Reed Point Community News and Local Visits
Ellen Coombs of Absarokee visits at A. W. Neumann home as Ed Baumgardner from Memphis returns on furlough. Numerous relatives and friends travel, visit, or host others in Reed Point including military reunions, baptisms, and trips to Billings, Red Lodge, and Sturgis. School opens September 5 with staff appointments announced.
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Ellen Coombs
Absarokee
A. W. Neumann
Elda Neumann
California
Ed Baumgardner
Memphis
Carl Bue
Ethel Cummins
Salt Lake City
P. A. Huntley
Sturgis
S. D
B. T. Deeney
Red Lodge
Arthur Brown
Mary Albin
Betty Lynn
Walter Blume
Billings
Robert Cunningham
John Rash
Vancouver
Wash
Sanders
Ike Lay
Dean Robb
Jimmy
Tommy
Garden City
Kans
Ellen Myrstol
Bob Wagner
Plains
Laura Jean Sells
Marie Dertert
Paul Sohn
St. Ignatius
Reed Point
Burton R. Carlson
Powell
Wyo
Betty Postma
Eugene Best
Jaque
Fort Peck
Dennis Eastman
Paul Carlson
la Grange
al Holmes
Alice Blum
Missoula
Fred Swift
Eric White
Anaconda
Swift
Marion van Campen
Dean Turner
Sidney
Gunnar Walseth
Glendive
A. P. Brumfield
Local Items and Overseas Notes Across Montana
A collage of mail from soldiers and families reports visits home from Minot, Glendive, Ringling, and Helena. Troops depart for Fort Bragg and Miami, while families await word from Corsica and South America. local hires, new businesses, and civic notices fill the week’s community brief.
Mme Chiang Kai-Shek to Seek U S Medical Care
Mme Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, is gravely ill and will travel to the United States in a few weeks for urgently needed medical treatment from the same doctor who treated her two years ago. She is now in Rio de Janeiro with her sister Mme Kun, and details of her illness were not disclosed.
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Washington
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
United States
Inlaw
H. H. Kung
Rio de Janeiro
Semen
Mme. Kun
Mme .Chiang
Kung
Classified Ads Listings From Deer Creek Area Auction
Community notices show food sale at Roquet building on Sept 2 with coffee and light lunch. Various items for sale include fuel oil heater and stove, coal or wood heater, two roan milk cows with calf or imminent calving, and a restaurant business plus equipment in Big Timber. Also lost boot at McLeod, a cook wanted for Sept 4 or 5, apples for sale, room and board in Lavold house, radio repair service by Norwest Radio Laboratories, and piano instruction by Mrs. Wick with Chicago conservatory credentials.
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Deer Creek Ladies Aid
Patton Praised by Pvt Baugh on the American Front
Pvt Bomb Baugh of Winder Georgia tells War Correspondent Robert Richards that General Patton can slap a regiment and still keep fighting. He praises Patton for knowing how to fight and says soldiers like leaders who win battles. The exchange comes from Orleans dated August 26.
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Orleans
Patton
Baugh
Winder
United States
Robert Richards
Gunshot Death of Montana Stockman Near Columbus
O J Peterson a 54 year old rancher living six miles south of Columbus on the Stillwater river was found dead Wednesday morning from a self inflicted gunshot wound. A .22 rifle lay nearby and coroner Higginson reported the death an apparent suicide though no motive notes were found. Peterson leaves a widow a mother two daughters a son and four brothers.
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Columbus
O. J. Peterson
Stillwater River
J. G. Higginson
Stillwater County
Higginson
J. P. Graham
M. L. Parcells
Peterson
Mathilda Peterson
Grant Rader
Reed Point
Mike Sadre
Carl Peterson
W. R
Axel
Arthur
Frank Peterson
Song of Bernadette At Park Livingston
Park theatre Livingston screens Song of Bernadette Sunday and Monday in a promotion praising 20th Century Fox for the adaptation. Jennifer Jones stars as Bernadette with William Eythe Charles Bickford Vincent Price Lee J. Cobb and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles.
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Bernadette
Park Theatre
Livingston
20Th Century-Fox
Franz Werfel
Jennifer Jones
Hollywood
William Eythe
Charles Bickford
Vincent Price
Lee J. Cobb
Gladys Cooper
Helena Man Killed In Airplane Crash
Capt. John Power 29 a prominent Helena family member and veteran of the India China air transport run was killed in an airplane crash at the Ephrata Washington army airbase. The accident occurred at 10 40 a m while Power piloted a pursuit plane. He had flown Himalayan routes delivering war supplies to China earning the air medal the Distinguished Flying Cross and an oak leaf cluster. Col K R Hapt of Gore Field reported no other details immediately available.
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Great Falls
John Power
Ephrata
Wash
Col
K. R. Hapt
Gore Field
Power
India
Helena
China
Bakers Pushed Wrong Car Home By Mistake
Mr and Mrs George Baker pushed home a car they thought belonged to their daughter after she called a breakdown. They learned they had moved the wrong vehicle and the real owner had reported the car stolen to police in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
George Baker
Baker
Pioneers Society Elects Officers in Montana Convention
In Deer Lodge on August 26, Mrs. Marvin Trask was elected president of the Montana Pioneers Society and John M. Evans was named president of the Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers at a two day joint convention. New officers include W. L. Milligan vice president Helena. Jennie Chowning treasurer Ennis. J. E. Norris secretary Helena.
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Deer Lodge
Marvin Trask
Montana Pioneers Society
John M. Evans
Sons and Daughters of
Montana Pioneers
Trask
Joe Larsen
Helena
Montana
California
W. L. Milligan
Jennie Chowning
Ennis
J. E. Norris
Sons and Daughters
Lena Bissonette
Celia Dick
Missoula
Victor Kessler
Edith Ralph Maxwell
Great Falls
Fred Scheuer
Jean Bishop
Butte
Lottie Willett
Follow the Boys at State Sunday
George Raft and Vera Zorina star in Follow the Boys a flexible all star Universal production shot as background in past spectacular dance settings. The film also features Jeanette MacDonald Marlene Dietrich Orson Welles Dinah Shore W C Fields and the Andrews Sisters among many others scheduled for State Theatre Sunday Monday and Tuesday.
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Astaire
Rogers
Sonja Henie
George Raft
Vera Zorina
Charles K. Feldman
Universal
Sue PaTe
Jeanette MacDonald
Marlene Dietrich
Orson Welles
Dinah Shore
W. C. Fields
the Andrews Sisters
Sophie Tucker
Ted Lewis and His Band
Grace McDonald
Charles Butterworth
Martha O'Driscoll
Nebraska's George Norris suffers cerebral hemorrhage
McCook Nebraska August 29 George W Norris 83 year old former veteran independent United States senator from Nebraska suffered a cerebral hemorrhage early Tuesday His physician reported he is unconscious but resting easily
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McCook
Neb
George W. Norris
United States
Nebraska
News Notes From Boys in Service
Sgt Reginald N Nye assigned overseas address care PM New York after a brief stay at Fort Ord Calif Jim Bourne promoted to corporal somewhere in the British Isles Pfc Frederick H McCauley left Camp Lejeune for a Pacific post mail care FPO Harold Shipton now in Shumaker Calif Ralph Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Jack Johnson has joined the navy parents reside in Anaconda Pfc Ralph E Cosgriff transferred to Harlingen Tex en route visited brother Pfc Bob Cosgriff electrical engineering course at Ohio University Columbus
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Reginald N. Nye
First Cavalry School
Fort Riley
Kans
New York
Fort Ord
Calif
Jim Bourne
British Isles
Frederick H. McCauley
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Pacific
San Ncisco
Harold Shipton
Cigar price ceilings set by OPA for imports
The Office of Price Administration announced new ceilings on virtually all imported cigar sizes effective September 4. Retail prices range from 17 cents to 1.25 dollars. importer and wholesaler ceilings match levels in place since March 1943. Stay on your job until victory is complete.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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Howard A. Shutes
K. B. Hogemark
Ringling
John Laird
Marie
Hubert Becken
Wm. Wardall
Harry Shipton
Laramie
Russell Shaffer
Russell
Horace Haas
W. E. Haas
Mary Willard
Leif Fredericks
J. E. Winsley
Vocational Rehabilitation Bureau
Leslie Williams
Will Nevin
Reno
Nev
Spokane
Ed Sheldon
O. A. Fallang
R. E. Lindgren
Robert W. Lindgren
Corsica
Air Corps
F. R. Brayton
A. L. Schump
Braytons
Oisten Bue
Work Creek
Green
Lester V. Green
Edna Lavold
Dunedin
Fla
Sigurd Lavold
Florida
Eva Cook
Oliver L. Cook
A. D. Nicholson
Idaho Falls
Ida
Miami
South America
Kenneth Thompson
Thompson
Dennis
Emmet Overfelt
Wm. Rees
Johnny and
Janey
Hilda Weipert
Sam Allen
Emma Rees
Deegan-Lavold
Johnny
Big Timber Evangelical Church
Women’s Missionary Group
Rapelje
Broadview
Louise Silberling
Harlowton
Perkins Funeral Home
Army Nurse Corps
Bricham City
Utah
Silberling
Albert Silberling
Bushnell General Hospital
Elton Park County
Northern Pacific
Springdale
R. C. Tarrant
Conrad
Elton
Elton Bluff
Elton Northern Pacific
Pat Hodges
Penny Funeral Home
William Lunceford
Shawmut
Lunceford
Maxine Miller
Charles Wallace
Carol Ann
A. C. Grande Jr
Grande Stock
Lennep
Swive and
Sullivan O
White
Townsend Star
Cleveland Wallace
Toston
Monit
E. J. Mora
Justice Waterman
A.W. Grooms
Laurel
Deaconess
Rice Oil Company
Grooms
New
Pioneer
Guernsey
Fordson Tractor
Gale Wick
Prin
Ralph Ee
Chester
Wm. Jensen
Pompeys Pillar
Cyril Nyre
Grant Carpenter
McLeod
Rambouillet Bucks
Alfred Haug
John Weidiinges
Grey Cliff
Tan
Sam Fallang
Cook
Old Raintuck
W. G. Aller
O. P. Terland
Bridger Creek
Eddie
Cate
Norwest Radio Laboratories
J. R. Stimps
Mgr
Shelby
Roland B. Wick
American Conservatory
Chicago
Tel
Res
Fourth Ave. West
Stockman
Jerome Williams
Elberta
Hale Peaches
Bartlett
Pearl
Prunes
Pioneers Society
Mackey Sheep Company
Albert
Bs Wes Brea
Charis
A. L. Bray
Allman Hall
Melville
Tronud
Ljennifer Jones
Seus
Lee J. Coss
Tax Inc
Tax
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