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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
8
Practical directions for jelly making and canning discuss sugar timing, skimming, and avoiding damp storage. Instructions cover heating glassware, drying jars, pressing juice, using clean equipment, straining twice, and sealing with parchment and paraffin after aging in a warm place.
The article lists Chauncey Olcott in Ed mund Burke in New Haven and De Wolf Hopper starting Happyland in New York on Oct 2. It notes engagements for Mile Argyro Kostra with Cort & Kronberg for Mme Calve, Fay Templeton's company rehearsing Forty Five Minutes From Broadway, and productions by Charles B. Dillingham and William A. Brady in Chicago and New York. It mentions The Rogers brothers in Ireland at the Lyric Rochester and Conquest with William Celdier in London alongside Augustus Thomas' On the Quiet.
The lingerie waist remains in vogue for winter with soft silks continuing popular. Wool waists gain over heavy linens for cool weather and white or light colors dominate. Plaids appear for informal seaside wear, while novelty combines taffeta and periton in new outfits.
The article notes F H Townsend as a left handed draftsman and new Punch art editor. It mentions George De Forest Brush using Townsend's wife and child as models. John W Alexander will paint murals for the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, to be finished on November 5 1906, with a reported payment of 176000 dollars.
I D J Walvoord administrator of the John Gruys estate announces a public sale of real estate in Sweetgrass County Montana. The listing covers sections 29 and 28 township 3 north range 14 east with specified parcels and a Holland Irrigation Canal water right. Ten percent to be paid at sale with the remainder upon court confirmation.
Notice to stockholders of the Dry Creek Telephone Co. sets a special meeting at the Court House in Big Timber Montana for May 8 1909 at 2 pm to decide the disposal of a portion of the telephone line with fixtures. A separate notice cites an order by the Sweet Grass County Board of Commissioners for May 15 1909 at 2 pm to view listed town and sectional lands in Big Timber including block F Boulder Addition Yellowstone addition and portions of Section 29 Township 3N Range 14E.
Notice announces the dissolution of Liebel Bros West Side Livery dated May 1909. Henry J Liebel and Barney D Liebel as junior partners authorize collection of outstanding accounts and assumption of all indebtedness with requests for creditors to settle at the barn.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Montana Sixth Judicial District Sweet Grass County In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Dooley Steves Deceased Thomas Dooley an heir filed April 27 1909 petition for distribution of lands including Lot 20 Block 21 Big Timber to be heard June 28 1909 at 10 a m Court House Big Timber Montana Any interested party may appear and show cause Witness F M Lamp Clerk April 27 1909 seal
Gertrude Rody sues Ben Rudy in the Sixth Judicial District of Montana for dissolution of their marriage. The complaint cites wilful desertion over a year, habitual intemperance, and extreme cruelty as grounds. Judgment by default possible if defendant fails to answer within twenty days of service. First publication April 21, 1909.
The Board of Trustees of School District No. 39 Sweet Grass County Montana will on May 29 1909 offer for sale bonds of 1200 dollars at not less than par value. The 6 percent bonds mature in 15 years redeemable in 10 years fund a new school building and furnishing. Bids invited Perry Jasper district clerk dated April 26 1909 first publication April 29.
Thomas Flannagan of Arokee Mont seeks bucks for a buck band and offers post May delivery with care and range and payment for unaccounted bucks. Also advertises top market prices for furs including coyote lynx bobcat wolves mink and others from home buyer O A Fallang lastingFeb 11 endorsement.
Department of the Interior contest notice from the United States Land Office Bozeman Montana dated April 7 1909 announces a contest against homestead entry 5650 and entry 01280 made October 21 1904 at Bozeman for sections 5 township 2s range 18e. John English contestee is alleged to have failed to establish residence or make improvements and not been on the land in three years. Contestant to appear May 24 1909 before U S Commissioner C N Skillman Big Timber Montana and final hearing June 2 1909 before the Register and Receiver Bozeman. Service by publication ordered. First publication April 8 1909.
All persons are warned against trespassing upon the undersigned ranches in Big Coulee Fish Creek and Melville country. Violators will be prosecuted according to law. Edward Veasey 5 14 Melville Mont.
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