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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
16
City council adopts resolution levying a five year tax to defray cement sidewalk costs in Special Improvement District No. 17 Big Timber Montana. Delinquency dates set 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 with 6 percent interest and a single district fund payment upon collection.
City council resolves to close and vacate a certain alley in Block P Boulder Additions Nos 1 and 2 Big Timber Montana. A hearing is set for November 4 1918 at 8 pm in city hall with notice to be published in the Pioneer for week ending October 19 1918. Attest J E Rees.
Notice by School District No 67 Sweet Grass county Montana that eleven bonds of $100 each totaling $1100 will be sold November 21 1918 at Springdale to purchase a school site and build a school house. Bonds bear up to 6 percent interest, redeemable in five years, sale either public or private with bids accompanied by $50 certified check. district reserves right to reject bids.
At a special meeting on October 16 1918 Big Timber Montana the city council unanimously adopted a resolution closing public places such as schools churches pool halls dance halls picture shows lodges clubs and more. Saloons are to prohibit treating remove card tables and chairs and wash glasses after each use limiting rooms to three customers. Hotel lobbies ice cream parlors and soda fountains to adopt similar measures and shoppers to transact quickly and depart. Children to stay off streets. Signed J A Lowry mayor health officer A P O Leary and city clerk J Rées.
Millions lined Fifth Avenue to cheer Woodrow Wilson as he reviewed the parade and led a column of troops from 22 nationalities. Dignitaries and veterans from France, Italy, Britain, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, and Spain marched in a vivid display behind motor trucks and tractors bearing great guns from the German front.
In Atlantic Monthly William Beebe recounts hearing a wolf howl near a French slope amid distant gunfire. He notes peasants reporting wolves after hunger and shows astonishment at wolves in Europe, once believed limited to Russia and Siberia.
Lord Stalbridge orders the sale of the entire town of Shaftsbury Derbyshire including private houses banks post offices stores offices hotels and three saloons. The picturesque Derbyshire town sits on a hill three miles from Semley railway station amid rolling farm country. This marks the first complete town sale arranged.
London Chronicle notes historic signals in Nelson era and Zeebrugge, with Zeebrugge variant now used in Morse and by Japanese ally observers. It cites a report praising Trafalgar style signaling and declaring the empire's fate rests on the event and every man’s effort.
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