The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-01


Mr.. and Mrs. v. A. Harpole of
Deer Lodge were Libby visitors this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Weydemeyer
spent from Friday till Tuesday in
Eureka.
Food Sale on June 10 at Variety
Grocery, by Circle B of the Presby-
terian church. 1t
Mrs. James Orr of the McGinnis
Meadows district was shopping in
Libby Saturday.
Miss Eleanor Rodgers has gone to
Richland, Wash, where she has ac-
copied position.
Miss Kathryn hampton spent the
weekend and Memorial Day with
relatives in Eureka.
Miss Frankleen Warner and Mrs.
Marie Thomas expect to leave some
time this week for Seattle.
County Commissioner and Mrs.
c. o. Hoisington of Troy were trans
acting business in Libby Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Christie came
over from Great Falls the first OF
the week for a visit with relatives
here.
Miss Geraldine Burke, student
in nursing in Spokane, came in to
spend the weekend here with rel
atives.
Pat Barrett, musician sc, is here
on furlough. He has to be at the
II. S. Naval Repair Base in San
Diego by June IA.
Miss Inez Ratekin will leave
Sunday for Missoula to attend q
committee meeting of the State Lii
brary Association.
Miss Joyce McRell will enroll
this summer in Kinman Business
University, Spokane, for a course
in business administration.
Franklin Warner, Jr., will leave
for the Air Corps June g. He is to
report to Fl. Douglas, and from
there will 60 to Fl. Buckley, Calf.
On Monday Miss Helen, Austin
began work as assistant for DR.. V. A.
Hannigan, succeeding Miss Bernice
Mortenson who resigned the posi-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Friend
spent few days in Shelby last
week, visiting brother, Elmer c.
Friend, and family, who returned
to Libby with them.
S/Sgt. Duane Whitehouse arrived
Monday evening for three-Weeks
visit with his wife Sgt. Whitehouse
has been stationed at San Juan,
Puerto Rico for over a year.
News comes to Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Pival that an Alz Id. son was
born to their daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe P. Gardner,
on April 80, at Lomita, Calf.
Miss Peggy Stuhlreiter returned
to Libby Monday from Poison where
she had taught in the Poison schools
the past year. She expects to re-
main in Libby during the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Wilkinson
arrived in Libby from Hartford,
Wash, where they are employed.
They expect to spend few days
vacation here before returning to
Hartford.
p v. Kitley and Mrs. Leonard
Sleizer and daughter, Ruth, mo-
tored to Standpoint Sunday, where
they were joined by Mrs. Kitley
who has been visiting in the In
land Empire.
Mrs Harold Nelson left for Spo-
kane the last Of the week to spend
a few days in the city She was ac-
companied by her little granddaugh-
ter, she going into the city to leave
the little girl with her mother, Mrs.
Clayton Nelson
r. w. Teske received a letter
Monday from his son, Leo, who is
fighting in the Pacific. He wrote
that he is well, recently made a
beach landing but saw only few
Japs. Didn't get chance TO try
out my rifle eye, he says.
Miss Elizabeth Oneal was in town
a few days this past week visiting
with friends. Miss Oneal then re-
turned to Fortire where she will
remain for about a week before
leaving to visit her parents at Day
ton, Wash. She expects to be in
Quoted into the Waves sometime in
the near future.
Harold Miller and Ernest Wood
went into Spokane Sunday evening.
Wood drove back a new truck the
first of the week and Miller went
to do some buying for his store.
He was met there by his daughter,
Mrs. Fred Clark, Jr., who came in
from Wallace, Ida, where she is
employed as nurse in a hospital.
Libby friends will be interested
in the announcement that Corporal
Gordon Slauson was married to Miss
Patricia Fowler of Tacoma, Wash,
on May 8, 1914, the ceremony hav-
inb been performed at Camp Beale,
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