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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1929
Page
4
The piece explains that voters may choose only one party ballot in a primary. The two ballots are stapled, must be separated, and the voted one given to a judge while the other is discarded. It notes a late Democratic candidate disrupted the process and warns of a long party study before the July 15 election.
The Minneapolis Tribune notes a strange campaign as two Republicans vie for the senatorial nomination by claiming to be poorer Republicans. John H. Hougen, a lieutenant governor hopeful, parodies moon cheese and other slogans, probing where candidates stand on key issues and who would lead if moonlit metaphors hold.
President Hoover urged Congress to grant broader authority to the tariff commission, arguing the flexible clause would reduce politics and lobbying while protecting agriculture and key industries. He said the measure advances a more scientific tariff revision and could lift the economy from paralyzing agitation.
Returns from this week’s primary elections show that the votes for strictly wet candidates do not align with the Literary Digest poll results. The discrepancy raises questions about the accuracy of the Digest’s forecasting method.
Five people drowned in swollen streams and two remained missing after two days of heavy rains across western Texas. Oscar Tidwell, wife and son were found near their wrecked Lake creek home near Goree. Edna Bell Tidwell and her grandmother were still missing. Other families were found safe, and washouts disrupted highways and railways including the Orient, Wichita Valley, and Wichita Falls lines. Train service between San Angelo and Sterling was halted through Monday.
Montana grain leaders meet in Havre to back storage expansion for high quality grain and river transport. Resolutions urge federal support for elevators, increased feed grain production, river developments, and higher state funding for the grain division. Directors elected include Key Cross and Nels M Olson. speakers include A T Berg and W N Smith.
The Commerce Department reports contracts let in 37 states reached 55.88 billion for the first five months of 1980, up 21 percent from 1979 and 35 percent above the five year average. Residential and business construction fell, leaving total construction at about 2.087 billion, roughly 19 percent below the five year average.
Reed Point notices recount a string of visits and trips including A Woods and Vera Woods to Livingston, Ole Dahl painting the DeFrance hotel, and E 0 Smith returning from Great Falls. Local sports note Big Timber to play Reed Point at 2 30 p m while several residents travel to Billings Bozeman and California for family visits school attendance and club events.
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