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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
2
A beautiful bungalow style upright piano is left at Dig Tim ber. It is described as a real gem for someone who can claim it. Interested parties should inquire at the Fioneer office.
1680 acre sheep or cattle ranch for sale. Cook Hotel. All pasture for stock up to per head. 1 per month. W. M. Sandanesse, Melville, Monat. See Big Timber Supply Neuse for herdware beaters and range and farm implements of all kinds. NOTICE The board of trustees of School District No. 1 Sweet Grass county passed a resolution to charge 250 tuition for the term 1928 1998 to all pupils from ocat lying districts who desire to attend the schools of District No.1. This tuition must be paid in advance.
Ordinance No. 160 fixes the fiscal year 1929 1990 tax rates on all taxable property within Big Timber Montana. It sets general purposes at fifteen mills including street lighting, Carnegie library at one and a half mills, city parks at one and a half mills, and a sinking fund for the water works at two mills. Passed and approved August 5 1928, attested by Mayor A P O Leary. Pub August 15 1929.
Senate leaders agree to a three day recess pattern through September 3 delaying floor action on the tariff bill. Senator Watson says the finance committee will finish rate and free list revisions by Aug. 19 then Democrats will review administrative provisions before a September floor vote. The committee kept crude oil and by products like gasoline on the free list as revised to allow U.S. autos bought abroad to return duty free.
Albert Baschko, an 18 year old German apprentice baker, who stowed away on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen, was sent back to Germany aboard the liner Thuringia. He will have crossed the Atlantic twice and flown once without seeing the ocean, locked in a detention cell during the voyage.
Mr and Mrs James Mann welcomed a baby girl. Ferguson and wife of Laurel visited here. Mrs Zillah Malone spent time with her brother Rom Hiner and family. C E Stewart and son Ned completed a Yellowstone trip. Wheat crops show 15 bushels per acre. spring wheat short. Reobol injured last Wednesday after horse incident. Farmers plan large fall wheat acreage with sweet clover nursery. Virgil West and Frank Meacham families enjoyed Stillwater canyon outing. Ches FE Beaver and wife visited after coast trip. Reed Point lamb pool to sell about October 1, committee to appoint weighers for ~1700 head. Lavern Best injured running over by Hoffman's truck. Joe Hoffman bought DeFrance home. Walter to farm East White Beaver holdings. Reed Point school opens September 9 with faculty Mann, Adams, Allen, Nerison, Peters, Litzenberger, McDonald. School buildings cleaned and prepared for start.
A parade of local news from Gibson and nearby Big Timber includes births visits and sickness. A new daughter arrived at the John Viets home on August 8. The Shawmut to Gibson mail route began with W C Rowsey as carrier. Willie Hulin and Helen Walters wed in Big Timber with plans to travel east.
A $250 reward is offered for information leading to the first conviction of any person stealing horses or cattle belonging to a paid up member of the Sweet Grass Stock Growers Association on the protected Net Grant Bishir, Secretary, 10 t1 Hanters Hot Springs.
January M 1806 issue notes Big Timber Pioneer details including subscription rates and official paper status. Advertisements list Hood s Sarsaparilla and Hood s pills cures, Dr A Owen electric appliances, and various goods from fur and lumber to medicines.
Governor Norris chose Thomas Martin Swindlehurst of Livingston for secretary of state to succeed the late A N Yoder. Swindlehurst, born in Richmond Canada in 1870, has long served in Montana politics and business, previously in real estate and insurance, and as assistant postmaster. The term runs to January 1, 1917.
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