The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-08-05
| LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

aeicd business in Libby Friday.
Wanted Woman at Progres.
Laundry See Mrs. Donald Har-
greaves. i
Mrs. John Rubard and daughter
Phyllis. and Mrs. Axel Peterson
spent Friday and Saturday in Kal
ispell
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Neiis AM
daughter Mari yn. went into spo.
kane Thursday for a day or two If
the city
Miss Helen Carroll of Spokane
auditor for the Interstate Telephone
Co, was auditing the books in Lib.
by last week.
A picture series by John Black
ford is included in the current mum
Der of Arizona Highways. He alsa
has pictorial in the August issue
of Desert Magazine.
Mr.. and Mrs B. Adkins and
daughter Of Dallas, Ore, are here
visiting Mrs. Adkins sister and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Williams.
They plan to spend two weeks here.
Charles Krebs and son, Rudy. re-
Gently sailed from west coast port
for Skagway, Alaska. They have OBJ
tanned work up there at high wages
but were required to sign up for
not less than nine months.
Don't forget the annual dinner to
be given by the ladies of the Cath
Ole church Wednesday evening.
Aug II, on the lawn at the Elmer
SWitzer, ST., home Ham will be
served. Serving starts at $50. 1t
Mrs. Joe Hills arrived from Spo
kane during the week and is a guest
Of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E.
Barkee. Mr. Hills recently fir
lshed training at the Washington
State College. Pullman. and has
been assigned TO Santa Ana, Calf,
for duty in the armed forces.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stasviken left
Tuesday for Bozeman where Mr..
Stasviken expects TO take further
treatments in the nope of relieving
his rheumatism This trouble had
been growing worse again. after a
temporary improvement that fol-
lowed treatment last spring at Hot
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. w Boepple are
recent corners TO Libby from Troy
They have bought the Vernon BERG
place west of town and expect &c
remodel the house considerably.
Mrs Boepple will teach in the Libby
schools the coming school year.
They had been at Troy about year,
having moved there from Billings.
! A couple of weeks ago this news
paper told of pet deer that had
been hanging around the Al Hamel
place north of the river and that
had disappeared but later was
found east of the sawmill with two
i faWns This week the deer swan
j the river with her fawns and re !
turned to her original haunts around
the Hamel home
] A. r. Gibson returned to Libby
Saturday from the Sacred Heart
Hospital, Spokane, where he under
went an operation. He is feeling
better and expects TO enjoy much
greater Improvement within a short
time. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson had
been at Whitefish for several weeks
and Mrs. Gibson also expects 10 re-
turn to Libby soon.
Mrs. Frank Herrick resigned her
position as manager Of the local
telephone exchange of the Inter-
state Telephone Co, effective as of
August 81, and her position IS be-
ing taken by Mrs Ada Maud
Johnson Company officials state
that Mrs Herrick was an exception
ally able manager and they regret
very mucn to lose her services.
A letter from Claude Brist. form
CT Libby man, now working in
Baltimore Md, says among other
things: I'm working here for the
Glenn L. Martin Co | work On tho
Marauder the name gwen 10 the
airplane 1t is the B26 bomber. !
like my work very much But best
of al just -can,t- Mait -liAtiill the tl44tt-
Western News comes each wck.n
An article in the Great Falls
Tribune tells of the appointment Of
r. " Ranay af Craat Falls M, ia r