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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
3
In Emigrant Gulch Montana a 1878 Fridley dance broke up after a rogue toppled pepper on the floor, causing sneezes to drown out the band. The incident inspired George Reese to write the Pepper Song later sung by pioneers and neighbors for decades.
Gilbert Parker and his wife recall Calamity Jane's August 1903 funeral procession in Deadwood South Dakota. More than 10 000 people crowded the Methodist church where she was buried in a plain black dress. He recounts Jane's reform attempt by a New York philanthropist and her 1901 Buffalo exposition party with western friends.
A. L. Thompson of Glendive resigns as court reporter for the Glendive district to join Judge Albert Besancon in Missoula after the death of Derwood Washington. Thompson, a 1921 appointee, previously served 17 years with Judge Frank P. Leiper. Otto Habedank replaces him in Glendive, moving from the Yellowstone division stenographic post.
A 67 year old account recounts a Virginia City stagecoach robbery involving McKinney McCausland Parker Dew man Brown Carpenter and others with about 60000 in gold dust. Beidler notes the escape attempt the brutal shooting and the Vigilance Committee response including driver Frank Williams quitting and ultimately Williams arrest near Denver.
The Salish and Kootenai tribes exchanged sixteen thousand dollars of Flathead Indian timber for 1 953 acres of rangeland adjoining the Flathead reservation in Montana. The Bruns ranch was the seller H A Bruns. The purchase increased the reservation area to 500 000 acres.
Grace Jean Wheeler of Ronan, a sophomore, rose from drouth-hit eastern life to attend Montana State University. She helped form a private semidormitory with 11 girls, earned NYA work, and supported herself while maintaining an A average. Now she has been elected president of the Sophomore Women's Honorary society.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Poad of Helena celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at home after fifty years of residence. Poads father Elisha Poad arrived in 1866 and helped establish Helena's first water system by piping a cold spring to the city. The couple were married at Eagle Rock Idaho on November 12.
Mrs. Henrietta Crockett executive secretary of the Montana Tuberculosis Association says a statewide drive is underway to build a new unit at the Galen Montana sanitarium to bolster tuberculosis care and facilities.
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