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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
3
May 26 1904 edition notes Edith Merrielees returns home for summer. Junior Guild hosted by Ethel Stubblefield. Miss Tyer's class presents a silver souvenir spoon. School events include graduates, trips, and local engagements. construction bids awarded for fair grandstand. Socials, visits, and notices fill the community chronicle.
Lewis and Clark Cavern, the Pacific Northwest’s largest limestone cavern, opens for the season with guided tours starting May 1. Expert guides lead 90 minute visits through major rooms along lighted trails, with a jeep railroad from park HQ and an electric tram to the entrance.
Helena Montana Monday the State Board of Education debated high school progress and conditions. It recommended 142 schools for full accreditation, 53 for accreditation with corrective advice, and five with warnings alongside nonaccreditation for four others.
Gildford and Hingham were dropped from accredited high schools in June 1953 but reapplied in March 1954. Inverness Junior High was dropped in March 1954 with no reapplication. Centerville, on probation for years, faced continued housing and facility deficiencies prompting scrutiny.
The article notes Theodore T. Olson, six years as county commissioner, filed for the Democratic nomination for another six year term this year. Cold weather and heavy snow near Sheep Mountain west of Springdale buried many lambs, with Chris Bee and the Ebert Sheep Co. herds affected. Rescue efforts recovered numerous carcasses, and about 100 lambs were lost despite digging all day.
Miss Helen Hanson left Saturday morning for Seattle to spend part of her vacation period. Charles Hollingsworth began work with Groves Construction Co in the park on Thursday. Mrs. Ray Leckie and daughter Betty traveled to Laurel where she has employment. Miss Helen Adams closed a term of school at the Kent school Saturday. Mrs Abbie Deckert and Miss Bess Deeney visited Gardiner on Monday. Les Booth accompanied them and will start work in the park. Saturday evening Mr and Mrs Bernard Deeney Jr entertained the Big Timber teachers whom Mrs Deeney taught last year.
The Lewis and Clark Cavern near Whitehall on highway 10 S evolved from Morrison Cave to a national monument in 1908 under Theodore Roosevelt. Development by CCC in the 1930s, a state park since 1936, and a 1947 upgrade with jeep tram boosted visitors to 35,000 yearly with year round dry, cool interiors at 46 degrees.
The Montana Power Company sent Sweet Grass County a 9809.28 check for the second half 1953 property taxes. Across 40 counties the firm paid 1,162,104 in May, with total 1953 property taxes at 2,343,833. State taxes amounted to 2,887,586. Cascade, Lewis and Clark, Lake, and Silver Bow counties received over 100,000 in second-half payments.
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