Rodeo plans hint at summer crowds and seating
Angles from This Corner notes rodeo planning for the summer with extra seating and a hoped date not yet set. Readers Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Zellers inquire about a local event to align their El Cerrito vacation with the schedule. Weather comments from Montana residents add a humorous aside on a harsh season.
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Leo Cremer
The
American Legion
R. K. Zellers
el Cerrito
Calif
Legion Falls to Lewistown Mint Chips in Lewistown
The Legion lost 49 to 64 to the Mint Chips in Lewistown last Thursday. Bob Deegan led the locals with 19 points, Al Deegan 11, Ellison 8, McCauley 6, and Roy Ellison 5 as Lewistown led 22 15 after one, 33 25 at half, and 49 35 after three quarters. Next, Palace Barbers of Billings visits Tuesday.
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Legion
Lewistown Mint
Mint
Lewistown
Bob Deegan
al Deegan
Bill Ellison
Herb McCauley
Roy Ellison
Palace Barbers of
Billings
March of Dimes Contribs lag. Big Timber boosts
March of Dimes contributions fall far short of last year though needs rise 50 percent. County Chairman Orvin Flare notes improved funding from a $50 gift by the Big Timber Boosters. Folders marked Look misled some donors, but gifts mailed to March of Dimes Big Timber will be credited. Two benefit events loom: a Masonic hall dance with Big Timber band providing music and an American Legion team facing Sheep Herders in a charity basketball game Monday at the gym, with a grade school preliminary.
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Orvin Flare
Big Timber
March of Dimes Fund
Masonic Hall
Big Timber Band Orchestra
American Legion Independent Cagers
Attendance Policy Rewards Good Attendance At High School
A new policy encourages attendance and scholarship with exam exemptions based on semester tardies and absences. Students with five or fewer total tardies or absences and B grades or better in each subject may be exempt from exams, possibly across all subjects. Principal Gilman Aller emphasizes attendance as key to good grades and urges parental support. A list of students with perfect first semester attendance and those with no absences but tardies is noted, with further details continued on page eight.
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Gilman Aller
Aller
Neva Jean Becken
Arnold Berg
Louitha Erickson
June Gibby
Jack Haas
Arlene Holland
Herbert Helen
Bob McDonald
Dick McDonald
Ruth Myrstol
Stephen Ollestad
Bill Townsend
Alvin Tucker
Jean Tucker
Shirley Wagner
Milton Wordal
Catherine Arneson
Betty Brownlee
Phyllis Deegan
Margaret Holland
Viggo Klein
High School Honor Roll Announced for First Semester
The Sweet Grass county high school lists honor roll by grade. Seniors include Bieber Gibby Gunderson Haas Holland Klein McArthur Mahlum Maitland Rich Tetlie Viers Wordal. juniors Anderson Berg Furstenberg Hammersmark Johnson Ross. sophomores Anderson Hoskinson Hoffman Holland Roemer Stone Strand. freshmen Arneson Becken Bouse Bray Dyer Grosefield Lamach Loftsgaarden Matthew Officer Opland Sargent Tollefson Widdicombe Wordal Reactionally good record noted alongside a line about Ghadoans of Billings.
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Sweet Grass County High School
Ruth Bieber
June Gibby
Ed Gunderson
Jack Haas
Margaret Holland
Viggo Klein
Raymond McArthur
Ruth Mahlum
Svend Maitland
Shirley Rich
Don Tetlie
Joyce Viers
Joan Wordal
Alfred Anderson
Arnold Berg
Lawrence Furstenberg
Stewart Hammersmark
Norris Johnson
Gene Ross
Margaret Anderson
Bill Hoskinson
Cherie Hoffman
Arlene Holland
Joe Roemer
Gertrude Stone
Evelyn Strand
Catherine Arneson
Neva Jean Becken
Pat Bouse
Robert Bray
Art Dyer
Sylvia Grosefield
Bernard Lamach
Betty Loftsgaarden
Vernice Matthew
Barbara Officer
June Opland
Helen Sargent
Sigrid Tollefson
Joe Widdicombe
Milton Wordal
Lois Reac
Sheepherders Fall Twice Then Face Cathedral Friday
The Big Timber Sheepherders lost two games last week, to Columbus 43 34 and Belgrade 43 31, with Wagner scoring 12 and Gunderson 13. They travel to Helena to meet Cathedral Friday and then face the Legion in a Monday charity match.
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Cathedral
Big Timber
Columbus
Belgrade
Belgrade Panthers
Wagner
Gunderson
Cathedral of Helena
The
Legion
Match of Dimes
Frits Boyd
Asan McDonald cv
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McArthur
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Gunderson Eecervcenvccosce
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Patterson
Wheeler
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Boyd
Montana Resources Packaged for Growth in New brochure
JayCee Publication reports Montana and its resources highlighted in The Shift Is West brochure sponsored by Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce and University of Montana. It argues Montana's minerals energy and farms offer business opportunities and notes chromite and calcite deposits along with hydroelectric power and mineral wealth.
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Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce
University of Montana
JayCees
Northwest
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Montania
West
Montana
Sweet Grass
Park Counties
Boulder River
Former Resident Dies In Livingston
Peter James Butler 78 a retired Northern Pacific railway employee and former Big Timber resident died early Sunday in Park hospital Livingston after a short illness Funeral services were held at St Marys church Livingston He was born Sept 18 1870 in Peterboro Ontario Canada and moved to Montana in 1900 living in Chester Big Timber and Livingston Surviving are his widow two sons Earl Butler Gordon Butler two daughters Marjory Close Mary Doyle a sister in Michigan and a brother and sister in Canada
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Peter James Butler
Northern Pacific Railway
Livingston
Big Timber
The
Park Hospital
St. Mary’s Church
Mr. Butler
Peterboro
Ontario
Can
Margaret Kelleher
Montana
Chester
Taw
Earl Butler
Gordon Butler
Marjory Close
Gardiner
Mary Doyle
Melville
Michigan
Canada
Fire destroys Berg garage and Rogalie residence
Fire blamed on an overheated stovepipe destroyed the Berg garage and the residence of Frank Rogalie Monday night in Martinsdale. Damage was estimated at $50,000. Neither building was occupied at the time of the blaze.
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Martinsdale
Frank Rogalie
O'Dell Nicholson Marriage Held Amid Formal Prairie Ceremony
Joyce Alice Nicholson and Harold R. O'Dell wed Tuesday January 25 at the groom’s parents home. Rev Perez Bennett officiated before relatives. Attendants included matron of honor Mrs Don Cameron and best man Kenneth O'Dell. The couple will reside at 405 Sixth Avenue East Big Timber after a Wyoming honeymoon.
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O’dell-Nicholson
Joyce Alice Nicholson
Archie Stebbins
Pray
Harold R. O'Dell
O. B. O'Dell
Big Timber
Rev
Perez Bennett
Congregational Church
Don Cameron
Kenneth O'Dell
Park County
Sweet Grass County
Davis Grocery
Donald Cameron
Stebbins
Wyoming
Sixth Avenue East
FFA Tops Moose Shooters In Small Bore Rifle Match
Scott Hoskinson led the FFA to a 633 to 601 victory over the Moose range crew in a small bore rifle match last Thursday. Leonard Mahlum was the high scorer, with Moose shooters totaling nine event scores and individual results listed including Joe Widdicombe and others from both teams.
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Scott Hoskinson
FFA
Moose
Moose Range
Leonard Mahlum
Joe Widdicombe
Cody Mack
Arne Petaja
Joseph Widdicombe
David Greig
Phillip Leitner
TFA
Harlow Proposes Quadrupled Income Tax for Schools
Sanders County Democratic representative Paul Harlow says he will introduce an income tax bill next week to fund reorganized public schools. The plan would quadruple Montana's income tax to about $12,000,000, far above the 1948 total of just over $3,000,000.
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Paul Harlow
Sanders County
Harlow
Citizens Committee
Montana
Sanders
Lawmakers Seek Uniform Property Assessments Across Counties
Senators James of Liberty and Anderson of Pondera push a bill to create a countywide yardstick for property assessments modeled after motor vehicle values. The state board of equalization would set the values, replacing varied local methods for business property. Montana House kills a war veterans bonus bill Wednesday.
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Senate
James
Liberty
Anderson
Pondera
State Board of Equalization
Montana
House of Representatives
Nearly All County Roads Blocked By Snow Drift
County Road Supervisor A. T. Ellison says nearly all county roads are blocked by drifting snow with few openings. The McLeod to Lester Work ranch route and Sour Dough remain impassable in places while the Melville highway is clear but adjacent roads are drifted. Snow persisted with subzero to above temperatures over the past week and windfalls force several farm operations to halt.
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A. T. Ellison
Boulder
McLeod
Lester Work Ranch
Gibson Country
Wheeler Creek
Mr. Ellison
van Cleves
Melville Highway
Gibson
Howard Forsythe
Dead Man’s Canyon
Lions Lose To Columbus Grades In Youth Basketball Mix
The Big Timber Lions grade school team fell 13 to 30 at Columbus in a preview of a Sheepherder-Columbus event. Columbus led 4 to 3 after the first quarter, pulled away with seven third quarter field goals, while Big Timber managed limited scoring in the opening half and final period.
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Big Timber Lions
Columbus
Big Timber
Voges
Beck
Kinsey
Hoskinson
Huyser
Myers
McCauley
Vannoy Uw
Dahl Ooo
Mrs. Minshall Dies Of Heart Attack At 61
Mrs J Arthur Minshall 61 died Monday after a heart attack at her Big Timber home. Born Pearl Elizabeth Edie December 22 1887 in Good Hope Illinois she married M L Minshall December 20 1925 in Billings. The couple lived near Melville before moving to Big Timber in 1947. Survived by husband and brother Gien C Edie of McComb Illinois. Burial in Good Hope Illinois.
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J. Arthur Minshall
Big Timber
Macomb
Good Hope
Minshall
Pearl Elizabeth Edie
Billings
Melville
Gien C. Edie
McComb, Il
Longhorns blank JayCees in ice smoke scandal game
Melville Longhorns defeated Big Timber JayCees 5-0 at Van Cleve rink in a oddly tainted affair marked by smoke and a warm day. Local spectator Ken Kershner carried accident policies while Lloyd Rein joked about spring weather as a rematch is planned.
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Big Timber Pioneer
van Cleve
Melville Longhorn
Big Timber JayCee
Longhorns
School of Mines
Timber
Bryan
Melville
Big Timber
Ken Kershner
Lloyd Rein
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David
Grace Renfield
Reed Point
H. S
Ghadoans
JayCee
FFA Downs Moose
Lions
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