keep 'em Training"
will be the theme of the annual high
school week at Montana State college
April 80, May and 3, with a program
emphasizing the defense training work
offered at the college and the part
the institution is playing in the war
effort. Merrill r. Good. general chair
man, said delegates would number be-
tween loo and 1900 from high
schools in all parts of the state.