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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1927
Page
8
Social news and notices from Melville Big Timber and nearby towns. Births and marriages announced, visitors and travels noted, shows postponed, school staff changes, and local business deliveries listed. Names include McQuillan Plaggemeier Bickford Goodrich Tjaaland Miles Carvin Nye Wullam Drivdahl Wagner and others.
Direct from the grower listing Concord grapes at 20th, price 1.60 per box, five boxes. Express prepaid to Big Timber and nearby points at 8.00, mail adds per box, extra charges apply, seller Volland based in Kennewick Washington.
Sheriff F B McFarlane was killed and Undersheriff Ed Goodfellow badly injured when the county car overturns on Warm Springs road four miles east of Thermopolis while en route to serve a warrant. McFarlane had just begun a second term after succeeding Scott Hazen, amid a political fight that followed Hazen's ouster.
Details of a rodeo weekend show game fights between booth workers, a false fire alarm injuring a gypsy fortune teller, and a $100 settlement offer rejected by a woman seeking damages. Winners listed: Day one bronc riding Bill Smith first, Paul L. Van Cleve Jr. first goat roping, Doris Bryant top in ladies half mile. day two results include Stanley Rudd bronc, Marion McDowell goat roping, finals bronco riding led by Bill Smith.
In Pittsburgh two murderers Paul Jaworski and John Vasbinder escaped from Allegheny county jail with aid from a two gunman. They fired on guards wounding two and fled in a parked car after seizing keys from a bookkeeper. Police seek the third conspirator wanted in Detroit for a murder.
Licentan confessed to payroll robberies tied to the Coverdale raid in which 102000 was stolen after an armored car was destroyed by a mined highway blast. Joe Wekockijn, a Bentleyville farmer, was arrested as loot was recovered. Licentan, calling himself a squealer, urged the chair at trial for murder of a payroll guard.
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