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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1912
Page
8
Items of local interest for sale and social notes from Ismay and area. Names include Mrs Phergsa Muench Bert Beggson Dr Lewis family and others. updates on travel visits postal bids and a cloudburst report near Horse Creek with road damage.
Local column from North Cottonwood reports community events and people. H F Oster of North Dakota builds a plarm shanty near the achgol house. Jas Haden returns from Whitney creek. Clara Knudsey visits J T Knudson in Cottonwood Minnesota. Miss Virginia Parsons to teach Worth Cottonwood school. Church organization planned by Rev F Williams. Garden tour of T Holland noted. Shearing season and a new Velie passenger car purchase. Fourth of July celebrations and impromptu dance in hall with a four piece orchestra. Notice of hay grazing restrictions in Sections 9 and 45. Turkey Red winter wheat showcased by J M Baker. Baseball games and upcoming Whitney creek vs Ismay match. Train crowds to Baker for Fourth of July festivities.
The Baltimore convention adjourned after a long session. Gov Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was nominated for the Presidency on the 46th ballot with Clark 84 Harmon 12 and Wilson 990. Gov Thomas Marshall of Indiana was nominated for Vice President on the third ballot by acclamation. Wilson's nomination honors Bryan's influence and work.
Heavy rains and cloudbursts sweep across Montana causing washouts near Lavina and a 1200 foot track washout east of Westmore depot. Temporary repairs restore coast traffic within hours while further downpours and hail damage crops on J. J. Butcher’s farm.
Fragmentary notes describe early tobacco use by medicine men as incense to spirits and compare it to fragrant offerings in the Orient. The text links tobacco to ritual homage and notes its enduring cultural role. A stray dialogue fragment references Hawkshaw Holmes and a vaccinated doctor in a garbled exchange.
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