The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-11-20

Mrs. Florence Coulter returned
home the first of the week from
a trip to Poplar and Wolf Point,
where she made a short visit with
her father, Mr.. Theodore Rounds,
who lives at Poplar, and with a
brother, Roy Rounds, at Wolf
Point.
Miss Patricia and Dom a
Franks, who are students at Roc
ky Mountain college at Billings,
are expected home Tuesday to
spend their Thanksgiving vaca-
ton at the home of their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Franks
in Browning.
Rev. Edward Smith returned
home Saturday from big game
hunting trip in the Bob Marshall
wilderness area in Sun River dis
trict. Others in the party were
Rev. Rae Genther, pastor of the
Methodist church at Moore, and
his brother, Keith Genther Of ALL
gusta. They returned with l deer
and elk.
A. R. Manuel, owner of the To-
cal telephone exchange, left the
first of this week to attend
meeting of telephone represent
atives who are celebrating the
installation of the fifty millionth
telephone installation in the Unit
ed States. He is president of the
national organization of indepen-
dent telephone operators.
Heavy shipments of stock from
the Browning railroad station
were made over the weekend by
stockmen shipping to winter
ranges and market. Among the
heavy shippers were D. Russell,
Jim Farley and George Shane,
who had been here for some
time, buying stock and getting
their own cattle and sheep ready
for shipment
Ray R. Porter, owner and op-
orator of Porter's Cabins at East
Glacier, was a business caller in
Browning Tuesday In the winter
months Mr.. Porter conducts an
advertising and novelty salesman
service, and covers most of Mon
tana. During the summer he de-
votes his entire time to the oper-
alton of his business in the park,
and has one of the high class
places catering to the tourist
business.
The Fitzgerald Drug this week
is installing an antenna on the
roof of the building in readiness
for reception of television pro-
grams. In the drug store is a
Zenith television set, which was
received last week and which
will channel whatever programs
may bounce from clouds. The
firms television set is one of sew
eral in this immediate area. At
Seville a television set is a regu-
lar recipient of several hours of
programs every day.
c. P. Mendenhall, Leon Nation
and Jack N. Rape composed a
big game hunting party that spent
several days the latter part of
last week hunting in the extreme
northwestern part of the state.
They drove to Troy, and then
went onto the forest reserve
north of that place, near the Ida
no line. They spent three days
in the wilderness area, and all
were successful in getting their
deer. They arrived home about
four o'clock Sunday morning, af-
ter having rather slippery drive
through the mountains.
At the regular meeting of the
Browning Masonic lodge on Mon
day evening of this week a men,
orial service was held honoring
the memory of the late Charles
L. Graves, first Worshipful Mas
ter of the Browning lodge, and
who took prominent part in get
ting the lodge organized in this
city. Lodge history and the prom
inent part taken by Mr.. Graves
were featured in talks by sever
al charter members of the organ
ization. Refreshments were serv-
ed at the close of the meeting.
An amateurish robbery attempt
was committed at the city hall
on Tuesday night of this week,
when someone broke into the
building and attempted to crack
the safe. The dial on the safe was
broken off, but the would-be rob-
bers failed to get the door open,
and left without accomplishing
their purpose. No particular dam
age was done, except breaking the
knob off the safe door. An F.B.I.