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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
2
The Montana state beer control board received letters from eastern communities asking if law forbids beer parlors within 1000 feet of churches. The board replied that no such restriction exists.
Montana State College extension dairy specialist J O Tretsven reports Montana dairy herd associations raised average milk production from 17 761 to 8 279 pounds and butterfat from 289 to 311 pounds between 1928 and 1934 while noting 1932 33 as a banner year. The Montana figures exceed US averages and show income over feed costs rising from 69 to 84 dollars, with fixed costs about half of milk production costs.
Dr. Henry Schmitz of Chicago and Loyola University gynecology professor visited Roundup recently. He met with former student Dr. Arthur A. Bennett and was en route to Great Falls for a consultation. Schmitz specializes in radiology and radium cancer treatments and operates a large 4 ray machine. He spends vacations on East Roschud each year.
Glacier park drew 63 042 visitors by July 31 with 58 679 traveling by car and 2 054 by rail. Officials credit the hot hinterlands season for boosting attendance above 1934 figures, the previous record. More than 17 500 automobiles were checked at park entrances.
The Montana board of examiners awarded the Galen sanitarium dormitory construction to Lovering and Longbotham of St Paul for 17774 dollars, the lowest bid among two.
The Denver USDA reports feeder lambs in western Montana at 5.75 to 6.00 per hundredweight with general bids around 6.00. Wyoming bids for fall delivery reach 6.00 per hundredweight as 25,000 white face wether lambs are contracted for October delivery amid dry ranges and scattered showers in the southeast.
Claims totaling over 600000 against the defunct H B Lake company may be settled for about 25000. Referee proposes 10000 to settle the 473392 39 claim of Louis B ONeil and 84980 62 plus cancellation of two notes totaling 15000 for Kenneth Frazer 152422 58. W S Cameron trustee backs the settlement to Referee A H Gray. Lake once led the firm and is serving a five year term in state prison after Great Falls suspension of business on April 12 1933.
The timber fire on the Blackfeet Indian reservation near Glacier park was brought under control after two windy days. Crews were reduced as the blaze, mainly on the reservation, burned about 4 950 acres with numerous spot fires caused by windborne embers.
James Crick of Spokane submitted the lowest bid of 78 thousand 498 dollars 85 cents for the Pleasant valley highway section in northwestern Montana. Six bids were opened by the Public Roads Bureau with Clifton & Applegate of Spokane second and Basil Hunt of Butte third. The project covers five miles of grading between Kalispell and Libby plus minor bridgework.
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