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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
8
Rev C W MacWilliams Rector announces Sunday schedule with Sunday school at 10 00 a m and morning prayer at 11 00 a m There will be no evening service as the Rector travels to Columbus for the day
The Methodist Episcopal Church announces Sunday services at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm with Sunday school at 10:00 am. Morning sermon by Rev James Taylor and a solo by Miss A M Dureford. Young peoples meeting at 7:00 pm led by Mr Taylor and a song service at 7:30 followed by a sermon titled Victory by the pastor. Visitors are welcome.
E A Erickson pastor. Sunday school 1 30 attendance 76. Services in Melville Settlement Nov 22 at 11 am and Big Timber Nov 29 at 2 30 and 7 30. English language evening services. Youth elected Ronald Halverson president Harold Solberg vice president Signy Crest secretary Susana Hoyem treasurer. Program committee Emily Webb Emma Pederson Telmar Esp. Ten cent social planned Dec 3 at 7 30. Youth program last Sunday and teachers praised including Miss Durnford Ingrid Halverson and quartette Lowry Berge Lowry Whitfield Signey Crest Emma Pederson Susana Hoyem Vida Cavane. Programs to be monthly.
Rev Dr H H Thoren ministers services this Sunday at 11 am and 7 30 pm with Christian Endeavor at 6 30 pm. A social last Friday drew over sixty. Miss Joy wrote the invitation in verse. Plans for a Christmas tree program and Sunday school preparations are announced. Miss Nelson will lead Sunday evening at 6 39 with Songs of the heart. Be on time.
The Big Timber Lumber Co offers cash for your items and promises immediate payment. Fast, fair deals for salvageable lumber and materials. Local buyers seeking quick turnover and reliable service.
The Dig Timber Public School reports attendance and tardiness across rooms from fifth to eighth grades. Room 1 lists two tardies and four absences while noting new entrants Donald Voges and Zola Guile. Room 3 shows high attendance with several absences and moves. Grade 4 and 5 enrollments and absences are noted, plus improvements in punctuality and a focus on Thanksgiving crafts. Visitors are welcomed and parents urged to visit monthly.
Le Matin notes France has about 800000 pet dogs with 2 million dollars in taxes paid on them. A serum granting twelve months immunity from hydrophobia after inoculation was announced. An association to promote laughter is formed by Paris medical faculty professors and students. Dragoons completed a twelve mile practice march in twenty eight hours with horses in good order. Children of the steamship Hilda’s captain watched rockets from the ship’s deck after the vessel was lost on rocks.
The article notes British naval officers who entertained the French at Portsmouth expected French crosses but got souvenir paper knives. Hackney carriages are barred from Hyde Park as London drivers oppose noncompliant candidates. The British Closing association admits the early closing act failed after sixteen months, with two-thirds of shopkeepers in no district adopting it.
A concise set of Esperanto facts noting nouns end with o adverbs with e adjectives with a end with a plural marker added after o no gender except sex related notions present tense ends in as past is future as and compares to French terminations which Esperanto has twelve.
The United States filed six lawsuits against American Sugar Refining, seeking 3.63 million in forfeitures and duties for sugar imported to Havemeyer and Elder refineries in Brooklyn. Allegations cite fraud in weighing by the Brooklyn refinery checker from six years, with two actions limited by statute to two years.
Vienna reports the possibility of conflict with Servia remains unresolved with a semi official statement promising decisive steps if provocations continue. Belgrade notes rising hostility in Bosnia and Herzegovina and guerrilla threats as Austrian authorities confine Serbs and bolster Trebinje defense with 10000 troops. Frontier Montenegro incursions expected and passes and water springs mined.
Chicago November 17 District Attorney Sims serves notice on counsel for the Standard Oil Company of Indiana that on November 30 the government will seek a writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court to review the rebating case. The court of appeals reversed Judge Landis who had fined the corporation 29,240,000 dollars.
Ola writers claim birch trees yield flexible branches for beating youths. Turner and Coles praise the birch for making punishment effective at home and school. Romans used birch rods in fasces to clear crowds, shaping civic discipline. The birch rod was long seen as a key deterrent of juvenile depravity.
A playful exchange unfolds as a jilted lover asks if he still sways the summer girl's heart. She answers with wit noting her heart will be guided by a syndicate for a time before settling.
The applicant seeks a job as an umpire and admits no direct experience. He highlights leading a church choir for seven years as proof of leadership and performance. The magnate approves discussing salary.
A long haired passenger warns a young man who has just hung out his M. D. shingle that he may be called before morning. The young man replies that he hopes for such wakeful duties and seeks immediate practice.
A Chicago Tribune panel jokes about a back plaster transaction. A sufferer pays a dollar for a porous plaster and then offers two dollars to remove it, prompting a wry exchange with the physician.
A humorous exchange notes a woman preparing to go on stage next month and comments on scarce elder grandmother parts for women. The dialogue satirizes theater casting and expectations.
Sweet Grass county Montana invites sealed proposals for weekly per capita care of sick poor and infirm from January 1 to December 31 1909. Bids due December 8 1908 at 10 a.m. Board may reject any bids. By order of Board of County Commissioners H C Allen Clerk.
Sweet Grass County Montana invites sealed bids from resident physicians to supply medical attendance and medicines for the sick poor and jail inmates for one year from January 1909 to December 1909. Bids due December 8 at 10 am at the county clerk’s office. Board may reject any or all bids. H C Allen County Clerk.
Lands totaling 127 acres in Absaroka National Forest Montana will open for settlement and entry January 25 1909 under homestead laws. Greene Blakeley of Contact Montana filed the application with a preference right for prior agricultural claimants, subject to valid settler qualifications. The tract lies near section 24 T 48 R 12 E with a detailed boundary description and monument markers. Commissioner Red Dennett announced the notice with Frank Pierce approving the action.
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