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BROWNING —
THE EASTERN
GATEWAY TO
GLACIER PARK
VOLUME 7
Browning Lions Meet
The Browning Lions club held
a special meeting last Wednes
day evening in honor of Deputy
District Governor Harry K. New
man of Conrad. Lion Newman
was accompanied by Mrs. New
man and Lion Pres, and Mrs.
Kirkpatrick of the Conrad club.
The meeting was held in the
Methodist .church parlors with
dinner served by the Ladies Aid.
The club sang several songs
and the visiting Lions were in
troduced by A. M. Shannon, the
toastmaster. Lion Newman gave
an inspiring message about the
need of participation in some
such organization as the Lions
club by every member of the
community. He stated that ev
eryone owed something to the
community in reiurn for the pro
tection and privileges it offers.
After Mr. Newman’s address.
Lion Berdan showed several reels
of pictures of local interest and
importance.
All members and guests pres
ent enjoyed the meeting and
were kept in high spirits by the
active efforts of the tail-twisters
to build up the convention fund
thru fines.
H. S. Senior Ball To-Night
The Browning H. S, Senior
ball will be held tonight at the
Community hall. The large
dance hall has been artistically
decorated, and presents a beau
tiful appearance. The music will
be furnished by “Helen and Her
Swing Boys,’’ and no effort or
expense has been spared to make
this one of the biggest social
events of the season. Be sure
and attend.
School Election
School election Saturday, April
3rd, District 9, for election of 2
trustees and authorizing the
board to transfer one acre of land
at the Starr school to the U. S
government. Mrs. Vina Chattin
and Joseph W. Brown, the in
cumbents, are the only candi
dates for trustees. Voting is at
the schoolhouse from 1 p. tn until
7 p. m.
Catholic Card Party
At the card party given by the
Culiolic ladies last evening, nine
tables were in play, the prizes for
high score going to Mrs. Lawrence
Welsh for the ladies and II iy Per
kins for the men. The hostesses
were Mrs. Angus Monroe and Mr-.
Chas. Conway.
Bread-Naming Contest
The bread-naming contest be
ing put on by the Browning
Bakery has been advanced until
the 15th of April. This is on
account of making improvements
in the equipment and on account
of the rush of business..
The management says that on
that date the contest will be de
cided. Two judges have been
selected, and they will pick out
the 3 most appropriate names.
These will be shown to the man
agers. without the names of those
who subnntied them, and the
winner chosen. Prizes will also
be awarded to the second and
third place w inners.
Plan to Preservo Old Fort
Benton Studied at Capitol
Washington, March 26.--Pro
posals to preserve old Fort. Ben
t< n, pioneer Montana outpos*
during the western wars, were
Otudied todav by the historical
sites board of the national park
•ervtce. The board informed
Senator Murray of Montana it
will send its recommendations to
Secretary Ickes within a few
days.
Murray asked the board to
place the Benton project on a
Preferred list in the government
program to preserve American
historical sites.
Attorney W. R. McDonald
transacted business in Cut Bank
aad Shelby several days last
week.
Glacier County Chief
Vocational Agriculture News
Browning Agricultural Students Are
Constructing a Hot-Bed
The boys in the freshman class
in agriculture at the high school
are constructing a hot-bed out at
the Starr community in which
they expect to start plants for
spring planting in gardens. The
hot-bed will be 6' x 6’, covered
with window sash and heated by
a pit three feet deep, filled with
manure and a top covering of
soil. It is expected that the
boys will have the seed planted
within the next week or so, and
anyone interested in observing
such a project is welcome to stop
by at the Starr community school
where it is being constructed.
Moving pictures showing “the
source of our daily bread from
the wheat kernel to the table”
was shown to the agricultural
classes this week, and the shop
classes enjoyed a picture on the
“construction of concrete pave
ment." This picture was also
shown to the eighth grade.
Many of the boys are complet
ing projects in shop work:—study
tables, end tables, magazine
racks, kitchen stools, ironing
boards, bird houses and feeders
and various other household nec
essities. In addition to this they
repair windows, chairs, and are
called on to perform all types of
general shop work around the
school. /
Five of the boys in General
Shop class are now constructing
an electric scoreboard that will
be used in the new gymnasium.
This scoreboard is electrically op
erated by remote control from
the scorekeepers’ bench. The
boys are gaining some very prac
tical experience in the electrical
line from this job.
These projects and others that
will be completed shortly will
be on display during the annual
school Stampede the latter part
of April,
Mr. Stevens, Smith-Hughes in
structor, states that several of
the people in the community
have been in to discuss various
f arm problems that arise in the
spring work, and invites others
to fee) free to use the depart
! ment’s services. The Smith
i Hughes department endeavors to
work with all people, young or
old, who desire the service.
Burglars Enter Light Office
Burglars entered the backroom
of the local electric light office,
sometime last Sunday evening,
gaining entrance by breaking
out the rear window, sash and
all.
An attempt was made to get
into the office by taking the
hinges off the door, but the cul
prits evidently were frightened
away as they never accomplish
ed their purpose.
Ah far as could be learned no
thing was missing. The police
are working on the case, and it
is expected arrests will soon be
made.
Three Browning Residents Are Held
For Federal Fines and Sentences
Previous suspended sentences
were revoked on three defendants
found guilty of violations of the
Indian liquor laws in federal
court in Great Falls Friday, and
additional suspended sentences,
with five-year probationary per
iods, were imposed by United
States District Judge Charles N.
Pray,
The defendants, all Browning
residents, and the revoked sen
tences which they must serve,
are: Harry Snort land, 10 months
and S2OO fine; Jack Laßuff, eight
months and S2OO fine; H. Cline,
10 months and S2OO fine. In ad
dition, each was fined $250 and
sentenced to serve a year and six
months, with both fines and sen
tences suspended.
The three denied their guilt
and were tried Thursday, with a
sealed verdict returned Friday
morning by the jury which heard
the case.
Other defendants heard bv the
court Friday were John W. John
son, who plesded guilty to viola
tion of Indian liquor laws and
was given a suspended sentence
of 90 days and S2OO fine.
BROWNING, GLACIER COUNTY MONTANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1937.
Montana’s Oldest Living
Resident Passes Away
Abel McKnight, Montana’s
oldest living resident, who cele
brated his 102nd birthday anni
versary last Easter Sunday,
March 28th, passed away at his
home in Browning on Wednes
day afternoon at 5 p. m„ after an
illness of about two months,
during which most of the time
he was in a coma.
Mr. McKnight was born in the
village of Kansas City, the site
of the present metropolis, on
March 28th, 1835.
When a young man he trapped
in the mountain districts from
Colorado to the far north into
Canada. Sixty years ago he
built a home near Choteau,
where he farmed with oxen, har
vested with the scythe, and
Highway Bureau Assumes
Wider Range of Duty
Supervisory and advisory ac
tivities in highway work on the
seven Indian reservations in
Montana have recently been add
ed to the duties of the Missoula
offices of the Bureau of Public
roads. Location, plans and con
struction of alt Indian reserva'ion
highways must be approved by
the bureau engineers under the
new regulations which have be
come effective. C. R. Short, en
gineer for the bureau, has re
turned from the first trip of this
nature, during which he viewed
road work on the Crow and
Tongue River Indian reservations
in southern Montana. Jobs are
being carried on at Pryor creek
on the Crow reservation and on
the Busby-Kirby road on the
Tongue River reservation, with
Indian day labor being used.
Other reservations under the
bureau supervision are the Flat
head, Blackfeet, Rocky Boy, Fort
Belknap and Fort Peck reseava
tions in this state. The roads are
built with funds from the Indian
department, and under its engin
eers.
Shelby Mu Acquires Cat Bank Mortuary
Shelby, March 26—Mr. W. F.
Burns, owner of the Burns fun
eral home of this city, purchased
the George Ainley funeral par
lors at Cut Bank. The place will
be in the charge of George Banks,
an undertaker of Havre, who had
moved to that city.
Indian Princess Chosen Hostess
A Crow princess, Bethnauath
Pease, or "Goes-to-the-Right,”
has been selected as the first Hy
ing hostess by Northwest Air
lines, to put n touch of the color
ful west into the cabins of east
ern planes.
WEEK Orpheum
At the BROWNING’S TALKIE
Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3
Fred Mac Murray and Jean Parker in
’’Texas Ranger”
Short: Never Kick a Woman.
Sunday and Monday, April 4 and 5
Jean Parker snd Franchot Tone in
’’Suzy”
Shorts: Manhattan monkey business. Fox News
Tuesday and Wednesday. April 6, 7
Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in
"Banjo on my Knee"
Shorts: March of Time. Jail Bait.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 8. 9, 10
Jack Benny and Burns & Allen in
"Big Broadcast of 1937"
Short: Under Water Romance.
threshed with a flail. Later he
moved with his son Joseph and
his son’s family to the Blackfeet
reservation where he has resided
since.
Mr. McKnight leaves a host of
relatives to mourn, among whom
are seven great grandchildren.
He retained all his faculties up
to a few months ago and was
a very remarkable man in his
ripe old age. He is said to have
been the oldest living resident of
Montana.
Funeral services will be held
at the Church of the Little Flow
er. the Kev. Father Halligan
officiating on Friday at 2 o’clock.
Mass was held for the departed
at 9 a. m. Friday morning.
Congressmen Study Specific
Formulas Against Sit-downs
Washington, March 26.—Three
specific formulas for possible new
strike legislation were studied
today by congressmen who will
confer with President Roosevelt
Saturday on methods of averting
dangers of labor’s new sit-down
technique.
Principal proposals were:
1. A tentative bill drafted by
Rep. Martin Dies, D., Tex., which
would outlaw sit-down strikes
by classifying them as violations
of federal anti-trust statutes.
2. A plan conceived by the
National Association of Manufac-'
turers which would permit limit-,
ed presidential intervention of I
strikes of “national magnitude.’’;
3. A program formulated by a,
prominent official in the labor de
partment which extends the fa- !
cilities of the national railroad
labor act to other industries and 1
seeks to create machinery which'
hold back strike outbreaks thru
mediation activities.
Age Pension Checks
To be Mailed Out
! Old age pension assistance'
checks will in the future be mail-1
ed direct to recipients from the,
office of the state department of j
public welfare at Helena instead
of from the office of the county I
clerk, it was announced Tuesday,
The policy of mailing checks
from the office of the county
clerk has been followed since
such pensions have been provided, i
and the checks were usually I
mailed on the last day of each i
month.
Under the new system, recipi
ients may have to wait a few :
days longer before receiving a,
check, it was stated. A regional ■
conference of public welfare ad-I
ministrators will be held at Den
ver April 1, and one of the sub
jects to be considered will be the
formulation and adoption of stan
dard rules and regulations.
Flag Contest
On Monday evening, March 22,
the local Flag Contest was held
at the school auditorium, with a
large number of students from
the sth. 6th, 7ch and Bth grades
taking part.
_ The winner for the seventh and
eighth grade girls was Cleo Co
bell and the winner for the boys
was Stanford Stephens. Eunice
Jacobson, of the fifth grade, won
over the girls of the fifth and the
sixth grades and Avery Paisley
won from the boys.
Supt. Bergan presented each
of the winners with a little gift
from the American Legion Aux
iliary of Browning.
Mrs. Bergan is the American
ism chairman, and we wish to
thank her for her efforts in get
ting together the necessary ma
terial and information for this
contest.
On Saturday, March 27, Mrs.
S. T. Scotland, president of the
Browning Auxiliary, accompan
ied by Mr. Scotland, took these
winners to Cut Bank, to compete
in the Glacier county Flag Con
test. We are very happy to re
port that these boys and girls
came home with the bacon.
Cleo Cobell and Stanford Ste
phens won first place in the sev
enth and eighth grades. Eunice
Jacobson won second place in
i the fifth and sixth grade contest.
It was reported that she made a'
very high mark in the oral con
test. never once lepeating or !
hesitating while giving her read !
ing. Avery Paisley won third,
place in the fifth and sixth grade ।
group. He, too, spoke with a!
very clear and distinct voice. i
। These students deserve a lot of I
I credit for their part in this con
। test. They all rated very high .
!and their pronunciation was ex
ceptionally clear and audible.
I We are indeed proud of them.
The students winning first
1 place were presented with med
als and those winning second
place were given ribbons. These
medals and ribbons were given i
. by the Browning and Cut Bank-
I Auxiliaries.
i The Browning Auxiliary wishes
to thank all those who gave their
। time in coaching these students.
On Friday, April 2nd, Mrs. S.
IT. Scotland will take Cleo Cobell
and Stanford Stephens to Cut
Bank to compete in the Regional
Flag Contest. The winners ini
this contest will be sent to Hel
ena to compete in the State con
test.
Students, parents and citizens
of Browning, let’s give Cleo and
Stanford a boost by being present
Friday.
The winners in the Regional
Flag Contest will be given prizes
by the American Legion Auxili
aries of District No. 3.
Unit Publicity Chairman,
American Legion Auxiliary.
Town Election
The election for officials of the
। town of Browning will lie held on
I Monday next April sth.
The voting places for the first
I ward will lie the city hall, and for
the second ward, the basement of
the Methodist church.
Candidates for Mayor are .1. 1,.
Sherburne, incumbent, and W. G.
Renshaw. In the first ward for
councilmen are Hugh W. Jackson,
O. A. Tellifero and Edward Marion
For the second ward lb n Bergrr
and Wm. Billedeaux.
Voting will l>e from * a. m. to
6 p. tn.
Correction
In last weeks issue the article
about the court at Great Falls
stated that Murray McClusky and
Jos. A. Brown wire charged with
counterfeiting. This was an error,
they were charged with violation of
the Indian liquor law. We are
glnd to make thia correction.
Agency is Opposed to Plan
To Exclude Indians From Act
Washington, March 30. -The
interior department gave formal
notice to Congress today it op
posed proposal! to exclude In
diana in several atatea from pro
visions of the Wheeler-Howard
reorganization act.
Acting Secretary Charles Weat
reporting on a bill by Sen. P. A,
DEVOTED T»
THE INTERESTS
OF GLACIER
COUNTY
NUMBER 1
Easter Services
The Easter service at the
Methodist church wag attended
by a congregation that more
than filled the auditorium and
joined heartily in the hymns and
responses for the day. The
church was beautifully decorated
with flowers and ferns given and
loaned by members of the com
munity. The choir, under the
direction of Mr. Henry Schwartz,
sang two anthems and led in the
singing of the hvmns The so
prano section was made up of
Mrs. Geo. Seymour. Mrs. Ed El
sethagen and Mrs. J. Olsen; the
contralto. Mrs. Geo. Barger. Mrs.
Robert Starr and Mrs. E. J.
Stevens; the tenor. Mr. Jack
Duncan and Mr. J. L. Sallee and
the bass, Mr. Henry Schwartz
and Mr. Jesse Olson. The pian
ist was Mrs. L. W. Snell.
Credit Bureau Plan To
Operate Browning and Park
The Cut Bank Merchants Cred
it Bureau which was organized
। the latter part of January, plan
to extend their operation to
Browning and Glacier Park, and
representatives will be here next
week to interview business men
in regard to the operating of the
bureau in this territory.
Reports state that the bureau
is meeting with marked success
at th" county seat, and that their
membership is steadily increas
ing.
। Clapper Returns From Eastern Trip
. E. C. Clapper of the Browning
Highway garage and Clapper
Motor Co. of Cut Bank, returned
Sunday from a trip to the east,
1 taking in Minneapolis, Chicago.
Detroit, Toledo, Champaign and
other places of importance.
From Champaign he brought
back two of the Deluxe Club
trailer cars, for which he has
the agency, and which are now
on display at the showrooms in
Cut Bank. Browning will have
a chance to see this beautiful
trailer in the near future.
The most glamorous descrip
tion of the Club Car cannot con
vey the thrill of enjoying one of
them, and the unusual appoint
ments added to this modern 1937
trailer surpasses all others for
sheer enjoyment and comfortable
traveling.
Boxing Card Next Friday
The last of the series of Boxing
bouts sponsored by the NYA will bs
held next Friday, April 9 Watch
for posters. Some outside talent
will take part.
Notice of Election
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
| that there will be submitted at
I the General Election of the Town
jof Browning, to be held on the
sth day of April, 1937. to the
qualified electors of the Town of
Browning who are tax payers
upon property within such Town
iand whose names appear on the
। last completed assessment roll.
; for State and County taxes as tax
payers within such Town, the
| proposition of whether or not the
Town Council of the Town of
Browning shall issue bonus in the
! amount of $25,000.00 for the pur
pose of constructing a municipal
Igas distrioution system. Said
। election will he held on the sth
j day of April, 1937, at the regular
polling places of such election
and the polls will be open be
. tween the hours of 8 o’clock a. m.
and 6 o’clock p. m. of said day.
The amount of bonds to be is
sued will be in the sum of $26.-
000.00 and the purpose for which
said bonds shall be issued is for
the construction of a municipal
gas distribution system within
the Town of Browning. Said
bonds shall be payable from the
revenue and proceeds derived
from the operation of such muni
cipal gas system and from the
sale of gas from such system.
Geo. O. Barger
Town Clerk.
McCarran of Nevada, told the
senate Indian affairs committee
the act “has clearly been effec
tual in benefiting the Indians.”
McCarran’a bill would exempt
Nevada Indiana from the act.
It is one of aevenri similar mens-