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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1930
Page
8
Miss Hattie Johnson visits relatives in this city and returns to Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Market notes hogs up 35 to 50 cents top cattle 1115 dollars sheep 25 cents higher. Miss Gladys Ness returns from Billings after summer at Eastern Montana normal school.
The Deer Creek Ladies Aid hosts a chicken dinner at the Ole Birkeland ranch on August 31 at 1 p.m. Plates cost 50 and 25 cents. Services and program will follow.
THERMOPOLIS Wyo Aug 20 Mrs Robert Dent and Mrs Joe Reidle residents south of Thermopolis were instantly killed when struck by a Burlington work train while walking along the right of way. They were gathering wild berries and crossed a bridge as the train rounded a curve. Mrs Dent was thrown against a cement abutment and Mrs Reidle was carried 150 feet in front of the engine before being thrown aside. Mrs Dent's 12 year old daughter witnessed the tragedy from safety after jumping an embankment. Mrs Dent was sister of sheepmen David and James Dickie.
T F Lowry, longtime Northern Pacific official in Livingston, is named assistant general manager of lines west of Helena and Butte with Seattle headquarters. The change, effective September 1, abolishes the general superintendent post and merges districts, with Strachan moving to the eastern district based in St Paul.
A 19 state sample by the census bureau finds Alabama and Georgia With the lowest unemployment. Other states show higher rates including Nevada 3.1 percent and New York City 3.4 percent. County figures vary from Ada Idaho 0.4 percent to Lemhi 38 percent among 613 counties reported.
Charles Raymond 63, Chinese resident of Billings, was struck and killed while walking on the Billings Laurel road early Wednesday. Driver William Rivers of Laurel reported he did not see the pedestrian until eight to ten feet away. The body was thrown into a ditch. investigation deemed the accident apparently unavoidable and an inquest unlikely. Rivers will discuss details with the county attorney Thursday.
Sister St. Charles, 52, longtime head of the maternity ward at St. Joseph hospital Lewistown, died after a yearlong illness. A Rennes France native who entered the order in 1903, she came from London to Montana. Survived by two sisters, services planned at St. Leo’s Church with interment in Lewistown.
President Hoover awards Charles A. Lindbergh the congressional medal for aviation achievement in a brief White House ceremony attended by Mrs. Hoover and government officials. Lindbergh thanks Congress and the president, then guests theHoover residence for lunch and a Virginia weekend.
Senator Tydings of Maryland predicted an even chance for Democrats to win control of the Senate in November. He cited gains in several states and outlined that Democrats must flip 10 Republican-held seats to seize a 51 seat majority. He named Colorado Massachusetts Rhode Island Kentucky West Virginia Wyoming as promising, with mixed prospects in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Oregon among others.
Virginia City Mont August 14 Elks reenacted the hanging of Henry Plummer leader of the road agents during Montana's gold rush days portraying the vigilantes who eradicated the bandits.
Montana Elks assemble for the state convention in Virginia City. Five hundred members arrive with lodges from Billings Anaconda and Butte represented by drum corps while Hazeman Miles City provide bands. Events include gold rush themed pageant rodeo dances and a boxing match. Ray McVey of Libby injured in bronco accident.
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