The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-05
Personal Items

visitor Monday.
Mrs. Roy Morris and son, Jimmy,
left last Thursday for Whitefish
where they will make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Measner left
on Sunday for Spokane to be gone
several days.
The Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers Union will meet at 7.30 sharp,
Tuesday, July 10. Tic
Mr.. and Mrs. Lud Reinertson left
Friday for Eugene, Ore, to visit
relatives over the Fourth vacation.
Miss Merrill Partlow left Thurs
day of last week for few weeks
visit with relatives in Great Falls.
Mrs. c. L. Stocking was Libby
visitor this week. The Stockings
have recently purchased chicken
ranch near Roseburg, Ore
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse B. Hood and
family moved Monday from the
Hoverson residence TO the Owen
Clark residence on the highway.
1t. and Mrs. Fred Clark left Tues
day for Walla Walla where 1t.
Clark will report at the McCaW
General Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. K Memmis and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Orland
WEIGH and family are spending the
holidays camping in the woods.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Sturm and
son, Bobbie of Vallejo, Calf, spent
the weekend visiting at the home
of Mr.. Sturm's brother, Max Sturm
of this place.
Mrs Agnes Locatell arrived last
Thursday from Miami To spend the
summer With her sister. Mrs. August
Wichman. and other relatives.
Mrs. Howard Robson, daughter of
Miss Joyce Morrell arrived Mon
day evening to spend some time
with her mother, Mrs. Kyle Beebe.
Miss Morrell is in training as a
cadet nurse at St. Luke's hospital
E. E. McDevitt has just returned
from 10 days fishing trip at Inter
national Falls, MINI He reports the
caught were small.
Mrs. Dexter Shaurette is visiting
in Butte with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Eames. She was accompanied
to Butte by her husband and Mr.
and Mrs w. E. Dexter.
Mrs. Fred Fisher and daughter,
Joan. returned Tuesday from Rock
away Beach where they have been
visiting Mrs. Fishers sister, Mrs.
Roy Montgomery.
Mrs. H. c. Hjortholm returned to /
Missoula Wednesday Of last week
where she was met by the Rev. /
Hjortholm, who accompanied her /
home. Mrs Fioftholm had been
called to Eureka, Kans,
Mr.. and Mrs Jake Little. who live
in the Pleasant Valley Fisher dis {
trict, flew their plane 70 Libby Sun /
day, visiting with MIR and Mrs.
Byde Lamey. They flew back home /
that evening.
Mr.. end Mrs. Office Maize and |
daughter. Margaret, and Mrs. Chas, |
Powell and son, Klein, of Moscow, !
Idaho, are spending the holidays
with friends Keith Powell is in the
Navy and has been assigned to
Columbia University where he will I
receive training.
Julius Beccari has returned from
Missoula where he was with his
wife, who had been called there two
weeks ago by the illness Of her
brother, who has since passed away. |
A week ago Monday, Mrs Beccari t
went through the ST. Patrlck's [
clinic there, and underwent d need /
ed operation the following Friday. /
She and their children are now I
visiting her parents on Rock Creek. I
James Blackboard Jr, left for his /
home on Friday, it being necessary
to end his vacation much earlier
than expected. He has been given
transfer from the Dept Of Justice (
to the office Of Price Administra- (
ton in which he receives fine
in Portland as chief enforcement |
attorney Of the OPA for the Oregon /
division, an area that also includes /
part of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j Barkee re-
turned Friday evening from a visit
with 1t and Mrs. Joe Hills. 1t. |
Hills has just returned home from
Italy where he was a B-24 pilot with
the 18th Air Force. They send their
best wishes to all their Libby
friends 1t. and Mrs. Hills took
the Barkees to Portland on their re-
turn, stopping at Bend, Ore, where
they visited Louis Hills and fam
lily. At Portland they visited Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Gildea and other
friends. The Barkees say their va
cation was most enjoyable
Chas. D. Rowe is in receipt Of
letter from r. j. (Red) Williams,
former Western News printer. Will
liams is in the u. S Merchant Ma
rine, has spent two years in that
service, most of it in the southwest
Pacific He is fireman and says
he works in temperature that is
often as high as ITO degrees. How
ever, he writes that he is in top
condition and is feeling fine. Before
coming to Libby several years ago,
Red" had spent some time as a
sailor in the Pacific.