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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1932
Page
6
Montana papers recount a claim of robbers' loot buried in a cabin near Bearmouth Granite County with a trunk containing about $100,000 found and associated with a Ford train hold up. The report notes authorities tied the discovery to the ongoing investigation and possible suspects.
Mrs. Roy Corley, Ravalli County sheriff, obtained requisition papers from Governor Erickson to bring Jeff Deering from Pasco Washington to Hamilton on burglary charges. Undersheriff O’Brien will retrieve the prisoner. Corley began her term after a sudden election victory following her husband’s death. The piece recalls Rexford and 1907 train robberies, framing Frankhouser and McDonald in a broader Montana crime history. Deer hunting licenses were denied to 677 Michigan hunters for deer law violations.
Grace Hurni of Helena recalls four years of 4-H club work from 1929 to 1932, detailing projects in home economics, room improvement and clothing care. She describes pledge values, learning through teamwork, and personal growth shaping farm life and future service.
An advertisement urges use of Cuticura Taicum with the Cuticura Trio of Soap Ointment and Taicum. It markets it as a fragrance and skin powder for face skin babies and dusting, priced at 25 cents each everywhere.
Montana State college extension livestock specialist IL M C Andersen says wheat as feed for stock equals corn in value. A Chicago shipment of Montana 4-H club calves, aged up to 18 months, signals growth in state feeding, with other shippers sending two year olds and comments on shifts from half fat grass finishing.
The text notes club livestock's role in driving demand for corn fed cattle at Chicago stock yards with prices around 8.25 to 8.95 per 100 pounds and an 946 pound average weight for 248 head. It highlights profitable baby beef calves and the benefit of growers feeding their own stock with alfalfa hay and beef by products.
The Northwestern Improvement company at Red Lodge cuts lighting rates 15 to 50 percent below old levels and heating and cooking 40 percent lower to 140 percent higher. The minimum monthly bill drops from 125 to 1, and a similar reduction applies to business houses.
Housewives are invited to request a booklet titled 15 Ways to a Man's Heart from the Gold Medal Flour company in Minneapolis. The ad promises simple recipes to impress husbands and notes the booklet is included with every sack of Gold Medal flour or available for ten cents.
Mrs. Rachael MacArthur, who recently celebrated her 103rd birthday in Edinburgh, recalls reading the news of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.
Powder River reports a large preliminary tax total with a figure near 128 million dollars. The text notes a gap of about 95 thousand dollars compared to a prior amount and mentions first-rate collections and renter related terms amid unclear phrasing.
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