Big Timber Rodeo Sets Five Events with Large Purses
The Rodeo Cowboy Association approves a one day show on June 24 featuring five main events with a 150 purse each and a girls open barrel race for 100. A western parade precedes the 2 p.m. rodeo, with ticket sales by the Jaycees and Ropin n Ridin club from 1 to 9 p.m. at the former Klindt Pharmacy building on McLeod Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodeo Cowboy Association
West
The
Jaycees
Walt Broughton
Rodeo Ticket Offfce
McLeod Street
Klindt Pharmacy
Thejand
Jaycees and Ropin’ Club Membe
Burton
Robinson
Vol Sale
Zumwalt & Lake
Suvissuun Vvumbackralavuual
CuauLcil Fox
Red Rider
Mighty Mike
Livingston
Bomber
Fox
Karen Whitter
Raymond Man
Casey Tibbs
Butte
John Reynolds
Bill Lawrence
Don White
Floyd
Peters
George Richmond
Ropers
Joaquin Sanchez
Mannoni Whittet Tie The Knot In Simple Rites
A small-town ceremony records Mannoni and Whittet exchanging vows in a quiet wedding. Attendees include family members and close friends as the couple begins married life at Talhenal chapel.
Northwest Airlines thanks Big Timber for aid during landing
A Northwest Airlines vice president letter to Mayor Harold Roe commends Big Timber residents for cooperation during flight 615's May 3 landing due to mechanical difficulty. The note thanks Constable, National Guard, and airport manager Walker Huffman for keeping the town airport in good operating condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest Airlines
Harold Roe
Frank C. Judd
St. Paul
Beardsley
Shim
Thel
National Guard
Walker Huffman
Hufman
Mystery photo recalls Burns ranch on Swamp Creek
The week’s image shows the Robert H. Burns ranch on Swamp Creek once known as Jacob Johnson place. It traces owners from Anthony Arneson to John Madill Jr to the Hults brothers, then Burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Burns
Swamp Creek
Jacob Johnson
Anthony Arneson
Johnson
John Madill J
Hults Brothers
Burns
Wormser
Big Timber
Bob Davis
Davises
Sonny Magelssen
Holland
Plaggemeyers
Huysers
Mosses
Wool Sales Documents Required for 1956 Payments
Producers must provide sales documents with name and address, sale date, net weight or number and liveweight of unshorn lambs, buyer's details, and net proceeds. Kolstad warns inadequate paperwork delayed 1955 applications. The 1956 incentive price for wool remains 62 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo S. Kolstad
ASC
Kolstad
Former Resident Dies at Hamilton
William Gugler a former Sweet Grass county rancher died Wednesday of last week in Hamilton at over eighty. Services were held there Friday with burial in Hamilton cemetery. He homesteaded at the head of the Big Coulee north of Gibson, moved to Ryegate in 1921 and to Hamilton in 1980. Survivors include his widow two sons Chester and Bill of Hamilton and a brother Walter of Ryegate.
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William Gugler
Sweet Grass County
Hamilton
Gugler
Big Coulee
Gibson
Ryegate
Chester
Bill
Walter
Festival Attendees Display Art At Montana Institute
Miss Helen McAuslan and Mrs Nat Clark and Mrs Bo Clark attended the Montana Institute of the Arts festival in Virginia City. McAuslan showed a wood cut, Bo Clark exhibited two paintings. Mrs Dick Armstrong joined the delegation and visited relatives nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen McAuslan
Nat Clark
Bo Clark
Montana Institute of the Arts
Virginia City
McAuslan
Dick Armstrong
Big Timber Couple Wed In Double Ring Ceremony
Mrs. Mannoni daughter of Col I and Mrs W A Whitter of Livingston and Mr. Mannoni a Mississippi Southern faculty member were united in marriage by Rev A W Seebart assisted by Rev Harold W Heckman. The wedding drew many Big Timber residents and featured pastel snapdragon decor and a white lace gown with a pearl Bible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nonni
A. W. Seebart
Harold W. Heckman
Gay Whittet
Esther O'Toole
Big Timber
Ronald Mannoni
Jack Armstrong
Richard Whitter
Bill Kaiserman
Bob Zimdar
Livingston School
Ogden
Utah
Montana State University
Mississippi Southern College
Hattiesburg
Mannoni
Mississippi Southern
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
North 26Th Ave
Dentist Major Olness Begins 14 Day Active Duty Tour
Dr Olness of Big Timber enters the United States Army for a 14 days active duty period. He holds a major’s commission in the dental corps and will attend summer training with Montana 813th Convalescent Center at Fort Lewis. A World War II veteran with 44 months service and over two years overseas duty, he serves as a civilian dentist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olness
Fort Missoula
Mont
Bernhard i Olness
Big Timber
United States Army
Olmess
Dental Corps
Montana
813Th Convalescent Center
Fort Lewis
Wash
Linn Hanson Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. George Carl learned of the death of Linn Hanson at his Lolo home after a prolonged cancer battle. The former Gibson area rancher retired five years ago and had lived in Utah and Idaho before settling in Lolo. Funeral rites will be at Stevensville Saint Mary’s Mission with burial in the local cemetery. Survivors include his widow, his mother in California, three sons Ed Jim Homer a daughter Ileana Anderson two sisters four brothers and six grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Carl
Linn Hanson
Lolo
Stevensville
South
St. Mary’s Mission
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Hanson
Gibson
Utah
Idaho
John E. Hanson
California
Jim
Missoula
Homer
Bountiful
Ileana Anderson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Carl
Christina Hanson
Minneapolis
Dean and
Paul Hanson
Nebraska
Billings
Elery
Famous Photographer Plans to Live Here
R. R. Doubleday famed rodeo photographer plans to settle in Big Timber. Mrs. Frank Hallinan says he wrote from Eureka Springs Arkansas and will reside at the Ranch House Rest Home run by the Hallinans as his sight has been failing and he is nearly blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Doubleday
Big Timber
Frank Hallinan
Doubleday
Mary Peterson Receives Alpha Omicron Pi Summer Scholarship
Mary Peterson daughter of Mr and Mrs F B Peterson has been named the Alpha Omicron Pi undergraduate to spend six weeks with the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky this summer. She will work with a social service worker visiting families around Wendover and Hyder Ky starting July 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Peterson
F. B. Peterson
Alpha Amacron Pi
Frontier Nursing Service
Kentucky
Wendover
Hyder
Mary
Alpha Omicron Pi
Montana State College
MSC
Wedding Bells In Montana Circle And Civic News
Miss June Opland wed Thomas Kalberg in a candlelit ceremony at a Montana church attended by 150 guests. The bride wore chantilly lace over satin with a lace illusion veil. attendants wore blue net gowns. Franklin S. Longan of Billings was elected a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Guests, visits, and social details from Ferndale, Spokane, and Missoula accompany the wedding report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June Opland
Gilbert Opland
Thomas Kalberg
Andjstone
Louie M. Kalberg
Harlow-land
Wm. A. Hood
E. O. Overland
A. Ronald McDonnell
Ruth
Longan
Trial Lawyer Academy
Billings
Franklin S. Longan
U. S
International Academy of Trial Lawyers
New York City
Academy
Washington
Don Lamb
Twoj
Ferndale
Wash
Theo. Slettebo
Carl Mosness
Homeland Circle
White Bible
H. L. Brockway
Neva Ross
Harlowto Ling
Nyla Opland
Sister of the Bride
Sonja
Congregational Church
Bruffey
P. R. Cox
Lyman Moulden
Orville Wulff
Ednad Jarrett
Linda Archer
al Girl
W. W. Lasso
David Archer
McArthur
Shaw
McLean Clark
Forrest Ullman
L. W. Baskett
Fred Ellis
A. C. McDonald
Kalberg
W. K. Amery
Millie Snyder
Ellen Rich
Guardsmen head to Ft Harrison camp after Boulder breakfast
About 30 National Guardsmen left Boulder at 6 30 a m after a breakfast at the local cafe and headed by convoy for Ft Harrison for a two week training camp. Ray Bieber attended a nutrition conference for feed manufacturers in Bozeman with Vo Ag instructor Scott Hoskinson joining for one day. Chuck Bray, back in town from the University of Chicago medical program, is working for the forest service this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
Chuck Bray
Chicago
University of Chicago
The
Forest Service
Fiare Votes For Foreign Aid Measure In House Battle
The House approved a $3.8 billion foreign aid authorization 273 to 122. Support came from Democrats Metcalf of Montana Aspinwall and Rogers of Colorado and Republicans Hills and Chenoweth of Colorado. Opposing votes included Republicans Flare of Montana and Thompson of Wyoming.
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Washington
House
Rocky Mountain States
Colorado
Metcalf
Montana
Aspinwall
Rogers
Hills and Chenoweth
Flare
Thompson
Wyoming
Tentative Summer Recreation Program and Rules Announced
The city recreation committee announces registration this Friday 2 to 4 pm and Saturday 10 am to 12 at the Dugout. Director Jim Graham outlines a tentative schedule with coed activities, rainy-day events, and open-air dances plus rules to safeguard park property and youth conduct.
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Klindt's
iPharmacy
Jim Graham
Graham
Eralt
Services Held For Minnie Thompson
Funeral rites for Minnie Thompson 62 wife of Reed Point farmer Guy W. Thompson and mother of Mrs. Ray Traver of Big Timber were held Tuesday at the Reed Point EUB church. Burial followed in Reed Point cemetery. She died Saturday in a Columbus hospital born November 20 1893 in Delton Wisconsin had lived in Stillwater county since 1917. Surviving: husband eight daughters two sons three sisters four brothers and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Thompson
Guy W. Thompson
Reed Point
Ray Traver
Big Timber
Reed Point Eub Church
E. J. Bott
Norman Jordet
Frank Paladichuk
Lee Goddard
Emory Reily
Jess Whitford
Reed Point Cemetery
Delton
Wis
Stillwater County
Embry Redly
Wayne Tufte
Lawrence Gerry
Traver
Thomas Thompson
Ira J. Thompson
Rachel Mash
Amelia Thompson
Lilly Idhe
Wisconsin
Ira Goman
Abraham Goman
Harrison Goman
Billings
James Goman
Phoenix
Ariz
Red Lodge Cooke City Highway to Open Thursday
The Red Lodge to Cooke City highway leading to Yellowstone National Park's northeast entrance at Silver Gate will open Thursday morning, announced by the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
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Red Lodge
Red Lodge- Cooke Highway
Yellowstones Park
Siliver Gate
Chamber of Commerce
Local Notes Bible School Concludes at McLeod
A vacation Bible School program closed Friday night in McLeod after a week of lessons. Seventeen pupils attended the session led by Barbara Weber of Lafayette Indiana and Tina Goertz of New Westminster British Columbia, representing the American Sunday School Union based in Lewistown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLeod
Barbara Weber
Lafayette
Ind
Tina Goertz
New Westminster
B. C
American Sunday School Union
Lewistown
Concession Chairmen Name Rodeo Oral Booth Heads
Bill Fraser and Andy Strickland will run the rodeo oral booths with assistants Bud Arneson Duane Braaten Jerry Egeland Al MacDonald Dick Marshall Irvin Myers and Albert Osen under Fraser. Under Strickland will be Bill Kinsey Carl Walton Cecil Carl Theron Durr Dr Henry Stokke Bud Pile and Horatio Burns. Report to chairs immediately after the parade on rodeo day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Fraser
Andy Strickland
Bill
Bud Arneson
Duane Braaten
Jerry Egeland
al MacDonald
Dick Marshall
Irvin Myers
Albert Osen
Andy
Bill Kinsey
Carl Walton
Cecil Carl
Theron Durr
Henry Stokke
Bud Pile
Horatio Burns
Grant awarded to former PLC student in Parkland
Parkland Washington notes that Dick Nicholson, son of Mrs Helen Nicholson and a 1955 Pacific Lutheran College graduate, received a research grant at the University of Washington under Harold Barjer and Don Blair. The Play Day featured races including a rope, barrel and pony express, plus square dancing and a polo match ending in a draw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PLC
Parkland, Wash
Dick Nicholsson
Helen Nicholson
Pacific
Lutheran College
Parkland
University of Washington
Harold Bar J Medical School
American Bher
Don Blair
Harold Barber
Bernard Hakes
Elsie
Carla Wulff
Pat Pederson
Vonnie Hakes
Norma Barber
Summer Study Grant For Three Years With Electron Microscope
Nicholson attends medical school while a grant supports summer study for three years with the electron microscope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancel
Sociely
Nicholson
Elected Committeewoman Named in Big Timber West Precinct
Mrs. John Hager was elected committeewoman in Big Timber west precinct during the primary election. The result highlights local party organization as voters chose new leadership for the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hager
Big Timber West
Mission work at Mimanagish aids camp water line
Mr and Mrs O J Paulson and family Steve Nelson and Dave Haas spent last weekend at Mimanagish helping Rev Charles Martin of Rocky Mountain College and Don Peter of Billings. They assisted with repairs and extension of the water line at the Congregational camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Paulson
Steve Nelson
Dave Haas
Charles Martin
Rocky Mountain College
Don Peter
Billings
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Rodeo
Mannoni-Whittet
Bill Forsythe
Bakersfield
Cal
Dean Lowry
Victor Tronrud
Melville
Spokane
Charlotte Stebbins
State University
Don Shipley
Fiare
Cooke City
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