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4 Page Thro '4 The Independent-Record, Wednesday, January 17, 1945 Big Timber Lodges Seat Officers At Ceremonies Funeral Services ForW.E.Dowlin Held at Billings Independent -Record State News Auto Hurts Fatal Great Falls (P) David R. Garrison, 77 retired carpenter, died at a local hospital Monday as the result of Injuries suffered Sunday night when he was hit by a car driven by F. L. Trowbridge of this Garrisons death is the first auto fatality recorded here since Aug. 2, 1943.

The aged man was struck down while crossing a street. KalispeU Pilot Kmed Kalispell (ff) It Wayne A. Wendt, bomber was killed In action over Germany IS. his Mr. and us endt, r.

have been Informed by the war department He had been missing elnce August 1944. He had acquired more than SO combat missions. His parents three brothers and three sinters survive. y. 4 Billings Congregational Pastor Says Democracy, to Survive, Must Keep" Yesterday While Shaping Tomorrow Mans great problems, he on-eluded, lie In himself.

He must cultivate the art of living. Until he doeB so, economic and political problems will remain unsolved. ri 't? puREVanilla Delicate flavor that won't bake out OLIVES Lindsay, Mammoth Green Ripe, OAj Pint Jar wOp DEL MONTE COFFEE (Close Out) In Glags Jars POUND Billings, Jan. 17. Man cannot Ignore yesterday and prosper tomorrow was the message brought to Billings' Rotary by the Rev.

T. F. Rutledge Beale, pastor of the First Congregational church, in an address on Time Binders. The Billings pastor declared that unless the roots of democracy are again Bunk deep lhto their source, democracy is doomed. It arose, he remarked, from the wisdom of yesterday, on which It must be rebuilt If it is to endure.

Man fares best, the minister continued, when he can live today in the knowledge of yesterday to prepare for tomorrow. Avon Mrs. Arthur Conway will be hostess to the'Geti Together club Thursday. Mrs. Charles Blood and Mrs.

Frank Knight will provide entertainment. Mrs. Blood will conduct the chftrch auction. John Smith, an employe at the George Davis ranch at Finn, was admitted to the St. Joseph hos pital In Deer Lodge for medical treatment.

Patrick J. Rooney and his wife, of Seattle, are visiting Mrs. Rooneys aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A.

McFadden, here. Rooney has been in the navy for nearly two yearB, 13 months of that time He has been in several major battles in the South Pacific. Mrs. Ida KgFadden of Warm Springs and Carl Nelson of Glasgow are visiting Mr. and Mrs.

A. P. McFadden this Carl Zucker was injured at the Duffy, tie mill when a block of wood, coming from the saw, struck him in the face, cutting his chin. He was admitted to the St. Joseph hospital in Deer Lodge.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mizner and John Murdock of Seattle visited friends here this week. Mrs. Murdock is the former Miss Louise' Mizner of EllistOn.

Stanley Thomas has returned from Conrad, where he spent three weeks visiting his parents, Mr and. Mrs. J.JThomas, Mrs. Joe Horan and her daughter are visiting relatives in Great Falls. Mr.

and Mrs. Weldon Eddy and William Kimmerly are moving to Deer Lodge this week. Corp. George Brander has returned to Gieger Field at Spokane after spending a jnonth. here visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. George Brander, and his brothers and sisters. On Milwaukee Railway Is Taken Melvin L. Weaver Had Been With System 34 Years Lewlstown, Jan. 17.

Melvin L. Weaver, 61, engineer on the Milwaukee 'railway, died in a hospital here recently, exactly four weeks after the death of his wife. Mr. Weaver was born at Battle Creek, Mich. He entered railroading at the age of 16 and Joined the Milwaukee 34 years ago, when he came to Montana, running at first out of Three Forks.

He had been stationed here. 28 years. Mr. Weaver married twice. His first wife died many years ago.

In 1936 he married the former Mrs. Grace Vail, who died in December." Surviving are two sons, Dale of Port Orchard, and Charles L. Weaver, of SAlem, two stepchildren and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held here Thursday at St. Leos church.

Soldiers Visit Home; Take Brides At Big Tin ker Big Timber, Jan. 17. Two weddings were conducted here recently of soldiers home on furlough. Helen Cort, daughter of and Mrs. Harvey Cort, was married here to Sgt.

Archie Ellison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Ellison. Sergeant Ellison is stationed in Spokane, and Mrs. Ellison will remain here with her parents.

The second wedding was that of Miss Agnes Krone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Krone, and Donald G. Dodge, son -of Mrs. Edgar Johnson of Big Timber.

The wedding was solemnized in the Lutheran church by the Rev. E. E. Tollefson. Sergeant Dodge has served 26 months overseas, and was awarded the purple heart for wounds suffered during the invasion of Sicily.

After four month? in this country he will leave for overseas duty again. Mrs. Dodge returned to her duties as a cadet nurse in the American Lutheran hospital in Chicago, i To remove rougo and lipstick from washable fabrics, treat them with glycerin and then launder with soap and water. NONE BETTER IT CHOOSE Big Timber, Jan. 17.

At the last stated meeting of porio lodge' No. 53, AF AM, the following officers were installed: Arnold Johnson, worthy master; Ralph Jarrott, senior warden; Wallace Shallock, junior warden; A. E. Vanderhoef, secretary; W. K.

Amery, treasurer; Fred Bar-Cholumus, senior deacon; Andrew McDonald, junior deacon; Dorman Kellogg, tyler; Donald Voges, retiring master, chaplain; Clause Doig, senior steward, and Jackson B. White, junior steward. Ralph- Duba was the installing officer. At the meeting of Sweet Grass chapter No. 22, OES, the following officers were installed by Elva McArthur, retiring worthy matron, and Vera Faxon, past grand matron, ot Billings, assisting: Leta Ole, worthy matron; O.

J. Ellingson, worthy patron; Hazel Townsend, associate matron; Ralph Duba, associate patron; Beulah Patterson, secretary; Edith Cameron, treasurer; Melva Arqeson, conductress; Montana 1 Voges, associate con-ductroBs; Elva chaplain; Mabel Smart, marshal; Gladys OLeary, organist; Mary Cole, warder; Hulda Bailey, sentinel; Mary McDonald, Adah; Thelma Patterson, Ruth; Gina Wheeler, Esther; Betty White, Martha, and Katherine Osborne, Electa. Ellen Boe was installing chaplain and Mgbel Smart installing marshal. Montana Sailors Named Among Navy Casualties Washington, Jan. 17.

(JP) A Montana sailor was reported wounded, in action and another was reported dead in a navy department list of 240 casualties. Wounded is Boatswains Mate 3C Howard W. Copenhaver; wife, Mrs. Margaret F. Copenhaver of Missoula.

And dead' is Hospital Apprentice 2C Russell A. Maxfield; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace S. Maxfield of Great Falls.

Ten Soldiers Killed The war department today announced 14 Montanans in a list of 1,706 United States soldiers killed in the Asiatic and European theaters of war. The list included: European theater Pvt. Wal-terLr Choquette, son of Mrs. Gladys Choquette of Butte; Staff Sgt. Richard B.

Clark, son of Mrs. Nellie A. Clark of Bigfork; Pvt. Ronald L. Davidson, aunt, Mrs.

Julia Dotson of Grass Range; PFC Jess J. Fiddler, wife, Mrs Rose Fiddler of Missoula; Pvt. Glenn W. Halverson, wife, Mrs. Dorothy W.

Halverson of Winifred; Second Lt. Carl M. Heleen, wife, Mrs. Elaine Heleen of Poison; Second Lt. Norbert Her-riges, wife, Mrs.

Jean E. Her-riges of Whitefish; Pvt. Donn S. Howe, son of Edward Howe of Bozeman; Tech. Sgt.

Magnus R. Ludvikson, son of Gabriel Lud-vikson of Libby; Robert S. Opachich, son of Mrs. Anna Opachich of Butte. J.

J. Heck Long-Time State Resident Dies at Age of 78 Bozeman, Jan. 17. Joseph J. Heck was laid -at rest In Sunset Hills cemetery here after funeral services at a funeral chapel.

Mr. Heck, who died In a hospital here aged 78, was a citizen of Belgrade 25 years. He was born in Madison, came to this state as a young man and settled first at Pony, residing later at Harrison. He had no immediate family. Townsend Bureau Billings, Jan.

17. Services were conducted Tuesday, for WInn'Erwin DowTln, 72, former state Republican chairman and legislator who died Saturday. -He came to Montanajrom Minnesota 40 years ago and moved to Billings from Forsyth five years ago. in 1921 he was a state representative from Yellowstone county and; in 1923, he was elected Republican state chairman. More recently he was chairman of a committee appointed by Gov.

Sam C. Ford to study reorganization of the state government. He formerly owned a Billings brickyard. Killed in Action Havre (p) Second Lt. George R.

Crowe, a native of Havre, was killed in action over Germany Oct. 28, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.

Crowe, said today. Previously Lieutenant Crowe had been reported as missing in Action. He was a. B-17 copilot and held the air medal with two oak leaf clusters. Cosmos Choice California DRIED APRICOTS Pound FROSTED FOODS CODFISH CAKES, Serve 8 to 4, BAKED BEANS With Pork and Molasses, QQft Package 360 ALBERS FLAPJACK FLOUR 4-Pound Bag Libbys Sweet Spiced Green TOMATO PICKLES 150 New West Clear, Unsweetened APPLE JUICE Bottle i .150 Quart AQ Bottle LQr Phone 540, Lt.

Raymond J. Albano ft Heyon, ranchman, officially credited with killing 82 Germans and capturing 31. The picture waa made before his battlefield promotion to lieutenant from sergeant. Daniel D. Sullivan Of Silver Bow, Taken by Death Butte, Jan.

17. (P) Daniel D. Sullivan, member of the board of county commissioners of Silver Bow county, died Tuesday at his home from a heart attack. Mr. Sullivan was elected asa county commissioner in 1936 and served as chairman of the board from 1940 to 1944.

He was a native of Houghton, and came to Butte in 1900. For many years he was employed as a miner and shift boss on the Butte hill. Funeral services will be held Friday. Do You Know Why inVote of 2500 Authorities? vl My Growth, Your Energy absolutely require 3 Basic Vitality Elements richer in oatmeal than in any other natural cereal! So good for us, 2500 Nurses, Dietitians and Home Economists recently named oatmeal best nutritionally, best in appetite appeal by an overwhelming margin, 2 to 1 over all other hot cereals combined ok, ll cold cereals combined! Quaker Qats is delicious. Children especially love it.

Quick Quaker Oats cooks fast as coffee, brings the whole-family-so -muchr-Buy a big" economical package today! Protein, Pood-Enefrr, Vitamin Bi. FANCY U. S. No.1 TURKEYS 13 to 20 Lbsr Fancy Hoisting Springers Fancy Heavy Hens Grade A Steer Beef, Fancy Fail Lamb, Milk-Fed Veal, Grain-Fed Pork, Calf Liver, Beef Liver, Bulk Kraut, Hennessys Special Tamales, Cottage Cheese. Legion of Moose Is to Stage Annual Sessions Billings Convention Is to Come This Weekend Billings, Jan.

17. Midland Empire Legion No. 38' will send delegates here for sessions to be held Saturday and Sunday, at which Billings Moose lodge No. 558 will act as host. Red Lodge, Laurel, Livingston, Harlowton, Roundup, Lewistown, Miles City, Glendive, Sidney and Billing? will be represented.

The annual banquet will be held Saturday evening at the Northern hotel. Women of the Moose, who also will meet, will have their annual luncheon at the hotel at noon Sunday, following which a gen eral assembly of the delegates will be -held. Cities of the Midland legion are sending their bowling teams for the annual tourney, in which a team from the Helena lodge will participate. Matches will be staged at the Babcock alleys. Mrs.

Susan A. Johnson, West Yellowstone Resident, Passes Bozeman, Jan, 17. Services have been held here at a funeral chapel for Mrs. Susan A. Johnson of West Yellowstone, who died in a nursing home in Bozeman Mon day, aged 59.

Mrs. Johnson was born In Beaver Canyon, Idaho, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Burnside. She married Oliver Johnson at Dubois, Idaho, in 1903.

She resided in Greyling before going to West Yellowstone, several years ago, to make her home. Mr. Johnson died in 1941. Surviving are two brothers and four sisters, one of whom is Mrs. Nellie Whitman of West Yellowstone.

Old-Time Nr P. Section Foreman Dies in Drummond Drummond, Jan. 17. Alfred Ahlln, a resident of this section nearly 30 years, is dead, aged 71. He served many years as a section foreman for the Northern Pacific railway.

Mr. Ahlin was born in Sweden. He cameto this country as a young man and to the Drummond section in 1905. His widow survives, with two sons, William and Arthur Ahlin, both of Drummond, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. White Sulphur Springs George Hoyem of Thompson Falls, a former resident of the Lennep community, who is in the dairy business in Senders county, was in White Sulphur Springs while on a trip to buy feed for his stock.

He attended the W. G. Heyer sale. Motor Mechanic 2C Lawrence McAfee, with a destroyer escort unit, has been here on leave from New York city visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John H. McAfee, and his sister, Mrs. Walter L. Johnston. Fred B.

Musgrove of the U. S. marines and William Dreid-Iefn with the navy, both local men, were honor guests at the Rotary dinner. Dreidlein was en route to west coast for reassignment. Mr; and Mrs.

Walter L. Johnston are the parents of a son, Michael Lynn, born at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John H. McAfee in White Sulphur Springs. Mrs.

Eda Marie Barfus has received word that her son, Robert, is stationed at Walker Field, and her other son Jack, has recently been moved Tiro Fort Ord, Salinas, Caiif.r-ancL bis address is now. in care of the postmaster, San Mr. and Mrs. Roy, Walter of creek visited in White Sulphur Springs last week. They have received word from the war department that their son, Norman, wounded bn Palau, is recovering satisfactorily from his injuries.

Mrs. R. W. Johnson has closed the family home in White Sulphur Springs, and, with her children, Marshall and Martha, left for Butte to spend the winter with, her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

S. A. Brown. Lt. (J, Robert Johnson is in the navy now, taking a course in languages at Princeton university.

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Sweetheart TOILET SOAP Vi "THE tO AT THAT AWKt WITH YOU tKIM' mm. 3 BARS To Enter Service Townsend, Jan. 17. Wilbur McDonald Greaves of Toston left Tuesday for Fort Douglas, Utah, for induction into the armed forces. Wayne Oscar Strehlow, a registrant of the Broadwater county board, was transferred to Mott, N.

for induction. Leave for East Mr. and Mrs. W. J.

Gaab left Tuesday for Columbus, Ohio, to visit Mr. Gaabs parents. They were accompanied by Jimmy Kelly, son of Lt. and Mrs. A.

F. Kelly, who has been visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Van Voast.

Lieutenant Kelly, in Evanston, 111, Methodist Meeting The WSCS of the Methodist church will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. Jack Thompson with Mrs. Cleveland Wallace and Mrs. Walter Horne as cohostesses. Will Make Rugs The Homemaken Home Dem-, onstration club will Friday at the home of Mrs.

Henry Huth, who will be assisted by Mrs. Lloyd- Heberle. The afternoon will be devoted to rug making. Returns to Duty' Corp. Lawrence Riley, who has been on furlough visiting his parents and relatives, left for Massachusetts.

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