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08 MONTANA.
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HELENA, Mont,
WESTERN NEWS
With which is consolidated THE LIBBY TIMES and THE TROY TRIBUNE
Libby, Lincoln County, Montana. Thursday, August 1Î, 1933
VOLUME XXXIII
Number 11
Libby Schools
To Op On
Septembers
a-imt WrirtH Odtrpn T-nfn-pma
»upi. WDOQ Wives miorraa
tion Reeardinsr Enrollment
°
Requirements.
TWENTY SIX IN
FACULTY ROSTER
The Libby schools will open for the
. regular year on the first Tuesday in
September. The preceding Saturday and
Monday will be reserved for _ registre
tion in the high school Since the course
is somewhat changed, it i* highly im
portant that high school students make
ZÎLii—l . Ik i Tu J
an advance enrollment so that the size,
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some satisfaction for the local schools
to put in full time on the opening diy
and to do this an advance registration'll
is necessary. Pupil* who have already
- registoed will noT be required to
over this detail again unless they wish
change their subjects. L
In order to meet the demands of a
reduced budget, one teacher has been
dropped from the high school faculty.
Two subjects, manual training and
home economics, will not be offered.
Since a relatively smaller number of
.students take these courses the over
head is greater than in such courses as
English or mathematics and they were
the first to be dropped. Both of the
■dropped subjects have been popular
with the first year students and it is
hoped that they may be reinstated when
conditions improve.
The beginners in the first grade will
meet in the high school gymnasium at
9 o'clock as formerly. Teachers will be ]
there to meet them and to get them
properly enrolled. Parents are invited
to come with the pupils as the first day
i» an important time for the beginner
to become adjusted and the first im
to
pressions often determine the pupil's
progress during the year. The board
regulation as to age is the same; a child
ahouid be six by January first in order
rATfdV "T.Ä IWP *?
ha ^. e ba f d the ffrat grade
shows that fully two-thirds of them
were pupils who had not reached their
sixth birthday at the time of their en
roUment It is better to start at six and
a half than five and a half.
The high school course of study and
brini aCU tV f ° r ^ tW ° SCh0 ° lS iS given
ÏWiman English* Al 0P hr a * Onei-l
Scienre^BS^TrebiTnè
Sônmre^ Grometrv*
Ær^BÂ' h ùuS. eometr> ''
Junior_English* Chpmktrv fnm
/Uc unie n ta tion ^Psvch o loev
l£K"fitt
mercial.
Advanced
Economics, U. S. History-Civics*.
Seniors—English*, Alternate subjects
as above in Junior year.
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College entrance requirements are 15
units; local regulations raise this to 16,
one of which may be earned in extra
curricular activities. To be eligible for
college entrance a pupil must complete
four years of English and at least two
units from three of the following
groups; mathematics, social studies.
languages and laboratory sciences. Pu
pils who expect to prepare for college
entrance should ask for special advice
* Required
on their courses.
OFFICERS AND FACULTY.
Board of Trustees;
W. E. Dexter, Chairman
Mrs. W. F. Kienitz
E. E. Jaqueth
L. G. Sperry
Joe Kujawa
M. D. Rowland, Clerk
A. A. Wood, Superintendent
High School:
Mary Bames—English and Latin
George Hayes—Science
Hilda Witt—English
Lalla Sonner —Mathematics
Joe Hazen—History and Athletics
J. G. Hughes—Commercial
Junior High;
O. G. Nordstrom—Social Studies
Irene Stevens—Arithmetic
Waive Knarr —Reading and
Literature ,
Grace Smith—Geography and Hygiene
Charles Beardsley—Grammar and
orchestra
.Central:
Arthur Desonia—Grade VI
Hester Stevenson—Grade V
Cecilia Liebe —Grade V
Jessie Staudacher—Grade IV
Georgia Thorsen—Grade IV
Isabel McGrade—Grade III
Ruth Hostetter—Grade III
Leone Courtright—Grade II
Ruth Madden—Grade II
Ester Shave—Grade I
Olive Arnold—Grade I
'Spécial:
Blanche Fousek—Music
Gladys Borgen —McGinnis Meadows
School
Fred LeLachuer—Pleasant Valley
School.
Tent Meetings Continued.
The services in the tent on the comer
of Lincoln and California
continued nightly (except Monday and
Saturday) at 8 o'clock. Brief messages
on the Kingdom of God are given which
will be of interest to you.
Come and spend an hour with us
these evenings. The tent is comfortable
after the heat of the day.
We seek not yours but you.
Your servants for Jesus' sake.
O BARENE and J. FRIESEN.
being
are
MOOSE MAY HOLD STATT
CONVENTION HERE IN 1936
Bert Withee and Gleason Pilcher, who
were delegates to the Moose state con
vention held at Havre recently, reported
to the Libby lodge at their meeting,
Monday night, that the lodge had asked
to hold its state convention in Libby
in 1936. This will undoubtedly be done
if proper arrangements can be made,
and there is little doubt but what that
can be done.
A few years ago the Moose held
their convention in Whitefish and at
Lhat time 50 many of the dele 8 ates be
:came enamoured of this section of the
state that ^ desi r e t0 « et int0 the
mountains for a brief visit again.
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ANNOUNCES A COMPETITIVE
EXAMINATION FOR WEST POINT
Senator Burton K. Wheeler an
nounces that the United States Civil
Service Commission will hold a com
petitive examination on Saturday, Oc
tober 2 l, 1933, at 9 a. m. to enable him
to select a principal and two alternates
f or appointment to a cadetship at the
United States military academy, West
Point, New York.
— • examination u ODen anv v™
. . examination is open to any ooy
who is a resident of Montana, not un
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der 17 nor over 22 years ot age on the
examination will be held in the post ot
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f,ce bulldin * Allowing cities,
Billings, Bowman, Butte, Glasgow,
jGrsfct Falls, Havre, Helena, Kalispell,
g/Wistown, Miles City, Missoula, Sco
bey,
A form showing the scope and chap
acter of the examination may be ob
tained by writing to Senator Burton K.,
Wheeler, Senate Office Building, Wash- |
ington, D. C.
Those desiring to compete in this ex- |
amination should write to Senator;
Wheeler immediately for authorization'
to appear before the Board of Civil j
Service Examiners and in order that j
arrangements may be made to ship
pape rs for the examination,
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NEAR TROY ABOUT FINISHED
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TROY Montana.—A 36 acre airplane
anding field, near Troy is receiving
the fmishmg touches' from the en
rvîmu»rvatWin i
ConservatmnForest Camp F-17, lo
AU trees and°brush have '
been removed hom the J w fie ld, it is
nru. Tmv.Star
iJrL-e forest road and the Cabinet
Troy telephone Me are oîhtr projecîs
Qn £hich these me n ate employed.
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Rwiuires 218 MilLs to Meet County
Expenses—Increase Due to Poor
Fund Demands
Demands.
The county commissioners, in session
Monday, placed the county tax levy
f or the current year at 21.8 mills. This
[g 2.2 mills higher than it was last year,
the increase having been made neces
sary because of heavy expenditures for
poor relief. The complete levy is given
General .
Educ. Bond
Funding Bond_
Greater Univ. Maint.
Greater Univ. Warrant
retirement .
below:
1,05 Mills
5_g ''
Mills
"
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"
Mills
Mills
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"
"
"
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"
"
"
"
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.45
2.5
.. .5
Total
5 1-3 Mills
Mills
Bounty, Other Livestock .... 1
Bounty, Sheep
L, S. Com., Cattle and
Horses .
L. C. Com., Sheep
L. S. Board (all stock) 1
COUNTY
. ... I 1-2 '
. I 1-2
1
General Fund
Road Fund .
Poor Fund
Bridge Fund
Library Fund
Debt Red. Fund
8
. 4
... 5
1.8
... 1
2
Total
21.8
TRUST & AGENCY
General School .
City of Libby
City of Eureka
City of Troy .
Fortine Fire Dist. ,
Rexford Fire Dist.5.00 "
Road Dist. No, 1 Distri
buted as follows:
Road Dist. No, I . 5.00 "
County Road Fund 2.00 "
County High School Fund 8.5 Mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVY
No. Name
1 Troy .
2 Fall Creek
3 Bull Lake
4 Libby ....
5 Phillips Creek ..„ .10
6 Jennings .
7 Warland
8 Rexford
9 Gateway
10 Glen Lake
11 Manicke
12 Iowa Flats
13 Eureka
14 Fortine .
15 McCormick
IT Therriault . -.21,5
18 Pinkham Creek It)
19 Palmer .
20 Stonehill ..f
22 Swamp Creek
23 Svlvanite
24 Yaak ..
53 Trego ..
6.00
18.75
22.50
25.00
7 00
.15
10
20 5
11.9
.M
... 6
26
20
10
. 7.5
10
25
11.5
10
11
10 ,
10
10
13
. 10
Orders For Zerteilte Total
22 Carloads in Past Ten Days
The rejuvenating spirit that has been
injecting new life into the benumbed
body of national business for the past
few weeks has very evidently reached
Libby. That is the conclusion one easily
reaches after talking with E. N. Alley,
president and general manager of The
Zonolite Company.
"During the past week or 10 days
our business has shown a most remark
able increase," said Mr. Alley. "The
other day we received one order that
will call for 20 carloads of our crude
product to go to one 6f the ooq^anies
that are distributing Zonolite through
out the East, Ten of these carload* will
go to one concern, a nationally known
manufacturing company. The other ten
carloads will be distributed to «(nailer
users. In addition to this one HI-ear
order, we received during the same
Large Growl
Enjoys Fight
Program
Young Men From C. C. C.
Camps Put on Five
Lively Bouts.
That's a fighting bunch ol young i
bearcats that Uncle Sam has shipped i
into C, C. C. camps at Troy and Rex- ;
ford. At least that's the judgment of
the fans who gathered in Libby Satur
day night to see representatives of the !
two camps battle through a five-bout
boxi program , If the B husk :
men who were the prindpals fa those
five bouts are a fa £ ex T mple af ^
tw0 cam P s ' make-up, they surely are
a sturdy and fiKhting bunch _ w
Not for a lon 8 tim e has so large or
f° enthusiastic a crowd gathered here
>° enjoy an amateur boxing program,
Every 1x1111 was §°od. there waa abto-j
,utely no atoüinft and-every one fU
yolln ß hitlers^ept wading right ini
for more, even when he was getting
his helpers, who cooperated with of-!
ficerS fr0m the tw ° cam . ps t0 make the
program a success had everything in
readiness except that someone had
part of
me noxing gloves, inis caused a lit
T d ? 3V gl ° VeS WC , re S ° on pro '
duced and the program got under way.,
First Bout a Drew.
m, . . . .
8 g °,
iS "ÄÄTT Ÿ? '.S m
'SaiÂiLliriljî*"«
for three rounds, kept wading right
in and slamming rights and lefts to
each other's anatomy whenever they
thought they saw an opening. The
were evenly matched and the bout was
The program was held in a ring built
directly in front of the grandstand at
Libby athletic field. Chief Hoffman and
the worst of the punishment.
declared a draw.
When the two opponents stepped into
the ring for the next bout it looked
a little more like business, S. Maloney,
husky Irishman of 150 pounds, from
Butte, and the Troy camp, was faced
by Chas. Bellinger, 146 pound fighter
from Utica, N. Y., and from the Rex
ford camp. This was the bloodiest fray
of the program. In fact, it was the only
bout in which blood was spilled to any
noticeable extent, Maloney proved too
much both in boxing skill and ag
gressiveness for the Utica man. He
landed repeatedly with stiff jolts to
the face and head and soon had Bell
inger's nose and face well plastered
with gore, Bellinger, however, was one
of those battlers who fights with a
smile. He kept smiling when the last
bell rang. And it wasn't all one-sided,
by any means. He landed his full share
of the punches but he didn't seem to
have the effectiveness or skill of Ma
loney. Maloney was declared winner.
The third bout was between two boys
of a little more weight—Lee Thornton
of Troy, 158 pounds, and John Salin
of Utica, N. Y., who tips the scale at
147. These two young battlers were also
perfectly willing to mix it throughout
every second of their bout. Salin
charged his man repeatedly and kept
crowding him back onto the ropes. He
showed more experience than Thorn
ton and was awarded the decision.
The main event was then thrown in
to get it within the hour limit stipulated
by amateur rules. This was between
Hula Sullivan, 135 pound Troy camp
representative, from Butte, and the
Rexford camp entry, Micky Yale, 136
pound fighter from Syracuse, N. Y.
This bout stirred adherents of the two
camps and other fans to noisy rooting.
It started at a pace that looked as
though Yale was going to finish it in
first round. He showed up far su
perior to Sullivan, landed several stiff
jolts to the jaw and side of the head
and soon had Sullivan showing distress,
A hard jolt to the jaw floored the Butte
Irishman who took four or five counts
before coming to his feet. Yale swarmed
over him, landing rights and lefts and
Sullivan went down again and rolled
over flat on his back. He was on his
feet, however, before the count ended
and wfls able to weather the storm until
the bell rang, Sullivan showed up bet
ter in the remaining two rounds and
was able to protect himself from
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week calls for two or three other car
load shipments.
After figuring up our production
and shipments, the pleasmg thmg to
us is that orders to date are better than
85 per cent o our entire shipments dur
mg the fiscal year ending June 30 last
That means that in a period of about
six weeks, our business this fiscal year
has expanded to such an extent that it
is more than 85 per cent of the last
f,scil year s entire volume. From what
we am gather indications are that this,
trend will continue^ our business for
some time to come. . ,
The crude ore is coming into the
ptont from the mine in steady volume
is being run »rough the mill and
graded for si» and then is being
shipped out to destination as rapidly
as can can be loaded.
R. E. RUSSELL ENTERS
NEW UNE OF WOK
The numerous Libby friends ol Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Russell regretted to
learn this week that Mr. Russell had
accepted a position with the Union Oil
company, in Portland, Or., and was
packing his household goods to leave at
once. Four years ago last spring Mr.
Russell removed to Libby to take up
the position as manager of the local
business of the Mountain States Power
company, succeeding J. W. Mandley.
During that time Mr. Russell has taken
an active part in the business life of
the community and was a prominent
member of the Lions and Libby Com
mercial clubs. Both he and Mrs. Rus
sell have a wide circle of friends who
will regret exceedingly their departure.
For some time Mr. Russell has de
sired to get into art work as used in
advertising, he having a decided talent
alon 8 that line. His new work will be
ln that department of the Unkm Oil
company Mr. Russell's successor has
not V et been named.
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ELDON J. BELYEA KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
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James A. Davidson left Tuesday eve
ning for Spokane to attend the funeral
of _Eldon J. Belyea, supervisor for the
received m an automobile accident Fri
^* y - Davidson drove to Runners
*1^ a
a MacMKT store manager, and the two
men drove from there Into the city.
following account of the accident:
I Eldon J. Belyea, 37, supervisor for the
j Safeway Stores, Inc., died Monday „
the Lakeside hospital in Coeur d'Alene
° f in J uri es suffered Friday when his
mll ' 5 , from c r ur
, d Alene when he was returning from
Sandpoint. Cliff Thompson, 45, recently
fppn! Seattle, also a Safeway supei
I visor, was killed in the accident.
High speed was blamed by investi -
^ for the accident the ma
Æ* 8klddin « and CT " hi " 8 into -
sr r n
| Ce 1° W ' ^ U '
gi d ' . p ' r w ? dau ghtere,
bom bi f T . at the
ladsJ^J™ 5 t'un.ï i ***
j ican le £ on ^Ldy is at Îhe SmUh
funeral home.
Belyea was well known in Libby
j where he frequently called in perform
ance of his duties as Safeway super
; visor. The Spokesman-Review had the
at
Joe Sheffield came in Tuesday night
.from Spokane driving in a new Essex
Terraplane auto,
The fire fighting organizations of the
Kootenai and Pend O'Reille national
forests are mobilizing forces on the
international boundary near the Idaho
line. The object is to be in readiness
for a fire that is heading this way
from Canada Sixty men have been
moved there from a C. C. C. camp
by the Kootenai forest and the Pend
rO'Reille has 52 men on the ground.
Mules land equipment are being moved
in.
LIBBY STREET IMPROVEMENT
RECOMMENDED TO ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
Recently Libby officials placed
petition before state highway officials
asking that certain Libby streets be
improved with an appropriation from
federal funds. It will be remembered
that recent legislation setting aside
millions for highway work stipulated
that 25 per cent of the money must be
spent on highways within municipal
ities.
During the past week the information
has reached Libby, although unofficial
ly, that the state highway commission
had recommended the Libby work to
the Montana advisory committee which
has the matter in hand.
a
Forest Fire
Heading ThisWay
From Canada
Men and Equipment Being Mobilized
on Border to Meet the
Invader.
The fire was reported Monday night
and is bunting through slash just north
of the boundary. It is understood the
Canadian fighters have been pulled off
for lack of money. An airplane from
much)Spokane is scouting over the fire and
reporting. „
TEN COLORED BOYS
WILL BE FIRE FIGHTERS
Troy, Montana.—Ten colored boys,
members of a New York colored
tingent stationed at Emergency Con
servation Forest Camp in the Yaak dis
trict, in the Kootenai National Forest,
will support Montana enrolled smoke
chasers in combating forest fires. This
group, known as the flying squadron,
( ba j answered several forest fire
igericy calls with considerable success,
it is reported . 0ther members of ^
conti t have been ized into
25-men group firefighting units, and are
; subject to caI1 d or * h accordi
to Ranger A . M Crowley camp super
j intendant. K
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First Week Unusually Hot.
^ t ^ Ubb * ^ ^
hot-the nights cool and comfortable
but the da ^ ^ me d
to 100 m8rk The read - mg \ tfje
government thermometer last Thursday
was Frida „ Saturday 98, Sun
^ 99> Monday 99, Tuesday 98, and
Wednesday 101
con
emer
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Surreys Ordered
On Two Projects
In Lincoln Comity
One to Be ea Eibby-Kalapell Road,
the Other on Libby-ldahe Line
- Highway.
Two extensive highway surveys
to be made in this district soon by the
bureau of public works, according to
news dispatches in Sunday's papers,
eminating from Missoula. The bureau
plans surveys of 116 miles of forest
highways. In the projects listed are
two in this section, including 21 miles
of the Libby-KallspeU highway in the
Pleasant Valley district, and another
project of 20 miles between Libby and
the Idaho line on the Roosevelt high
way.
are
Planning an Alternative Project.
This newspapéf has authentic infor
mation to the effect that O. S. Warden,
chairman of the state highway com
mission, is persistently endeavoring to
hasten work on the Kootenai Falls
project and has wired Washington of
ficials urging the value of an early de
cision on location of the proposed route
at that point. The information also was
to the effect that if the present location
la not approved, and a delay la forced
In work at that point a project will be
started on the Yaak Tdlt This informa
tion is authentic.
Was One Of
Best Games Of
Baseball Season
Libby Team Defeats Troy Camp in
Closely Contested
Battle.
What looked like a piteher'» battle
between Hovelind aftd ratt was broken
up by the Libby bats in the eighth Lift
ing when they scored eight runs to
take the Troy C, C. C. camp No, 17
nine to a 10-6 cleaning on the Libby
diamond last Sunday. It was a close
and bitterly fought ball game for the
first seven innings.
Libby started by scoring one run in
the second and held that advantage
until the sixth when the C. C. C. boys
tied it up. The locals then took the lead
with another run In the seventh but
lost this advantage in the first half of
the eighth when Troy scored two runs.
In Libby's half of this inning, aided by
several hits and a number of
|
errors,
the locals clinched the game. Libby let
down a little in the ninth and Troy
scored three more runs to end the
scoring.
Rowland, Burpee and E. Wolz led
the locals in slugging and Thompson
fielded well, making all the assists in
one inning.
Michaels and Saylers played good
ball for the visitors.
Box Score.
C, C. C.'s
Blythe, cf
Bockman, If
Salyers, 3b
Maloney, lb
Ozanich, 2b
Roskilly, ss
Skordahl, rf
Rothschild, rf
Michaels, c .
Hoveland, p
Totals .
Libby
Thompson, 3b
Burpee, 2b .
Pearson, rf ..
E. Wolz, ss
Rowland, lb.5
Reid, cf .
Diesner, If .
W, Wolz, If
Racicot, c .
Allen, c .
Patt, p . .
AB R H A
.5
0
0
0
5 1
5 2
5 I
.3 0
4 0
. 2 0
.2 1
1
0
2
2
i
0
1
2
0
1
o
o
l
0
.3
0
3
1
3 1
3
1
37 6
8 II
.3
2
1
5
.„...5
0
2
2
.3
1
1
0
5
2 2
1
2
2
0
:.4
1
0
0
0
.0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0 0 0
1
0
0
1
4
1
1
Totals
Summary—3b hits: Rowland; 2b hits:
Burpee, Rowland; double plays: Sal
vers, Ozanich, Maloney; walked by;
Hoveland 4; stmekout; by Patt 9. Hove
land 11; umpires: Dedric and Reedy.
Score by innings:
. 35 10 9 9
R H E
C. C, C. . 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3— 6 8 7
Libby .010 000 18 x-10 9 4
Batteries; Hoveland arid Michaels,
Patt and Racicot. Allen.
Jerry Fritsdh, Ural merchant, was a
business visitor in libby yesterday.
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Libby Tax
Levy One-Half
Bill Lower
Needs of City Will Be Taken
Gare of With 18%
Müls.
GENERAL FUND
GETS LARGEST PART
The Libby tax levy for the cuciprt
year will be one-half of a mill
than it was last year. Complying: 4
the law, the city council tumed qi
recommendation to the-board of 001»
ty commissioners this week «■
levy was duly set by that body"-
property owners will be require^ tifgy
a tax of 18% mills to meet hlg ra»Sg
expenses of their city. Last^
levy was 19 V« mills, ojr one-Wf mill
higher than this year.
The levy for the current year has
been divided as follows among the var
ious funds;
its
«be
the
Mills
General Fuad_.
Park Fund ..
Fire Fieri
Special Improvement Revolving
Fund ....
15
.- 1 %
. 2
. 00 %
Total .
-.-.18%
The levy for a Special Improvement
District Revolving fund is one that ts
required by law 1 .
St. Lake's Episcopal Church.
It became necessary to postpone
Bishop Faber's service until next Sun
day at 8 p. m. You are cordially in
vited to attend.
25 Tears Ago In Libby
(Taken from the file of the Western
News)
Chas. McDonald and son, Duncan Mc
Donald, and George McKay were la
Libby on Sunday and Mnnday to te~
wive the first payment on aome of thair
mining proper^* Wt*t the
the payment Ü they did not (Haclqae.
The payment was made by Joseph |VN
amount of
ton of Spokane who i* i w*U known
mining operator in the Coeur d'Aienes.
involved ht known as the
Bunker H51' group. Th« deal wag made
on a hams «t |2d0,000.
pilly Slew's Baseball Bqys will cross
bats with the troy team on the Libby
(M«mond next Sunday.
6am Lunday was down from War land
Tuesday.
Miss Lenaa Pox went up to the Rat-'
ston ranch Tuesday.
A. R. Gibson says that he expects
j to move into the new barbershop next
John E. Elliott left for 3eàttlé Tues
day. He will be the guest of a brother
while over there,
Frank J, Sedlak left Tuesday for
Hexford, near which place he will work
on a government trail.
Fred Lowery is constructing a mile
and a half of fence around his ranch
seven miles east of Libby this week.
The Montana state board ol health
says that all teachers and pupils must
be vaccinated before they can teach
or attend school.
Frank Wegner left for the Wegner
Harris cattle ranch up at Gateway
Tuesday morning to gather up and ship
their cattle to Libby.
Mrs. Peay and Miss Edna Firestone
left yesterday for a few days' visit m
Spokane. From Spokane Mrs. Peay ex
pects to visit her husband at Kellogg,
Idaho.
The
Will Hold Picnic.
The Manicke-Fisher River club will
hold a picnic next Sunday at the Fow
ler ranch. There will be election of of
ficers. Everybody should bring lunch.
Members of both the men's and
women's clubs are urged to attend.
Most people are very pleasant as long
as you don't try to collect.
Farmer Meeting
Called to Discuss
Wheat Control
Emergency Agent Will Be in Libby
August 24 to Discuss
Plans.
A meeting of the farmers of the Lib
by and Troy districts will be held in
Libby on Thursday afternoon, August
24, for the purpose of discussing the
agricultural adjustment program of the
Roosevelt administratibn. Won! to this
effect was phoned to this newspaper
yesterday by Fred Bennion, district
suoervisor for the adjustment work.
Mr. Bennion said Robert Newell had
been named emergency agent for Lin
coln and Flathead counties and will
be at the Libby meeting, to explain
die plan and to assist the farmers in
whatever organization is necessary.
This is the plan whereby farmers con
tract to reduce their wheat acreage
and are paid so muc^j per bushel lor
the shrinkage in their average crop
of wheat thus caused. A large attend
ance of farmers Is desired.