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Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
CARMEN WIN FIRST
GAME At SOFTBALL
SEASONS OPENING
Make Is Runs In First Inning
Recruits Still Needed
Weeks Schedule Is Set

Scoring IS runs in the first inning
a team sponsored by the Brother
hood of Railway Carmen of America
beat the team sponsored by Laurel
Refinery of the Farmers Union
Centarl Exchange when the two of
ficially opened the Laurel softball
season Monday evening. The final
score was "a to 0 in favor of the
carmen. They were credited with
10 hits, while the refinerymen got
two. Errors were one for the car
men and seven for the refinery.
The refinery lacked four of five
of its regular players.
H. Ryder, U. Ruff and G. Ruff
each made two-base hits, while Nor
ris and Feuerbacher each chugged
two two-base hits. Home runs were
by M. Fox, two, and H. Ryder,
one.
Batteries were Gerard and Car
penter, pitchers, and Scheeler,
catcher, for the refinery, and F.
Feuerbacher, pitcher, and Pewitt,
catcher, for the B. R. C. A. Feuer-
bacher struck out eight and Gerard
one.
Umpires for the f%ive-inning game
Kucera, Willis and Romeo.
Oren Price was scorekeeper.
Games will be played every week
day evening through Friday at the
east end of the football field, wealth
err permitting, beginning at $3.50.
Players are still being urged to
sign up with one of the several
teams in the league so that a COM
plete schedule may be maintained.
Next weeks schedule is as fol-
!cws:
Monday, Refinery VS.. Tubman
Food Mart.
Tuesday, Railroad Shops VS.. o. M.
Void Co.
Wednesday, Board of Trade VS..
Palace Bar.
Thursday, Sticks VS.. Vaughn
2agsdale.
Friday, Cheerio VS.. Greening
Chevrolet. .~.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Women Of Moose Are
Hosts To Visitors At
Session Here Tuesday

Initiation of a class of candidates
was featured by the Laurel chapter
of Women of the Moose at a meet
ing Tuesday evening at the L.. l..
club. Twenty members of the Bill
lings chapter were guests and con-
Quoted the ceremonies in formal
attire.
Officers of the Billings chapter
attending were Mrs. Anne Roe,
senior regent; Mrs. Esther Stevens,
junior regent; Miss Elizabeth Tren-
ka, chaplain; Mrs. Mary Mckenzie,
treasurer; Mrs. Opal Ward, record
err; Mrs. Alma Renstrom, guide;
Mrs. Madge Stahl, assistant guide;
Mrs. Alice Dale, argus; Mrs. Vir-
ginia Walters, sentinel; Mrs. May
belle Straight, pianist, and Mrs.
Agnes Jones, junior graduate re-
gent. Other members of the Bill
lings chapter present were Mrs.
Violet Ferro, Mrs. Katherine Nagle,
Mrs. Lulu Bassett, Mrs. Ann Court
ney, Mrs. Goldie Fink, Mrs. Olive
Mrs. Mable Potter, Mrs.
Rachel Hartung and Mrs. Rye
Crane.
Mrs. Roe, with her escorts, pre-
sided at the meeting and the can
didates were presented by Mrs.
Renstrom. Following the induction,
Mrs. Jones, member Of the Academy
Friendship, who was making her
visit to the chapter, adj
dressed the new members of the
Laurel chapter.
Mrs. Elsie Kuper, senior regent,
extended appreciation to the Bill
.ings group for accepting the invita-
ton of the Laurel chapter despite
he heavy rain during the evening.
After the close of the business
session, entertainment was group
and dancing. Dessert lunch
vas served by Mrs. Alice Fisher and
Yrs. Clara Getz, chairmen of the
hostess committee.
The next meeting of the Laurel
was announced for Tues
lay, July 9, when a class of candi-
will be initiated and officers
yill be elected.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Mrs. OlafsOn's Mother
Succumbs May u Al
Hospital In Minnesota

Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Olafson re-
turned Thursday from Waseca,
Mimi, where they were called by
the death of Mrs. Olafson's mother,
Mrs. Jennie Clayton, 83.
Mrs. Clayton had been confined
to the hospital since April when
Mr.. and Mrs: Olafson made her a
visit. She had suffered a paralytic
tsroke at that time was ap-
parently recovering when she was
stricken the second time and died
May 81.
Jennie Eastman was born in New
York state and went with her par
ents to Waseca when a child. She
lived in the same house for 66
years, continuing to reside there
after her marriage to Fred Clayton
of Waseca. She is survived by
four sons and two daughters.
Funeral services and burial e n
in Waseca, May 81.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Ordinance Prohibits
Fireworks In Laurel;
Police Say Stop IT,

Despite the fact that the first
peace-time Fourth of July since
Pearl Harbor is near at hand,
the ordinances of the city of
Laurel still say it is a INSIDE
meanor within the corporate lin
its of the city.
James Bare, acting chief of
police, stated Wednesday that
numerous complaints are being
made by residents against the
use of fireworks and that the or
dinance will be enforced. He said
anyone caught exploding fire.
crackers, torpedoes, bombs or
other kinds of fireworks will be
prosecuted.
The cooperation of parents in
this matter is requested by the
officers.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
GAS TAX REVENUE
HAS UNEXPECTED
RISE IN EARLY '46
Travel Hungry Montanans, Wis
itOrs Flock To Highways
Road Fund Receives Boost

The unexpected increase in Mon
tana gasoline license tax revenues
during the first four months of 1916
will force sharp upward revision of
estimates of funds available for
highway improvements in Montana,
according to G. G. Stevenson, exc
cutive secretary of the Montana
Petroleum Industries committee.
Stevenson stated that receipts
from gasoline license taxes in the
first four months of 1916 amounted
to $1,792,S94. The net, after re-
funds, totaled 81, 524,364, repre-
senting an increase of % per cent
in gross receipts over the same
four-month period of 1916 and 6.35
per cent more than comparable
gross receipts in 1941. The increase
is 1874 per cent in net receipts,
after refunds, over the same four
months period of 1915 and $45,688
more than the comparable collec-
lions for May 1941.
Present indications are that both
gross and net receipts for the full
year 1916 will exceed those for the
year 1911, the last year of nor
NAL highway traffic.
"This is good news to highway
officials who calculated that re-
covery of 1941 levels of revenue
would require a longer PERIOD"
Stevenson said. because many
forecasts of postwar highway con-
struction are based on 1941 figures,
higher revenue currently being col
lected will afford even better facil-
tiles, if wisely spent for, Montana
motorists.
The recent report by the Amer
lean Automobile association that
Americans are taking to the high
ways this eason in numbers that
surpass the most extravagant
predictions of postwar travel volume
is an augury of the tremendous
sums to be produced this year by
gasoline taxation, MI. Stevenson
These funds, he pointed out,
will swell the total available for
highway improvement, especially in
states like Montana which offer
varied and splendid attractions to
the tourist.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Forty Attend Christening

Laurel McCauley, four-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. DUNCAN
McCauley of San Francisco, was
christened Friday evening at the
home of her grandparents, DR.. and
Mrs. d. H. ,McCauley. Rev. Henry
Evan, rector of st. Luke's Episco-
pal church in Billings, officiated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Knott of Bal
timore, Md, and Miss Hilda Ward
of Laurel were the godparents.
After the christening ceremony a
buffet supper was served to some
40 guests on the lawn of the Nc
Cauley home.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Garden Club Accepts
Park City Invitation

At the last meeting of the Lau-
rel Garden club, held at the home
of Mrs. j. R. Heebner, Mrs. R. w.
Easton was hostess to the II mem
bers attending. Roll call responses
were poems pertaining to the flag.
The history of the American flag
was given by Mrs. G. N. Virgins,
and Mrs. Maude Gerke spoke on
etiquette of the Flag" Arrange
ments were made for a flower ex-
hibit, sponsored by the club, at the
L. l.. club on June II.
An invitation was accepted from
the Park City Garden club for
members of the Laurel club to at
tend a session there Thursday,
June 10.
Delegates selected to attend the
convention of Garden clubs in
Bozeman are Mrs. j. R. Heebner
and Mrs. Loren Shay. The conven-
ton will be June 20 instead of June
81.
The next meeting of the club will
be at Mrs. H. A. Bundy's home.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
MRS. BESLANOW|TCH
CALLED SATURDAY
Services Conducted Monday At
st. AnthOny's Church-Inter-
ment In Billings Cemetery

Requiem mass was celebrated Mon
day in st. Anthony's Catholic church
for Mrs. Marie Beslanowitch, H.,
wife of Joseph Beslanowitch, who
died at her home Saturday. Mass
was celebrated by Rev. T. O'Shea,
pastor of the church.
Mrs. BeslanOwitch was born May
%, 1875, in Austria. She was mar
ried on Jan. 26, 1890, and the couple
came to the United States in 1902
and resided at Watkins, MINI. In
1906 they moved to Billings and in
1908 they began operating a farm
near Park City. When Mr.. Beslano-
witch retired two years ago, they
moved to Laurel.
Surviving besides the widower are
three sons, Mike Beslanowitch and
John Beslanowitch of Laurel and
Fred Beslanowitch of Billings; two
daughters, Mrs. John Eisenman of
Park City and Mrs. Robert Kilpat-
rick of Laurel; a brother, Michael
Bleier of Austria; three grandchil-
dren and eight grand great-grand-
children.
P%allbearers were Mrs. Beslano-
grandsons, Ray Beslano-
Albert Eisenman, John Eisen-
man, Jr., Joseph Eisenman, Victor
and Robert Fitzpatrick, Jr.
Burial was in the Calvary ceme-
terry OF Billings.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
RAIN REMOVES FEAR
OF DROUGHT CROPS
Of STATE BENEFIT
Beet Thinning Here Is Well
AlOng-Believe Wheat Will
OutgrOw Weeds In North

Rain over a large portion of south
ern Montana and northern Wyom-
ing, in many places amounting to
more than an inch of precipitation,
early this week dispelled fears of
a crOp-damaging dry spell. Begin
ming Monday and continuing
through Tuesday enough rain fell to
carry crops and ranges well into
the summer. In the northern part
OF the state, beginning June 6, there
were series of rains which the fed
eral and state agencies at Helena
said would "replenish moisture sup
plies for surrent needs"
Sugar beets in the Laurel dis
trict were being thinned before the
rain, that work being nearly COM
pleted in the earliest planted fields
and we'll along in the later fields.
The condition extended east to the
Hardin district. In Custer county
the work is about one-fourth done.
In the Chinook district in north
central Montana, about half of the
acreage in Hill and Blain counties
is thinned while the rest of that
is not far along. The Sidney
district is later with thinning just
now getting well started. Some
acreage in the earlier districts has
been hoed.
Planting of late crops, potatoes,
beans and corn, is we'll along in
the state. Farmers are doing some
reseeding in Valley county. The
second operation on summer fallow-
ed land is starting.
Winter wheat is making good
progress and with adequate mois-
is beginning to get ahead of
weeds in Choteau, Cascade and Jud-
it'll Basin counties where earlier it
was feared a heavy weed infestation
would cause abandoning Of many
Some blowing of weedy
fields had started before the com
.ng of the rain. Winter wheat
S heading in many sections.
Spring grains are stooling in the
important grain areas of the state,
in the valleys they are just
in the drill rows. Only
a few localities have they begun
joint.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Club bangles S25 Prize For Biggest
Trout Brought In During Season

but non-members may join by pay
ing the annual membership fee be-
fore July 1.
The contest will run from July
1 to Oct. Is, and the prize of $25
will be awarded to the member
bringing in the largest trout by
weight. Varieties eligible to entry
are rainbow, l~ochlaven, eastern
brook and native.
The big fish are to be taken to
the Chapman pharmacy for regis
tration and weighing.
Each season some very large
trout are caught by Laurel fisher
men. The prize now offered is ex-
pected to cause the sportsmen to
redouble their efforts. One of the
necessities when seeking the big
'uns is to be equipped with tackle
strong enough to land the NON
sters. Experienced fishermen have
learned that one of the reasons for
50 many of the big fellows getting
away is light tackle.
The directors learned at the re-
cent meeting that Herbert Bailey
had offered to donate a new trap
to the club for installation at the
shooting range near the club house
in Riverside park.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
CHOICEST FLOWERS
ARE DISPLAYED At
EXHIBIT BY CLUB
Seasons Beauties Are Admir-
ed By Visitors Attending
Garden Club Event

Hundreds of beautiful flowers, the
cream of many Laurel gardens,
were displayed Wednesday after
noon at the L. l.. club. Although
most of the entries were from club
members, a number of non-members
displayed their choicest specimens.
The event was not a flower show,
for there were no rules or prizes
and the entries were not scored by
judges. In a regular show little at
tention is paid to containers or dis
play; the specimens often appear
in tin cans and the stems are apt
to be closely packed. Points alone
count in the judges decisions. The
exhibit Wednesday was different;
the flowers were in appropriate
vases and other containers and were
faultlessly displayed and spaced for
beauty. They showed that experts
in color, form, harmony and con
trast had arranged them. In that
respect the exhibition was more
successful than a regular flower
show.
Members said the club probably
will have a flower show later in the
summer.
Committee members in charge of
arrangements for exhibition We'd
were Mrs. G.. N. Virgins,
Mrs. P. A. Johnston, , Mrs. L. R.
Shay, Mrs. R. C. Colson and Mrs.
f. M. Phelps.
Refreshments were served the
visitors who came to admire the
f1oHuarc |
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Choose Nan Wilcox For
Post, Salem u

Willamette University, Salem,
Ore, June 12.:Miss Nan Wilcox
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. M. J.
Wilcox of 4O6 Third avenue, Laurel,
has been elected point secretary OF
the Women's Athletic association
at Willamette university for the
coming year. She will hold the Of
flee during the school year of
1946-47.
Miss Wilcox is a freshman at the
university and has biology as her
major field of study. She is an
officer in the Independent Women's
organization and very active IN
campus affairs.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
COTHRON FILES FOR
COUNTY ASSESSOR
Seeks denomination, Election
On Democratic Ticket-IS
Completing Second Term

T. A. Cothron, present county
assessor, became a Democratic can
didate for reelection when he filed
his nominating petition this week
with the county clerk and recorder.
He is now completing his second
term as assessor. Previously he
had served two terms as county
treasurer, from 1885 through 1888.
After receiving his discharge from
the army service in 1918, Cothron
was employed for a time by banks
in Greybull, Wyo., and Billings.
He resides in Billings at 10
Lewis avenue.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
SMITH TO TEACH 7 81
At LAUREL HIGH SCHOOL

The services of Arthur Smith as
instructor in trades and industries
at Laurel high school have been
secured for the coming school year,
Supt. Fred w. Graft announced
this week. Smith succeeds Harold
Collins, who recently resigned after
serving the school as instructor for
several years.
Smith was released last Christ
mas from the Seabees after a tour
of service in the Pacific. Prior to
that he had taught trades and in
dustries in Miles City high school
and elsewhere. He has had Is
years of experience as a machinist
and mechanic.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12

Officers and directors of the Lau-
rel Rod and Gun club at a recent
meeting formulated the rules and
set up a prize of $25 for a big
fish contest this season. The con-
test is for members of the club,
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Old Friends Enjoy Visit

James H. Stewart, of the unem-
ployment compensation commission
of Helena, and John S. Coad, pres
ident of the First National bank of
White Sulphur Springs, spent sew
eral hours in Laurel Wednesday
evening visiting with Jos. Gehrett.
The three men have been friends
many years dating from the time
when all were residents of White
Sulphur Springs.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Local Teacher On Normal Staff

Miss Marguerite Roscoe, teacher
in the Laurel schools, has been adj
ded to the staff of the summer
term of the Eastern Montana Nor
NAL school at Billings. She will
teach a refresher course in mathe-
mates.
Laurel outlook., 1946-06-12
Leave For Extended Trip

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul E. Bower and
family, who had been the guests
the last two weeks of Mrs. Bowers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Crutch-
er, left Monday to resume an ex-
tended trip through Idaho, Oregon,
California, and over the southern
route to the middle west where
they plan to locate.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04
RATTLEsNAKE BUTTE
TEST STILL UNMADE

Testing of the discovery well on
the Rattlesnake Butte structure,
about Is miles southwest of the Cat
Creek field, was further delayed
this week when crews continued
working on change-over of pumping
equipment on the Schrock-Fif
wells in the Cat Greek field.
One of the smaller pumps on the
Schrock- F'ifer lease is to be moved
to Rattlesnake Butte for the test
and until this is done nothing con-
elusive will be known about the
potentialities of the discovery well.
1t got oil in a sand at 2760 feet,
filled up to the top and flowed a
small amount of oil daily until 1t
was shut in. According to H. H.
Schwartz Jr., one of the hackers of
the test, the oil is coming from a
stray sand, and not from the second
Cat Creek sand, as originally be-
lieved.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04
Gage Dome
Continued From Page u

same section. Darr No. 8 was COM
pleted as a producer about two
years ago but was never put on
pump until recently.
With pumping equipment in
stalled at Darr No 8 several weeks
ago, it was found that the well is
capable of making 200 barrels of
oil per day with no water The well
is now being held down to about
100 barrels per day to lessen the
danger of water incursion.
Contract for the drilling of the
Hold No. ] we'll was let to Kerr
MCGEE Oil Industry, Inc, of Okla
homa City, Okla, formerly the
Kerlyn Oil Co. Directors of the re-
organized company are Robert S.
Kerr, d. A. MCGEE, Dean Terrill, T..
M. Kerr and T. w. Fenton, all of
Oklahoma City. However, because
the Kerr-McGee company did not
have a rig Immediately available in
this area, drilling of the new well
is being done by the Clark Drilling
Co. under a sub-contract arrange
ment.-Roundup Record.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04

ALIAS SUMMONS


In the District Court of the Eighth Judicial
District of the State of Montana, In and
for the County of Cascade.
ALBERT NJ JOHNSON. Plaintiff, VS..
GENEVIEVE L. JOHNSON, Defendant.
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings 10 the Above Named Defendants,
and 10 Each of Them:
You are hereby summoned TO answer
the complaint In this action which Is filed
In the office of the Clerk of this Court.
a copy of which is herewith served upon
one of you in each County wherein any
Of you reside, and TO file your answer and
serve copy thereof upon the plaintiffs
attorney within twenty days after the
service of this Summons exclusive of the
day of service, and In case of your failure
10 appear or answer, Judgment VIII be
taken against you, by default, for the relief
demanded In the complaint for divorce.
That for more than one year preceding
the commencement Of this action, defend
ant has been guilty of extreme mental
cruelty 70 and toward plaintiff; such
TO destroy the peace OF mind and happiness
of this plaintiff; that said treatment con
sists of the following things and acts I'm
part: That the defendant, without any
cause or provocation, reason or excuse has
for more than one year prior to the
commencement of this action been almost
continually and necessarily scolding, nag
ginE, quarreling, pickering and fighting
with this plaintiff despite the best efforts
of this plaintiff to please and satisfy this
defendant; that the foregoing matters al
legged have rendered continuance of the
marriage relation between the parties
hereto perpetually unreasonable and in
tolerable to this plaintiff.
Witness my hand and the Seal Of said
Court this 18th day Of April. 1916.
AGNES SCHRAPPS,
COURT SEAL) Clerk.
BY H. J. OSwEILER,
Deputy Clerk,
BJARNE JOHNSON,
Attorney for Plaintiff
31S Ford Building,
Great Falls Montana.
Date Of first publication April 20. 1916.
Ak
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04

SUMMONS
In the District Court OF the Eighth Judicial
District of the State of Montana, in and
for the County Of Cascade.
MARION SPIKER, Plaintiff, VS.. RAY
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings to the Above Named Defendants,
and 20 Each of Them:
You are hereby summoned TO answer
the complaint In this action which IS filed
in the office of the Clerk of this Court,
a copy of which is herewith served upon
one of you in each County wherein any
of you reside, and to file your answer and
serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiffs
attorney within twenty days after the
service of this Summons, exclusive of the
day of service and In case of your failure
to appear or answer, Judgment win be
taken against you, by default, for the
relief demanded in the complaint This Is
an action instituted by Plaintiff for the
purpose of obtaining decree of absolute
divorce from Defendant on the grounds
that defendant has for more than one
year Immediately preceding the commence
ment of this action deserted Plaintiff as
more fully set forth IN Plaintiffs Com
plant on file herein to which reference Is
hereby made for further details.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said
Court this LIST day of May, 1e46.
(sEAL) Clark.
o. B. KOTZ. Attorney
303 Ford Building,
Great Falls, Montana.
Date Of first publication May 4, 1916. ~
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04
GULF OIL HAD GOOD
YEAR, REPORT SHOWS

Gulf Oil Corporation, recent en-
trant into Montana oil circles by
acquisition of acreage on Bowdoin
dome and in other portions of the
state, had a gross crude oil pro-
duction of 139, 100000 barrels in
1915, highest in the company's his
tory, according to the annual re-
port by w. l.. Mellon, chairman. The
company drilled 500 development
wells and 1T wildcat wells during
the year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF TINE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL. ETl-

In the District Court of the Eighth Judicial
District of the State of Montana, In and
for the County Of Cascade.
Probate Department
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF FRED ENGELKE, Deceased
Pursuant 70 an order Of said Court,
made on the Path day of April, 1915.
notice Is hereby given that Wednesday,
the 18th day of May, 1915, at ten O'Clock
A. NJ. Of said day, at the Court Room of
said Court, In the City Of Great Falls,
County of Cascade, has been appointed as
the time and place for proving the VIII
of said Fred Eugelke, deceased and for
hearing the application of Alvide Engeike
for the issuance 70 her of letters Tesla
mentary when and where any person in
terested may appear and contest the same
Dated the Path day OF April, 1915.
AGNES SCHRAPPS,
COURT SEAL) Clerk
H. NoRSKOC,
Attorney for Petitioner.
332 Ford Building,
Great Falls Montana.
Date Of first publication April u. 1916
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-05-04

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