Browning Newspaper Notes 1940 - 1941

January 5, 1940
Law passed that women can serve on juries.

January 12, 1940
Nellie Gladstone, BHS honor student, is a nurse in Seattle, passed a Civil Service test.

January 19, 1940
J.P. Carberry, 84, oldtime railroader of Montana and Canada, was killed on Saturday morning when his house burned to the ground. The charred body was recovered two hours later by his son-in-law, George Taggart. Carberry was born in Waterton, NY, and served several years in Canada, then Big Sandy when it was the end of the railroad. He was the yardmaster at Havre and in 1887 transferred to Great Falls. He and two others opened the first railroad station and telegraph office there. (Margaret Carberry Taggart is the county treasurer.) He was a member of the Masonic Order, the Algeria Shrine at Helena. He was buried at Crown Hill Cemetary.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gold Saturday January 13 at the Blackfeet Hospital: a baby girl weighing 7 lbs. 12 oz. Wed and Thurs Mrs. Gold was reported very ill but is much improved today. [This baby is today Mary Lee Wiippert, married to Lloyd Wippert. Three of her grandchildren are spending the summer with her here.]
Thornton Burgess story in the paper.

February 2, 1940
The Crow tribe has 600 buffalo.

February 9, 1940
Mrs. Douglas Gold and daughter, Mary Lee, were dismissed from the Blackfeet Hospital Friday.

February 29, 1940
Melinda Wren died February 29, Thursday AM at her Milk River home. [Check the William Farr photo book for her portrait -- she was VERY beautiful.] She was born March 4, 1849, near Fort Benton. Her father was Chas Chouquette, who worked for Pierre Choteau and the American Fur Co. At age 8 her father sent her to Peoria, IL, to stay with her aunt and go to school. At age 17 she returned. She met John Wren and married him the following year. This “daughter of the cordeliers” accompanied her husband trapping and prospecting from the Peace River to the Yellowstone. This is the family that gave Pincer Creek it’s name -- they moved camp and forgot the horseshoeing pincers. But they went back, found them successfully, and always afterwards called that place “Pincer Creek.” She was the interpreter for years at Old Agency. In 1896 she settled on Milk River. When Wren died, Melinda carried on with her eleven children: Mrs. Al Goss, Mrs. William Kipp, Mrs. Matt Lytle, Mrs. Dan Hamilton, Mrs. Dora Cummings, Mrs. Angus Monroe, Mrs. William O’Brien, John, Robert and Willliam Wren. She had twin daughters: Mrs. Louise Aubrey and Mrs. Josephine Grant. Funeral at Church of Little Flower with Father Halligan.

March 15, 1940
Doug Gold story published in the March issue of “Banking.” The story is “Eagle Child Goes to the Bank.” Fictionalized, but “depicting the Indian, his money matters and a sure philosophy of Indian life.”

March 22, 1940-
J.L. Sherburne, T.E. Scriver and Bob Starr go to the State Highway Commission to secure the Two Medicine Bridge.
St. Patrick’s Dance -- Scriver’s Swing Band.
The commodity meat issue is pigs for a change.

April 12, 1940
Mr. and Mrs. Tellefero and Mr. and Mrs. Thad Scriver motored to Great Falls Sunday and took in the big show, “Gone with the Wind.”

May 3, 1940
“The BHS band played concerts on the streets Thursday and treated the townspeople to some high class music. This was the first street concert of the year and was thoroughly enjoyed by all who heard it. the band is sponsoring a dance tonight at the HS gym. The proceeds to go to the band expenses. Don’t fail to help the band out.”
Browning Band takes 2nd in Kalispell. “To Robert Scriver, the director, who painstakiingly and with no regard for personal praise, the thanks of the community are due.” Formal Thank You from Bob and the band to the community.

May 24, 1940
Junior Prom. Punch served by Pickaninnies!
George Upham is Black Bear.
“Lo the Poor Indian.” [ This is a phrase that was not flattering.]
Police Justice Albert Marion turns it over to John W. Kennedy

June 7, 1940
2 short stories by Doug Gold in “Banking” magazine.

June 21, 1940
Postmaster Tellefero and Mr. Thad Scriver arrived home last weekend from a three week’s visit to coast cities. They visited in Portland with Mr. Tellefero’s daughter, Mrs. J.B.. Dodd and also took in the World’s Fair at San Francisco. They report a wonderful trip and enjoyed the fair very much. Mrs. Dodd and daughter Barbara Ann returned with them and will visit at the parental home for some time.

July 26, 1940
“The BMCo has purchased a new delivery wagon. It is one of the panel jobs and has their name painted on each side. It’s a swell outfit."

August 23, 1940
Nancy Russell’s will in probate -- left money to trust fund for promoting art. [This trust fund now funds the “C.M. Russell Center for the Study of Western Art” on the University of Oklahoma campus.]

January 3, 1941
Meade Swingley went to Gonzaga to become a pilot.
Doug Gold at Mayo Clinic for an ear infection, then to new job at Office of Public Instruction.
Wilbur Werner new county attorney.
Julian Weter married Evaleen Levingood of Butte. She is sister to Doug Gold’s wife.

January 31, 1941
Mrs. Amy McCurdy of Babb was a business visitor in Browning, Monday.

March 7, 1941
Mrs. Billy Starr gave a dinner Saturday Evening to which Miss Iris Weter, Miss Hazel Overdahl and Mr. Harold Scriver were invited guests. The evening was spent playing Chinese checkers.

April 4, 1941
John Ewers arrives to be curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian.
Story on the Medicine Wheel.

June 13, 1941
Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Scriver have remodeled the outside of their house and have made much improvement in their grounds. They have also built a boulevard in front of the house which will greatly improve the beauty of the entire street. [Mrs. Scriver had just received an inheritance from her father.]

June 20, 1941
Museum of the Plains Indian Museum to open June 29.
Among the distinguished visitors at the Plains Indian Museum this week was Walter McClintock of Pittsburg, PA, who arrived in this section for an annual outing in Glacier National Park and reunion with his old Blackfeet Indian friends who he has known for several decades. McClintock’s intimacies with the Blackfeet tribe are near-sacred, he being among the first of whites to be adopted into the tribe, his Indian friends having included in years past the most outstanding leaders. McClintock, a Yale University scholar, years ago began his trek of the Glacier National Park as a photographer, his work helping to bring about its creation as a national park. His history of the Blackfeet Indians is considered among the authoritative works by students. He is author of a book callee “Old North Trail,” which teems with historic gems.

August 29, 1941
Jack Holterman arrived last Friday evening from San Francisco where he had been attending school and received his Master’s Degree during the summer session. He will teach at Starr School this year.

October 31, 1941
John Ewers lectured on Indian Art in Bozeman.

[I apologize for not having notes on more families. I was writing down material for a biography of Bob Scriver, so that's what I concentrated on. Maybe someone else will make notes from those microfilm and pick up on the many things I left out.]