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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
4
The nation faces an extraordinary session as President Wilson addresses a joint Congress from Paris. The Republican-led House and Senate confront reconstruction, rail policy, and peace arrangements, amid calls for high patriotism and reform.
Cler k Stuart Nicholson works at Richarde pharmacy while Maude Anderson leaves for Billings to take a post office job. High school grounds planned for rock removal and improvements. Fair store mason work delayed for finishing materials. John Rye buys 20,000 acres on Fish creek from H L Martin of Minneapolis. J G Ellingson owns a Hibbard motorcycle with 1.75 hp and 30 mph. John Ellison sells upper ranch of 200 acres to G M Parker for 7000 with lease to Andrew Berg through April 15, 1907.
Billings Gazette notes Republican lawmakers face costly railroad controls and a $176 million deficit cited by Director General Hines. March reports show $133 million government railroad deficit in three months, with freight down 33.2 percent from a year earlier and mixed regional earnings for eastern and western lines.
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Finder asked to return a missing pocketbook containing money and papers with its owner's name. Optical specialist 271 Dr Corkins will reopen his Grand Hotel Big Timber office Friday and Saturday June 5 and 6.
Regular services on the first and third Sundays of the month at 11 a.m. led by Rev. C. P. Burnett the pastor.
The church lists a 108. m Sunday school session followed by an 11 a.m. preaching service.
Reverend L O Onerheim leads Sunday services with Norwegian communion at 11 a.m. A confirmation class meets at 2 p.m. Saturday May 31. A business meeting follows to discuss finances and elect delegates to the district meeting in Great Falls from July 1 to 7.
Services in the Methodist church every Sunday morning with Sunday school at 10 o'clock and church services at 1. The public is cordially invited.
St Josephs Catholic Church lists services on the second Sunday of each month at 10 30 a m and on the fourth Saturday at 10 a m led by Pastor Rev F D Lucas.
During the week of May 31 1919 the city of Big Timber designates clean up week with health authorities and the city council ordering removal of all manure and refuse before June 1 1919. Mayor J A Lowry and Clerk J E Rees sign the notice.
Montana records show rising numbers of horses and cattle since 1906 while hogs and sheep have declined. Horses from 182,833 in 1906 to 545,031 in 1918. cattle from 823,720 to 1,136,845. hogs from 12,195 to 67,282. sheep from about 4.5 million to just under two million. Angora goats down from over 6,000 to 750 by 1918.
A stooped man muses on the cream separator and jokes about freedom in marriage. He imagines relatives thrust aside as the machine splits the two hind figures like sheep and goats, though the memory wavers between centrifugal and centripetal force.
Dr. John Roach Straton argues in the Christian Herald that World War exposes and vindicates Bible doctrine. He notes the fall of man as Genesis describes and uses Germany’s prewar prosperity as a cautionary garden example.
The piece recalls impractical wartime schemes such as releasing vast numbers of bees over enemy trenches. It notes Washington’s playful proposals but suggests military experts blocked the plan, fearing bee armor and nets. The author mocks the transition from plausible to absurd when ideas shift from evening sensibility to morning satire.
A French bore hole at St Jean d Herans reaching 5302 feet yielded a simple temperature method using two identical centigrade thermometers and a third for comparison. In a one hour bottom exposure the mercury expanded to the rock temperature near 25 degrees. The surface temperature was 12.5 degrees with a 1 degree rise per 108 feet of depth.
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