Farmers Vote for Controls on 1955 Wheat
The Agriculture Department reports wheat farmers nationally voted 195,801 to 71,303 in favor of controls for next year. Margin 73.3 percent, a record low, with light turnout. Acreage allotment set at 55 million acres. minimum price support between 75 and 90 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Eisenhower
Department of Agriculture
Historic Bannack Records Pin Hanging Date to January 1864
Beaverhead archives suggest Sheriff Henry Plummer was hanged in January 1864. Evidence includes a December 28, 1863 writ and February 1864 entries implying a Sheriff’s office vacancy and a named successor I. R. Eaton, clarifying Plummer’s fate amid prior claims of 1865 and a rival date of January 8 or 10.
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Henry Plummer
Beaverhead
Miner's Court
Bannack
Plummer
Main Street
I. R. P. Eaton
Goodrich
Crawford
Sarah Howard
Highway 91 Widening and Surfacing Near Barretts Complete
The state highway department finishes over five miles of widening and re surfacing on Highway 91 from the Jack Selway ranch to Barretts station. Two segments were ballasted and widened, the third from the Rebish ranch to Barretts was resurfaced. The project eliminates dangerous narrow spots and improves a badly deteriorated highway.
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State
Jack Selway
Lima Community Church Services Schedule and Sermon
Mrs Ray Weeks announces the Lima Community Church weekly program with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 15 a.m. Sermon In Remembrance and the Lord s Supper. Youth worship at 3 p.m. Evening worship at 8 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p.m. Youth recreation Thursday 7 30 p.m. at the church. Glen Decker visits from Palo Alto Calif after a Spanish American War reunion in Pentwater Mich and recalls his Dillon roots and old home.
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Lima Community Church
Robert McCoy
Glen Decker
Palo Alto
Calif
36Th Michigan Volunteer Regiment
Pentwater
Mich
Glen
Big Rapids
Dillon
Community notices from Lima area clubs and church groups
Sunday school at the church with mutual on first Tuesdays. Lima home demonstration club picnicked at Eleanor Sawyer’s with games and pot luck lunch as cool breeze blew dust through town. Ladies auxiliary No 3534 to the VFW met at the Masonic hall. steer award totals and prize plans announced. Rainbow girls held a silver tea with musical program at the Masonic hall. St Rose guild met at Mrs Shaw’s with luncheon and birthday gifts. cards were played.
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Lima
Eleanor Sawyer
VFW
Masonic Hall
Cora Kluesner
George Horeche
Henry Gravely
Dell
Annie McNinch
Ethel Bray
Lima Assembly No 47
Order of Rainbow
Assembly
Mission of St. Augustine
Janet
Sharon Gravely
Grand Assembly St. Rose Guild
Fred Shaw
Julia Peat
Charles Cowee
Lima Declares Clean-Up Week and Sets Preliminary Levy
The Lima town council designates July 26 to 31 for a cleanup week with VFW and volunteer fire department aid to remove garbage and hazards. It also approves a preliminary budget: General fund 20 mills, fire fund 1 mill, street and alley fund 5.5 mills, cemetery fund 2 mills. Local notices mention visiting Californians and MIA and Gleanor girls trip to Morrison Lake.
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Lima
VFW
Fire Department
Lima Council
Water's Expansion Varies With Extreme Temperatures
Statement notes that water occupies more volume at 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit than at 50 degrees above zero, highlighting unusual thermal expansion behavior of water near its freezing point.
Official Canvass Of Local Election Totals
The continued official canvass lists candidate results for State Representative County Commissioner District 1 and county offices. Voters and offices named include Middleton Pu geram Sullivan Meine Gleed Davis Downing McLaren Pilon and others with party affiliations and tallies for sheriff county clerk and recorder and related posts.
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Dora E. Schmittroth
Ingersoll
John B MacDonald
Jack Burke
Paul H Temple
County official names and court figures listed
County Coroner Raymond Schwartz classified as Democrat is shown alongside other judicial and academic figures R V Bottomly Dean King and John B McClernan with unspecified roles.
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Raymond , Schwartz
Supreme Court
R. V. Bottomly
Dean King
John B. McClernan
Giles brothers visit Denver relatives after long trip
Jimmie Giles and his brother Jack, after a long journey with their grandmother Mrs. Katie Giles, left last Thursday to visit their aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. D H Moffatt in Denver as their Denver station program had just ended.
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Jimmie Giles
Denver
Jimmie
Jack
Katie Giles
Mra D H Moffatt
Health educators attend Helena conference by Ruth Greenfield
Mrs Ruth Greenfield an instructor in women's physical education and health and Mrs Clarabel Bogut college nurse were in Helena Monday and Tuesday to attend a health conference.
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Ruth Greenfield
Clarabel Bogut
Helena
First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Held at Henley
The inaugural Oxford and Cambridge boat race took place at Henley in 1829, marking the beginning of a storied rowing rivalry between the two universities.
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Henley
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Dillon Examiner
Blue Anchor Bar and Grill
Barretts
Paul H. Temple
Pol. Adv
Lima News
Ray Weeks
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Mutual
McCurdy Engineering Company
Mountain States Telephone Company
Mike Dondoroff
Berkeley
J. S. Lott
Dondoroff
Lewis Hoadley
Dee Cherry
Monte Barrett
Gary Gleed
California
Spokane
Wash
Mia
Morrison Lake
Carl M Davis
Sylvester P Meade
Martha Opp Greene
Theo E. Bay
Nellie McFadden
Wyler
Stamm Jewelers
Reddy
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Montana Power Company
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