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THE RIVER PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL It OIL EARLY DAY SHERWF DIES IN NEW ZEALAND Served As Chestiest' Cosuity Sheriff From 1904 to 1910 Word was received in Fort Benton the last of the week of the death of Frank Macdonald, sheriff of Chouteau county train 1904 to 1910. The information was received from J. Robert (Bob) Atkinson, Mao:lonalci's brother-in-law, formerly of Cascade, but now a resi- dent of Los Angeles, where he has resided for the past 32 years. Mr. Macdonald went to New Zealand soon after his term of sheriff expired about 1910. There he became engaged In the dairy business. In later years he established the Alpine Ice Cream company, which was the first and largest ice cream factory in the islanda. He visited America, spending consid- erable time in Great Falls and Port Benton in 193'1, shortly after his wife, who for years, as Miss Agnes Hume Atkinson, was county superintendent of schools in Chouteau county, passed away. Mr. Macdonald returned to America In 1939, expecting to remain here, hav- ing sold all of his holdings in New Zealand. But it developed that the labor government of New Zealand would not allow him te transfer his money to America and he was forced to return there where, for a while, he managed the King George hotel at Wellington, New Zealand, the largest hostelry in the islands. When World war II broke out, the hostelry, which catered large- ly to world tourists, was closed by the company for the duration. Macdonald then returned to Huntley, New Zealand, where he has always made his residence and engaged in the meat business, which he was conducting at the time of his death. Old timers around Fort Benton will remember that Macdonald, at one time, ran a butcher shop in this city, and later on, owned and operated the Overland hotel, even to the time of his departure to New Zealand. A native of Massachusetts, Macdonald came to Montana in 1890, when only 16 years old, and although he went to New Zealand 34 years ago, he always retained his American citizenship. He leaves a son by his first wife, Jesse Macdonald, of near Highwood. Old time friends will be sorry to learn of his passing. Loma 4-H Club Held Meeting On April 16 the Loma 4-H club met at the home of Alfred Jackson. County Agent Jack McLean, was present and discussed the national scope of 4-H and some of the accomplishments of 4-H boys and girls. Election of offic- ers was held and the following were elected: President, Walter Jackson; Vice President, Bob Lundy; Sec.-Treas., Betty Knight; Reporter, Jim Hardy; Song Leader, Leroy Daniels. Summer camp was discussed and requirements were outlined. A program for the year will be worked out at the next meet- ing.—Jim Hardy, reporter. Men Teachers Elect Officers Big Sandy.—Members of the Great Falls local of the American Federation of Teachers, were guests of the Chou- teau County Men Teachers club at the final meeting of the year here. The group from Great Falls included Ernest Bergren, John Savage, Don Holmquist, Rudy Scovil and Ted Barhurst. Offic- ers of the Chouteau group elected at the meeting were William Johnstone, Highwood, president; A. J. Albrecht, Box Elder, vice president, and C. E. Hood, Big Sandy, secretary. EIMIMIHIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111l1111 CONOCO Products STOVE FUEL FURNACE FUEL TRACTOR FUELS GASOLINE MOTOR OILS PRESSURE GREASES Minneapolis - Moline Farming Machinery 26 -inch One-way discs. Furrow Drill openers USED Cars For Sale 1937 Plymouth 4 -door sedan 1940 Ford 4 -door sedan TRUCK and ICAR Tires and Tubes 13.50x28 Tractor hi -cleat 6 -ply tires. 13.50'32 Tractor hi -cleat 6 -ply tires. , Ford and Pontiac Dealership Service and Repairs Power Motors FORT BENTON, MONT. MONTANA TO PRODUCE LESS WINTER WHEAT Drop of Nearly 24 Percent in Winter Wheat Predicted Montana will produce 16,664,000 bush- els of winter wheat this year, 24 per cent less than the estimated produc- tion of 21,919,000 bushels in 1943, the bureau of agricultural economics pre- dicted. The state's 10 -year (1933-43) average winter wheat production was 15,785.000 bushels. The bureau said winter drought conditions were responsible, in a large measure, for the sharp reduction in anticipated wheat production this year. Farmers seeded 1,449,000 acres to winter wheat last fall, compared with 1,435,000 acres seeded for the 1943 crop. \Farmers in many sections ... (have been) unable to determine the amount of winter kill (of wheat) and the amount of abandonment there will be,\ the bureau said. \The areas which are the most un- certain are those in which there was Insufficient soil moisture last fall to germinate the seed.\ Rye condition was reported as 73 per cent of normal on April 1, compar- ed with 84 per cent last year. The condition of pastures was 80 per cent, compared with 95 per cent a year earlier. Farm grain stocks on April 1 were smaller compared with a year earlier for corn and wheat and larger for oats. The disappearance of corn and oats between Jan. 1 and April 1 on farms was somewhat smaller this seas- on than last, due to the mild winter and reduced demand for feed. In the case of wheat, the disappearance was about 4,385,000 bushels larger, due to larger sales. April 1 farm stocks were 236,000 bushels for corn; 35,861,000 bushels for wheat; 10,318,000 bushels for oats; 6,694,000 bushels for barley and 252,- 000 bushels for rye. Mrs. Joe Mayo Passes Away Mrs. Dora Louise Mayo, wife of Joe Mayo, of the Square Butte section, passed away at the St. Clare hospital in this city at 8:15 on last Friday morn- ing following an illness of only about six days. She suffered a stroke of paralysis which was the cause of her death. She had been a resident of the Square Butte section since 1927. Dora Louise Folkman was born at Great Falls on March 27, 1910, and was a little over 34 years of age. She spent her early life at Leroy, Montana, and was united in marriage to Joe Mayo, at Havre on February 27, 1927, and has since made her home near Square Butte. To this union were born the following children, who with the husband survive her: Gladys, age 15; Frank, 14; Jimmie, 9; Patricia, 8; Don- na Fay, 4, and Doris, age 2. She is also survived by her father, John Folk - man, Havre, and the following brothers and sisetrs: Leonard, a paratrooper in England; a step broth- er, Wm. at San Francisco; Calvin, a step brother in aircraft production at Seattle; Mrs. Jim Anderson, Kalispell, and Mrs. Steve Varnick, Big Fork, be- sides other relatives and many friends. A brother, Wm. Folkman, passed away four years ago. Mrs. Mayo was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. The body was prepared for burial at the Louther chapel and was taken to Geraldine on Tuesday where funeral services were conducted at 2:30 at the community church, conducted by the Rev. Howard A. Smith, of Fort Benton. Burial will be made in the Geraldine cemetery. The relatives have the sincere sympathy of all in their bereavement. KIWANIS DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISITS FORT BENTON CLUB The regular meeting of the Port Den- ton Kiwanis club was held on Watley noon this week. instead of the reedier time Tuesday noon. The change in the meeting was made in order to have Ted Aronson, of Kalispell, Mon- tana governor of Kiwanis, present at the meeting. The meeting was presided over by President L. G. Wright, with R. U. Lockwood, immediate past president of the club, as program chairman and who introduced the speaker. Mr. Aronson was a very forceful and interesting talker and the address that he delivered the club members and visitors gave them a great deal to think about. He reviewed briefly the history of the Kiwanis club and paid a high tribute to the founders of the organization who had planned so well for the operation of the service club. The speaker pointed out interestingly the service that the Kiwanis club can render during this war period and said that all could and should have a part in the club's program. It was one of the best talks on Kiwanis organisa- tion and its purposes that we have had the pleasure of hearing. The speaker also paid tribute to the memory of Paul K. Louther, a member of the club and song leader, who p.ioad away about two weeks ago. Soon to Complete Training We had a short letter this past week from Aviation Cadet John R. Thomp- son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Thompson, of Highwood. He is now stationed at the Douglas, Arizona, army air base, and he wrote as follows: \I'm afraid that I have another change of address to give you. I sup- pose your staff has an awful time keeping our addresses straight but we really appreciate the way we always get our papers regularly. \I'd like to meet those pre-war boost- ers and their talk of sunny Arizona. We had a quarter of an inch of snow today (Easter) and we are only two miles from Mexico. In fact on our 260 degree traffic pattern we fly into Old Mexico, so if there is snow this far south, what has happened to that sunny warm Arizona climate. I must confess that we are at an altitude of 4,000 feet however. With fourteen months of cadet and student training behind me, my remaining five and one-half weeks training looks pretty nice, especially since I'll get a long - waited furlgugh upon graduation. When I get home I'll have to make it a point to visit your office and get some of the old gang's addresses. Eventually you lose track of them.\ (We are always glad to have men serving in the armed forces visit this office while on furlough. It helps a lot to get a little information on their activities and they and any of our readers are always welcome.) LOMA SOLDIER IS AN ARMY \MAN IN WHITE\ IN ENGLAND From the headquarters of the Euro- pean theater of operations of the Unit- ed States army we received the follow- ing information on a Chouteau county young man, who Is serving with the armed forces in England: \Laboratory tests conducted by Pri- vate First Class Walter 8. Kirk, 31, of Fort Benton, Montana. are heiping guide surgeons and physicians in treat- ment of soldier -patients at a United States army station hospital in Eng- land. Trained as a laboratory tech- nician at Camp Adair and Camp White, both in Oregon, PT C. Kirk does many complicated procedures with micro- scopes and test tubes in the combatting of disease. \PT c. Kirk was grain buyer for the Greely Elevator company in LOtria. Montana, at the time he joined the army in June, 1942, at Port Benton. He married the former Miss Bertha Lundy, who lives at Fort Benton, Mon - 12 Oz. Can Sgt. Everett Beecher An Instructor Sgt. Everett Beecher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beecher, of this city, is now an instructor at an air field in Green- ville, South Carolina, according to word received here. Sgt. Beecher was re- turned home a few months ago after completing his missions as an aerial gunner in the Pacific area. After vis- iting home here for about three weeks he was sent to a rest camp in Calif- ornia and later to the east. Sgt. Beecher is an instructor in radio operating and says that they are work- ing long hours at the job, being on duty for 12 hours each day, but he stated that he liked it just fine. 1 Church Services' +4S Immaculate Conception Church Fort Benton, Montana Father O'Sullivan, Pastor Masses will be held at 6:00 and 9:00 o'clock a. m. from this date on. — --- THE METHODIST PARISH Howard A. Smith, D. D., Minister Wednesday: The Fort Benton choir meets at the church at 7 p. m. The fourth quarterly conference of the Geraldine church will be held at 7:30 p. m. Thursday: The fourth quarterly con- ference of the Highwood church will be held at the church at 7:30 p. Sunday: 9:00 a. m. Morning worship service at the Highwood church. 10:00 a. in. The church schools in each church of the parish meet. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship service at the Fort Benton church. 6:00 p. m. The Fort Benton Youth Fellowship will meet in the sanctuary. Note: The sermon for the coming Sunday is entitled, \The Life in Christ.\ The text is found in Galatians 2:20. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Wallace A. Smith, Minister Sunday, April 23, 1944. Sunday school hour at 10 a. m. We ' are studying the life of the Apostle Paul, the one who taught his fellow men how to live to win others to Christ Morning church hour at 11 a. m Special music by the choir. The Min- ister will bring a special message on the \Stewardship of Life.\ There will be Baptismal services at four o'clock, Sunday afternoon. The evening preaching services will be at 8 p. m. We are to have the men's quartet for this service and they will bring a special message in song. We invite you to attend our services. Let's make your church and my church a place of strength and help. FARMERS, ATTENTION! We have available a number of gas pow- ered, track type tractors from 18 horse power to 60 horse power for sale to farmers who can qualify. Contact us at once. Supply limited. ALEMITE GREASE GUNS and BARREL PUMPS JUST ARRIVED—ORDER NOW W M ALLIS CHALMERS Crawler Tractor A-1 Condition Few Sets of 6:00x16 CAR TIRE CHAINS JUST ONE 8 1 / 2 FOOT FIELD TILLER LEFT Just Received 3 -TON HYDRAULIC JACKS Two 1940 to 1941 heavy duty Chevrolet radia- tors in stock. First come, first served. BYBEE MACHINERY CO. DEL BYBEE, Owner. Successor to Bybee & Nelson DID YOU KNOW To save your pennies when and where you can, is in keeping with the war effort. You can save if you make your purchases at \SAFE. WAY.\ Compare food prices with Safeway's every -day low shelf prices. Water Glass Eggs Preserved in Water Glass Will Keep 8 or 9 Months. SILICATE OF SODA 29c EGGS High in Nutrition. Economical in Price, Large Extras 2 Doz. 49c HORMEL SPAM 38c Milk Cherub, No -Point Items _4 for49c 35c 23c 13c Tall Cana Prem Lunch Meat..12-os. Cans Tomo Tomato Sunny Da \ __ Juice 46-os. Cans Del Maiz Corn Niblets Deviled Meat Libby's Cans size Veg-All Larsen's... 15 -ow. Jar 1 7 5: PEAS Gardenside Point Free 41 No. 2 Case la Cans .. 331. of 24 ... $2.59 TOMATOES Hi g hway Ex. Std. No. 2 1 , Can 14c Case of 24 $3.39 Safeway is the place to buy really fresh produce . because Safeway maintabas a staff of expert produce berms, who deal directly with the growens and bey the beet eaciesively tor your Saiaway stose. to be skipped as swift as possible &era field to yowl Lot your con. variant Safeway state =way yaw with produce this week—get the bead GRAPEFRUIT Chuck full of vi- tamin C. Florida seedless US 2 Lb. 9c CaliforniaMany Different Green U. 8.N Ways No. l CABBAGE There 6_ to Fix Cabbage Lb. LETTUCE I GREEN ONIONS Firm Heads, California Fresh and RADISHES U. S. 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Case CORN • 1441 V ' 64 SAFEWAY-7 - 1VAR4IITIEIL— MEATS \ go d Bacon Squares 23c BEANS Fo lti r t l t e Free Mill PICNIC HAMS a No. 2 * 0 a Cans .. J7C 1 Case 1 4 $2. 95 L b. . . . 27c SALT PORK . . . 23c PORK SAUSAGE . Lb. 30c FRESH SIDE PORK 25c
