Pioneers to Join Civic Groups for Big Aug 10 Celebration
Sweet Grass Pioneers society will hold its annual picnic with Big Timber Lions club Junior Chamber of Commerce Big Timber Womans club and business men's barbecue at the fair grounds August 10 1941 Gov Ford will speak Secretary Margaret Osburn reports. Plans call for beef potatoes biscuits pickles butter coffee lemonade and more with lunch served at 1 pm An estimated 2500 may attend and 121 members received the card. Committee heads include J J Lacklen and A Ronald McDonnell with John Hager to solicit cash.
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Big Timber
Sweet Grass County Pioneers Society
Big Timber Lions Club
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Big Timber Womans Club
Fair Grounds
Ford
Margaret Osburn
Sweet Grass Pioneers Society
Ross Williams
Montana Power Co
F. R. Hickman
Boy Scouts
J. J. Lacklen
Sam C. Ford
Taxpayers May Save Against Certain Payday Plans
Helena July 25. Lewis Penwell, collector of internal revenue, announced authorization of two series of interest bearing treasury notes dated August 1. They help pay an unprecedented tax bill under the national defense program. Taxpayers may begin saving January 1 each year to fund next year’s installments. Notes sell at par with accrued interest redeemable at any time after three months. First-series notes come in 25 50 and 100 dollar denominations. second series in 100 to 100000. Limited purchase cap applies.
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Helena
Montana
Lewis Penwell
Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Treasury
Penwell
Sweet Grass Keeps Up Welfare Payments in Montana Counts
Montana welfare department report shows Sweet Grass County current with no delinquent payments to the state though in debt overall. Yellowstone is the only county free of debt to the board. Total owed by all counties as of July 1 is 411000.49 with 6501.32 for county administration 306275.32 for oldage assistance 95275.42 for aid to dependents children and 328.43 for aid to needy and.
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Montan Welfare Department
Sweet Grassounty
Yellwstone
Bureau of Mines officials visit Stillwater chrome mine
Bureau of Mines officials from Washington D C Tucson Arizona and Salt Lake City will meet in Stillwater then travel to the Chrome mine camp on Little Rocky Creek where mining operations are in progress. Charles F Jackson E D Gardner and Paul T Ausmin are listed among attendees.
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Columbus
Motorists Must Respect Rights of Stock Owners
Helena reports Attorney General John W. Bonner ruled that livestock owners’ rights take precedence over motorists when stock crosses highways at stock crossing signs. The opinion says drivers must proceed carefully to avoid injury and notes Montana’s strong agricultural role and the importance of keeping stock crossings maintained.
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Helena
John W. Bonner
Montana
Union
Smalley Sues Air Line for 100000 Damages
Mrs Anna W Smalley of Roundup Montana sues Transcontinental Western Air for 100000 damages in superior court alleging a sleeper berth collapsed June 11 1940 causing a broken neck and permanent injury endangering her role as grand matron of the Order of Eastern Star. She is wife of Thomas Smalley Klein school superintendent.
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Chicago
Anna W. Smalley
Roundup
Mont
Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc
Order of Eastern Star
Samuel Clawson
Smalley
Thomas Smalley
Klein
Army Officer Drowns In Yellowstone Lake
Park service crews search for Major J. T. Flock of Fort Douglas Utah after his fishing boat capsized in Yellowstone Lake last Wednesday. A special sun helmet recovered and a sweater found near West Thumb dock identified as belonging to Captain R. H. Carmichael who was rescued.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Park Service
J. T. Flock
Fort Douglas
Utah
Yellowstone Lake
Flock
R. Strother
Fort Dougas
West Thumb
R. H. Carmichael
Carmichael
Illinois Tourist Leaves Wife at Gas Station
An absent minded Illinois tourist drove 30 miles before noticing his wife missing from the car at a Winchester Virginia service station. State Trooper B E Williams said the panicked woman called him after her husband drove away while she was in the rest room. The man said he failed to see her leave and thought she had been thrown out on a curve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Illinois
B. E. Williams
National Trout Derby in Livingston Sunday Draws Fishermen
Montana officials cooperate with the Livingston National Trout Derby executive committee for the August 3 event. A $1000 prize awaits the angler with the biggest catch, with state and local authorities tagging fish and patrolling the streams. Governor Ford chairs the honorary committee and patrols gear up for derby day traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Montana
J. Stevens
Ewis
J. W. Jevery
State Fish and Game Commission
J. 8. McFarland
Elmer Philips
Ent of Fisheries
Sam C. Ford
Charles L. Sheridan
State Highway Patrol
Ipl
July First Registrants Receive Serial Numbers From Local Draft Office
Local draft office lists 23 registrants for July 1 selective service. Secretary Hilda Coster distributes each man’s name and serial number, including Big Timber entries Elmer Skaarland S-385 and Joseph Rahif S-456, with others from Grey Cliff, Face Point, Sibson Take Schiltz Jr., and McLeod.
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Hilda Coster
Serius
Big Timber
Elmer C. Skaarland
Joseph Peter Rahif
James Dale Gottlob
Elias Helen, Jr
Ben John Raisland
Archie William Ellison
Burton A. Robinson
Hubert Owen Ellison
Charles Edward Moers
Leo Charles Curtis
Lennard Francis McSness
Paul Ray Hancock
Johnny Fred Viets
William Julius Nebel, Jr
Roy Clarence Berland
Ronald Rupert Schulz
John Veasey Osburn
Charles Ethelburt Steensland
Grey Cliff
Ronald Thomas Hoyem
Oscar Norris Elgen
McLeod
Robert James Elgas
Robert Mysse
Sibson Take Schiltz, Jr
Buxton Captured After Worthless Check Case
Under Sheriff Walter Osborne nabbed Roy L. Buxton in Hugoton Kansas after Buxton and a 16 year old hitchhiker entered the sheriff's office seeking C A Bishop. Buxton, 38 per license but 23 on driver’s license, faces extradition for a 530 dollar counterfeit check. The 16 year old, Robert Thelander of Little Falls Minnesota, aided by alertness, aided their arrest and release from custody is sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Buxton
Hugoton
Kan
Osborne
Walter Osborne
Roy L. Buxton
Court House
Buxton
Robert Thelander
C. A. Bishop
Jarrett
Topeka
Kansas
Oklahoma
McAlester
Little Falls
Minn
Wyoming
Paxton
Stillwater Wool Pool Sold to Draper Company
The Stillwater county wool pool of about 60 000 fleeces sold for 36 cents a pound to Draper and Company Inc of Boston. Jack Mackey of Billings, representing the Boston firm, expects around 600 000 pounds and net to Stillwater growers near 212 000 dollars with freight estimated at 12 000 to 13 000 dollars. Shipping should start Monday at Columbus. Butcher creek pool members sold about 25 000 pounds at 37 34 cents per pound. Individual sheepmen including Nels Helleren John Stene Almer Stene Klaid Skipstad and Carl Bue sold about 15 000 pounds at 35 cents a pound.
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Billings
Stillwater County
Draper & Company, Inc
Boston
Mass
Jack Mackey
Stillwater
Mackey
Columbus
Butcher Creek Pool
Nels Helleren
John Stene
Almer Stene
Klaid Skipstad
Carl Bue
June business held well through country
The Ninth federal reserve district including Montana showed June activity near nine-year highs, with bank loans on June 30 the largest in nine years and farmers’ cash incomes for June the best since 1929. Northwest crop prospects on July 1 were improved and favorable.
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Minneapolis
Federal Reserve District
Montana
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Northwest
New Yorker dies after ranch horse attack near Ennis
Wilbur Love Cummings, 60, a New York lawyer, died at Bozeman hospital after a ranch horse kicked and stomped him near Ennis. He fell while attempting to mount, receiving skull fracture and other injuries. His son Wilbur L. Cummings Jr. owns the Corral Creek ranch.
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Bozeman
Wilbur Love Cummings
New York
Ennis
Cummings
W. A. Thierfelder
Wilbur L. Cummings
Corral Creek
Pepper urges firm warning to Japan over aggression
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida called on democracies to tell Japan that a new aggressive move would trigger a Pacific war. He said the world should warn Japan that ships and planes with guns would be across its path if it attacks, amid forecasts of economic strangulation within a year.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Pacific
Claude Pepper
Florida
Thailand
Pepper
Warden Weldon resigns after Wetumpka prison lashings
Alabama Governor Frank Dixon announced the resignation of Warden J Curtiss Weldon following the whipping of five women convicts at Wetumpka state prison. The incident followed a riot in the prison beauty shop sparked by a manicure refusal, leaving inmates with seven lashes each and a chaotic free for all.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. Curtiss Weldon
Wetumpka State Prison
Frank M. Dixon
Saturay
Dixon
Weldon
Department of Corrections and Institutions
Army aviator circles Livingston to check weather over soupy night
Residents feared a lost flyer would crash after a cloudburst Friday night. An army bomber crew from Spokane to Cheyenne and Denver circled Livingston to verify course and weather with civil aviation authority at the local airport.
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Livingston Enterprise
Spokane
Cheyenne
Wyo
Denver
Colo
Livingston
Civil Arronautics Authority
Authority
All Time Lamb Crop Record Forecast
The agriculture department forecast an all time lamb crop of 34,549,000 head for this year, up 5 percent from the previous record and 13 percent above the 1930s average. Lamb production set new records in eastern and western states due to more breeding ewes and low loss of newborn lambs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
County City Preliminary Budgets Signal Tax Levy Decline
County commissioners next August 6 will finalize budgets for 1942. The plan shows reductions in various levies with totals for county and city services, library and water departments, and high school bond cleanup. Estimated tax amount to be raised stands at 13 898 dollars.
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Water Department
Rep OConnor Addresses Butte Meeting on War Policy
In Butte on July 30 Representative James F. O Connor urged keeping the nation out of war and criticized cabinet members for foreign policy. Speaking on radio he supported aid to Britain only as needed and opposed cash-lease style profits from lend lease. He accused Britain of selling U S goods to South America and said Britain will never pay for wartime supplies.
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Butte
James F. O'Connor
O'Connor
Britain
Great Britain
Congress
South America
England
4-H Fair Premium Lists Are Printed By News
At a reorganized 4 H club fair board meeting held last week at the county extension office the contract for printing 200 premium lists for the coming fair was awarded to the Sweet Grass News. Its bid was about 25 dollars lower than last year when The Pioneer overbid. This year The Pioneer used the Bills Gazette price. Robert Cosgriff is president and Guy C Officer is secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweet Grass News
Pioneer
News
Fair Board
Billings Gazette
Robert Cosgriff
Guy C
Frances Wheeler Quits Government Position
Miss Frances Wheeler daughter of United States Senator Burton K Wheeler resigns as a field examiner for the national labor relations board in St Louis She declines to discuss reasons but says she planned to quit for months and will vacation at Lake Geneva Wisconsin before seeking other work
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ST. Louis
Frances Wheeler
United States
Burton K. Wheeler
National Labor Relations Board
Wheeler
Lake Geneva
Wis
Miss Wheeler
Hail Devastates Eastern Montana Crops in Weekend Storms
Helena July 28 Hailstorms Friday and Saturday caused heavy crop losses in Fallon and Glendive districts and along the Marias river state hail commissioner E K Bowman said losses ranged from 50 to 100 percent in Fallon Glendive areas with the Marias river stretch from Shelby to Chester recording slightly less damage Prairie and Petroleum counties reported seven claims for up to 10 percent losses as harvest continued.
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Helena
Fallon
Glendive
Marias River
E. K. Bowman
Bowman
Fallon-Glendive
Shelby
Chester
Prairie
Petroleum
Convery Named Welfare Administrator in Montana
Helena July 24 James B Convery of Silesia is chosen by the Montana public welfare board as state welfare administrator I M Brandford who served four years resigns Convery former Carbon county commissioner and honorary president of the Montana Association of County Commissioners conferred with the board and will assume duties August Brandford will return to Rowan to run his lumber company focusing on building materials.
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Helena
Montana Public Welfare Board
James B. Convery
Silesia
I. M. Brandford
Convery
Carbon County
Montana Association of County Commissioners
J. Brandford
Rowan
Kelly Trial Depends Upon His Recovery
E Pat Kelly former Livingston official and longtime Washington state labor and industries director faces grand larceny charges but will not be tried while ill. Indicted in 1939 for padding expense accounts and misusing state medical aid and accident funds to cover departmental payrolls.
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Park County
Olympia
Wash
E. Pat Kelly
Livingston
Washington State
Kelly
Washington
Aluminum drive ends with good response
Mrs American Housewife mobilizes support for the airplane industry as city hall collections show many aluminum items donated. Boxes hold spoons pots lids washing machine parts and car components while Karl Bryan notes no usable material estimate. Billings will receive ship and be weighed, reinforcing the belief that Americans always come through.
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Uncle Sam
City Hall
Karl Bryan
County Drive
Billings
Sheep Herd Heads to Summer Mountains in Big Timber
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes the annual sheep trek to summer pasture with front page photos of Palmer Lomeland bandaging a lamb and Ernest Engle counting sheep. The tale notes Big Timber men and a high-altitude trek through Copper Creek divide into Hell Roaring territory in the Rockies.
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Seattle P. I
Palmer Lomeland
Ernest Engle
Copper Creek
Hell Roaring Territory
Rockies
W S Davidson Pioneer Operator For N P Dies In Bozeman
Wells Seas man Davidson 76 longtime Bozeman banker president of Gallatin Trust and Savings Bank for 23 years served on the state board of education and Mont State college committee. He came to Montana in 1887 as telegrapher and died after months of illness with widow Lulu Davidson and son Dr Paul B Davidson surviving. Funeral Tuesday at 2:30 p m in Bozeman.
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Bozeman
Wells Seaman Davidson
Gallatin Trust and Savings Bank of
State Board of Education
Davidson
Montana
Columbus
Manhattan
Gallatin Trust and Savings Bank
Montana State College
Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
Lulu Davidson
Paul B. Davidson
Wilkinsburg
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Lewistown
Harlowton
Ronald McDonnell
John Hager
Stillwater Chrome
Stillwater Pool
Draper & Company
SEN. Pepper
Alabama
O’connor
P. I
Sweet Grass
W.S. Davidson
N.P
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