Free Press suspends after weak support and critics’ praise
The Montana Free Press, started last fall by W. A. Clark Jr., suspends due to lack of support though Clark remains optimistic about Montana. The piece notes the newspaper’s impact on local papers, including market reporting and editorial shifts, and ends with a quip about English guides and sticking to novelty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Free Press
W. A. Clark, Jr
Pioneer
Clark
Montana
Free Press
Alaskan
Local News Briefs from Big Timber Area May Movements
Daughters born to local residents, visitors from Fair store and others. Melville, Riverside, and Norway connections noted. A Memorial Day program planned with Legion gathering at 10 a.m. and church events. cafe sale and a federal raid reported. Golf tournament results and matches detail standings and handicaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Wheeler
Big Timber
Hego
Lidea
Jone
Ake Mose
Sep Johnsee
Harlowton
Ingomar
Wiekted Ranch
H. Lyon
P. E. Sekman
Schiling
Sapper
Homeland Circle
Congregational Church
South
Wm. McMahon
Melville
Riverside
Calif
Marie Dahl
Montana
Clarence
Corona
Deer Creek Ladies Aid Food Sale Poster
Deer Creek Ladies Aid hosts a food sale at the Montana Power Co office inviting the public to stop by before 2 p m on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Creek Ladies Aid
Montana Power Co
Burials, Cemeteries, and Land Questions in Big Timber
Workers uncover graves at Big Timber public cemetery with most caskets intact but decayed. The piece traces cemetery history from 1998 Mountain View platting, land grants to railroads, and questions of government land status as settlers traced Crow Nation reservations and local town development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain View
George M. Hatch
Gardiner
Yellowstone Park
Reservation
Billings
John Alderson
Meleod Street
Montana
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Jerome Williams
United States
Norway
Tollef Wieland
Creston Crest
Everett Fare
White Beaver
Court House
American ‘Legion
Big ‘Timber Cafe
Ole Lang
Butte
Guri
Little Inn
Louise Mjelde
Madison
Wis
Minnesota
Deadwood
S. C
Mydde
Irene Phillips
Alfred Hermanson
Grand Hotel
Phillips
Boulder
Graham
Orville W. Jones
John Fletcher
Radl Green
James McQuillan
Carl Schmidt
Grey Cliff
J. A. Lowry
U.S
Karl Green
B. Hinds
C. W. Haas
G. A. Berges
Chas
McDonnell
Hinds
Haas
Berges
Robert Hart
Coit
Jintz
Chas. McDonnell
Ted
J. J. Lacklend
Lerkind
Livingston, Montana
Paris
Eorld
Hes
Eest Aid
The
Scandinavian American Bank
RIG Timber
MR. Farmer
L. F. Douthett Co
Lacklen
Harris St
Im Case Tractors
Mechony
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