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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1910
Page
1
Local residents and guests frequent Ismay with visits from Knowlton Westmore Mildred Whitney Baker and others. A new rooming house nears occupancy while crops and land sales show activity amid a growing Ismay area.
Former United States Senator W A Clark returned from the east with Mrs Clark and two children to his Butte home on Granite street He said he will not seek election to the United States Senate and has no political honors to pursue He plans to stay in Butte until fall and will keep busy with personal affairs rather than politics.
The document details Custer County in Montana as a vast farming and grazing region. It highlights river systems, irrigable valleys, arid beach lands, coal veins, rail access via the Northern Pacific, Miles City as a trading hub, and rapid settlement growth with towns like Terry Baker Ekalaka Fallon and Knowlton.
Last Monday afternoon the Northern Pacific wool house burned completely with unknown cause. About 3:45 boys spotted smoke. bucket brigades formed but could not save the building or its nearly 500000 pounds of wool insured at 20 cents per pound. The blaze also threatened nearby structures as two freight cars were lost. total damage about 125000 dollars, spurring calls for improved fire facilities once the new city board is installed.
Mrs. Giles T. Kirk wife of a drifting sheepman was fatally injured Sunday when she fell from a sheep wagon near Rock Springs about 37 miles north of Miles City and was run over. Dr. Andrus found multiple broken bones and internal injuries. She died en route to town after the hill near the Yellowstone river.
County commissioners in session pledge a uniform land value increase of about 31 to 42 per acre across the county. The plan affects railroad and nonrailroad lands equally, guided by a chart listing various districts and proposed raises to be applied uniformly.
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