Reed Point Busy Week Quietly Stirs Community
Big Timber area notes report Tam and Joe Bare visiting, several families calling, and a funeral in Illinois for a Reed Point mother. The Reed Point Federal Farm Loan association held its annual meeting with officers reelected and 18 stockholders. Mrs Halls funeral followed by burial in the local cemetery. Basketball games with Laurel and Bridger details, and a large social weekend with dances and a wedding at the Methodist parsonage. The Farmers Cooperative Telephone Co annual meeting covered cost savings and board changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Joe Bare
Big Timber
Donald Bare
Charles Bare
Minnie Gunnels
Clifford
Durham
Jake
John Knapp
Illinois
Dr. Claiborn
A. T. Peck
Sammy Hiner
John M. Hiner
Laurel
Charles Broadwater
Columbus
Cornelius Eden
Gladden
Cornelius Bakma
Humphry Ranch
C. V. Mosier
Fred Schmitt
Bliss
Worden
Chester Fraser
Reed Point Federal Farm Loan Association
Carl Mysse
E. P. Buckman
Sid Taylor
Gerhard Wolterman
R. B. Hiner
H. J. Halls
Maria Hall
Hardin
C. B. Schneider
Hall
Ohio
Conesville
Iowa
Montana
Schneider
A. M. Lewis
Myrtle Widdicombe
J. W. Hall
Billings
Ed Whitford
Bridger
Rapelje
Vera
Viola Woods
Lewis Phipps
Mr. Roberts
Charles Woods
Clarence Phipps
Lewis
Gene Best
Lucile Guthrie
Methodist
Sidney Fraser, Jr
Marie Bayers
Gardiner
Henry L. Best
Reed Point
Yellowstone Park
Lucile
Lewis Guthrie
Farmers’ Cooperative Telephone Co
F. H. Mehlberg
Torger Redland
Zillah Malone
J. C. Herrick
Henry Evenson
Desert comparisons and social notes from Big Timber scene
West Gibson Clayton Willard visited Big Timber Saturday with Inez Phillips of the Boulder. The Willards hosted a card party Friday. Mrs. J. J. Forewald recovered from the flu to resume school. A. A. LaForge and family visited from Melville area. Divide neighbors report a cold spell from 24 below to 40 above. L. Burmeister and Gus Kirchner hosted a dance and card party Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Willard
Big Timber
Inez Phillips
Boulder
Willard
Toby Olson
Gobi
Asia
J. J. Forewald
A. A. LaForge
Sweet Grass
Melville
Gus Kirchner
Burmeister
North Dakota Senator Proposes Secession Plan
North Dakota state Senator W. E. Martin introduces a resolution calling for 39 states to secede leaving nine eastern states to form a separate country. The move, labeled for educational purposes, sparks a heated debate over treason and sedition in the state senate.
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Bismarck
N. D
W. E. Martin
North Dakota
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Senate
James P. Cain
Dickinson
Assembly
Martin
Mills Confers With President Hoover
Secretary Mills said he met with President Hoover to discuss national financial matters and suggested a public statement or a special message to Congress within 24 hours. The president stressed urgent swift action by Congress to balance the budget as the deficit exceeds 1.2 billion dollars amid declining revenue from taxes and duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Millis
Hoover
Congress
Roosevelt Inaugural Fund Aims $100000 Push
Washington January 15 a Roosevelt inaugural committee plans a $100000 fund raise for the March 4 induction. Business interests and individuals in the capital will subscribe to ensure the committee has funds to carry on its work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Billings Holds Suspect In Wilcoxen Murder Case
Clifton Sterling of Sonnette Montana 22 was named defendant in a first degree murder complaint for the slaying of George Wilcoxen of Northern Pacific on the night of November. He appeared with counsel and pleaded not guilty and asked for a preliminary hearing set for January 26.
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Billings
Wilcoxen
Billings Gazette
Clifton Sterling
Sonnette
George Wilcoxen
Northern Pacific
William Gallagher
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Demel
E. M. Birely
Sterling
Church of the Little Flower
South Thirty-fifth Street
Birely
Montana Avenue
Union Station
Sheriff’s Office
United States Bureau of Investigation
Clifton B. Sterling
Monroe
Wash
Montana
Clifford Sterling
Miles City
Bert Allen
Wyoming State Industrial Institute
Worland
Nevada
Broadus
Montana Turkeys With Unusual Reputations Roam
In Downers Grove Illinois Bill and Pete the Montana turkeys, weighing 22 and 18 pounds, outlived the holidays. They chased a gas inspector 200 meters and frightened a housewife indoors. Mrs Tarr, wife of the keeper, would not shoot them and hopes gentle training can tame them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downers Grove
Bill
Pete
Montana
Robert Tarr
Roosevelt weighs need for extra congressional session
President elect Roosevelt plans two days of talks with Democratic leaders in Washington on budget balancing and pending legislation including the beer bill and farm relief. The discussions may shape an extra session of the new Congress around mid April as House proposals move to the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Senate
House
President Hoover Attacks Philippine Independence Bill
President Hoover through four cabinet members denounces the measure as economically unsound and likely to provoke war amid a possible senate vote on his veto. Aides briefed reporters at the White House with arguments prepared by Stimson Hurley Chapin and Hyde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Hoover
White House
Stimson
Hurley
Chapin
Hyde
Veteran N. P. Employee to Retire After 49 Years
Helena Independent reports John Devan a longtime Northern Pacific railroad section foreman on the Rocky Mountain division will retire Feb 1 after 49 years 10 months of service. He joined in 1883 at Lolo aged 20 and has been in active duty since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
John Devan
Northern Pacific Railroad
Rocky Mountain
Devan
Northern Pacific
Lolo
Classified Ads For Sale Items and Farm Livestock
For Sale Choice White Rock cockerels two miles east of Melville Prices reasonable Mrs Geo Hoffman For Sale A few bronze turkey toms $3 each hens $2 Mrs A E Grasfield Rug weaving Several rugs for Sale Phone 165 M Registered Hereford bulls coming 2s Priced reasonable Mrs Effie T Stole adm estate of Henry Stole
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Mel- Ville
Geo. Hoffman
A. E. Grasfield
Effie T. Stole
Henry Stole
Timeline of 1930s political moves and crimes
A condensed chronicle lists events from February to May detailing actions in Washington and New York. Highlights include Alfred E. Smith signaling another run, Cardozo joining the Supreme Court, the Glass-Steagall bill, hoover's bicentennial address, Capone's conviction status, Lindbergh kidnap events, and various tax and appropriation measures amid Prohibition and recovery efforts.
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Washington
Alfred E. Smith
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona
Benjamin N. Cardozo
New York
U. S. Supreme Court
House
Senate
Hoover
Congress
al Capone
Federal Court of Appeals
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hopewell
N. J
Farm Board
Treasury and Post Office
Roosevelt
New Hampshire
Smith
Benjamin Cardozo
United States Supreme Court
C. C. King
University of Pittsburgh
Philippines
Lindbergh
Gov. Ralph
California
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
T. H. Massie
Fortescue
Lord and Jones
Kahahawai
Honolulu
Supreme Court
Power Board
Chicago
Atlanta
Houuse
Massie
Judd
Musele Shoals
Father Dies After Stroke In Kansas
Karl Bryan of Knapps left Friday night for Neosho Falls Kansas upon receipt of a wire announcing the death of his father aged about 73. Death followed a second stroke of paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Bryan
Knapps
Neosho Falls
Kan
Moratorium Extended for Federal Irrigation District Debts
A joint federal irrigation committee approved a bill to extend the debt moratorium for irrigation districts for 18 months, fixing interest at 3 percent and deferring payments through 1933. It authorizes a $5 million treasury loan to the reclamation bureau, repaid at $1 million per year, while seeking fast action on the Carey Thomas Chavez measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate Irrigation Committee
Senate
Carey
Wyoming
Thomas
Idaho
Chavez
New Mexico
Bratton
New Hampshire
Secretary of the Interior
Elwood Mead
Commissioner of Reclamation
Bureau
Treasury
Mead
Cutting
Mrs Judd testifies linking Halloran to trunk murder case
Winnie Ruth Judd described meeting Jack Halloran after she killed two women on October 16 1931 and said he accompanied her to the scene and helped move a heavy trunk. She testified at Halloran’s preliminary hearing where he faces charges of aiding her and concealing a felony.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Drew Jack Halloran
Sammy
Halloran
Agnes Leroi
Hedvig Samuelson
Judd
Arizona State Prison
Miss Samuelson
Anne
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West Gibson
Mills
President Hoover
N. P
E.W. Pickard
Mrs. Judd
J. J. Gallagher
Bear Creek Coal
R.A. Traver
Professional Directory
J. A. Lowry Real Estate, Insurance Bonds and Abstracts Undertaking
E. C. Overland
Law
L. W. Baskett
Montana Power Co
Block Big Timber, Montana
M. W. Barr
Big Timber, Montana
J. D. Hierries
Masonic
DR. D. Claiborn
Masonic Big Timber
L. H. Townsend
Frank Arnold
Thompson Block
Livingston
A. P. O’leary
Commercial Bank Bldg
C. J. Ellingson
Motor Inn
Sawyer
Great Northern
Arkansas
Swift
Sawyer’s
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