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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1910
Page
4
The Journal announces it has bought out E H Mc Dowell’s interests in the Ismay and will publish as a single Ismay Journal. Subscribers are urged to continue support as consolidation aims to produce a better paper and thank readers for past patronage.
Names and brief travels fill town notes with church attendance, Thanksgiving visits, ranch calls, and shipments. Movements include J Hasty and wife at church, Oscar Brackett at his ranch, F Bull classifier in town, and A Johnson shipping ten carloads of sheep from Powder River.
Community notes report Emily Mitchell offering dressmaking in room 9 at Brackett hotel. Many residents described Thanksgiving travel, dances, and local business activity. Mentions M. M. Archdale visiting from Chicago, Miss Mabel Bruce selling a homestead near Westmore, and various townsfolk attending events and errands.
A local Thanksgiving Eve dance drew a large crowd with attendees from Knowlton and Lee present at the event held at the usual bar in town. The Modern Women group organized a pleasant evening of dancing and socializing.
The Journal chronicles the death of Miss Ella Bunn at age thirty four from typhoid fever and pneumonia after a month of illness. A Wisconsin native who homesteaded near Westmore since May last year, she taught for sixteen years and led Baker school. She leaves her father H L Bunn and brothers F C Bunn and a Wisconsin sibling. the body is sent to Galesville Wisconsin for interment.
Ismay welcomed the Commercial clubs of Ekalaka and Baker last Monday. A joint session in the afternoon and evening discussed regional interests in a harmonious meeting. They planned to reconvene in Baker in December and noted Shrine activities in Helena with rail fare incentives and a potential charter for a new Shrine temple in Butte.
Department of the Interior Miles City Montana reports a contest affidavit filed by Earl Smith against the Ny 105720 homestead claim dated August 27 1909. The contestant alleges the owner Jen T. has no residence or improvements on the land in section 4 township 4 north range 24 east.
To entitle him to hold this claim the parties are notified to appear respond and offer evidence touching the allegation at 10 o clock a m on December 28 1910 before Felix Z Gray United States commissioner at Ismay Montana and final hearing will be held at 10 o clock a m on January 9 1911 before the Register and Receiver at the United States land office in Miles City Montana. The contestant has filed an affidavit July 7 1910 showing due diligent service cannot be made and the notice is to be published. A Kircher Register Record address Petersborg Wis. First publication December 2 1910.
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