Josie and Shane have chosen the name Madison Mae for their beautiful new girl born at Benefis Hospitals.

Madison
Names Origin: English, Teutonic
Name's original meaning: "Child of Matthew"

Weight: 7 pounds, 7 ounces ounces
Length: 21 1/4 inches
Time: 5:45 a.m.
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Delivered by: Thomas C. Key, M.D.
Baby's doctor: Deborah M. Garrity, M.D.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 A Day To Remember

Sunrise and sunset:

• 6:51 a.m. a.m.
• 4:59 p.m. p.m.

Local weather:

• Great Falls high: 71° F
• Great Falls low: 40° F

The nation's weather extremes:

• High: 93° F at Mesa, Ariz.
• Low: -15° F at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska

• 9,802.14

Your dollar's worth

• Loaf of bread: $2.49
• Gallon of milk: $3.85
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.50
• First-class stamp: $0.44
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $155,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

• 1942 - Paul Simon - American popular music icon whose career yielded a tremendous number of hit songs from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "Graceland."
• 1912 - Roy Rogers - American actor and "King of the Cowboys" who starred in some 85 western movies and two popular TV series.
• 1893 - Raymond Loewy - American engineer responsible for much of the streamline packaging of a wide array of products including busses, automobiles, toothbrushes, ball-point pens, and the Coca-Cola bottle.
• 1818 - Benjamin F. Butler - Governor of Massachusetts, Union General during the Civil War, and Presidential candidate who supported the 8-hour work day and anti-monopoly legislation.

Other notable events on this day in history:

• 1935 - Parker Brothers introduced what would become the most enduringly popular board game in history, "Monopoly."
• 1895 - Sixteen years after applying for a patent, George B. Selden was granted patent #549,160, recognizing him as "inventor" of the automobile.
• 1872 - Women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony led a group of women to the polls in Rochester, New York, to test the right of women to vote. Though arrested and fined, her actions would lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded that he learned of a new food, corn, from the Indians of Cuba.