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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1924
Page
8
Local notes show frequent Baker visitors from Plevna Ekalaka Miles City and Ridgeway. People attend Memorial Day events, creamery hours, and market trips while a Miss Ridgeway visits and a new baby born in Plevna is celebrated.
F R Savage of Miles City called on Baker merchants this week while Leora Bradshaw visited from Wyoming then to Ekalaka. Streets will get a thick scoria layer starting Tuesday June 3 per L F Burns. Harry Streeter arrived to become First National bank receiver in Baker. Burns Brothers received new Chevrolet cars now on display at the Main street garage. Local roads are praised. routes to Plevna and Ollie–Nakaska are described as fine. Henry Albert and wife visited from Ekalaka after a punctured tire incident. Milwaukee bandit “Bubbles” was returned from Miles City to Milwaukee to face charges in a separate case.
Gardiner Montana authorities announce Jorman Quinn national commander of the American Legion will participate in the opening ceremony at Yellowstone National Park on June 20. He is a friend and college classmate of Superintendent Albright and will tour the park after the program. The Legion official is to appear in Helena for the state encampment June 18 and 19 then travel to Livingston and Gardiner for park exercises from the state capital.
The Washington dispatch notes a Cleveland convention focus on a Coolidge inspired Republican platform. Voters in California and Indiana primary results position Coolidge as party leader with tax cuts expenditure restraint and agricultural aid likely. The piece cites debt reduction surpassing 4 billion and a campaign built on honesty and public service.
May 30th is declared a town Memorial Day holiday by Mayor E. G. Heinrich. All businesses are to close from 10:00 A M to noon to honor soldiers who sacrificed for the country.
Atlantic City New Jersey May 18 1924 a report from the Rural Electric Service Committee of the National Electric Light Association ahead of its convention notes electric service transforming farming. It describes an evening start plow to work overnight and notes lighter housework safer farms and a single worker replacing several. The report cites hay curing experiments in England using a heated tunnel and electric fan and suggests potential grain drying as another application.
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