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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1934
Page
6
At Annapolis 463 midshipmen graduated in the annual exercises. Of these 332 were commissioned ensigns in the Navy, 25 lieutenants in the Marine Corps, one lieutenant in the Philippines Scouts, and 105 resigned. Western graduate G F Stanich of Black Eagle Cascade County noted the event.
Student Stanich passed entrance examinations to become a cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy after attending the Marion Military Training Academy in Marion Alabama. He is a Great Falls High School graduate class of 1929 and pursued further prep at Marion academy.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Talcum as an exquisite powder for face skin baby and dusting, part of the Cuticura Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum priced at 25 cents each everywhere.
Public utilities paid 39713.30 in second half taxes in Sheridan county while Great Northern paid 25956.65 Soo Line 9401.96 Mountain States Telephone 1404.33 and Montana Dakota Power 2950.36. About five percent of GN taxes were paid under protest by James T. Maher GN land and tax commissioner alleging illegal levies in Sheridan school districts. The protest argues some district general fund levies are extended and exceed the district budgets. Textbooks levies are declared extended in several districts.
Great Falls Helena and Butte travelers can fly to Cheyenne Denver Omaha and other Rocky Mountain and Middle Western cities via Alfred Frank air service with Salt Lake City connections to United Air Lines. Chicago departures at 5:00 p m connect in Salt Lake City with arrivals in Montana cities by 10:40 a m and 9:23 9:57 10:40 a m respectively.
A broad program promotes home food production to save money and improve diets. It covers large family gardens with irrigation, pests control, canning surplus vegetables, year round poultry, seasonal meat, dairy needs, home milled cereals, wild fruit jellies and honey from beehives.
Glen Lucetti returns to Kalispell after finalizing a contract with National Vermiculite Products for licensing and sublicensing the Lucetti Kohr vermiculite patent. The Chicago controlled firm plans a national selling program for vermiculite mined at Libby.
Funeral services were held for W D Jones who died in Conrad after six weeks as a hospital patient. He was a longtime Teton county official and farmer, a Masonic lodge member since 1893, and buried beside his wife and son J R Jones. Survivors include two sons Kyle and a daughter Mrs Wilma Bental.
Valentine Paganini, formerly of Roundup, has moved to Glasgow and set up a concrete block plant for house foundations. The facility sits on land purchased from the Great Northern railway.
A number of Mexican and Filipino beet workers have arrived in the Chi nook valley with some coming from Idaho Falls Idaho where thinning is nearly finished and others from California. Thinning of beets is expected to start within a few days.
I Rovig of Seattle, longtime lumber figure with the Da kotas on the coast, filed with the Lewistown city clerk a petition for a franchise to import and distribute natural gas from the Armelis field into Lewistown.
Poison program expands as poison is spread in several Gal latin valley localities and more will be deployed as insects reach maximum hatching stage.
Washington reports the Public Works Administration has asked the Bureau of Reclamation to supply additional data on the proposed Chain of Lakes storage reservoir as latest status updates its development.
Spending by sailors during the United States fleet visit and by tourists is expected to pull Panama merchants from financial doldrums, boosting commerce and activity at waterfront markets and local shops.
John N. Reynolds staked Castle’s first town lot in 1885, later surveying the town and keeping his claim against a jumper. He and Jimmie Keen moved from Townsend, built a tent, and mined the “King of the Castles.” The lot sold for 25 dollars, later 5000, as Castle’s boom grew with the Castle Water and Power Company and mining ventures. Reynolds ended up in Helena after a prolonged gamble in the camp.
A veteran driver born in 1855 and known for his carriage and stage coaching has transitioned to automobiles. He chauffeured Tom Marlow's first car and Harry Child's first car, and remains active and unphased by age as he plans to keep moving.
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