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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
8
Local notes cover visitors and residents from Billings to Laurel with trips to Central Park and the Boulder outing. Families like the Schuyler and Geiger clans travel through Missoulian stops while dances at the gym and harvest activities loom. The school year nears as staff assignments are posted and repairs occur at the gym and high school.
Holiday Monday Labor Day means banks post offices and the courthouse and all stores will be closed. Divorce started Katherine M Ball of Big Timber files in Park county district court alleging her husband Norman O Ball was convicted of a felony in 1940 and sentenced to a federal penitentiary. Old friends meet Livingston Enterprise editor Robert E Miller and attorney John N MacFarlane recall Bainville school days. Musselshell river reports low flow with 17 second feet at Harlowton and none at Mosby. Leonard Benson injured when dump truck toppled on gravel pile near Big Timber. Dave Bell of Butte fined 100 for drunken driving in Livingston court. Small fire in Crazy mountains contained with lightning sparked tree blaze. Mrs. Ella Break dies at 68 in Livingston Park hospital. funeral at St Marys. longtime organist and community volunteer.
Minshalls from McComb and Mrs. Deevis of Sciota visited Mrs. Arthur Minshall near Melville to take home Mary Alice and George Edie after several weeks as guests. Mrs. Perry and Peggy left East Lansing after two weeks with sister Mrs. Utermohle and father J. T. Bradshaw, with a side trip to Great Falls. Lonnie Bryan, Big Timber postmaster, tops trout derby in Livingston per an INS report carried by a Los Angeles paper, boosting the prize to 1334 pounds. Ray Beck of the Pioneer moves to Harlowton for a better job. son Dale plans a school tryout next week at home of Albert Esp.
Helena Aug 25 J S McFarland state fish and game warden said the commission will promulgate trapping rules at its September 8 meeting. Under 1941 law the commission need not ratify migratory waterfowl seasons set by the U S interior department. Montana duck season starts October 1 and runs 60 days.
Frank Jennings and Jack Hinman of Livingston helped the injured reach Chico Hot Springs hospital and Burtus to Livingston for treatment. John W. Kirkwood, known for building the Statler ditch, served as sheriff in 1909 and later worked at Big Timber Supply House before moving to Pray. Dr. L. H. Townsend cared for the group at Chico and reported recovery progress.
Arthur Mueller describes a night attack at sea with shells tearing into the vessel. He and John Ryan helped drag a wounded crewman to safety as the boat sank. After abandoning ship, 352 passengers were moved to a supply vessel and later reached Biarritz then Guare de L est before traveling via Paris and Lisbon to return to America.
Big Timber residents visit family and neighbors while adverse weather slows haying. Rain on Tuesday and Wednesday delays threshing but improves conditions for fall range. Local residents O P Terland returns from Billings hospital after two weeks. A guest from Melville Freda Frey stays with Fred Hausserman. Parks brothers depart Everett Washington after summer with aunt. Gertrude George travels from California to New Jersey, spending one night with Sidney Fraser Sr.
Charles Doherty of Missoula elected president of the Montana State Press association at the fifty sixth annual convention in Bozeman. New officers include W L Flinn Miles City first vice president Frank Whetstone Cat Bank second vice president W O Ensign Deer Lodge third vice president and Mrs Nellie T Cheely Great Falls honorary vice president. The Laurel Outlook named best weekly paper. Dawson County Review second. Best front page awards went to Boulder Monitor and Bozeman Courier. Outlook also won best editor page while Harlowton Times took second.
Secretary of War Stimson and General Marshall toured Glacier National Park, revisiting peaks Stimson first climbed in 1891. The pair, planning an overnight stay, did not announce departure details as their park visit continued.
A late Thursday fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Western Montana fair grandstand, a cattle barn, 21 cars and the Flathead tepee village in Missoula. Most livestock and exhibits were lost. no lives were reported, with estimated damages exceeding 100000 dollars. Officials planned rebuilding to resume the show. Robert Young, agricultural superintendent, said new exhibits would replace destroyed ones.
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