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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
8
Community snapshots list visitors including Marion Van Campen and Lyle Van Leer with Ellen as host. Birthday party honors Isa belle Whitford Terrel. New baby for Donald and Mrs Lamb. Rex Boyee in hospital in Tennessee. Various visits, travel, and church notes accompany school and civic mentions across Reed Point.
Clarence Covell, pastor, invites all members to be present after the 7 30 p m service for an important special meeting.
Axel Anderson, pastor leads services at Big Timber Lutheran Parish on Sunday May 21 with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and divine service at 11 a.m.
Ration notes list stamp validity by color and type. Meats fats red stamps A8 to T8 valid indefinitely. Processed foods blue stamps A8 to Q8 valid indefinitely. Sugar stamps 30 and 31 cover five pounds each indefinitely. stamp 40 good for five pounds of canning sugar through February next year. Gasoline A-11 coupon valid through June 21. Shoes airplane stamps 1 and 2 valid indefinitely.
Community items report a funeral call for Mrs. Carrie Thompson, visitors from Livingston, a patient returning from Billings, a Detroit summer arrival at a ranch, a family moving from Bozeman, and a Forsyth visitor en route home from a Helena Republican convention. Also noted are land transfers, local drought and irrigation updates, temperatures, and Children’s Day free tickets sponsored by Sawyer Stores and Vaughn & Ragsdale Stores Inc.
Washington May 12 The selective service announced a broad deferment shift for 30 to 37 year olds in essential work allowing indefinite postponement of induction. It also protects 26 to 29 year olds in necessary jobs and directs boards to reclassify current 1-A cases. Local boards may add fields to the essential list if needed for health and safety.
Classifieds list a registered Shorthorn bull for sale by C C Walgamore of Glasston Wisconsin grazing land for trade by H Hawks of Big Timber a permanent wave kit sold by Cole Drug Company a radio repair service Norwest Radio Laboratories led by J R Stimps in Shelby Montana a Palomino stud at Arvid Larson ranch a recall of ice cream packers for Scovill Creamery and related local notices all dated 29-3 and 31-3 with brief service claims and contact mentions.
The second half of the 1943 real estate taxes are due by 5 p m May 31 1944. Oscar D Forsythe County Treasurer. Also a notice to car owners with license numbers 1 to 730 and truck owners 1 to 330 who have not received their 1944 registration receipts from Deer Lodge should notify the office at once.
Martha Duffey thanks patrons for loyal support while closing her beauty parlor in Big Timber to join the WAVES service.
A miscellaneous shower will be held Saturday May 20 at Bridger Creek school house at 2 o clock. Potluck lunch provided and everyone is welcome to attend.
Public library adds a batch of juvenile titles including Hall and the Jungle Lad Mukerji Wings Around South America Dag liesh Ski Patrol Atwater Piang the Moro Chieftain Stuart Top Kick U S Army Horse Matson Inside the F B I Flaherty Air Patrol Lent Aviation Cadet Lent Flint Spears James Young Cowboy James My First Horse James We Come Home Knight Adam of the Road Gray Mary Poppins Comes Back Tra vers Children of North Africa Stinetor Jemina Daughter of Daniel Boone Sutton Ho Ming Girl of New China Lewis Rusty Pete Fogler the youngest men available Her shey said Older men who are volunteers draft delinquents or outside essential industry will make up the rest.
S-Sgt Alva E Ewan is in North Africa while Kenneth N O'Dell, home from Nashville, was sent to Camp Shelby Mississippi. Tom Scyphers is with a patrol aircraft unit at Camp Kearney California. John Work is a technical corporal at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Howard P Forsythe completed officer training at Quantico VA and goes to Camp Lejeune NC for further instruction. Lt John D Herries has a silver star and remains in Africa. Charles W Officer moved to Camp Beale California from Camp Polk Louisiana. Nat Clark moved to Orlando Florida from Delhart Texas. Victor J Fischer has a New York address. Edwin L Wheeler at Camp Roberts California. Harry Kellogg saw a platter like his mother’s in Liverpool priced at 40 dollars. Tilmar at Camp Cooke California and Peder in England are staff sergeants. Wayne E Rees promoted to sergeant. in the army since 1942 at Bolling Field Washington DC with clerk duties. Donald R Fostvedt asks to change to PM New York NY. John L Jacobs and I Leroy Esp assigned to RAF training command radio school at Sioux Falls SD for radio operator mechanics. Jacobs from Sweet Grass High School class of 1943. Esp from class of 1942 joined in October 1945. Arthur E Ormsby from Camp Barkeley Texas reports oats and wheat headed and cotton doing well amid dust and sand storms. One tablespoon of waste fat yields five machine gun bullets.
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