Absarokee and Columbus Notes Highlight Local Life
Local items list visits and travels of residents from Reed Point to Absarokee Columbus Billings and Mulvane. Fundraising by S. B. M. Library club totals 62.25 dollars. School honor roll and PTA meeting details mark community activity with dances dinners and nurse milestones.
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L. L. Walker
James Baxter
Absarokee
Petrine Peterson
Oscar
Columbus
Red Cross
S. B. M. Library Club
E. J. Schroeder
Billings
A. Roukema
Oral Blankenship
Mulvane
Kan
Denver
Donald Lamb
Homestake
George Ballard C Bare
Phillip
Joe
Business College
F A Huntley
Peggy
Walt Whitford
George Marand
Monay
Lyle VanLeare
Irve Rash
John Rash
Helen
Grant Orth
Acme
Wyo
T. H. Deckert
Frank
Bess
Cecelia Deeney
Jean Hill
Madge Petrie
Perry
Marie Moler
Columnbus Catholic Church
Dvorothy Bacon
Sheridan, Wryo
Nurses School
Ralph Eudaily
Jemima Harper
Bess Deeney
Ila Ostenson
A. P
O. E. Schuyler
F. C
George Berrie
Leslie Booth
Tucumcari
N. M
William Langford
Frank Meacham
Rod and Gun Club
Vinton Guthrie
Vinton
Lewis Guthrie
Raleigh Brumfield
Maryann Bernice
Claiborn
Big Timber
Babe
Sid Taylor
P. A. Huntley
Roy Lamb
James Friend, Sr
Milo Collins
Nettie
Walter Lamb
Westerhaus
Floyd Ferguson
Frank Itford
Sibbitt
Shutes
Wayne Eder
Seibert
Kenneth Goddard
A. P. Brumfield
Eudaily
George Deeney
Perry Moler
McKeith
R. S. Fudaily
Mary Ann Berrie
Stanley Weamer
Barbara Nute
Tom Schuyler
Lloyd Booth
Phylis Groth
Alton Smith
Weslie Imlay
Pauline Bare
Louise McBride
Cora Bue
Hilda Bue
Helen Mysse
Leroy Bovee
Edna Mae Schuyler
Darlene Robbins
Timm Deeney
Jacob Bue
Doris McBride
Martha Bare
Harry Hawks
Mae McNamara
Betty Schuyler
Charmian Baxter
Adelbert Neumann
Marie Thompson
B. C. Bare
R. 8. Eudaily
P.T.A
Bearcreek
Livingston Opera House Fire and Postwar Roundup Notes
The Livingston Enterprise recalls the 1889 Wetzstein and Gray skating rink and opera hall fire linked to Rev Talmage, and recounts 1940 Roundup receipts of 12 025.49 with a 148.37 reserve addition. It also covers Steppers dance night, state plumbers defense orders, Woolgrowers convention, and Betty Viets 4-H medal achievement.
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Heiterlin
Livingston
Livingsson
Fowlie Hall
New Park Hotel
Wetzstein & Gray Skating
Ford Garage
B Street
T Dewitt Talmage
C. S. Hefferlin
Park Theater
Calhoun Opera Co
Said Pasha
Bocaccio
Fatanitza
Tommy Gavin
Charley Bloom
Opera House
Gavin
Bloom
Livingston Enterprise
Sol Frank
Steppers
Steppers Club
Fraternity Hall
W. D. McKenzie
B. F. Henry
John £. Cameron
Ross Williams
Cory O'Leary
Mervin Sell
H. C. Roquet
State Employment Service Division
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Washington State Employment Service
Montana
Coast Army
John W. Nelson
Nelson
Thanksgiving Gatherings and Local Visitors in Bridger Creek
Estelle Fraser Johnson hosts a Bridger Creek dinner with Barbara Duffey as a guest. Local families enjoy Thanksgiving meals while noting unusually warm weather and advancing spring. Other reports mention club hosting, business visits in Billings, an upcoming operation in Billings, and residents returning from Rochester for medical treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Duffey
Fred Hausserman
Rudolf Forster
Junior Womans Club
Jack MacLean
Newton Lay
Mack Morris
Sidney Fraser, Jr
Marylin
Billings
O. P. Terland
Johnson
Sidney Fraser Sr
Oscar Nepstad
Anton
Rochester
Herman Frey
Upper Bridger
Henry Hausserman
George Baily
Henry Lindberg
Carl Hausserman
Mary Lay
Ralph and
Clarence Berrie
Herman Hausserman
Kepler
Baby
For Sale or Rent Irrigated Ranch Near City Limits
For Sale or Rent small irrigated ranch with a 7 room house just outside city limits. Phone 32 K or Box 473. 19 tf.
California Gains Seats in New Census Apportionment
The census bureau informed President Roosevelt that based on the 1940 census California would receive three additional House seats and seven other states one more each. Ten states would lose one seat, with gains and losses shaping the 78th Congress to convene in 1943. New York led with 13,479,142 people and 45 seats. Pennsylvania would remain second despite losing a seat.
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Washington
South
Census Bureau
Roosevelt
California
House of Representatives
Mississippi Valley
United States
Arizona
Florida
Michigan
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oregon
Tennessee
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
New York
Club Notes From Junior Bridger Creek Women’s Club
During last Friday’s meeting led by president Mrs. Eystein Birkeland the group voted to donate to the Florence Crittenton Home and the Veterans' Home. After the business portion Mrs Conrad Hauge read Thanksgiving poems and a luncheon followed hosted by Mrs Birkeland. Attendees included Mrs. Sidney Fraser Jr Mrs. William Lay Mrs. Conrad Hauge and Mrs. Joe Meline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolf Forster
Bridger Creek Womans Club
Eystein Birkeland
Florence Crittenton
Veterans’ Home
Conrad Hauge
Sidney Fraser, Jr
William Lay
Joe Meline
Apportionment Figures Outline for House Seats
The passage explains a state with third place and 7 897 241 population has 26 representatives. The Census Bureau must send apportionment figures to the president by December’s first week, who then reports to Congress in the session opening January 3. Congress has 60 days to act to alter the bureau’s final allotment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Bureau
Congress
Census final tallies for Rocky Mountain states in 1940
The census bureau released final population figures for Rocky Mountain states. Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming show 1940 totals compared with 1930 figures, highlighting shifts in each state's population counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Hobee
Colorado
Montana
New Mexico
Wyoming
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Reed Point
George Nute
Edgar Seibert
A. Neumann
Cecilia Morrison Wynant
Joyce Groth
Edgar McBride
Walter McBride
Clarence Phipps
Great Falls
Paul Etchepare
Rainbow Hotel
Spokane
A. J. Breitenstein
Great Falls Chamber of Commerce
Montana Livestock Production Credit Association
Woolgrowers Convention
Belly Viets
Betty Vidts
E. R Cook
Montgomery Ward
Extension Service
Viets
Bridger Creek
Estelle Fraser Johnson
Deer Creek Ladies Aid
Evangelical Ladies
Bozeman
R. E. Dawes
P. O
John Pa Gr
Mont
Hampshire
Earl M. Sexton
Pine
Fourth Ave
Frank Webber
O. J. Ellingson
Motor Inn
Sam Cohn
Phowe
Ocess
Great Falls Breweries, Inc
Great Falls, Meat
Vic Christensen
Furstenberg’s
Turkeys
Patterson Building
W. R. Stokes
Sen
Waverly
uaGaets
Black Coast
Westinghouse
Firestone
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