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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
15
The Big Timber Pioneer reports a prosperous year in Sweet Grass County with favorable crops and stock prices. Merchants fill stores with gifts and elaborate displays for the holiday season as the paper thanks readers and urges sharing copies with friends back east.
A historical note recounts Howie and the Sweet Grass area as the oldest settlement in Sweet Grass County. It lists early settlers from 1877 onward, water rights, voting precincts, a school district from 1881, a Norwegian Lutheran church, and ongoing growth in irrigation and cultivation. The piece emphasizes residents' pride and steady development.
The article credits Mrs. C. T. Busha and J. M. Lyons of Big Timber J. C. Farrington of Fish Creek S. Nuzum of Upper Deer Creek R. S. Jarrett of Springdale Sam Solberg of Howie and H. Sims of McLeod for the splendid historical write ups.
The total receipts at this station for the fiscal year ending December 1 1906 were about 206 487 dollars, an increase of 50 000 dollars over last year’s business.
A rustic plea extols Montana as a rich land with plentiful water and open fields. It invites eastern readers to seek honest farming opportunities, promising good land and premiums for cooks, framed as a welcoming note about life in the Treasure State.
Notice to stockmen announces Chas McAllister in Big Timber willing to sell rams and ship excess stock to Eastern Montana. Final Proof Notice lists Katharine Niles Adam of Melville filing for land in Sweet Grass County with irrigation proof to be made January 22, 1907, before C N Skillman in Big Timber. Fresh home made lard advertised at Bray's market.
The notes list upcoming events at the auditorium with Uncle Josh Spruceby on Thursday December 20, Woodman Ball on Monday December 31, Peck’s Bad Boy on Tuesday January 1, Lincoln J. Carter’s Sceanije Production The Fast Mail on Monday January 14, and The Famous Dixie Jubilee Singers on Friday January 18.
For Sure 100 tons of good alfalfa hay a big stack of oat straw 100 acres of good alfalfa pasture with plenty of good running water There is good outside range in front of ranch A fine place to winter sheep or cattle Inquire of Fraxx McComas Greycliff Mont
State Board of Pardons in Helena on December 22 1906 will consider the pardon of Harry Youmans a county jail convict convicted in Sweet Grass County for a misdemeanor committed July 7 1906. The board will publish this order in the Big Timber Pioneer and hear interested parties at 10 a.m. at the Capitol. The notice also records a separate town petition to vacate an alley in Big Timber with a hearing December 17 1906 at A G Hatch's office.
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