31 Oct 1907
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
1
Officials strive to avert a fuel famine as energy supply concerns rise. The railroad commission takes action to ensure steady deliveries and mitigate shortages, coordinating across agencies and private providers to bolster reserves and distribution networks.
Montana railroad commission plans an extensive coal movement check with postal cards for ordering, loading, and car delivery. Cooperation from mining companies and consignors is sought to ensure prompt fuel delivery. The system will track car numbers and destinations to prevent coal famine and speed shipments.
Trading on all classes of livestock the past week has been very draggy due to heavy runs and panicky eastern markets. Money matters have reached a crisis as packers and feeder buyers become discriminating, causing declines across cattle with beef cattle hit hardest. Good weights and grades show some resilience.
Park County High School beat Livingston 5 to 0 after a fast start, pressure on Livingston’s line, and disputed calls. Key players included Mallory Pound George Lamb and Davis with notable tackles and long punts as Big Timber defense and Livingston offense battled intensely.
Lutheran Church in Sweet Grass county schedules a full day of services in Aud itorium on Sunday November 3 with Norwegian morning worship at 11 00 am English evening service at 7 30 pm and a cornerstone lay by Rev N J Bleistad and Rev A A Reece speakers A large choir from Livingston and M E choir from Big Timber to perform An all day event invites all nationalities and denominations to attend Dinner is to be brought and eaten at the Auditorium The notice also reports a church building under rapid construction with bell shipped from Hillsboro and window sills from Columbus plus an alter painting commissioned for the Good Shepherd scene to be completed by Berger Art Studio in Portland Oregon
The Methodist and Lutheran congregations share Sunday events with no M E church services in the evening while a morning service at the Methodist church features the sermon What is Truth with Jack Urner singing The Holy City An Epworth League installation followed the previous week with officers named and a program of music scripture reading and a pastor’s address lauded by a large audience
An old health brief notes that appendicitis sufferers are often constipated and promotes Crino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a remedy. It claims the syrup eases constipation without nausea or griping and urges avoiding substitutes with signature from W. D. Richarda a druggist.
The stage version of Quincy Adams Sawyer debuts at the Auditorium for a single night on Monday Nov éth. The home spun four act comedy promises rural Massachusetts charm with laughs, a renowned cast from the New York Academy of Music production, and a faithful dramatization of the popular novel selling 200 000 copies in its first year.
Washington issues guidance for homestead entries on or after November 1 1907. Commutation proofs must show actual continuous residence for fourteen months in those cases. For entries before that date six months constructive residence remains allowed as part of the fourteen months.
W A Moors advertises five or ten acre unplatted blocks in town with deeded water rights at 100 dollars per acre. Some land offers garden soil or arable soil suitable for apples fruit grain or alfalfa ideal for a winter residence ranching poultry and eggs ventures with city access.
A. G. Hatch offers unimproved town lots with payment terms of one hundred dollars cash and five dollars per month per lot. The town’s growth makes desirable building sites scarce within a year. Bray the butcher seeks fifty dozen fat live chickens for his meat market and will pay cash.
A short note from Big Timber Lumber Co announces weekend specials aimed at providing customers with practical savings and a feel of quick return on their purchases.
The Royal Neighbor lodge hosted the first Hallowe'en party at the K of P hall on Monday evening. Six members entertained guests with fortune telling games and a twelve‑lady white domino drill. A lunch of pumpkin pie doughnuts cheese and coffee followed. Hostesses included Mesdames Whitfield Walker Jarrett Huot and Miss Lowry and Busha.
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