Local notices and updates from Big Timber area
Local items report visitors from Gibson Reed Point Minneapolis Melville and Billings. Oil well progress at Gibson drills 1 500 feet. Street grading resumes. two night policemen under new ordinance. Births and deaths for November total six and five respectively. Thanksgiving guests and local visits noted. Lutheran Ladies Aid apron sale announced. A political quote references opposition to senatorial status.
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Big Timber
A. P. O'Leary
Trower
Livingston
Fred Ellison
Ellison
A. G. Davidson
Hard Time Dance Set At Howie Schoolhouse
Saturday December 12 hosts a hard time dance at Howie schoolhouse with music by Versatile Orchestra. Everybody welcome from 4 to 11 P M.
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Howie Schoolhouse
Versatile
Farmers May Be Next On Walk Out Orders
Washington dispatch reports Representative Boies of Town warns farmers may strike against tariffs and manufacturers if Congress fails to provide relief. He says agriculture is distressed as prices fall while freight and interest rates and input costs remain high.
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Washington
Boies
Congress
Dawes Seeks Senate Rules Reform Support at Chicago Rally
Vice President Charles G. Dawes addressed the Women’s Roosevelt Republican clubs in Chicago urging majority cloture to curb filibusters. Senators Charles S. Deneen and William R. McKinley publicly backed his reform plan as Dawes warned non supporters risked re election.
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Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
Senate
Charles S. Deneen
William RB. McKinley
Dawes
Roosevelt Republican Club
Republican Clubs
Tlinois
McKinley
Stillwater County Man Dethrones Canadian King
The article reports multiple livestock and agricultural show results from the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Winners include King of Fairies owned by the Prince of Wales in Shorthorn class 1, Oakdale Stanmore in class 2, and Vinte Hill Challenger in class 3. Montana claimed barley and oats titles, with Victor Mont. residents Petersons winning barley and oats honors. The show highlighted corn, hay, and stallion championships, and featured a farm girl award for Frances Smith of Geary Oklahoma.
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Smith
Corvallis
Mont
L. E. Peterson
Victor
Gabriel Lien
Absarokee
C. Ivan Gustaffson
Paul Campbell
Denton
Knute Lien
C. E. Troyer
la Fontaine
Ind
Leroy Kirby
Sims
Walter Sylvester
Columbus
King of Fairies
Prince of Wales
Oakdale Stanmore
Joseph Miller’s Sons
Granger
Vinte Hill Challenger
Buckland Hall Farm
Nokesville
Chicago
R. V. Peterson
L. F E. Peterson
Victor,Mont
BR. W. Peterson
Michigan
Arthur W. Jewett, Jr
Mah Jong
Iowa State College
Bushnell Bohemian
Trumans Pioneer Stud Farm
Bushnell
Hobbs Bohemian
J. C. Moore
Rushville, Jr
Oklahoma
Wayne Wheeler Defends Prohibition Amid Canada Claim
Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League denounces the Moderation League report asserting the Volstead Act failed to curb temperance. He repeats the Canada origin charge as a decoy by liquor interests. The Methodist Episcopal board concurs the report shows propaganda undermining prohibition’s gains.
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Washington
Moderation League, Inc
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Moderation League
Canada
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Thousands Pay Tribute to Bishop J. P. Carroll
Thousands gathered in the northwest for the funeral of Bishop J. P. Carroll as Catholic and Protestant mourners filled the cathedral. Dignitaries, missionary priests, Sisters of Charity, and Knights of Columbus attended the pontifical mass, creating a solemn, awe filled atmosphere.
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Sisters of Charity
St. John’s Hospital
Guard of Honor
Knights of Columbus
Veterans lead procession into cathedral for funeral rites
The Stars and Stripes led the dignitaries into the cathedral at 10 15 as the procession entered the temple. Disabled Veterans of Foreign Wars bore the flag with a color guard while veterans took seats, three stray heifers branded on right ribs noted in the text.
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Lydi Gates
Big Timber
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Sam Bly
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Elton
Minneapolis
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W. H. Donald
Miss Elliott
George W. Briley
Helen
Sweet Grass County
Billings
Harry Austin
Dominick Stevens
Lodge Grass
J. G. McComas
J. F
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J. J. Forewald
Earl Green
Roy Flattum
Grand Forks
N. 1
O. A. Nepstad
Clarence Flattum
Nepstad & Flattum
Grey Cliff
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Motor Inn
Neen
Wadsworth
New York
United States Senate
Phoenix
McDonald
City Meat Market
Stillwater County
Big Timber Pharmacy
Wayne Wheeler
J. P. Carroll
Sawyer
Sidney
Sawyer Inc
Sawyer’s
Sawyers
Rex
Xmas
Tbs
Drayman
J.m.sawyer
Conrany
al Bedoo Patrol
Masonic Hall
Railway Club Orchestra
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