Tidbits and Tales, Part 9 June - December 1933 Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 1: Miss Ina West, teacher in the Big Timber grade schools, is the first resident of this county to go to Chicago to the big fair. She left Saturday night for that city. County Commissioner Sigurd T. Lavold was here Sunday to move his family, who lived in town during the school term, back to the ranch near Melville. The fire team, advertised for sale last week, was purchased by Frank Mackey, well known sheepman of Billings. Hereafter street work will be done with a truck by Albert Wagner, who has succeeded Fred Tucker in that department. John P. Campbell, who attended the annual meeting of the Montana Stockgrowers Association at Bozeman, returned Friday evening and had an enjoyable time getting to his home on the Sweet Grass, southeast of Melville. A rain during the day wrecked all the work done on the Glasston road in the way of dragging, and after trying it he came back and took the regular Melville road. It was in terrible shape, ruts a foot deep and chunks of mud as large as a tub. He made it home, eventually. Memorial Day was fittingly observed in this city. Headed by the City band, veterans of the Spanish-American and World wars, and school children marched to the library, where Rev. Andrew Roukema and Rev. A.A. Holbeck delivered appropriate addresses. At the cemetery every grave of every departed hero, regardless of what war, was decorated with a flag and flower, and a final salute and taps sounded. George W. Cook of this city, a cowboy now in his 97th year, will be invited by Charley Murphy, director of the annual Livingston rodeo held July 2, 3, and 4, to be one of four early day cowboys to head the big parade each day. Mr. Cook came to the Sweet Grass, Sweet Grass county, in 1878 with 600 head of cattle from the Madison valley, and has been here ever since. He still rides a horse as well as he did in 1878. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 8, 1933: Sheriff Bartels has about finished a cleanup of autos without license plates, although a few are still ducking the main streets, traveling by night and parking on the outskirts. Due to his efforts the road fund of the county will have more than $1,000 cash to expend this year over previous years. That represents at least 100 more cars paying license. Horses of J.F. Clark, driven from his McLeod ranch, were found yesterday southwest of this city. Mrs. J.H. Trower drove to Bozeman Monday and was present when her daughter, Betty, was elected a "Spur" at the State college. Sixteen were chosen, two from each sorority, and the honor is one highly coveted. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 15, 1933: New quartz filings have been made in the Place Gulch mining district south of Grey Cliff, where the gold mining boom is now on, by R.A. Brannin and Peter K. Peterson. The first named has located the Blue Bird, Red Wing and Lucky Strike claims, the latter the Buffalo. Stanley Rudd, who is at the gold camp on Deer creek, was in the city Saturday evening. He states it is the Montana Coal & Iron Co. which has taken charge of the development of gold properties in that district. Fifteen men, he says, are now at work making the road passable up to the proposed site for the stamp mill, and one of his teams is on that job. He is just as certain of gold there as he is that men are working on it. Complaints have been made to Sheriff Bartels that boys are swimming in the Boulder clad only in the bathing suits nature provided. The practice must stop or the display may take a turn the boys had not intended, he says. Joe Morstein, who pays a weekly visit to this city, was here from his ranch Saturday. Speaking of the writeup in the Pioneer of early days, last week, he said he was here in 1882 when there was nothing but a depot. He was working for the Northern Pacific as a painter, and before he finished helped paint every section house from Billings to Winston, this side of Helena. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Sargent of Gibson, June 7, a son. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 22, 1933: The Natural Bridge district, 12 miles south of McLeod and 29 miles south of Big Timber, lost its historical fame, also chief attraction, Friday night of last week when the falls, 100 feet high from the river bed, went out, possibly for all time... The crust of the formation still remains, and Mrs. Charles Bryan, who led a saddle horse over it in 1883, could probably do the same thing today. Shearing in most parts of the county is nearing a finale, although a crew is still working on the 8,600 head of A.M. Grosfield. Jacob Johnson, with 3,000, is through, so are Ole Langhus, Hans Tjaaland and Hanson & Drange. All report an average of about 10 pounds to the sheep. Charles Schwindt, trick operator at the depot, is father of a daughter, born Tuesday at the Big Timber hospital. Ivar Hoiland, living on Otter creek north of this city, brought to the Pioneer office Friday a carp, caught in that creek, which empties into the Yellowstone river at the T.J. Manis ranch. As carp are not resident fish of Montana, the only solution is that it worked its way from the Missouri river up the Yellowstone, then up Otter creek. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 29, 1933: Jane Thais Douthett, youngest daughter of L.F. Douthett, and William Maxwell Officer, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Officer of the Upper Yellowstone, were married Tuesday afternoon at the Douthett home by Rev. A.A. Holbeck, only members of the two families attending. After a short honeymoon the newlyweds will be at home at the Myrstol ranch west of this city. The wedding of Gladys Breck and William O. Miller was solemnized at the Breck ranch, south of this city, last evening by Rev. A.A. Holbeck. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Miller. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sivert Breck, old time ranch residents of this county. R.H. (Bob) Cartwright, a visitor in this city Saturday, is very optimistic regarding his gold prospects in Placer gulch, about 14 miles south of Grey Cliff. He states they have an assay of $996 to the ton, in gold, omitting silver. An electric generator was due to arrive at the camp Monday of this week, and a 50-ton crusher, not stamp mill, is on its way. Prospectors are almost as thick as grasshoppers, in his opinion, and claims in every direction are being filed on. Audrey Mosier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.V. Mosier, and Roy Nunley were united in marriage in Livingston Thursday of last week. Friday night they were given a cart ride and reception by a large number of friends in this city. Sheepmen throughout the county have finished shearing and this week are sending their flocks to the mountain forest reserves for the summer. Most of them are going south into the old Independence Mining Co. country, but others will go in the opposite direction. A.M. Grosfield will camp his bunch of several thousand in the Crazy Mountain reserve, and Carl Myrstol will go into the Shields river country again this year. The many friends, neighbors and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Officer delightfully surprised them Tuesday evening, the occasion being their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The affair was staged at the community hall in Springdale. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 6, 1933: Arthur T. Ellison and Ray A. Traver came in from the Boulder about noon Monday with as fine a catch of trout as has been made this year. They ran as high as two pounds each and totaled about 30 pounds. Olaf J. Hoyem, son of the late Jacob Hoyem who died recently in Trondheim, Norway, left last week to return to his Minneapolis home. While here he removed the bodies of two small sisters, buried at Howie, to Mountain View cemetery in this city, and placed markers at their graves. This leaves but four, according to George O. Rostad, buried in the old Howie cemtery - the father and a sister of Louis L. Wirak, an infant son of Iver H. Hoyem, and a homesteader named Lagow who had a claim up the Sweet Grass in the neighborhood of the E.R. Patterson ranch. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith returned Sunday evening from an auto trip to Minneapolis and other Minnesota points. They report terribly hot weather except around the lakes, and drove all day Sunday through blinding heat. Mr. Smith states that the highest price he paid for gas while in Minnesota was 15 cents per gallon. At Stewart Lake a sign read, "5 gallons of gas and a bottle of beer for 75 cents." Under those conditions he bought 10 gallons of gas. Gillman Aller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Aller of Old Kaintuck, has received word that he was awarded the June prize, given by a Billings business house, for catching the largest fish of the month. In fact he won both first and second prizes with one 10-pound and one six-pound trout. They were taken from a lake up the Boulder. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 13, 1933: J.J. Lacklen left Saturday night on the North Coast limited for St. Louis, Mo., as a delegate from the local lodge to the national convention of Lions, in session in that city this week. On his return he will drive a new Ford. Harry Kaufman, forest ranger on the Boulder, who was here Monday, stated that work would start Wednesday, yesterday, on the four-mile extension from Cowles to old Independence. Tents were up for men, material on hand and everything ready for real work yesterday. J.B. Hinds, Arthur L. Schump, C.W. Haas and his guest, Lowell Galbreth of Burnettsville, Ind., left here Thursday of last week for a camping trip in the Crazies and a climb to the top of Crazy Peak, a stunt not accomplished every day by either dude or native. The men started at 7 o'clock Friday from Blue Lake. Mr. Schump fell by the wayside but the others reached the top after six hours of stiff climbing. The return trip was made in two and one-half hours. The only accident was the loss of a seat from a pair of perfectly good Hoosier trousers, left on a glacier in an unintentional slide. A fine view was had from the top, to Bozeman on the west and as far as the Tetons south. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 20, 1933: Howard Huyser, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Huyser of Ten Mile, and Miss Edith Bourne, daughter of J.W. Bourne, were married at Livingston Sunday. Alfred Undem, brother of Hoover Undem of this city, was badly clawed by a bear at the summer camp of the Ebert Sheep Co., on Hell Roarin' creek, in the vicinity of Gardiner, Tuesday morning. A cub had wandered into the tent of Undem and he started to club it out. While so engaged the mother bear came from behind and badly cut his hips and back with its claws. Dr. and Mrs. H.C. Roquet and daughter, Helen, drove in Thursday evening of last week from a visit at the old Roquet home in Indianapolis, Ind., and a trip through the Century of Progress fair at Chicago. They liked the whole show from top to bottom. They found meals high, rooms at hotels advanced from $5 to $12.50, but draught beer at 5 and 10 cents per glass. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 27, 1933: Gene Parker, who was in the city Saturday from the Upper Boulder, stated that false work on the new bridge above Cowles was finished, and that real work on the structure would start Monday morning of this week. Peter D. Lamb, who was in this city Saturday from his ranch on Dry creek, states that he lost 25 turkeys in 10 minutes Tuesday, with only one coyote on the job. Poison distributed in the vicinity of Grey Cliff last week to relieve the grasshopper situation proved disastrous to some loose stock. R.L. Clark lost two cows, Stub Myers one cow and Joe Peterson a horse. B.C. Lillis, a civil engineer of Billings, has been employed by the city council to make a preliminary survey and estimate for a new water system for Big Timber, and is now engaged in the work. It is also a provisional understanding that Mr. Lillis may superintend the construction of the plant, if one is made, but the city is at liberty to employ any other engineer or to let the contract to the lowest bidder. Born, July 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brownlee, Jr., a daughter. Chairman A.A. Lamp and Commissioner C.C. Nicholson were at Helena Friday of last week to arrange for a flood control dam in Sweet Grass canyon, just above the old S.O. Mydland ranch. They will secure funds for a 120-foot dam, when an estimate of cost has been made, taking in the T.T. Olson and C.M. Rein meadows, and part of the Brannin flat. The dam will be constructed by the government, with local labor as far as possible. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 3, 1933: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Franklin, July 28, a girl. The state board has issued a retail beer license to M.P. Monberg of Livingston for a place at Grey Cliff, to be operated by Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt; and a wholesale license to Earl Green of Melville. An empty sheep shed of William Duffey, on Deer creek and just off the Yellowstone trail, was burned Tuesday morning. It is thought to have caught fire from a match or cigarette thrown down by tramps who had occupied it during the night. Local hot weather reached its peak Thursday of last week, 108. The down slide from then, according to Frank Webb's report, is: Friday, 98; Saturday, 97; Sunday, 88; Monday, 78; Tuesday, 73; Wednesday, 82. Last evening this city had a good shower, the first in about two months. Alva L. Lamb, cashier of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co., was at Helena last week to attend the annual meeting of the Montana State Bankers association. The wheat adjustment program in Sweet Grass county is now underway. Kenneth P. Jones, emergency agent, will have charge of Sweet Grass and Wheatland counties with headquarters at the courthouse in Big Timber. Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Cremer were here Monday for medical attention for their son, kicked in the head by a horse. The Billings Gazette of Saturday announced the issuance of a marriage license to Elzie A. Cubbison and Dorothy E. McAdams, both of Big Timber. Harlowton Times: Mrs. C.M. Bair and the Misses Alberta and Marguerite Bair returned Friday evening from a week's visit in Billings and with friends who reside on the Boulder near Big Timber. On their return trip they spent a day at the Van Cleve ranch. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 10, 1933: Local friends have received announcements from Mrs. D. Mormeldorff of Wichita, Kan., of the marriage in that city, July 28, of her daughter Juanita Holly, and George A. Berges. The groom is principal of the public school in this city, the bride a teacher in the school for several years past. The summer cabin of Severin Oie, proprietor of the Oie Motor Co. of this city, was raided Friday and Saturday nights by a bear. Two screen windows were broken out, the door was pushed off its hinges and other minor damages done. A quantity of bacon and other eatables were carried away. Sunday night Noah T. Ball, who is at the Cowles place, kept guard from the roof of the cabin with a rifle but the bear did not return. Two marriages of Big Timber young folk were held during the week end. On Saturday Edward B. Douthett and Miriam Osburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Osburn, were married in Helena. The day following John Goosey, son of Maj. and Mrs. G.H. Goosey, and Donna Neil were united by S.G. Webster, justice of the peace. Jake Wagner drove 400 head of cattle, and Mrs. Emma Michels 163 head from their ranges on the Boulder, Monday, to the Sievert Raisland range of six sections in the Gibson country. The change was made on account of no feed on the Boulder range. County Attorney E.O. Overland, who is city attorney during the absence of C.W. Campbell, made $50 for Big Timber this week. The carnival objected to paying the city license of $50, and after hunting around for a location parked outside the city limits, west of the Dough Boy filling station. Mr. Overland then notified city authorities that the city's jurisdiction extended three miles around the city and Chief Busha colllected a $50 license. The county also received its license. Mrs. Henry Wullum, Miss Signy and Herbert will drive to Billings tomorrow to be present when Miss Helen Wullum graduates from the Montana Normal in that city. The Kellogg warehouse corner, below and across the street from the courthouse has been purchased by the Yale Oil Corporation of Billings, and as soon as the structure is removed a new building, in conformity with the ordinance governing building inside the fire limits, will be erected. The business here will be in charge of Ed Braaten of Pompey Pillar. Return to the top of the page. From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 17, 1933: Mrs. Lew Webb has sold the stone residence at the head of McLeod street, opposite the old woolen mill, to Axel Arvidson. A mink which invaded the home of George Swanson this week was dispatched by Elmer Skaarland. Reports from Martinsdale are that water is being hauled to four bands of sheep of C.M. Bair, ranging in the forest service. On a survey and estimate made by B.C. Lillis of Billings, civil engineer, Mayor O'Leary has made application for a loan for a new water system for Big Timber. According to the surveyor's estimate, Big Timber needs a water flow of 1,500 gallons per minute, which can be brought to the city by a gravity system and shorter route. Water supply at the intake in insufficient, the city needing 60 pounds pressure at the pump instead of the present 28 pounds. The present reservoir is useless. Digging trenches and back filling will be expensive, and a 14 inch pipe, a new galvanized production, will be necessary to carry 1,500 gallons of water per minute. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 24, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. John F. Clark, visitors in the city from the old McLeod ranch above McLeod, stated that section had a hard rain Tuesday, with adjoining hills covered with snow. Mr. and Mrs. Ed F. Crossfield and Edward Howard returned Monday night from a weekend visit to the Upper Boulder, cold, rain and hail having forced them home. They reported another raid on the Ralph S. Jarrett and Severin Oie cabins Saturday night by grizzley bear. Considerable damage resulted and another shortage of food supply followed. John S. Forster, son of John Forster of Grey Cliff, is one of a class of 43 to be ordained as priests at St. Ignatius Kolleg, Volkenburg, Holland, August 27. He will conduct his first mass at Meuhldorf, Bavaria, the native city of Forster, Sr., September 23. In the contest between two teams of the fire department Friday evening, the team of William Thornby won. The team made a run of five and a half blocks, shot water through two lines of hose, replaced the hose in the truck, and was back at the fire hall in 6 minutes and 42 seconds. The team of Laverne Duncan performed the same trick in 7 minutes and 5 seconds. After the contest a water fight was staged, ending in a draw. Bridger Creek Notes: The Dry Fork school has been moved by H. Kehrwald about two miles east onto the main road, and that district consolidating with Sunnyside will hold school there the coming term. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 31, 1933: County Commissioner Sigurd T. Lavold has received flattering returns from the sale of his wool. Out of 71 bags, 36 bags, containing three grades, sold for 31-1/2 cents per pound. It is the best sale so far of Sweet Grass county wool. Paul L. Van Cleve, III, had a breakdown Saturday night while returning to his home, the Lazy K Bar ranch, with a load. The car stalled on the Wormser hill, in the vicinity of the Bert Plaggemeyer ranch, and refused to operate. He stated that he walked back to town through the rain and mud, and his clothes Sunday morning justified the statement. Carl Myrstol was here Monday from his ranch west of the city, preparatory to leaving for Emigrant, Park county, to meet 2,000 sheep which were in the forest reserves on Mill creek. The heavy forest fires on the Absaroka range last week burned two of his camps and destroyed so much range it was inadvisable to keep the sheep in that locality any longer. Monday night the Boulder grizzly broke into the Ullman and Voges cabins and left a wreckage of interior decorations behind. Tuesday night everybody laid for him, in different cabins, but failed to get him. Floyd Bailey had gone to the Jarrett cabin, but during the bitter cold he had to return to his own place. Later the bear showed up at the Jarrett cabin and finished a dead sheep. Evidently he knew his onions and when and where to go. A rattlesnake with eight buttons was killed yesterday afternoon in front of the C.D. Graff home. It was seen running across a walk leading from the main walk to the residence by the Graff twins, who notified their mother. She responded promptly and, assisted by Mrs. L.H. Lintz and Mrs. P.J. Deegan, killed the snake. It was a fighter and struck at one woman. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, September 7, 1933: Old Scarface, grizzly bear terror of the Boulder for three weeks, came to Big Timber Friday afternoon in the rear of Floyd Bailey's truck. His massive frame took up a good part of the truck, while his head, as large as that of a small bull, battle scarred, ripped, rent and torn in many places, lay near the end. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bartels, living about 40 miles north and east of Big Timber on the Shawmut road, were business visitors in this city yesterday. They came Tin Can hill way and were surprised to find much of the highway north of here graded. Last week they made a trip to Barber, Shawmut and Ryegate and found the Barber country road good, but the rest bad. They report fine rains to their locality, also that grass is coming fine. Arne Grosfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Grosfield, Bertha Lien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Lien, were married at the Lien home on Big Timber creek Thursday evening of last week by Rev. A.A. Holbeck of the Lutheran church. Hans Tjaaland loaded 1,300 head of lambs at this place yesterday, sold to Frank Mackey of Billings at 5-1/4 cents per pound. Jonas Mauland and assistants came down Tuesday evening with about 3,000 head of Mauland sheep from the summer range in the forest reserve on the Boulder, about 30 miles beyond the Cowles dude ranch. The lambs will be held at the Mauland ranch just north of the city for feeding, and the older ones taken to the winter range on Wild Cat creek. Friends will be surprised to hear of the marriage of Miss Gladys Ness to Ole Swandal of Wilsall, which has been kept secret for some time. Mrs. Swandal is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ness of Sweet Grass. She is a graduate of Sweet Grass county high school and has attended the Billings Normal. She has been a successful teacher in the county for some time and is still engaged in this profession. Mr. Swandal is one of the Swandal Bros. of Wilsall, an active young business and stockman. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, September 14, 1933: Friends of the "McCauley Boys" will be surprised to hear of their marriage last week, September 5, at Missoula. Rev. Sanderson officiated at the double ceremony, which united in wedlock Henry E. McCauley and Iva Bowman, and William J. McCauley and Violet Bowman. The brides are sisters, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowman, former residents of the Glasston neighborhood. They will probably make their home here, the boys being engaged in farming at Glasston with their mother, Mrs. Gertrude McCauley. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A.F. Kiere of Reed Point, September 4, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Joy A. McLane of Glasston, September 10, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Onie Davis of McLeod, September 12, a daughter. Anton Lien, one of the old time sheepmen living north of Big Timber, is a happy man. Returns received from Draper & Co. of Boston, Frank Mackey of Billings buyer, show he received 29.26 per pound for his total wool clip of 10,000 pounds. Hilda M. Rein, county superintendent of schools, has named Selmer H. Solberg to succeed Mrs. John W. Hruza, who moved to Minneapolis and whose term would have expired next April, as trustee of the Big Timber public school. In place of Otto C. Batch, who was elected last April for a term of three years, and who has purchased a creamery in Bozeman, Miss Rein has name Rev. A.A. Holbeck of the Lutheran church. High and public schools opened Monday with a full corps of instructors. Prof. G.A. Berges of the public school gives the first day enrollment at about 265, or normal. Prof. J.B. Hinds of the high school states the first day attendance was larger than any previous year, about 180 entering. About 70 new ones are on the roll, not including post graduates. The county attendance is unusually large in both schools, students from the lower country taking advantage of a school bus to attend and spend nights at home. Reed Point Notes: A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Schuyler Saturday at their home here. Edgar Siebert and Miss Jean McGinnis were married at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Abbie Deckert, Sunday, September 10. Mr. Siebert is now employed in Yellowstone Park and he took his bridge to Gardiner Sunday afternoon, where they will reside for the present. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, September 21, 1933: The much publicized grizzly bear recently killed on the Boulder labeled Old Scarface and credited with being a noted character from the grizzly colony within the Yellowstone National Park, is not in reality Scarface at all, according to Chief Ranger George Baggley. So far but one birthday celebration will be necessary for the children of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Mauland, a daughter having arrived at their home Monday, September 18, the second anniversary of their son, Svend. B.L. Darling of Yermo, Calif., and Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks of Gibson, Mont., were married in this city Thursday afternoon of last week by Justice Sam G. Webster. Officers and directors of the Silver King Mining Co., operating in the Deer Creek district, chosen Friday of last week are: Dr. A.P. O'Leary, president; C.F. Ullman, vice president; P.P. Cronin, secretary-treasurer; Severin Oie, Dr. A.P. O'Leary, Harvey Hakes, P.P. Cronin and Tom Jarrett, directors. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, September 28, 1933: Contract for carrying the mails between the postoffice and railway station has been awarded to Walter Braughton, at $29.70 plus per month. The contract of Harry Clouse, retiring carrier, was at $50 per month. It requires three trips back and forth and a final one at the close of the day's business at the office. The Livingston Enterprise Tuesday carries notice of the marriage of Montana (Rowland) Marvin and Donald Voges, both of this city. The bride was a resident of this city for many years, later moving to Pocatello, Idaho, with Mrs. Rufus L. Haynie. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Voges, living six miles west of this city, where the newlyweds will make their home. A million dollars is a lot of money to ask at any time for any purpose for Sweet Grass county, but if the request of Governor Cooney, who is now in Washington, with State Engineer J.S. James, is heard this county will get that sum for its proposed Sweet Grass Canyon dam. The governor estimates three years' work in this county for 160 men. Whether all of it will be on the Sweet Grass dam is not stated. County Surveyor C.E. Busse made an estimate of cost of a 120-foot dam, based on his survey, at around $500,000. State Engineer James made a request for a dam of 180 feet in order to throw water into Fish creek and the American Fork. Proportionately that would bring the cost of $750,000. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 5, 1933: The Sweet Grass County high school livestock judging team, composed of John Deegan, Morley Lamp, George Staples, and Dean Curtis, alternate, won another victory for their agriculture department by placing first with a total score of 2,175 at a district judging contest held at the Huntley Project, September 22. Morley Lamp was high point man for the team and second high point man for the contest. Sixteen ladies of the Evangelical church arranged a pleasant surprise for Mrs. Henry Mohr yesterday afternoon when they called at her home to spend several hours visiting. The guests also provided a delicious lunch. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 12, 1933: According to a letter copy mailed to the Pioneer office by R.D. Rader, state highway engineer, the mooted question of whether the No. 10 Highway would remain as at present or be constructed down First Avenue and across the flat to the Boulder Bridge, and which has been hanging fire for two years, has been settled for all time in favor of the latter route. More than two hundred friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Boe took time out from their daily tasks on Friday afternoon to celebrate in fitting manner the silver wedding anniversary of the highly esteemed couple. It is worthy of comment that that number of people could keep a secret so well that the surprise of the Boes was complete. At the District Four convention of Women's Club held in Helena last week, Mrs. L.W. Baskett of this city was chosen vice president. Mrs. Torger Birkeland, living on the old Patterson ranch at the Sweet Grass crossing, placed some evidence of what the Birkeland garden has done this year in the Pioneer window Saturday. Two potatoes total 5 and 1/4 pounds and the squash weighs exactly 33 pounds. Harvey McVey, Oscar Fallang, Kenneth Hale, Don Hodges and Harry Elgen have returned from St. Regis, MT where they were in a C.C.C. camp for a period of four months. The work was not bad and accommodations good. Ed Furnish and Buster Hermanson reenlisted for six months. Mrs. G.A. Berges was honor guest at a kitchen shower given at the Overland home on Monday evening by Mrs. E.O. Overland and Mrs. Chas. W. Campbell. Sixteen women friends presented her with an array of kitchen tools. The evening was spent with cards and delicious refreshments. Miss Inga Strand has retired from the Big Timber hospital and will leave for Billings. Miss Bessie Van Zyl of that city will be associated in the hospital management from now on with Miss Carmen Bakken. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 19, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Olson returned Saturday from the Century of Progress at Chicago. They enjoyed every feature of it and considered the trip a good investment. Leo J. Cremer, Jr., and bride, the newlyweds, arrived Monday from Butte with a load of furniture for their future home 35 miles from this city, on the old Nevin ranch below the Cremer place. They made the trip out fine but on unpacking furniture and groceries found they had forgotten salt. It was only a 35-mile drive back, with a Buick, to pick up that important item of housekeeping. Miss Nelle Lamb and Mrs. O.D. Olsen were hostesses on Thursday and Monday evenings, inviting friends to the Lamb home for 7 o'clock dinner on each occasion. A notice ran in the Pioneer of an $86 reward being offered "for information sufficient to secure a conviction of the person or persons scattering dog or cat poison in the city of Big Timber." It was signed by Frederick P. Coit, Mervin Sell, R.S. Weller, J. Earl Miller, Alva L. Lamb, Jerome Williams, Floyd McAllister, Afton Ryan, Ed Howard, Arthur Zeleny, Dr. L.W. Baskett, and R.A. Bray. The penalty for this crime was a fine not to exceed $500, three years in state penitentiary or both. At the time the notice was run, at least three dogs had died as a result of cyanide poisoning. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 2, 1933: Announcement is made that Horace Haas, who has been with the Home Telephone Co., of which his brother, Clive W. Haas is manager, has purchased an interest in the Vaughn grocrey of this city. The head of Old Scarface, grizzly terror of the Boulder country for several weeks, then a victim of a bullet fired by a government hunter, is back from Livingston, where it was sent by Floyd Bailey, one of the few responsible for the killing of the bear, for mounting. It is a good job of mounting, too good in that it has removed the historical markers of the noted bear. Scars have been patched over with hair, an ear torn down to a single thread has been replaced, etc. Dallman hall was the scene of a merry party on Tuesday evening when Morley and Clarence Lamp, Sigurd and Percy Lavold and Jean and Donald Nicholson gave a delightful party for 40 high school friends. Guests came in various costumes and spent several hours with games, dancing and lunch. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 9, 1933: Mrs. Leon Olmstead invited six ladies from town to her ranch home to spend Friday afternoon. Visiting and a delicious dinner were enjoyed. The Crazy Mountains furnished a buck deer each last week for C.A. Bishop, O.A. Fallang, Jr., Jim Ballard, Raymond and Kenneth Hale. The Bishop deer was a novelty, seven points on one side and six on the other. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bare at their ranch home west of Reed Point on Friday morning, November 3. Dr. Baskett of Big Timber was the attending physician and Mrs. Andrew Peterson is assisting looking after the family. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 16, 1933: A defective flue was the cause of a fire which called the department to the Gus Stenberg home on First Avenue East, Tuesday afternoon. The house is constructed of logs, with stucco covering, and it was necessary to tear away a considerable portion of the stucco to get at the blaze. Damage in the neighborhood of $100 was covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Tjaaland, both born on November 11 though in different years, drove to Bozeman Saturday to celebrate their birthdays with their daughter, Mrs. Julian Miles. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Armstrong, November 11, a son. Frank Chase has been named as special night watchman to herd youngsters off the street when the curfew rings at 9 p.m. Kids under 18 years of age are sent home, off the streets and out of the pool halls, at that time. This should result in stopping much of the petty annoyances which have been done by idlers around town, particularly in the postoffice lobby which has been more or less of a loafing place. Grandma Fallang, one of the oldest of the Pioneers, lost a much prized apron when she attended the banquet of that society at the high school Friday evening. The finder would do her a great favor by restoring it to the owner. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webber of McLeod were at White Sulphur Springs last week to visit their daughter, Mrs. Wm. Bowman, who was ill. As soon as she is able to travel, the Bowmands will move to the Boulder for the winter. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 23, 1933: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mehus, at Big Timber Hospital November 21, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. W.N. Clayton of Big Timber, at Billings, November 20, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thorny, November 17, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murray, Big Timber, November 18, a daughter. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. William Refsland gave them the car ride usually imposed upon newly wed couples, Saturday night, followed with a party and gifts. Fourteen women friends of Mr. A.W. Strickland gave her a delightful surprise on Tuesday afternoon, going to her home with well filled lunch baskets for a few hours of visiting. To date 10 local residents have filed applications with the home loan board for money with which to take up other loans and start as debtor to Uncle Sam: A.J. Brown, Charles Bryan, Jr., Laurel J. Crest, Harvey Clouse, Amos G. Davidson, J.J. Gallagher, Anton Grande, Edith Mosness, E.F. Osterhaut and Homer Wheeler. All applications have been approved by the state agency, but that of Amos G. Davidson is the first to pass official muster and come back to the office of County Clerk W.A. Conwell for recording. Mrs. C.T. Busha and Miss Lenora Busha entertained the Surprise club Wednesday afternoon. A delicious lunch was served. Reed Point Notes: Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Snow and son, Howard, returned from Missoula Friday evening and brought two deer with them. They had been hunting in that vicinity for several days and both Mr. and Mrs. Snow were fortunate in getting a deer. Frank H. Mehlberg went to Billings, Friday, where he met Miss Annie E. Arnold of Madisonville, KY and they were married Monday. Frank brought his bride to his ranch home on West White Beaver and Tuesday evening all the neighbors and friends for many a mile around tendered them a charivari. Mr. Mehlberg has resided on the same farm for about 20 years and is widely known for his activities in civic improvement of the community. The happy couple were sweethearts at one time during their youth. The vicinity welcomes Mrs. Mehlberg and extends best wishes to the newlyweds. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 30, 1933: Commissioners A.A. Lamp, Sigurd T. Lavold, C.C. Nicholson, County Clerk W.A. Conwell, Mayor A.P. O'Leary, City Clerk T. C. Busha and E.H. Ellingson were at Billings yesterday to attend a meeting of representatives of 21 eastern Montana counties and cities, held by T.C. Spaulding, director of the Civil Works Administration of Montana, and a former head of the forestry department of the state university. Makkil Hammersmark and Margaret Stein, both of this city, were married Friday of last week by Rev. A.A. Holbeck of the Lutheran Church. Mrs. Gertrude McCauley, who has been ranching at Glasston, is moving to the old Arthur T. Ellison ranch on the Boulder. Reed Point Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Shorty Faw and Merl Fish were in from the ranch and were the Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Walker. Joe Sharrer was also a dinner guest. A party was given at the school house north of town in honor of Arthur Stephens' birthday and a good number of young folks gathered there for the occasion. A very enjoyable time was spent and a lovely lunch served. Best wishes for many more happy birthdays was the parting phrase at the wee small hours of the morning. Mrs. Guy Lamb and son, Raymond, spent a couple of weeks with her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bakke, at Fargo, N.D. and helped look after her new granddaughter. The Lamb boys were glad to see their mother return Saturday night as batching was getting stale. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, December 7, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Ullman were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Arthur Swanstrom, and Mr. Swanstrom, in Great Falls over the weekend. A Thanksgiving dinner was surved to 27 persons at the Guy C. Officer home last Thursday. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Officer, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Officer and Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Officer and their families; Mr. F.E. Officer, Wilbur Officer, Fay, Dorothy, Ray and Carl Florman, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick White and guests. A group of town ladies drove to the Burton Smith ranch at Grey Cliff, Friday afternoon, for a delightful visit and lunch with Mrs. Smith. A Monday morning fire at the O.P. Jasper ranch, on the Boulder river, wiped out a cow barn, 70 tons of hay and a yearling heifer. By chance a saddle horse, a regular roomer in the barn, had been turned into a pasture Sunday evening and the saddle and bridle left at the house. Mrs. Albert Esp suffered a dislocated elbow in a stairway fall at her home Friday morning. County Treasurer F.R. Hickman has received a warrant from the state of Montana for $247.15, the first allotment to Sweet Grass county of the funds received by the state from the sale of beer. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, December 14, 1933: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert O. Strand, 30 miles northeast of Big Timber, December 4, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Holley E. Smoot of Big Timber, December 9, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. McKenzie of Big Timber, December 12, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Ivar Holland, December 10, a daughter. Tuesday evening the Eastern Star elected the following officers for the coming year: Belle Amery, worthy matron; C.F. Ullman, worthy patron; Edna Cross, associate matron; R.A. Bray, associate patron; Agnes Ullman, secretary, Ruby Davis, treasurer; Mildren Bray, conductress, Myrtle Schump, associate conductress. Reed Point notes: Miss Opal Rash left Sunday for McLeod where she is teaching a rural school. She had spent the Thanksgiving vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irve Rash. Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Best and two daughters came up from Billings Sunday evening and are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Best on the Lewis Guthrie ranch. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, December 21, 1933: Miss Hazel Mason, who has been employed at Cody, Wyo., came home the first of the week to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mason at McLeod. After the holidays she will return to Cody to accompany her employer's family to Cleveland, Ohio for a stay of several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Laubach of Saginaw, Ore., formerly of Springdale, celebrated their golden wedding at their home in Saginaw recently. Mr. Laubach is 73, born in Pennsylvania in 1861. Mrs. Laubach is 65, and was also born in Pennsylvania. They came to Montana in 1912, where they lived on their ranch at the Crazy Mountains. A few years ago they moved to Oregon. Rae Harper returned Sunday from Chicago, where he visited with relatives for three months after accompanying a stock shipment to that city. Agnes Terland returned from Butte this week where she had been a guest of Miss Agnes Sands for the past month. Sidney Fraser Sr. has purchased the Pinkerton place on the north side of the Yellowstone river, below Grey Cliff, to have more range for his sheep. Ina West and Hilda Rein were chosen delegates to attend the general assembly of the Montana MEA at Great Falls next week. Return to the top of the page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, December 28, 1933: The George Carl family went to Columbus for Christmas day and then to Billings to spend the remainder of the holiday with friends. Mabel Parker, a Sweet Grass county girl who has been teaching school at Pleasanton, CA for several years, was here to spend Christmas with her father, Glen M. Parker, and brother Gene. Miss Josephine Comfort of the high school faculty left Saturday morning for Chicago to spend the holidays at home. Miss Georgia Thorson, teacher in the schools at Libby, is spending the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Martin Stokke. Miss Alice Knowles spent Friday afternoon with old schoolmates and friends in this city, enroute to her home in Hardin to spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Knowles. She is a student at MSC. Paul L. Van Cleve Sr., of the Lazy K Bar ranch, was here Saturday to greet old friends and do a little Christmas shopping. He stated that on New Year's day he will have reached his 79th milestone. He does not look it, being straight and as active as ever. Since the early eighties he has resided at Melville, coming there from Billings, and leaving the occupation of telegraph operator for that of rancher and stockman. Reed Point Notes: Perry Moler came home Wednesday from his college at Helena to spend his holiday vacation. W.L. Bayers, who is a traveling salesman in North Dakota for a Montana coal company, arrive home Tuesday to spend the season with his family. Mrs. Zillah Malone is very miserable this week as she is suffering from several fractured ribs which she acquired the night that was so icy and she went out on a messenger call.