The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-10-16
LOCAL news ITEMS


Mrs. Warren Brown returned
Sunday from several days spent in
| Spokane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Luscher
were Kalispell visitors last Friday.
The Western News publisher en-
joyed very short but pleasant call
Saturday afternoon from George S.
Ripley, former foreman of the Lib
by Fish Hatchery. Mr.. Ripley was
i transferred last spring TO the Arlee
Hatchery. ~ '-sts
Bill Bowen, Clark Hamor and
Karl Kaufman are rebuilding the
Forest Service telephone line be-
tween. Libby and the Libby Ranger
Station, changing the location from
the old highway to the new.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. N. Preston visited
last week in Kalspell. Yesterday
they left for Post Falls, Wash, to
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. L. Thornwan, whose marriage
occurred October / at Occur d.
Alene. Mrs. ThornwaH, is Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston'S daughter, the for
mer Marjorie Bottor1 Mr. Ihorn-
wall teaches music ID the Post Fails
schools.
Milton Anderson, county attorney
of Richland County, visited over the
weekend in Libby at the home of
his brother, Russell X. Anderson
and family.
Mrs. G. Anderson of Troy was
taken to the Boomers. Ferry hospital
Monday morning, where her daugh-
ter was born that afternoon.
Phyllis Rubard left Friday night
for Spokane for medical treatment
and returned Sunday afternoon.
She was house guest at the Otto
Swanson home while there and also !
visited her sister Bette, who is a /
stenographer for the Retail Credit !
Co., in that city
IT'S Raymond P. Rubard is a jun
ior at the University of Washing
ton. in Seattle, and Bob Rogers, his
brother-in-law, is freshman at the
same University.
Rainbow Girls,
Saturday, October 25th, at Parker's
Studio.
liner johnson of Minneapolis re-
Gently had the tragic misfortune of
over his own one and a
half year old son, killing him, as
he backed out of his garage Mr..
johnson is a son of Gust MARCEL
who not long ago visited his brother,
Klas Johansson, here.
Mrs. Ed Olson arrived home last
from Kirkland, Wash,
where she had visited week with
ler daughter, Mrs. W. c. Pellet. ,
Mrs. Pellet and three children had j.,
been in Libby the two weeks be- !
.ore visiting her parents, and Mrs. !
Olson had accompanied them back ,
o Washington. :
Lincoln county boys to be pied
red by the Theta Chi social frater- t
lity of Montana State University
ire Donald and Kenneth Payton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Beasley left /
Tuesday for Occur d'Alene where
dr Beasley plans on attending
chool. The Beasleys recently moved
rom Portland and have been visit
ng friends in Occur d'Alene, Ida,
spokane, Wash, and Libby.
Mr. and Mrs. John Huxley an
ounce the birth of a daughter,
Constance Lynne, October at
butte. Mr. Huxley is engineer for
he Universal Zonolite. Mrs. Hulk
ay has been visiting her parents
4 Butte.
c. r. Remington, assistant en-
ineer from the forest regional Of
ce in Missoula, and H. o. Ficke of
libby, are inspecting the construc-
on and maintenance of forest ser
ice roads in this district this week.
James Evenden, entomologist, a
of the Bureau of
and Giant Quarantine
Couer d'Alene, spent three days
lie past week in the Kootenai area
strict looking over the area for
Pine beetles and talking
it'll representatives of the J. Neils
Imber company about the insect
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