Food debate in Senate targets food speculators and prices
Washington May 2 rising sentiment in congress for food legislation opened in the senate with concerns over seed prices. Senators Williams Nelson McCumber and Borah attacked speculators and packers earning profits while denying a staple-food shortage. Johnson Williams warned against hysteria and urged action against profiteers.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
United States
John Sharp Williams
New York
Williams
Nelson
McCumber
Thomas
Borah
Colorado
Woman's Club Meeting on Local Color in Eastern Fiction
The Woman's club will meet in the library on Wednesday afternoon in May under the literature and library department. Chairman T K Bishop will direct the program with the topic Local Color in Eastern American Fiction. Several items of special interest to Basin ladies are planned.
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Woman's Club
Department of Literature and Libary
T. K. Bishop
Basin
Otto man Dave Young pledges largest crop to feed Basin
Dave Young of Otto stopped in Basin on Wednesday to handle business and said he is planting the largest crop ever to help feed Basin residents.
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Dave Young
Otto
Basin
New Fe and Is%e Store to Open in Basin
New store to open about May 19 in the vacant Stine building with L E Deck as owner arriving from the east to arrange stock. Deck plans a top quality western store, with Greybull and Worland branches to follow in July and August. Mrs Deck assists and a music department led by Miss Marguerite Ellinger will offer popular and secular music.
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Stine
L. E. Deck
Deck
Greybull
Worland
Basin Motion Pictures Featured In Basin
Beverly B. Dobbs of Seattle captured moving pictures in Basin area showing Basin as oil business center and Basin region sites. The New England schools educational features and Basin area work including Elk Basin Greybull Frannie and Basin will be shown.
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Beverly B. Dobbs
Seattle
Wash
Dobbs
New England
Montana
Great Falls
Basin
Big Horn Basin
Elk Basin
Greybull
Frannie and
Alaska
Siberia
President Anderson to inspect Basin Alfalfa Milling Co.
President Anderson of Basin Alfalfa Milling Co. travels from Kansas City to review local alfalfa operations. The firm, two years in Ble Horn Basin, offered farmers better prices and backed contracts, but faces relocation to Colorado unless community support keeps it in the area.
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Anderson
The
Basin Alfalfa Milling Co
Kansas City
Ble Horn Pasin
Colorado
National Baby Week observance in Basin this Saturday
The Basin Woman's Club schedules a Big Horn theatre community meeting on May 12 featuring a 2:30 matinee of a child welfare film and a 3:45 program with music. Admission is five and ten cents for the matinee, but the program is free. Children on the street after the matinee will be asked to leave to accommodate adults.
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Woman's Club
Big Horn Theatre
Brigham Buys In at Loveland Transfer Co
Bert Brigham purchased a half interest in the Loveland Transfer Co and will help run it. He previously lived in Basin, moved to Montana in 1911 to farm, then returned two weeks ago. Mrs. Brigham arrived last week and they are now permanently located in Basin.
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Bert Brigham
Loveland Transfer Co
Basin
Montana
Brigham
Early Settler Dead in Hyattville
Mrs. E. M. Sig, aged fifty one, died at her Hyattville home after a fall from a load of hay two weeks earlier. A pioneer of the Big Horn Basin since 1591 she is survived by her husband and several sons and daughters. Funeral services were held at the Hyattville home Thursday afternoon.
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Big Horn Basin
E. M. Sig
Hyattville
Arbor Day Exercises Set At High School
Next Wednesday afternoon Arbor Day events will be held at the high school. Several prominent men will speak and a fine program is planned. Mr Moor will explain summer work for students and how the gardens are to be kept.
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Moor
Woodmen Meeting in Cody Elects Officers
William Gibson attended the Modern Woodmen meeting in Cody where delegates from northern areas gathered and officers were chosen. A full report will appear in next week's issue.
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Wm. Gibson
Cody
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J. R. Bonwell
Republican
Simmons
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