Midland Empire Fair and Rodeo opens at Billings in 1949
The Midland Empire Fair and Rodeo in Billings Montana begins August 8 1949 for six days. Highlights include livestock exhibits 4 H and FFA projects farm machinery commercial displays horse races circus acts rodeo events and a Crow Indian village with a grand revue featuring Water Ballet Zacchini Sisters cannons and Barnes Carruthers musicals.
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Billings
Montana
Farmers of America
Billings Commercial Club
West
Oral Zumwalt
Wolf Creek
Leo Cremer
Pari-Mutuels
Duffield
Art Briese
Zacchini
Liebrand Bros
Emmett Vaughn
R. A. Latham
Harry L. Fitton
Reed Point Notes Weekend Socials Across Towns
A long list of social visits and travels from Reed Point area residents. Families from Hamilton City Fargo Billings and Billings area circulated between homes in Livingston Bozeman Fishtail and Ryegate. Visitors included the Backe Lamb McBride Holmes Sibbit Berry and Broadwater families with relatives noted in several towns.
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Pete Zeeb
Hamilton City
Calif
Walter McBride
FE. J. Backe
Janis, Arlene
Kathy Jo
Fargo
Bozeman
Gordon Ford
Roy Severin
Mabel Ford
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Len Huff
Winnipeg
Can
Norman Hubner
Glen Bain
Adolph Janke
Waldh
Waldo Brobroski
Moris
Manitoba
W. D. McBride
Loyd Sibbit
Billings
Arthur Sibbit
Loyd Berry
Pete Berry
Ryegate
al Holmes
Wilbur Holmes
Fishtail
Nettie Lamb
E. J. Backe
Mary Ann Berrie
Don Lamb
Mae Severin
Melvin Peterson
Gallatin Canyon
Oscar Peterson
Ed Langhorst
Nia Ostenson
Charles Broadwater
Betty
Safer Air Travel Cited By National Safety Council
The 1948 figures show airline travel was 40 percent safer than car travel. Two point one automobile fatalities per hundred million miles versus one point three per hundred million passenger miles on scheduled airliners. As of now, no passenger deaths on 35 certified airlines have occurred in over ten months, with over six billion passenger miles flown.
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National Safety Council
Auto Crash Near Barber Sends Couple to Ranch Home
Sunday night an automobile carrying a man and his wife to their ranch home south of Barber ran out of control and overturned. The couple were injured in the crash with details not disclosed.
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Barber
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Gloria Gilbert
Midland Empire Fair
Midland Empire
REED
Siegler
Cotsee ‘Stores
Palmer Finsvik Agency
Insurance Service
C. H. (Buck
East
No. 2Nd St
Livingston
Postoffice
Desoto
Plymouth
John Yarroch
Harlowton
Citizens Bank and
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wrecker Service
McIntyre Motor Sales
Balleon Tire
Travis
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