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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1925
Page
3
Weekend visits and local social life fill Springdale reports. Visitors include Webb in Livingston and Rich in Big Timber, with many town residents traveling for business or family. A dance at Elton schoolhouse drew a large crowd before quarantine canceled a Springdale show.
Grey Cliff Jim Crocker visited Big Timber on Friday. Mrs. Howard Forsythe shopped in Big Timber on Monday. Joe Peterson left Sunday for Livingston to visit the Gregorys. The Fahlgren children have been ill and miss school. James Johnson of Apex visits the Hansen family. he is Mrs. Hansen’s brother in law. Mrs. Crest filled in at Grey Cliff school during Miss Hoese’s absence. Ben Hansen of Reynolds bought a new Ford touring car. Rainbows and Lochlevin are mourned in the upper Boulder. Carl Schmidt reports from New York that he is well and plans to sail for Germany. Ollie Sorenson shopped in Billings Saturday and attended a birthday party in Reynolds. Mrs. Will Duffy hosted a party for Miss Sadie Erickson and Miss Amelia Rostad with a large attendee list and a cafeteria lunch. A masquerade dance at Grey Cliff hall drew a large crowd. Oscar Braaten as Aunt Jemima likely to win with prizes. A. C. Boyles entertained with a dicer and formal dress.
Local notes describe Reed Point resident P R Phelps visiting Laurel last Wednesday. Several residents traded passes and took part in routine travel to nearby towns including Big Timber Columbus and Bil lings with various errands and social visits.
A Brumfield home gathering on Saturday evening January 31 brought together nineteen young guests including Bill Brown and family Leslie Campbell and daughter Andrew Peter and family Mrs Helen Palmer Mrs Olive Ogleby and several Misses Beulah Manis Alma Cloyd Signy Wallum Opal Rash Dorothy Taylor Ruth and Opal Farr plus Carl Imlay Floyd Farr Joe Campbell and J S Campbell. Guests enjoyed Mah Jongy and radioing with Gladys Wagner playing piano and reading. The Highland Fling by Frances Ellen Wagner drew cheers as the best moment. After 11:30 a delicious lunch was served and the party closed with playful Valentine place cards.
Morris Tronrud has been ill with a severe cold. Grace Georgia and Joseph Monroe resumed school duties Monday after several days absent. Florence Overfelt Grace Monroe Nettie Rudd and Helen Warp attended the Friday basketball game in Big Timber. Boys Wallace Hannah and Sandy Roberts attended the Bozeman Vocational congress. Nettie Edith Rudd Helen Harold Warp and Alpha Hannah were not absent or tardy for January 30. Girls in District 30 enjoyed the snow clearing for playground basketball practice.
John Moss and T. T. Olson visited Big Timber on Thursday. Mrs. Adolph Tronrud and Mrs. E. Green with son Benny spent time in town. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Johnson and family visited Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Donald and son traveled to Helena to visit relatives. H. P. Franklin returned after a court visit in Big Timber. Mrs. T. Anderson hosted a dinner for students and teachers. A Headley schoolhouse dance boosted Melville store sales of gloves and overshoes.
Floyd Collins, 35, trapped by a six to seven ton boulder in Sand Cave near Cave City Kentucky for more than 36 hours, directs rescuers from a tiny crevice 300 feet from the entrance. Workers chip flint, haul food, attempt to beat the rock and rope strategy, while outside observers fear for his foot as the boulder pins him in icy mud.
The senate elections committee reported unanimously for seating Senator Mayfield of Texas after finding no basis for charges by George E. B. Peddy the defeated candidate in 1922. A vote on the report was scheduled for tomorrow in Washington.
In Nome Alaska on February 2 300000 units of frozen antitoxin arrived to save diphtheria patients ending a 650 mile relay over Tanana and Yukon rivers and Norton Sound in what mushers call a world record. Musher Gunnar Kasson led the final dash from Bluff to Nome enduring a blizzard and 28 degrees below zero with four dogs badly frozen.
Republican leaders move to bar all outspoken La Follette Wheeler allies from the caucus to decide the next speaker and floor leader. Invitations issued, excluding Wisconsin members and others who backed the ticket, triggering a floor and caucus dispute over authority and committee posts.
Food chemists say one glass of milk supplies as much protein as one large egg and equally tests other common foods. They compare a single glass to twelve onions, three potatoes, two and a quarter shredded wheat biscuits, five slices of bacon, twenty apples, six bananas, or two thick slices of whale-wheat bread.
The Cortez tree long tied to Hernan Cortez and the Aztec capital story has been cut down. Pieces are guarded as the trunk may be placed in a Mexican museum. The tree, called The Tree of the Woeful Night, is linked to Cortez resting there after leaving the Aztec capital.
Nature Magazine notes two sea lion species on the Pacific coast the California sea lion and Steller's sea lion. Old bulls reach about ten feet and 1200 to 1500 pounds while cows weigh 400 to 600 pounds.
MOSCOW January 30 decree dismisses Leon Trotzky from the post of com missar for the army and navy and appoints M Franse his successor. Franse, 40, is a young Soviet official with prior revolutionary service and a history of opposition to the czarist regime. He is credited by Bolsheviks with defeating Admiral Kolchak and helping rout Baron Wrangel.
Fifteen thousand people crowded Madison Square Garden to honor the death of Nicolai Lenin as speakers including CG Ruthenberg and Benjamin Gitlow urged the crowd to fight capitalism. Morris Spector, a 14 year old city organizer, energized the rally with a bold call for youth involvement in the class struggle.
Washington February 2 Twenty one cap ital charwomen won a salary increase from 410 to 690 a year in a committee hearing made public today William Tyler Page clerk of the house complained of moths and bookcases in offices while Bert W Kennedy house door keeper warned of a fire trap in the center of the building and urged new fireproof files A plan for an 8000000 building was submitted but did not advance
Bertrand Russell argues history should be taught from multiple viewpoints to reduce cross national disagreements. He suggests French teachers in England and English teachers in France would foster mutual understanding and empathy between nations.
The line of succession to the presidency in case both the president and vice president are unable to serve includes the secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, secretary of war, attorney general, postmaster general, and secretary of the navy.
The banyan tree grows unusually as its hanging branches send roots downward. When these roots root, they become supports, allowing the tree to extend over large areas and endure for many ages.
The first lock rifle appeared in France in 1640. Alexander Forsyth, a Scottish minister, patented the percussion lock rifle in 1807 and its adoption spread widely by 1820.
President Coolidge and Emile Daeschner the new French ambassador exchanged assurances on debt obligations during a White House ceremony. Daeschner earned a wreath at Arlington on his first act, signaling gratitude as talks over the French war debt to the U.S. continue without official detail.
Detroit reports a hopeful 1925 business outlook. Theodore G. Morgan of the National Advertising Commission cites improved conditions in farming and manufacturing, and notes retailers have not yet felt stronger purchasing power for households. He urges boosting export trade to revive Europe as a buying force.
Three men Otto Frier Ludwig Frier and Henry Message were sentenced in Morris Minnesota to seven and a half years each for highway robbery of real estate dealer Jos Simoniteh of Breckenridge Ms 7000 was stolen none of which was recovered The Frier brothers tied Simoniteh to a post in a basement while posing as renters and Message inspired the crime
London February 1 Herbert H Asquith has accepted the title of Earl of Oxford after an invitation by King George following Baldwin's advice. The move signals the end of active leadership for the former prime minister and a retreat to the House of Lords.
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