Browning Newspaper Notes 1948 - 1949

April 16, 1948
FFA delegates: Jack Wood, Steve Barcus, Bill McCurdy, Dennis Harris, Kenneth Juneau, Ed Conway, Eugene Kipp, Jerry Show, Lee Wilson, Fred Pambrun.

School Musical Event to be Given April 23 by Jason Devereaux
The annual high school band concert, under the direction of Robert Scriver, will be presented in the school auditorium next Friday evening, April 23 at 8 o’clock. Augmenting the program will be a number by the high school glee club, a group of 65 vocalists. The largest band in the history of the local school and one that approaches in excellent any group groomed at the institution thus far, music lovers of this community will be availed the full inspiration of a melodic performance. A novel character of the project will be three guest conductor-composers -- Paul Whitman, composer of “Rhapsody in Blue,” Mascagni, composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and Strauss, composer of “Blue Danube Waltz.” (June Bullshoe was playing the E flat clarinet, Betty Powers played the B flat clarinet and Bill Byrne played the cornet. Bill McCurdy on bass.)

May 7, 1948
Browinng HS Band in Highest Place. The BHS band, under direction of Robert Scriver, achieved the highest rating of any participating group at the annual District Music Festival held at Great Falls last Saturday. The honor was First division -- Superior rating. The Browning group was entered in Class C, which includes all high schools with an enrollment of 250 or less. The numbers played by the Browning group were “Caravan Overture” by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol and “Begin the Beguine” by Cole Porter. In 1939, again under the direction of Mr. Scriver, the Browning group received Superior Rating in the annual contest at Missoula, winning First Division Superior Plus rating in Class A. At last Saturday’s event, Gerald R. Prescott, director of bands at the University of Minnesota, was adjudicator of the participating bands. Acclaiming the Browning group, he emphasized their merits of sincereiy of interpretation, spirit and professional feeling in the rendition of their numbers. Offering constructive criticism, he cited that in the group there were a large number of inexperienced musicians. However, he said they held promise of fine musicianship, with the final result that the band should achieve first rating in any class.

Renshaw’s second novel is published. (A vanity press.) “Among Sun’s People” and “West of North.”

Mae Aubrey Coburn Williamson “Many Victories”
Roberta Wood Brewer is married in Chicago where she’s going to NU Dental School.

Aug 20
Bill Show’s wife is Ann Jackson, daughter of Bill Jackson.

Oct 1, 1948
Long piece on Russell

1949
Jan 7, 1949
Fred Stone ice harvesting. Very high quality. Thousand pounds from 2 Med and McDermott. 10,000 for Great Northern from Fresno Dam 16 miles from Havre. Western Fruit shipping and air conditioning for the streamliners.

Jan 7, 1949
“Local Businessman Now a Blackfeet” by Jason Devereaux, Jr.
At the annual Christmas dinner given by members of the Blackfeet Tribe in the high school gym, Walter Brant, local businessman, realized a cherished ambition -- that of becoming a member of the Blackfeet Tribe. Inducted that evening, he was given the name ”Chief Water Bull.” Sponsor was Reuben Black Boy. Others conducting the colorful ceremony were Dick Sanderville (Chief Bull), Charley Reevis (Crow Chief) and Joe Calf Robe. His forebears being of Nordic strain, Chief Water Bull greets the future as a determined Red Skin. However, he became a member of the tribe too late in history to help carve the Blackfeet epic of the West. Yet in one way or another Chief Water Bull can strive to live up to his name.

Jan. 14, 1949
William Marceau froze to death. 29 below.
Cut Bank Hospital opens.

Feb. 4, 1949
Romona [sic] Goss, sophomore, and Mary Ann Edgar, Browning students attending the State Normal College at Dillon, were inducted into the Women’s Athletic Association Jan. 17. Ramona is a daughter of Mrs. Mayme Goss and Mary Ann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.S. McConkle.

March 4, 1949
Grace Barnett came out from her winter hibernation. Her survival secret is“plenitude of every thing that contributes towards the good life -- healthful food, fuel, magazines, worthy library ligerature and the companionship of two faithful dogs and a cat.

April 8, 1949
Services for the Late Mrs. Octavia Stone Set for Tomorrow
Funeral services will be held for the late Mrs. Octavia Stone, 82, at the Methodist Church tomorrow, Saturday at 2 PM. The Rev. Edgar B. Smith will officiate. Interment will be in the Browning Cemetary beside the grave of her husband, the late James M. Stone, who died in 1938. Mrs. Stone died Tuesday morning at a private house in Warm Springs, where she had been in the care of a special nurse and doctors of the Sanitorium for the last two years. Born at Fort Benton, she spent her early years there. She had resided on the Blackfeet Reservation for over sixty years. Her husband was a prominent reservation stock grower, the estate at present including the home ranch on Milk River. A generous and kindly soul, Mr.s Stone had inspired through the years a wide and lasting friendship. During the last several years her health rapidly declined. However, her passing was without suffering. Surviving relatives include a half-sister, Mrs. Joe Livermore, residing on the Pacific coast and two stepsons, Joe of Browning and Fred of Babb.

McClintock, Author, Dies in Pittsburgh; Indian Historian
Writing to Claude Schaffer, curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian, John Ewers, former curator of the institution and now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. said that Walter McClintock, author of “The Old North Trail,” died recently at his home in Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. McClintock continued hale and hearty in his advanced years and made his last visit to Browning last summer. “The Old North Trail” is one of the popular and authentic pieces of historic literature dealing with the Blackfeet Indians, the author spending a number of yuears in research in creating it. He was a likeable personality and for many years had continued his occasional visit to this section.

musical achievement since being mustered out of the Army of the late war.

May 20, 1949
Audra Pambrun graduated from Columbus School of Nursing in GF

June 10, 1949
Story on Victor Pepion

June 17, 1949
George Upham now at U of Kansas to become a band instructor.