Bullets fly, piggy bank stolen, postal rates rise

Flathead Courier, May 20, 1943

Assault charge placed

Jim Walters of Bigfork was arrested Monday evening by Lake County officers, following a complaint by Ed Tykeson, also of Bigfork, who charged that Walters shot at him and displayed his hat with bullet holes to support his claim.

It is reported that the two men have been engaged in arguments over personal matters for the last five years.

Judgement given on Lake County case

Word has been received from the state supreme court that school districts are not liable for the negligent acts of the teachers or employees of the school district.

The records show that Edward Bartell, a boy 16 years of age, was injured on Aug. 18, 1942, at the Round Butte School when an iron ball being thrown by a teacher struck Bartell on the head and injured him. The accident happened when a number of the school boys were practicing shot-putting for the coming track meet.

Judge orders county to accept Scearce bid

District court has directed the board of county commissioners and the clerk and recorder to rescind their order of May 6, concerning county gasoline bids, and accept the bid of Stanley Scearce Inc. and enter into contract with it or to appear in court on May 25 and show cause why they have not done so.

Bids for supplying the county needs for gasoline, diesel fuel, lubricating oil and grease for the year were opened on May 4 and read publicly. The bid of Stanley Scearce Inc. was reported to be the lowest bid and all bids were held over until May 6 at which time the board accepted the bid of the Continental Oil Company.

Flathead Courier, May 17, 1973

Piggy bank is missing

A piggy bank, loaded with coin, was the “loot” for a thief who entered the Polson bowling alley last weekend, it is reported by Police Chief Francis Kis. Entry was made to the place by prying open the back door. The missing bank belonged to the daughter of the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Pierce.

Chief Kis is also investigating vandalism at the Park Theatre, where windows in the ticket booth were broken sometime Monday night.

Reporter joins Courier staff

New on the staff of The Flathead Courier is Virginia MacLean, a former Polson resident with many years of experience in the newspaper field. She comes here from Havre, where she held the post of wire editor on the Havre Daily News.

Mrs. MacLean is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Montana and has worked on daily newspapers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as a number of years on The Glasgow Courier in her former Montana home town.

Her duties on The Flathead Courier will include office and store work as well as news writing and feature articles.

Mission Valley News, May 17, 1971

June McClain to retire

With 29 years of teaching experience, 19 of them spent in St. Ignatius, Mrs. June McClain will retire at the end of this school year.

Before coming to St. Ignatius, she taught rural schools in Jefferson, Park and Wibaux counties, in Host Springs and Alberton.

The faculty and community will remember June for her hard work, talent, ability to organize, dedication to the job at hand and devotion to the students.

To quote one of Mrs. McClain’s students, “She’s really a sweet lady and will be missed by young and old alike.”

Too late for election

After further investigation by the county attorney, it has been determined that a trustee election cannot be held at any time but the first Saturday of April.

In view of this fact, Everitt Foust has resigned from the Charlo School Board and Richard Kerr has been appointed to serve until the next annual school election.

Postal rates to increase

Effective May 16, postal rates will be increased. Regular first-class mail will be raised from 6 cents to 8 cents and air mail from 10 cents to 11 cents.

Since the postal rate increases are only temporary, with further proposed increases in the near future, the Mission Valley News is forced to increase advertising rates, not to make more money, but just to stay even with the other price boosts.

We do this with regret, but we have no choice in the matter. A business that doesn’t show a profit simply cannot continue to exist.