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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
8
A church schedules Sunday School at 1 30 and a patriotic sermon at 11:00. The afternoon will be in the park with singing and speaking. Families should bring dry grub. there will be coffee lemonade cake and fruit for sale. Swings and hammocks will be on the grounds. All are welcome.
Rev MacWilliams returns from Diocesan Convention at Bozeman and plans to leave for Broadview. Sunday school and Catechising at 10 00 a m Holy communion at 11 00 a m Evening prayer at 7 00 p m. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 00 a m.
The Yellowstone association meeting will convene in Laurel on July 29 and 30 with delegates Mrs. I J Thoren Mrs J Browning and Mrs S A Perrine. Miss Eva Ludgate the singing evangelist from Wheaton IL has been engaged for several weeks in Big Timber in September and next Sunday a vocal duet by Miss Irene Thoren and her father will bless the morning service while the evening choir anthem closes. Special Fourth of July service is planned.
The late United States Senator William Stewart is remembered for his Indian policy and a dramatic frontier incident. While driving toward Carson in 1860 he encountered two armed Piute warriors and saved himself by throwing a rider off the wagon, wresting a rifle, smashing it, and striking the attacker, then continuing on with the mules.
Senator Stewart recalls outlaw Sam Brown the six feet four inch killer who once slew sixteen men in Virginia City. Brown eyed the narrator with a knife but fled when two Derringers appeared. After the case Brown later sought legal representation in a mining suit.
Friends claim the senator's absent minded remark was so extreme that one could string it into a long joke, mocked as a double bowed tale. A crude anecdote suggests a morning incident describing him as a butt of humor.
Enver Bey and Major Niazi Bes emerge as key figures behind the Turkish constitutionalist movement. Enver, a famed staff officer, led operations at Saloniki and motivated the union and progress committee. Niazi Bes, a peasant-born regimental commander, showed courage at Monastir but had a harsher reputation in village suppressions.
Peter Fenelon Collier famed publisher hunter and society man died in New York. He prized punctual 8 o clock at his desk and kept a rooftop barber shop titled the eagle s nest where only his barber and stenographer visited him by telephone. He scolded the barber over peppermint lozenges to disguise whisky.
A stained glass Favrile window titled Equal Justice to All will be installed at Metropolitan Temple New York. Dedicated May 26 to 30 Rev James Wesley TS pastor presides. The circular window shows a white robed figure with torch Truth and scales of Justice overhead. In memory of Theodore Roosevelt administration Sept 14 1911 to March 19 1911.
A large mahogany suitcase made in the Philippines was presented to President Trift. John S. Hord, collector of internal revenue, used the case in Washington to bring statistics for Philippine tariff legislation. The case features a front inlaid with about 120 wood specimens, initials W. HL. T. and P. J. in native materials, and a back and sides of carved cara bao hides with a Manila hemp handle.
Official figures put earthquake deaths in Messina at 95 000 with 475 000 still missing in ruins. Both numbers represent minimum counts from the disaster zone.
A New York City scene reports a live green parrot with red trim perched on the tonneau of a brown roadster as three fashionable women ride. The bird roams the car, pecks the driver's cap, and draws fashion commentary about parrots as an emerging auto accessory.
G B McDermott of Nacozari told Houston listeners that northern Mexico is becoming the premier cattle country in the Americas. He noted U S ranchers move ranges south and Mexican ranchers focus on herd quality, with beef quality rising as herds expand.
Landowners in Center County Pennsylvania plant trees on denuded hills this spring. A workforce is planting 250000 white pine seedlings on the old Whipple place near Pine Grove Mills from the state nursery at Greenwood Furnace under the direction of Mr Morton of the state forestry department.
Fresh milk service offers daily home delivery with 16 quarts for one dollar. Cream and ice cream orders are promptly attended to.
Bray the butcher urges customers to bring all fat chickens turkeys geese and ducks for collection and purchase. The notice emphasizes a wide range of poultry to be brought in for processing or sale.
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