St Game Goes With Big Slump
Sugar City boys suffer a big slump as the St game goes poorly and a key player forgets to play.
20 Mar 1919
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
1
Sugar City boys suffer a big slump as the St game goes poorly and a key player forgets to play.
The USM game ended in a near tie as Egeland left with an injury and Egeland, Dunn, Bowman, and Barbour led a late surge. Billings veterans clinched the finish in a frantic four minute stretch, while crowds watched a wide array of frantic plays and misfires.
March 16 report notes allied and associated powers near a complete understanding on terms for Germany but refuse to discuss final settlement. German delegates face dictation to sign or risk harsher measures as internal German unrest grows.
Vorse reports a New York Jersey brewing trade group announced that it would seek to sell beer with 0.224 percent alcohol content, breaching a revenue department ruling tied to President Wilson's December proclamation. The board, led by Root and William D. Guthrie, argued the sale would be lawful, noting the prohibition on beverages with more than one half of one percent alcohol.
Brewers anticipate May 1 enforcement of a rule limiting cereals to non-toxicants with 0.5 percent alcohol. They will de alcoholize store beer from 2.34 percent to the limit before shipment, maintaining existing methods since January 30 proclamation allowed near beer production.
William H. Taft is challenged by Leslie M. Shaw former secretary of the treasury to debate the league of nations project Henry A Wise Wood announced the challenge saying Shaw authorized the move in New York on March 14.
Tornadoes and cloudbursts hit Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma causing multiple deaths injuries and widespread damage. Porter Oklahoma near Muskogee suffered heavy business district destruction with several killed. Oklahoma City reported a 48 mile wind. Atchison Kansas saw a heavy cloud burst with three inches of rain in an hour flooding streets basements and about $100000 damage.
David W. Thom as a deputy sheriff was fatally shot in a street gun battle in the 600 block of East Broadway Butte at about 11 last night. He collapsed after running a block, died at the city emergency hospital despite being rushed there.
Helena March 14 Governor Stewart reviews two large appropriation bills and five normal schools requests. Senate and House approve total appropriations of 6 008 758.96 with estimated income of 6 008 000, leaving a state deficit of 978 758.98. Normal schools seek an appropriation increase to address a shortfall.
Jurors in Livingston returned a not guilty verdict for J E Swindlehurst after a murder trial over the death of Oliver M Harvey following a December 23 fight. Swindlehurst testified he acted in self defense after Harvey hurled insults and struck first.
Governor Sam Stewart vetoes House Bill 204 which would transfer deputy game wardens duties to sheriffs and county officers. He argues the bill shifts costs from license funds to general tax funds and burdens taxpayers while harming efficient wildlife enforcement.
Washington report: dissolution on April 1 of the volunteer medical service corps with more than 66 000 physicians. Approved applicants will be turned over to the surgeon general for possible future needs. 13 000 on file at armistice time will receive letters acknowledging their offers. Dr Edward P Davis praised the corps as a strong display of American spirit.
Helena March 16 After a tour of state issues John Edgerton assistant to the state board of equalization visited Helena and reported meetings with county assessors and officials in Butte and Missoula were satisfactory. He said House Bill 30 the classification law makes absolutely no change in property assessment or county classification from prior law.
The Big Timber Evangelical Lutheran congregation elected officers including Peter Becken deacon Ole Berkland trustee Prof E A Erickson secretary Henry Ellingson treasurer J A Lowry Sunday School superintendent Georgina Rostad and Inga Solberg organists John Rostad janitor. They named representatives to a Billings circuit meeting and Young People’s League session. The church budget totaled 221.60 for general Home Mission Foreign Mission and charity. A wartime sympathy resolution expressed condolences for Deeer Solberg killed in France on Sept 2 1918.
The measure to issue 100000 for road and bridge improvements carried strongly in a special election Monday with about ten to one in favor. City totals showed 165 in favor and 12 against, while Wormser Glasston White Beaver and Lower Bridger precincts voted unanimously. McLeod opposed it 21 to 10. Big Timber faced a judge shortage but ward officials managed the count.
The Heart of Humanity arrives at the Arcade theater on Sunday March 23 with Dorothy Phillips in the lead. An eight reel Allen Holubar production portrays a Red Cross nurse amid France and Belgium war scenes, following Nanette, her Canadian lover John and five brothers through romance and peril.
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