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Devoted to the Development of Libby, and of Lincoln County
VOLUME XLIX
Libby, Lincoln County, Montana Thursday, September 15, 1949
Number 18
Kootenai Fires
To 135 Total
For '49 Todate
Lightning Originates 117;
Smokers Credited with
And Camp Fires with 4
MOST BLAZES COVER
ONLY A SMALL AREA
The 1949 fire season on the Koo
tenai is drawing to a close with
the recent weather. The season
considered average or of lower than
average risk, in view of what may
be expected for a normal season,
according to forest officials.
The U. S- Forest Service has taken
suppression action on 135 fires on
the Kootenai National Forest dur
ing the period from June 4 to Sept.
10. Of these 117 were caused by
lightning, camp fires accounted for
4. smokers caused 7, 1 was caused
by debris burning, and 6 were of
miscellaneous origin—such as burn
ing buildings, unknown causes, etc.
There were 114 fires that were ^4
acres to 4 acres in area.
The Kootenai National Forest is
very fortunate in having so little
area burned during the 1949 sea
son, forest officials said. Improved
fire control techniques together
with fortunate breaks in the weath
er have resulted in only 18.3 acres
burned by the 21 fires of over \\
acre.
Cooperation between the people
of this community and the forest
service, the officials said, has been
excellent, especially in reporting
the existance of fires and showing
real interest in the protection of
resources upon which the people
of this country are dependent.
Those planning on burning trash,
stumps, brush, and so on are re
quired by state law to secure per
mits for burning until October I.
See your local forest ranger for
these permits.
Burn 40 Acres on
Star Creek Sept. 7
On Sept. 7 approximately 40
acres of cut-over land on Star
creek, northwest of Troy were
burned by the U. S. Forest Service.
The area originally supported
stand of white pine and hemlock.
The section was reproducing hem
lock, an undesirable species for this
particular area. Good results were
obtained, forest officials said, and
the land is ready for planting
white pine next spring.
There are several areas that the
forest »service expects to treat
the same manner this fall.
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The Libby Woman s Club ooen
ed its 1949-1950 year Tuesday after
noon with a business meeting and
social tea held in the Community
room.
Members were greeted by Mrs.
Ed Driear who became president
in the last week by the resigna
tion of Mrs. Bollinger who had
been elected and installed in office
last fall. Mrs. Leo Kyser is the
new secretary. The meeting open
ed with the singing of "America"
followed bv the flag salute and the
collect. The president read a list
of committee appointments and
with appropriate remarks asked
the cooperation of the members to
help her make the year successful.
Miss Inez Ratekin brought greet
ings from some of the members of
the Board of Directors of the State
Federation who were in session last
week in Helena.
The business meeting adjourned
and was turned over to Mrs. H. S.
Hepner, the program chairman.
Mrs. Hepner called for an introduc
tion of guests to whom she asked
each member to introduce herself.
Mrs. J. W. Johnson, delegate,
gave her report of the district con
vention which was held last May
in Kalispeli. The theme of the
convention was conservation of our
natural resources so it, in its var
ious phases was used as the main
topic by the speakers.
A short song fest was held with
Miss Ratekin accompanying at the
piano.
During a short social get-to
gether tea was served from a table
lovely with gladioli and pastel
tapers which had been arranged by
Mrs. James B. Glowers.
Mrs. Glowers was in charge of
the serving committee and decora
tions.
Woman's Club Has
First Meeting
HOLD GRAND OPENING
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Frank Simurdak announces this
week he will hold the grand open
ing of his new Gamble Furniture
building which joins the present
Gamble building, Friday, Sept. 23.
Harry Bivens is rushing the com
pletion of the building to be ready
at that time.
Watch for the announcement next
week which will list prizes and
other interesting details regarding
the new department and its open
ing.
Appoint Gillespie
Member of Highway
Study Committee
O. Lloyd Gillespie, superinten
dent of Libby Schools, has been ap
pointed by Governor John Bonner
to an 81-member committee which
will study Montana's highway
building and financial problems, it
was announced Monday.
The group will meet at Helena
Sept. 29 to make plans for a thor
ough study in order to submit
recommendations to the 1951 legis
lature, the governor stated. Prin
cipal problem facing the state is
how to meet the cost of modern
highways.
Technical advisers for the com
mittee will be supplied by the state
highway department and other de
partments.
Members of the committee were
chosen from towns and cities
throughout the state.
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Twin City Business
Men to Address
Kalispeli Clinic
Philip U. Kington, secretary
manager of the Kalispeli Chamber
of Commerce, was in Libby Tues
day in the interest of a sales con
ference and clinic scheduled to be
held Thursday, Sept. 22 in Kalispeli.
Prominent merchandisers from
St. Paul and Minneapolis will be
present at the clinic to discuss re
tail selling. Panel sessions will
be held dealing with food lines,
hard lines and soft lines.
Registration will be from 1:30
p. m. to 2:00 p, m. sharp for em-1
ployers and key men. The meeting
for employees will be held at 7:00
p. m. Members of the Libby Cham
ber have been invited by Mr. King
ton to attend as guests of the Kal
ispell Chamber. Earl Lovick, sec
retary of the Libby Chamber of
Commerce, has complete informa
tion on file at his office regarding
the clinic.
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Troy Is Host To
Dist. V. F. W,
The Troy Veterans of Foreign
Wars will be host to fellow mem
bers throughout the district when
a
meet in convention on Sept.
Starting activities on Saturday,
Sept. 24 with Cootie initiation
8:30 p. m. the first scheduled meet
ing will take place. This is fol
lowed by a dance at the high school
gymnasium on the same evening
beginning at 10:30 p. m. This
open to the public.
Sunday the 25th is a full day
'ommencing with registration at the
V. F. W. Club at 9:00 a.
Dutch lunch is next. At 12:30 there
is Auxiliary officers practice.
1.00 p. m. marks a high light for
the local people when a parade
will form in front of the Moose
Hall and march down to the down
town area on Main street,
Two o'clock is taken up with the
auxiliary business meeting and the
V. F. W. will hold a business meet
simultaneously. The latter is to be
held in the Moose Hall. At this
time the auxiliary has not chosen
its location.
The final meeting is a V F W
and Auxiliary banquet in the high
school gym. This will be put on
bv the takima club. The Master
of Ceremonies is Jack England from
Helena, who is the newly elected
Chief of the Highwav Patrol,
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FINAL ENROLLMENT
IN LIBBY SCHOOLS
Last week the Western News
published the first day enrollment
in the Libby schools. During the
first week of school there are al
ways additions to the roll. En
rollment for the schools of district
4 (Libby) has grown from 860 to
a total of 885, Supt. O. L. Gillespie
announced. In the Libby grade
school the enrollment was raised to
507. a growth of 6 pupils; junior
high with 4 more students had a
total enrollment of 171; additional
students registered in the ' high
school brought the enrollment to
198. Rural school enrollment for
the Libby district is 9.
Coach Kenneth Card announced
yesterday that the football game
with the Kalispeli Reserves, sched
uled for last Saturday, but can
celled, will be played at the Libby
field October 29.
WEATHER REPORT
The weather report given through
the courtesy of the Libby Ranger
Station:
Date
Sept. 8
Sept. 9 ....
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Sept. 12 .
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Sept. 14
HAVE VISITORS FROM
FORTY-SIX STATES
Helena (U.R)—Visitors from every
state in the union except New
Hampshire and Delaware have reg
istered to date with the capitol
guide service in Helena. The total
registration through August 31 is
7035 of which 4083 are visitors from
outside Montana, Commers says.
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BUILDING MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM
WILL NAME LIBBY'S NEW SCHOOL
HONORING GOLD STAR STUDENTS
As suggested recently in a letter
to the Western News by Norman
Cormier, a committee met before
the school board concerning the
naming of the new gymnasium the
"Memorial Gym."
board's reaction to this suggestion
was favorable.
There are now plans underway
for the installation of a plaque dis
playing the names of all former
students of the Libby public schools
system who lost their lives in
World War II. According to avail
able records, these names are as
follows; Grover J. Bowen. Law
rence D. Lampton, Joseph L. Myers,
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furthei names to be added to this
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the office of the Western News.
The
school
Agnes Hafferman
Heads Modern Arts
Agnes Hafferman raised the ga
vel for the opening of Modern Arts
Club new year last Tuesday even
ing in the Community room. The
salute to the flag was given and
the club sang in unison the Modern
Arts song accompanied by Gladyce
Boggess. The song typifies the club
and the way they work.
The words are as follows:
There's a Club we all are true to
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'Neath the mountains' shining
peaks,
There's a Club we all are helping
Modern Arts knows no defeat.
For the gay and happy members
Always young and full of cheer
Bring success to Modern Arts Club,
That is modern through the years.
A letter was read from Tom El
liott of Kalispeli in regard to the
new Kootenai bridge. He said the
contract for the bridge would be
let in 1949. The Lions Club asked
the Modern Arts Club to take up
the subject of the heating of the
swimming pool. An investigating
committee consisting of Gladyce
Boggess, Lillian Ahlskog and Lois
Brown was appointed.
The booth at the Fair was a suc
cess and cleared $102.00. . The club
expressed its appreciation of the
work that Billy Hafferman did for
the booth
Evelyn Flemmer gave an excel
lent report of the Kalispeli meeting
in May of the District. She was
also chosen as song leader for the
year. Beryl Bleich was elected Dis
trict President at Kalispeli. This
is an honor for Modern Arts Club.
The club is making plans for
attending the State meeting next
spring. The club wishes to have
a large delegation go to this meet
ing.
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The program chairman for the
evening was Vid Maurer. The title
of the program was BANG and
went off with a bang.
Mary Maurer and her pretty tap
dancing girls were given a round
of applause. The dancers were
Mary Maurer, Thelma Rolseth,
Norma Hafferman, Joanne Zimmer
man, Red Munsel. Pat Gooselaw
accompanied them at the piano.
Edna Dyson pleased her audience
with a humorous reading. The club
welcomes back Mrs. Dyson from
Missoula. She is a good worker.
The club then played "get ac
quainted." The game was effective
and made a lot of fun. Rose Brown
received first prize and Olga Erick
son got the booby prize.
Hostesses for the collation were
the officers: Mrs. Hafferman. presi
dent; Eileen Lovick, secretary; Har
, riet Uithof. treasurer, and
Maurer, program chairman and
vice-president. They served, at a
flower-bedecked table, baked beans,
cheese, crackers, coffee and mints.
How good it was, and in keeping
with the program!
The young women looked lovely
and all were happy to meet to
gether again. Every seat was filled
and many new members joined.
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CUB SCOUTS TO GRADUATE
INTO BOY SCOUT GROUP
The sponsoring committee for Cub
and Boy Scouts meet Monday even
ing to make plans for the gradua
tion of Cubs to Boy Scouts and to
receive the Charter for Boy Scouts.
A public meeting for anv one in
terested in Boy Scouts is planned
for Friday, Sept. 23. The place will
be announced later.
At this meeting Cubs will receive
awards and arrow points, and the
joining of Boy Scouts, also out-of
town guest speaker. John Horn,
Chief Master will also spenk.
Let's all plan to give our Cubs
and Boy Scouts a good push in
their new adventure.
FIRST MEETING OF
P. T. A. SEPT. 28
P. T. A. will hold its first fall
meeting Sept. 27 at 7:30 in the high
school gymnasium. P. T. A. is giv
ing a reception for the teachers at
this meeting, all parents or anyone
interesting in meeting our teachers
are cordially invited to attend and
also join the P. T. A.
Let's plan to attend and show
our P. T. A. we are interested in
our children and also our school
and teachers.
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offers $i 0 00.00 reward to anyone
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Watch
young lady and float her out into
space.
Also featured will be Gladys the
Beautiful Princess of Magic,
any one from the audience is elig
ible to lose his or her head in Death
on the guillotine. See a beautiful
young lady produced from thin a ; r.
Rabbits, doves, guinea pigs, can
aries mystifyingly produced and
stage lavishly decorated with magic
flowers.
Famous Magician to
Libby September 20
Mitchell Cain, world's greatest
magician and comedian, who is
touring the U. S. will present his
spine tingling, baffling and fantas
tic mystery and side splitting com
edy at the Jr. High School Audi
torium. on Tuesday, September 20
at 8;00 p. m.
Mitchell Cain did show's during
the war, not only with the USO
in the U. S. along with other Hol
lywood talent, but did shows all
(Bring your own padlocks),
him hypnotize a beautiful
Also
TROY POSTMASTER SEC.-TREAS.
MONTANA POSTMASTERS'
ASSOCIATION
Postmaster Forrest L. DeRosia
reports a small attendance but in
teresting meeting at the state post
masters' convention held the first
of last week in Sidney. Many new
faces were seen at the convention
and an excellent program was pre
pared by the host, Postmaster Keith
Carpenter.
Outstanding on the program
'stated DeRosia, was a three hour
tour of the city and valley
ducted by the Chamber of Com
merce. The new hotel. The La
londe had only been completed two
weeks and is one of the best in the
northwest. Speakers on the pro- (
grams included Fred H. Miller,
Washington, D. C.; Ralph Paquin,
inspector, Billings: John E. Trim
ming, Pocatello, and James Walsh,
Forsyth. Milton Anderson
served as toastmaster for the
con
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sion, is a brother of Russel K. An
derson of Libby, and Mrs. Milton
Anderson is a sister of Harlow Stor
dock.
LeRoy Von Echen, Ft. Peck,
elected president of the association;
and Juanita McNeill, Troy, 'secre
tary-treasurer. The 1950 meeting
is scheduled for Butte.
McNeill Chosen for State Office
TROY (Special)—At the recent
Postmasters' Convention held in
Sidney, Sept. 6 and 7, Postmaster
Juanita McNeill was elected
rotary-treasurer of the Montana
Chapter of National Association of
Postmasters.
Postmaster McNeill has given ef
ficient service to Troy patrons for
the past ten years and undoubtedly
will serve her chapter in the same
manner.
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William Ray Smith
Funeral 2:00 Today
William Ray Smith, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Smith
born in Iowa March 28, 1867 and
in Libby Saturday,
John
was
passed away
September 10, at the St.
Lutheran hospital. Mr. Smith was
aged 82 years, 5 months, and 12
days at the time of his death.
In 1904 Mr. Smith
bertson, Mont., where he
ployed for a time as a ranch hand.
Later he took up a homestead near
Big Sandy where he farmed for a
number of years. During this
time he was a stockholder in the
Big Sandy bank.
Mr. Smith came to Lincoln coun
ty in 1939, and made his home with
a nephew, Verne Hovey of Troy.
Two years ago he moved to Libby
and has lived at the home of his
niece, Mrs. Gleason Pilcher, since.
He had been in bad health for
almost a year preceding his death
Saturday.
Funeral services at the Gompf
Funeral Chapel will be held today
at^ 2:00 o'clock p. m. with the Rev.
W. C. Stearns officiating. Inter
ment will be made at the Libby
cemetery.
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Pallbearers are Byron Pilcher,
Don Sherman Noel, Hugo An
derson, Paul Stamschror, and D. O.
Mount. .
Mr. Smith is survived by one
sister, Mrs. Minnie M. Hovey of
Everette, Wash.; two nieces—Mrs.
Gleason Pilcher of Libby and Mrs.
T. D. Wolf of Lake Stevens, Wash.;
two nephews, Alvin and Ralph
Hovey; and a niece by marriage,
Mrs. Verne Hovey, formerly of
Troy.
HOLD HEARING REGARDING
RAILWAY EXPRESS RATES
Helena (U.R)—The State Board of
Railroad Commissioners has set
Sept. 28 for a public hearing in
Helena on the application of the
Railway Express Agency to increase
certain rates.
Kalispeli Firm to
Build Raceways at
Libby Hatchery
Montana Builders of Kalispeli
was low- bidder last Saturday for
construction of two raceway rearing
ponds at the Libby State Fish
Hatchery. The bid is $13,349.
The state fish & game
sion opened bids on the project. The
bid must be submitted to the state
board of examiners for final
proval.
Other bids for the work were
received from Johnson Construc
tion, Poison; Hanson & Power Con
struction Co., Spokane; A & O Con
struction Co., Kalispeli: Leo Kyser
& Associates, Libby, and E. O. John
son Co.. Spokane.
Work on the raceways is expect
ed to start in the immediate future
according to Commissioner Boyes
of the state commission, who added,
the project should be completed
this fall.
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Ext. Horticulturist
In Libby Sept. 20
E. E. Isaac, Extension Horticul
turist from Montana State College
will be in Libby all day Tuesday,
Sept. 20th to assist home owners
to plan their landscaping. Anyone
requesting assistance should leave
word at the County Agents office,
or with Mrs. Doris Chapman, presi
dent of the Libby Garden Club.
There will be an evening meet
ing at the school (high school)
room 11 beginning at 7:30 p. m.
at which time Mr. Isaac will dis
cuss landscaping. The public is in
vited to attend these meetings.
There will be no charge for assis
tance from Mr. Isaac. _
LEAGUE BOWLERS MEET
TO COMPLETE SCHEDULE
There will be a meeting of Lea
gue bowlers this (Thursday) even
ing to complete organization of the
league schedules and other details.
Regular league bowling will start
Monday. Sept. 19.
The alleys are now ready for
open bowling which is underway,
stated Ralph Roberts.
Cash Prizes to
lions' Wives
Somo Lions' wife will have op
portunity of receiving a nice little
lack-pot after each regular meet
ing of the Libby Lions this year.
The club was called to order
Monday evening by President Fred
H. Maurer in the first meeting of
the present season. Reports of the
'•ecent zone meeting held in Mar
tin City, were given by President
Maurer, Walter Partlow and Har
low Stordock.
Committees for the coming year
were announced at the meeting,
each of the 60 members appearing
upon one or more committees.
It was unanimously voted that be
ginning with the next meeting of
the club, every member in attend
ance will contribute 10c to a jack
pot up to $3.00 of which will be
presented to the wife of the mem
ber present whose name is drawn
from the hat. In case the lucky
member is absent from the meet
ing, one-half of the money will
go to building up the same fund
at the next meeting, and the other
half will be turned in to the con
vention fund. The secretary will
eall the wife of the winning mem
her when he is absent, and inform
absencel
receiving the |
ner that her husband's
caused her to miss
jack-pot.
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t< hell Cam, world famous
ma- 1
1 'ician. escape artist, illusionist and
comedian was also discussed. Cain!f
at the Junior High Audi-1
---■ evening of September j
He comes here from Kalispeli,
where he has shown before.
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performance being so popular that 1
he is making a return appearance. |
Admission for this event will be
adults SI, children 50c.
eluded.
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Details of this program
appear on another page in this is
sue of The Western News.
It was also decided at Monday's
meeting to give prizes at each of
the club's regular meetings, which
will be in addition to the attend
ance prize awarded to the wives of
members.
The next regular meeting night
for the club is Monday, Sept. 26.
KENNEDY FURNITURE MART
HOLDS PRE-MOVAL SALE
The Kennedy Furniture Mart is
holding a "Pre-Moval" stock re
duction sale, announcement of
which appears on another page of
this issue. Mr. Kennedy is mak
ing many attractive offerings for
this event and he wishes all to
check his advertisement this week,
The sale is being held preparatory
to moving the business to its new
home in the Legion Building in
quarters now occupied by the Pow
er Company which expects to move
into its new home about the first
of October. When the new tele
chone building is completed, the
Mountain States Power Co. plans
to move into quarters occupied now
Jby the exchange.
Open Season on
Fisher River
Does Oct. 15
Sportsman May Kill Only
One Deer of Either Sex
During Legal Season
PHEASANT SEASON
OPENS OCTOBER 30
An antlerless season on does and
fawns in the northern or Lower
Fisher territory was declared by
the State Game & Fish Commission
at their meeting the first of tbe
week stated Ed Boyes, member «C
the commission. There will be m
total of 500 antlerless deer which
the commission will allow to be re
moved by the sportsmen.
Commission Boyea* calls attention
to the fact that this ruling does not
allow any sportsman to take both
an antlerless deer and a buck. One
deer of either sex and any size wiD
be the limit, and the
antler|ess deer may be closed at
any time during the regular hunt
ing season that the commission de
cides is best for the welfare of the
herd.
The area open to hunting of ant
lerless deer during the regular Ma
son of October 15 to November 1».
inclusive, includes roughly all the
season on
Fisher river drainage from
north of the Weylett Turnoff
Kootenai river Checking stations
will be put up and all antlerless
deer taken legally from the section,
will be tagged with a special ta*.
The special season is necessitated
by lack of feed to care for deer
concentration in this area during
the winter months.
According to Mr. Boyes, State
Game Warden A. A. O'Claire has
tendered his resignation effective
October 1, and a successor is ex
pected to be appointed at the next
meeting.
Chinese pheasant season in Mon
tana will be
Hungarian partridge season Oct. 3(F
Nov. 3.
The statewide seasons were set
last Monday by the Montana fish
and game commission.
The 29-day Chinese pheasant sea
son is nearly twice as long
year ago because of the fish and
game departmen's investigation
Oct. 30-Nov. 27. the
as ■
re
ports of heavy bird populations in
principal pheasant areas.
Both the daily and possession
limits on pheasants is three cocks,
the same as a year ago.
limits apply to partridge
Here are the shooting hours for
pheasants: Oct. 30-Nov. 17—7
to 5 p. m.; Nov. 18—12 noon until
one hour before sunset; Nov. 19-27
—one-half hour before
til one hour before sunset.
Shooting hours for the five-day
Hungarian partridge season will be
the same as for pheasants
until 5 p. m.
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sunrise un
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The Libby member of the
com
mission states that either season is
subject to shortening or closure at
any time, should officials decide
the kill will be too great for the
bird population.
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4 m allard duc k wrecked
and *%' ous Jy interrupted a honey
afternoon, stated Pa
Riddle Mr. and Mrs L.
^ Lston of Vancouver, B. C . while
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Spoils Honeymoon
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ic victims of a freak
>n mallard duck hit
shield of the ci
through the gla
lice severely, causing
control of the
highway
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duck, dead, landed in Mrs. Eston'
lap. A passerby picked up th
couple and took them to th' ho<
pita l in Kalispeli
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A car driven by Benjamin F.
Sears of Troy, who was accom
nanied by Jack Chappel of Troy,
left U. S. 2 five miles this side of
Troy at 7:30 p. m. the evening of
the 13th. Turning over, the auto
mobile landed upside down on the
railroad track by Throops Lake.
Three men fishing at the lake saw
the accident and hurrying over
rolled the car from the tracks, said
Patrolman Riddle, who added that
neither Sears nor Chappel were in
jured.
Sears was arrested for drunken
driving and appearing in Judge H.
B. Wallace's court, was fined $50
and given a 30 day's suspended jail
sentence.
Mrs. George Pike was guest of
honor at her 88th birthday party
Saturday afternoon. The hostess,
Mrs. Jack Midyett, entertained the
guests at her home,
Those present to help Mrs. Pike
celebrate were Mrs. Frank Bate
man, Mrs. Fred Lampton, Mrs.
Nina Frazer, Mrs. Ida Evans, Mrs.
Arthur Bloom, Mrs. Walter Baker*
Mrs. William Doak. Mrs. Perry
Rodgers, and Mrs. Emily Down
ing of Moscow, Ida.
■MRS. GEO. PIKE CELEBRATES
HER 88TH BIRTHDAY