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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
2
For sale barred Plymouth Rock eggs at 1 dollar per setting of 15 by Frank Web ber contact 14 R 25. Also for sale registered Aberdeen Angus bull Olive's Royal Eri¢ 7th No 275945 called March 1, 1918 a direct descendant of Black Woodlawn and Blackbird Royal priced reasonably by W RR Sharpe Miner Montana.
Four teams of heavy work horses and one mule listed for sale at West Side livery. Cataloged by Chris Magessen in 1921.
Hatching eggs offered for sale from Rhode Island Reds and Partridge Rock lines. Also listings include a registered Shorthorn bull for sale, a Shawmut lunch wagon ad noting furnishings and capacity, and aging merchant’s note. Various Montana land rental notices and political candidacy alert for Big Timber City Treasurer on April 6. Memorial thanks from the Stubblefield and Morris families and Mrs Victoria Houtz.
Mrs. George T. Kirkwood and family express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for help and sympathy during their recent bereavement. The message acknowledges many courtesies and sincere appreciation.
Big Timber Building and Loan Association offers loans on city property for erecting, buying, or improving homes or to homeowners for other purposes. J A Lowry is treasurer.
John W. Kemp, 65, and son James Kemp, 30, were killed at a Powder River site near Mizpah while J. W. Stacey, a one armed bachelor, killed the Kemps and then shot himself. Coroner Graves and Sheriff Farnum say Stacey claimed the killings and suicide after an argument over hay. The killings occurred Saturday. bodies were found Sunday, Stacey’s body later found at his ranch. Stacey was known as quiet but quarrelsome when aroused. the Kemps were peaceful men.
Five persons including two women and two children died when a fire in an East Forty Seventh Street tenement destroyed by 11 families. Four were injured. Police sought a white robed baker seen turning in the alarm as incendiary blazes spread in 24 hours.
Chicago March 22 Dr Alfred F E Stearns longtime Phillips Academy principal argued that colleges offer a safer influence on youth than home life. He urged a return to home service sacrifice self restraint and discipline citing rising divorce and parental failure as warning signs.
Three settlers claim the Brownlee and Taylor holdings along Big Coulee creek. The home ranch and Eastwood and Van Winkle claims cover winter grazing and spring, summer, and fall camps for stock. They plan extensive fencing, new buildings, and wintering nearly three thousand ewes and lambs, with Brownlee and Taylor both using the land for sheep and horse interests.
Senator Chas McDonnell sold ranch property to Edward Veasey. Theodore Olson moved his family to the Berg ranch near Melville. Thomas Lagaw died of tuberculosis at about 28 on Sweet Grass creek. Sam Andrews bought about 225 head of stock cattle from several Boulder valley and Reed Point sellers to range on White Beaver. Mrs Kennedy Henry is ill. J P Clark visited Livingston. J W Daly and family plan to settle in Ekalaka. H Witten reports a trout weighing 8 pounds 10 ounces. The Scandinavian Lutheran congregation met to pursue a parsonage and church edifice. P J Magelssen leads subscription efforts. Rev E A Erickson will move to Big Timber when parsonage arrangements are ready.
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