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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
2
Reed Point notes record a flurry of visitors and travel. Families from Billings Livingston Seattle and Durango share meals and weekend stays with local residents as relatives visit after trips and training events across Montana and beyond.
Community social notes recount visits and gatherings in Big Timber and surrounding areas. John Aalgaard and sons of Billings toured with Mr and Mrs Palmer Peterson. Mr and Mrs Clarence Todd and Bob LeBrun hosted in Big Timber. Debbie Lowry and Becky Holcomb brought a birthday cake to Mrs Clarence Todd.
Costa Mesa California. The Rock may be confined to an island but Edgar C Johnson 60 of 2047 Charlie Sr found his love in 1914 when he and Pearl his first wife who died in 1956 acquired an 1080 pound whirlpool rock from her great uncle. Last year at a cost of 300 Johnson had it shipped to Costa Mesa from the Boulder River country of Montana hoping to display it for educational and historical purposes. The rock which he affectionately calls Mr Granite once served as a marker for a safe crossing of the Boulder River for years. Indians and Western settlers learned that when they could see daylight through the hole of the rock which rested in the middle of the river then it was safe to cross. The 1080 pound piece of hard granite had been imbedded at the base of a violent whirlpool at Boulder Falls McLeod Montana. Early settlers believed a tree Boulder Sunday visited J B Woodard and Mr and Mrs Jim Coleman in Billings Thursday. Mr and Mrs George Swindler and Georgia visited Sunday with Mrs Annie DeLeeuw and Mr and Mrs C A Swindler in Billings and with Mr and Mrs E C Robbins in Columbus.
Excellent locations are available now for Gamble Skogmo franchised stores in Big Timber Forsyth Scobey Montana and across a 23 state area. Prior soft lines experience helps but is not required. For details contact Don Macdonald Dealer Division P O Box 719 Billings Montana.
Johnson describes a rock named Mr Granite found 12 miles from the whirlpool, carried by eight horses to shore, after drifting in swift river water. He once refused a Mayo Clinic offer of 58000 and plans to place the rock in Big Timber parks for education before returning it as a memorial to his late wife.
Ruth Circle gathers June 23 at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Kenneth Boe’s home with Mrs. Boe giving the lesson. Esther Circle meets June 23 at 2 p.m. at Mike Breck’s home with Mrs. Hannah Harlan in charge of the lesson.
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