Money to Loan and Optical Visit Advert
Money to loan on city property for erecting buying or improving homes or to home owners for any other purpose. Big Timber Building and Loan Assn J A Lowry treas Dr Riesland the eyesight specialist may be consulted about the finest scientific optical service at Grand hotel Sunday Monday and Tuesday June 14 15 and 16 all day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Timber Building & Loan Ass’n
J. A. Lowry
Treas
Riesland
Grand Hotel
Rags Wanted For Clean Cotton Recycling
The Pioneer office will pay 5 cents a pound for clean cotton rags. Remove buttons and fasteners and avoid using overalls carpets new scraps or gunny sacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer Office
Reward for information on horse and cattle theft
A $250 reward is offered for information leading to the first conviction of anyone stealing horses or cattle belonging to any paid up member of the Sweet Grass Stock Growers Association. Grant Bishir, secretary, Hunters Hot Springs, Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweet Grass Stock Growers Association
Grant Bishir
Hunters Hot Springs
Mont
Rain Belts Reach Blaine County As June Rains Aid Fallow Fields
Harlem reports .38 inch of rain with an additional .03 inch from a Monday shower aiding pastures and stock. Unseasonable winds and drought had dried water holes and damaged crops, but recent showers across Blaine County bring renewed hope for grain, reseeding, and delayed frosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Blaine County
Wickersham Commission Presses Political Reform in Prosecutor Appointments
The Wickersham Commission condemned Senate interference in federal district attorney nominations and urged removing political patronage from prosecutions. It called for better state prosecutor selection, tenure, organization, and a centralized system of public prosecutions with safeguards and professional standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
National Law Observance and Enforcement Commission
Hoover
Wickersham Group
United States
England
Wild West style bus hold up near Shamrock Texas
Seven highwaymen halted a Pickwick Greyhound west bound bus nine miles east of Shamrock at 2:30 a m on a detour from U S 66. They robbed 18 passengers of 668 dollars in cash and 273 dollars in jewelry and refunded small change to enable home wiring. The bandits escaped in two cars after damaging the bus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamrock
Texas
Here
W. E. Trammell
Tulsa
Okla
el Paso
Trammell
Eva Schneider
Phoenix
Arist
Wolfe
Texola
Pickwick- Greyhound
Clinton
Erick
Montana Pioneers Plan Marker for Granville Stuart Grave
Deer Lodge June 6 Montanans recall Hon Granville Stuart whose Hillcrest cemetery grave lacks a marker. A Montana Pioneers meeting in Butte in August will launch a drive to raise funds and place a fitting memorial.
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Deer Lodge
Granville Stuart
Hillcrest Cemetery
Montana
Butte
Beasley Profile in Pioneer 1902 Special Edition
W. W. Beasley of Big Timber a livestock and real estate merchant, born January 14 1831 in Decatur Ohio. His career spanned Crawfordsville Indiana Champaign Illinois East St Louis Montana Custer County and Chicago before settling in Big Timber where he entered sheep trade and politics. He married Nancy McNeill and has six children. He was a Republican candidate elected to Sweet Grass County’s state legislature in 1898. Brotherly he was a Mason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer
W. W. Beasley
Decatur
Ohio
Crawfordsville
Ind
Champaign
United States
Beasley
Sweet Grass County
Nancy McNeill
The
Masons
Local Notes From Big Timber Eighteen Years Ago
Items show births marriages and movements of residents. Notables include a June 6 birth to the Nevins of Melville, Miss Winnifred Richards return from St. Paul, Judge Mehlberg homesteading near Reed Point, a 2 200 sheep shearing by J L Rapstad, and several residents visiting relatives, schools, or embarking to summer schools. Also noted are civil war back pay settlement to W R Bramble, John A Wilson’s death at Warm Springs, library officers chosen, Birge Brammer’s fishing haul, a Livingston wedding of Mary Lyon and Paul Severance, and the opening of Big Timber’s new hospital under Dr A P O Leary.
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Winnifred Richards
State University At
St. Paul
F. H. Mehlberg
Bozeman
Reed Point
J. L. Rapstad
Myrtle Maupin
S. G. Webster
R. L. Guthrie
Stillwater County
Bud Hanson
Sweet Grass
Livingston
The
Elks
J. R. Kaiserman
A. P. O'Leary
R. L Lewis
C. W. Campbell
Frank J. Taylor
Maine
Big Timber
W. R. Bramble
John A. Wilson
Warm Springs
Library Board
J. A. Lowry
H. C. Pound
W. W. Hibbard
Horatio Lyon
Paul
Severance
Fred A. Severance
Albemarle
Montana
Commissioners Proceedings June 3 1931
The board met at 10 o clock and, after oral petitions for continued extension work, decided to continue the project for another year. John Schofield received approval to install a culvert at the fish hatchery. Commissioners Farr and Olson and Clerk Conwell were granted permission to be absent from the state. The board adjourned to meet July 6, 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Lee
John Schofield
Everett Farr
Theo. T. Olson
W. A. Conwell
Soldiers In Haiti May Be Withdrawn
Secretary Stimson indicates faster plan execution for Haiti and Nicaragua. He notes completion of the 1931 phase will see marines withdrawn from Nicaragua after the 1932 elections. Corinto saw 178 marine officers and men embark. Haiti contingents may depart earlier if the Haitian national guard stabilizes, aiming for a Dominican republic style arrangement with U S finances via the customs receiver.
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Washington
Haiti
Nicaragua
Stimson
Corinto
United States
Dominican Republic
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Richman
America
Harry Cross
Motor Inn
Harry Clouse
C. T. Williams
K. Rennebaum
H. K. Pederson
Elizabeth McDonnell
C. V. Mosier
Beu
General Electric
Yellowstone Trail
J. A. Lowry & CO
Mon
L. F. _DOUTHETT CO
Wickersham
Stuart
William Nevin
Melville
Commissioners
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