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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
8
Community visitors and family news fill the column. Births, illnesses, travel to Billings and Yellowstone Park, and gatherings at homes of Moler Moore and Hiner families illustrate a bustling Reed Point social scene with multiple trips to Billings for programs and care.
Old timers recall Charles Cottle owner of the Billings ranch above McLeod after ranger George Marley found 16 lead penned rocks in a Turban geyser basin bowl in Yellowstone. Each rock lists a name with dates from 1872 to 1881, including Cottle August 3 1881. Cottle died in California. his niece Miss Alice Hight also lives in California.
At Yellowstone Park on August 9 a sleeping giant geyser shot a boiling water column over 200 feet high for an hour and a half, drawing thousands of tourists. Ranger naturalists expect another eruption soon. Nearby a second geyser, idle for over a year, spouted 20 to 40 feet high for six minutes, delivering an estimated 40,000 gallons.
Seattle August 9 John B Strickland 43 year old unemployed convalescent leaped 175 feet to his death Friday night from the Aurora bridge into Lake Union ship canal before hundreds of commuters He died before a physician arrived Strickland was a former paralytic inmate of Georgetown Hospital and had recently been released from an institution for the aged He is survived by two children Mrs Grace Cathey of Wilson N C
Mrs D Kenfeld led devotions for a Reed Point W M S ship log style program titled Ship's Log Maiden Voyage. Flight from West Indies to Alaska featured logs prayers reports committee notes and a coffee break with refreshments provided by Mrs Harry Schmitt. Present were Mesdames Schmitt Nate Rash Poundstone Van Campen Bacon McBride Swift Fraser Lay McLean Peterson Sibbitt Neumann Groth Ostenson Geraldine Neumann Marlow and Rev and Mrs A Roukema.
Estelle Fraser Johnson and Theodore Thompson are remodeling a house. Ike and Willie Lay attended the fair Tuesday. Evalyn Tucker of Big Timber is visiting Beulah Terand. Jay Herrick stayed with Henry Hausserman in recent days. Temperatures reached 100 degrees this week, 102 on Monday. Sidney Fraser Sr and Jr with family were Sunday guests at Stanley Fraser’s in Harlowton. CO P Terland returned from Washington with Mrs Terland to visit daughter Agnes, who will host a longer stay. Mrs Henry Hausserman and her mother Mrs Ike Lay joined Mr and Mrs Sidney Fraser Sr in Bozeman for Martha Almanac’s funeral.
William S. Knudsen reported to the nation that U S war plane production reached about 900 monthly and would rise to 1 500 by January with steady growth afterward. He noted 56 800 workers in January and about 75 000 today, including planes built for Britain.
Florence Arizona August 9 Robert Burgunder 23 confessed to killing two Phoenix car salesmen FE B Jack Peterson and Ellis M Koury before dying in the state prison lethal gas chamber. He said he would take the death rather than lengthy imprisonment and later named a companion as the actual slayer.
Wendell Willkie accused Democratic officials of continuing illegal campaign book advertising practices by pressuring corporations to buy ads. He warned that if elected he would prosecute all involved under the federal corrupt practices act and the Hatch Act, with no favoritism in enforcement.
The known fatalities from Sunday's hurricane rose to 35 as rescue crews expanded their search along the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The Red Cross reported multiple Black victims on Ladies Island and St Helena, with Beaufort County hardest hit and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged.
President Roosevelt completed a three day New England swing with a review of the $10 billion defense program in the industrial northeast. He cited progress toward full readiness while inspecting the Groton Electric Boat submarine plant and the local submarine base before departing for Washington.
In Shanghai on August 14 Admiral Hart of the US Asiatic Fleet arrived from Tsingtao amid Japanese demands to control the British defense zone in the international settlement. Britain plans troop withdrawal, elevating Rear Admiral Takeda, but Hart, outranking him, may lead Thursday’s meeting on reassigning the sector. Tang Leang Li urged US withdrawal of the fourth marine regiment.
The forgery case centers on a man who altered a bank statement for Mrs. Laybourne and sent it from Bozeman. He appeared in Helena to present a 647 draft, triggering bank officials to alert authorities. He fled after disclosures and cashed two more forged checks totaling 233 dollars. He drove a 1939 Ford V eight with Minnesota plates and faces state and federal charges for forgery and mail fraud.
A formal notice states that the signer will not be responsible for debts contracted by anyone other than themselves, identifying Francis McKenzie as the principal signer.
The Lions club hosts a dance on November 5 with results announced progressively during the evening. A 43 to 21 score is noted in the fragment.
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