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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
4
Lanterned tale recalls Henry Tree’s first Falstaff misadventure as pegs for the oak tree vanish. He laments with No pegs as the property master coolly retorts Pegs pegs revealing the stubborn shortage before a dress rehearsal in London Tit-Bits.
Anna Wentworth quotes William Dean Howells on writing as drudgery and discipline. He urges beginners to try writing, to start with everyday life, and to persevere, noting that the muse requires effort and urging to arrive.
A stenographic tale from the Kansas City Journal recounts a worker who overslept after missetting an alarm. He claims he set the clock for seven in the evening by mistake, prompting a gruff boss to shrug off the lapse. The anecdote ends with questions about the boss’s suspicion of a 24 hour clock.
Historical records from Leicester and Winchester show 15th and 16th century edicts forbidding butchers to slaughter bulls until baited. The Leicester common hall in 1467 ordered no bull to be killed before baiting, while Winchester under Henry VIII restricted bull flesh offerings to bull-rings within the city.
A NSW jury in a watch theft case retires to decide. The judge offers guidance and asks if the foreman has questions. One juror asks whether the prisoner stole the watch, while the hall comments drift in from the Atchison Globe about grammar and mottos.
The excerpt notes that in 1591 red signified English, citing a French marksman who killed a captain while wearing the red coat of a dead English soldier. It adds that by 1643 red coats were worn by the king's life guards the queen's and Prince Rupert's units.
A Salt Lake City Tribune quip notes a husband’s tactic of praising another woman to draw his sulking wife back into conversation. The exchange suggests the ploy can sometimes provoke a broader flare of amenable behavior or even anger.
Election call by Sweet Grass County Board of Commissioners. Voters in the proposed Big Timber area will elect incorporation on July 15 1901 from 8 am to 6 pm at the Court House corridor. Description defines the territory bounded by sections and rivers in Sweet Grass County Montana. J H Moore county clerk. Also includes ads for August Flower treatment and travel promos to Buffalo and San Francisco with dates and fares.
Sweet Grass County Montana commissioners call a July 8 1901 election for residents to decide if a County High School will be established in Big Timber by petition of over 100 freeholders. Also an estray notice offers a reward for return of two work horses a gray gelding branded figure one and bay gelding branded mule shoe both with old shoes. Owner O B Curtis Big Timber.
Three through trains daily with vestibuled sleeping cars and dining service. Meals on the American Club Meals plan priced from 35 cents to 81.00. Chicago depot at Van Buren Street and Pacific Avenue on the Elevated Loop. 111 Adams Street, Chicago, offers full information and an illustrated descriptive folder of the Exposition buildings and grounds.
Department of the Interior Land Office Bozeman Montana announces John W. Fryer has filed for final proof to establish his claim on the NE percent of section 17 township 15 range 13 east M PM. Proof will be made before O M Lanphear U S Commissioner at Big Timber Montana July 27 1901. Witnesses: Andrew M Clark William McKenzie William Hi Shaffer John H Ammerman all hunters hot springs Montana. A L Lovi Register. First publication June 20 1901.
Florence V. Gree of Bir Timber Sweet Grass county Montana has filed a notice of intention to prove desert land claim No. 982 for the N W I, S E N E Sec 24 Tp 2N R 13 E before a U S Commissioner at Big Timber Montana on Saturday July 1 1903. Witnesses: Theodore T. Olson Abraham M. Grosfield Ceca Larson Horatio Gregg all of Big Timber Montana.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line promotes Pioneer Limited service from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Chicago with daily trains and deluxe cars. It offers special features on day and night service and urges buying tickets for Buffalo via the Milwaukee route. additional July rail fares include Northern Pacific round trips within 200 miles and large associations events in Detroit and Cincinnati with July sale dates and return deadlines.
Improved 160 acre ranch on Bridger Creek with 6 horses 3 cows 3 wagons and farm implements. Described as one of the best ranges in eastern Montana with year round water and no loco or poisonous weeds. Contact Joan Knox Big Timber Montana.
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