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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
8
City Council of Big Timber Montana sets a five year installment tax to fund cement sidewalk improvements in Special Improvement District No 17. Delinquency triggers full due, 6 percent interest, funds to the district, hearings scheduled October 7 1918.
Resolution 87 directs a hearing for the proposed closure and vacation of an alley in Boulder Additions 1 and 2, Big Timber. The hearing is set for November 4, 1918 at 8 o clock p.m. in the city hall. Notice will be published in the Pioneer for the week ending October 19, 1918.
Notice declares sale of eleven bonds by Sweet Grass county Montana school district No 67. Bonds of $100 each total $1100 at up to 6 percent interest, ten year maturity, five year redeemable. Sale November 21, 1918 at Springdale clerk’s office. Bids may be public or private with $50 certified check. district may reject any bid.
At a special meeting on October 16 1918 Big Timber Montana the city council unanimously adopted a resolution ordering closures of public places including schools churches pool halls dance halls lodges and clubs and barring saloons from treating. It also requires removing card tables chairs from rooms washing drinking glasses after each use limiting to three customers per room and applies to hotel lobbies ice cream parlors and soda fountains. Citizens should transact business quickly and depart with children kept off the streets. J A Lowry mayor A P O Leary health officer Attest J R ees city clerk.
A massive Columbus Day parade down Fifth Avenue drew an estimated crowd of over a million as Woodrow Wilson rode in review. Spectators cheered wildly as the president passed, hats flew, and women embraced strangers. The procession showcased 22 nationalities, including French Foreign Legion veterans, Alpini, Bersaglieri, Anzacs, Tommies, Poles, Czecho-Slovaks, Greeks, Serbs, Belgians, and Spanish-Americans marching behind fighting units as the nation mobilizes for war.
William Beebe recalls hearing a wolf near a French front line as guns rumble in the distance. Peasants report wolves expanding from distant fastnesses driven by hunger, challenging the notion that wolves survive only in distant Russia and Siberia.
Lord Stalbridge directs the sale of the entire town of Shaftsbury Derbyshire including private houses banks post offices stores offices hotels and three saloons. The hilltop Derbyshire town sits amid rolling farm country near Semley railway station three miles away.
London Chronicle notes naval history books must add Morse versions of Trafalgar signals including St George for England from Zeebrugge and a Japanese variant used by an ally during a great sea battle. The report claims the message urged ships to do their utmost as the empire’s fate hung on the outcome.
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