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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
2
Lost-Black bald faced gelding near McLeod Montana, coming five years old, about 1400 pounds, branded on the left shoulder. Nicholson Bros. McLeod, Mont. 41-31.
Standard gauge galvanized barbed wire and staples offered at Hickman Hardware for 4.15 dollars per 8 red spools.
Melville Miss Hattie Johnson visited in Big Timber from the ranch on Friday. Merle Negles spent Friday afternoon with Clinton Green. Edna Negles visited Sunday with Sadie QJson and Maude Dailey. Adam Negles and daughters Edna and Lucille were in Big Timber late last week. Edna Landgreen of Tacy and Melbre Hughie of Gibson joined Melville friends on Wednesday afternoon.
Unknown assailants attempted to wreck the Idaho street building owned by Senator F A Hazelbaker and housing the Southern Montana Abstract Title Co offices. Six sticks of hazardous material were tossed at a window. the fuse failed to burn and the cap did not explode. The device fell outside, discovered by porter Andy Snell and later reported to Sheriff Mooney. Authorities conducted a wide search but made no arrests.
President Coolidge makes a Vermont swing from Swampscott to Plymouth to see his aged father amid rain soaked roads. He stops at Camp Devens to greet his son and visits the grave of Calvin Coolidge Sr. at Proctorsville before returning to Proctorville for a cemetery visit with family.
Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire won the Republican nomination for the unexpired U S Senate term at the Wisconsin convention on the fourth ballot. The race featured Wilcox against W L Pieplow and briefly George W Blanchard before Wilcox secured rising county support.
Wealthy St. Louis businessman Thomas Fisher Lawrence and Mrs. Julia Gruner were caught in a room at a Lake Shore Drive hotel by Mrs. Lawrence and detectives. They faced morals court on statutory and disorderly conduct charges, submitted to blood tests, and posted bond of 1500 each. Mrs. Lawrence, once married to George M. Pullman Jr., left the room with a crowd of cameramen waiting outside.
A study from Armour's live stock bureau reports a westward shift in livestock production. Hog numbers are down nationwide since the war, while the northwest and mountain states show larger swine herds. Beef cattle rise in the far west and in the wheat and corn belts. Sheep farming declines continue for over a decade. only the southwest and wheat belt exceed prewar sheep levels.
The 1897 holiday edition notes T. T. Prather born 1844 in Felicity Ohio served in the First Oregon Volunteers, married Lucinda Merriman, moved to Montana in 1882 with two children Kate and Thomas. After their deaths the ranch passed to George Campbell, famed for hay and stock and a growing hog operation along the Northern Pacific line.
J C Tintinger visits from Absarokee and a birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. P H Beecken. Telegrapher strike slows messages to Billings. Laurel prosperity noted. Water works head Mr. Johnson plans December water service. council adopts auto speed limit and fire district rules. Marriage of William Christie to Gertrude Roth, county fair exhibits, and a five hundred party for Miss Eline Adam are highlighted with local civic notes.
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