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Big Timber Pioneer

Location

Big Timber, Montana, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1940

Page

6

Improved Rodeo Program Scheduled At North Montana State Fair

A vastly changed rodeo program will be staged at the North Montana State Fair August 5 to 10 featuring top rodeo stars, $2,400 in purses, and an amateur bronc riding contest with $200. Headline acts include Alice Listy of Mexico City and Dave Nimmo, with Jimmy Brady Pauline Nesbitt Maidie and Ray and Jimmy Nesbitt also performing. Leo Cremer leads the show with 150 bucking horses and 60 Brahma bulls bought in Texas and Mexico for contests across multiple western venues.

Montana State Fair Rodeo Association of America Cowboys Turtle Association Alice Listy Mexico City Dave Delores Nimmo Ringling Bros. Circus Jimmy Brady Pauline Nesbitt Maidie & Ray Jimmy Nesbitt Leo Cremer Mexico Texas Salt Lake City Great Falls Cremer Melville Ek Ae Butte Billings Colorado Springs Pueblo Twin Falls Northwest Eldorado Ark Little Rock Baton Rouge

Glenn Cooley Named 1941 Little International Manager

Glenn Cooley of Miles City will manage the 1941 Little International Livestock Show at Montana State College with Ben Hill of Lewistown as his assistant. The pair were selected by the 1940 Little International committee seniors and approved by the college Agricultural Club executive committee.

Glenn Cooley Montana State College Miles City Ben Hill Lewistown College Agricultural Club

Married Guardsmen Discharged From National Guard Company F

Captain W G Kelley orders discharge of 21 married men from Company F National Guard, replacing them with single men. Among the discharged are five sergeants and three corporals, with a campaign planned to restore full strength to 83 men. In Kalispell, first Flathead forest lookout stations Mission and McCaffery to be manned this season, Lester Lawrence and Ray Wedge assigned.

National Guard W. G. Kelley Kelley Kalispell Flathead Forest Mission Lookout McCaffery Lower Swan District Lester Lawrence Ray Wedge

Weather rains across border area again heavy and long

SWEET GRASS reports a 27hour soaking rain with heavy downpours and over an inch of precipitation. The same district notes plans by the Lutheran church to buy or build a new house of worship and holds a meeting to decide the matter.

Sweet Grass

Laurel Youth Sets Course for New York by Wagon and Horse

Elroy Gilles an 18 year old Laurel youth plans a 105 day trek to New York by wagon and pack horse leaving May 25. He aims to average 20 miles daily with brief visits in Wisconsin and passes through Billings Beach and several cities en route. Gilles survived family illness and a father’s death while remaining an honor student and plans to visit relatives before continuing.

Elroy Gilles Laurel New York Billings Beach N. C Gilles Wisconsin Shamrock Duke St. Paul Chicago Columbus Pittsburgh

Beaverhead Wool Sold In Record Beaverhead Contract

Beaverhead ranchers contracted about 233000 fleeces totaling nearly two million pounds in the Dillon district. Prices ranged 25 to 32 cents a pound with a dollar down per fleece, 98 percent of the wool sold on the sheep backs. Wool moves to Boston markets as shipments begin from Dillon and the First National Wool Warehouse prepares for heavy volumes.

Beaverhead Dillon First National Wool Mississippi River Pacific Coast Boston

One Killed Five Hurt In Automobile Smash

A car overturned on U S highway No 10 about 80 miles west of Missoula killing Ben Weinstein a Spokane law student and injuring five others. Injuries ranged from skull fracture and spinal injuries to multiple broken ribs and leg injuries for occupants Robert Brown Caldwell and Robert Alexanderson. The vehicle rolled four times in the ditch after swerving on a rough spot. the car was demolished.

Missoula Ben Weinstein Spokane Wash University of Idaho Robert Brown Boise Idaho Robert Alexanderson Caldwell Robert Pritchard Pullman Alvin Orm Ashton Alexanderson

Rail and transport controls by Japan in North China

The statement claims that past century provides no proof that technological progress causes lasting unemployment or depressions. It notes that in North China all railways and bus lines are under Japanese control.

Charles Rook Steelman TNEC North China Japan

Woman Pioneer Doctor Mary Atwater Revisited in Helena

Dr. Mary B. Atwater, one of Montana’s first practicing women physicians, revisited Helena at age 80. Now based in Berkeley with her daughter, she traveled solo to attend the Montana federation of women’s clubs and recalled months of horseback visits in Marysville. She supported woman suffrage and helped push for the Eleanor Walsh memorial building at Galen TB sanitarium.

Mary B. Atwater Marysville Helena Berkeley Calif Hough Barron Atwater Montana State Federation of Women’s Clubs T. J. Walsh

Device Measures Juice Acidity To Gauge Freshness

An electrical instrument has been perfected to measure the acidity of fruit juices, enabling determination of freshness.

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