The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-08-31
LOCAL |
HAPPENINGS

Mrs Peter Larsen went INTO opo-
kane Monday evening.
Meeting of Circle A will be. post
poned for two weeks. II
Alex Smith was in Libby on bus
mess and pleasure Monday, from /
Troy.
Mrs. Genevieve Brooks and daugh-
ter, Barbara, went to kalispell
Tuesday.
Mrs. Albert Breitenstein of the
Yak was a business visitor in town
Tuesday.
Leo Leir, S &c, was home for a
couple of days last week end from
his duties at Farragut.
Mrs. Chas. Noel is spending her
vacation visiting friends here this
week, from Vancouver, Wash.
Phillip Neff, of Missoula, regional
logging engineer for the forest
service, is in Libby this week.
Mrs. Tony Cadvill rode to Troy
Saturday evening with V. T. Hovey
for a visit there with relatives and
friends.
Miss Edith Baeth left for Seattle
Monday, where she will spend about
a week visiting with relatives and
friends.
/ Allen Sherman returned from
Dell Rapids, S. D., last night where
he had spent the summer with his
grandparents.
Mrs. L. B. Williams of Bremen
ton, Wash, left for Chester We'd
nesday after visiting her cousin,
Mrs. O. E. Fagerberg.
| The Wayne Cannon property on
South Montana avenue was sold to
the H. B. Wallace Real Estate
| Agency the first part of this week.
Tom Christie will return to his
home in Wenatchee, Wash, tomor-
row, having spent the past week
here at the home of his mother, Mrs
Anna Christie.
Mrs. Grover Bowen and small
daughter are guests at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Bitterman, ar
irving in Libby from Spokane the
latter part of last week.
Mrs. Ray English and two sons
: Of Stanford, Mont, are guests at the
! home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs
E. M. Slauson at Jennings, as vel
,, as other relatives in this vicinity
; L. B. Kemmis, First Class Bosur
J Mate, returned to Rhode Islanc
: Tuesday evening, where he is sta
, toned with the Seabees, after Z
short visit here with his wife anc
= children
James Davis, who has been serv-
ing with the Navy for quite some
time in the Central Pacific, is spend
ing a 28-day leave as guest at thu
!. home Of his sister, Mr.. and Mrs
1 jim Enders.
t Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Bower
and children returned from Seattle
: last Thursday, having spent abou
n week visiting Mrs. BoWen's par
e ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons. and othe
I. relatives here.
$ Allen Campbell, who is with tn
: merchant marine and who is spend
9 ing 30-day furlough in Libby will
= Mrs. Campbell at the Dick Powell
:. flOIIlC, WilCd HIS liIotllCl ~ 1Ahl VI
y Ohio, to meet him here and she vii
arrive this week
Mrs. Julia Beebe has as her CUES
this week Mrs. r. H. West of Grea
Falls, household editor of Montan
Farmer. Mrs West is interested il
: the study of county Libraries, an
while here spent considerable tim
;r +ba I0no1 library
Miss Marianne Strong left 70
if Spokane the first Of the week ate
=. visiting here with her aunts, Mr..
n lola WEIGH and Mrs. Irene Steven.
). Miss Strong is in training as
d cadet nurse and is transferring fror
a hospital in Missoula to Sacre
) Heart hospital, Spokane.
d Pvt. Willard Orr is spending
ten-day furlough visiting his par
Is ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Orr Of tn
: Fisher River district, and other re,
ID atives and friends in Libby Privat
le Orr has been stationed at Fort Leor
ard Wood, Mo, recently, althoug
1 he previously served in the AleL
s. tians.
5 Ira G. Miller, county surveyo
reports that he recently found tW
q clumps of prickly-pear growing 0
the Tobacco Plains in the north en-
of the county. This plant, specie
Of cactus, is common in the dry ares
of eastern Montana but Mr.. Mile
says this is the first of it he hi
y, ever seen in Lincoln county
!" Mrs. Sacco of Spokane mother I
Sill Sacco, former Western New
o employee who is now fighting
& Italy with U. S. forces, was in Lii
: by last week end to visit her daugl
" ter-in-law and her little grandso
She has three sons in varios
- branches Of the service-one in tt
Is Pacific, one in Italy ana one
q England.
IL Albert Peterson stopped in Lib
from Saturday until Monday for
short visit with his parents, Mr.. ar
he Mrs. Axel Peterson, on his wa
Ii from San Francisco to foreign part
where he will 60 as an accountal
for the next two years for his con
at pany Enroute here, he stopped
as Seattle, where he left his famil
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