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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
8
J A Meeke serves as pastor and leads Sunday School at 10 a m. Morning worship at 7 a m with Epworth League and a 7 45 p m evening service.
Morning worship at 11. Y.P.S. C. E. at 7 15 P.M. Evening service at 8. The morning sermon titled A sharp bargain A hearty welcome is extended to all to attend these meetings.
E A Erickson pastor. August schedule lists Sunday school on August 15 at 1 30 and services at Howie school house at p m. On August 22 services in Big Timber at 230 pm and August 29 services in Melville settlement.
St Marks Episcopal Church led by Rev. C. W. MacWilliams will not hold further services until September. Sunday School will meet each Sunday.
Switzerland rejects idle men and forces labor with harsh pay and penalties. District authorities assign hard labor jobs at minimal wages. refusal risks a penal workhouse under military discipline. Unemployed men carry work papers and must seek jobs. relief stations aid only active, previously employed individuals.
The Detroit News recounts how General Andrew Jackson earned the nickname Old Hickory during the Creek War. Captain William Allen and brother built a hickory shelter for Jackson, who slept in a muddy, tentless bivouac amid sleet. A drunken man kicked the shelter the next morning, shouting Hello Old Hickory.
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, stands out as a cosmopolitan hub with notable Latino population and diverse domestic architecture. The city rivals Paris and Berlin in finish, supports urban beauty with a gold medal program for facades, and lacks North American style skylines for a uniform, finished appearance.
A London Express tale recounts Lord Sheffield bragging that no one can steal from him without notice. His pocket handkerchief dangled from his pocket and a friend diverted attention. Sheffield accused a passerby of theft, seized him, only to have the handkerchief produced and the joke revealed. The man was freed, but the pocketbook was later found missing.
A noted scholar travels to Berlin to study the term juggins. While storing furniture, he learns a Berlin warehouse letter warns of a moth in his mattress and its destruction to protect others. He replies that his mattress may have had a moth but also an e.
In a Washington Star snippet, Mr. Comrox remarks on fine scores attributed to Herr Ratonrap per during a calm artistic talk, but his wife corrects him that the discussion was about music not baseball.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip prompts a light exchange about weather and umbrellas. The Big Timber Pioneer carries a Life section advertisement inviting readers to place notices or ads.
Bozeman Montana advertises courses in Preparatory Bookkeeping Higher Accounting Shorthand Typewriting and Penmanship. A new well equipped school building with the best teachers invites prospective students to view the circular for details.
Civil engineers say a 10 million pound vertical compression tester, to be built in Philadelphia for the U S Geological Survey, would reveal bridge weaknesses earlier and prevent disasters like the Quebec bridge collapse. The device, over 200 tons, aims to test entire columns of brick, stone, concrete and steel, with plans for an even larger 11 000 ton capacity bill in Congress.
Federal experts warn that U S fire losses in 1909 will exceed all but the Baltimore and San Francisco fires. Fort Worth and Rochester report the largest damages, with calls for fireproof construction and government safety measures.
A Kentucky farm area where Jefferson Davis was born has been bought by a southerners federation. The site will be turned into a park to preserve the memory of the president of the Confederacy.
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