Tidbits and Tales, Part 11 June - November 1934 Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 7, 1934: Fred A. Webb, weatherman at the court house, reported this morning a total rain fall since Tuesday afternoon of 3.15 inches. It is still raining throughout the county. Pooch, a handsome dog belonging to Dick Armstrong, was found dead yesterday morning on the porch of the Roy O. Traver home. About 100 friends of Mr. and Mrs. Sievert Warp were at their home Sunday to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Dinner was served, a short program given and H.B. Tetlie then presented the honor guests with a set of silver and a purse of silver money. Mrs. Mervin Sell and her mother, Mrs. S.W. Nugent of Livingston, will leave the last of this week in the Sell car for a drive which will take them from Spokane through Portland to Los Angeles. They expect to be away at least a month. The baby left a week ago at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Davidson is now at the Big Timber hospital. The identity of its mother is pretty well established, but is not complete. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 14, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Arneson and children drove in Sunday from the west coast, having visited in Tacoma with Mrs. A.H. Arneson, mother of Mr. Arneson and with the parents of Mrs. Arneson of Seattle. Students who have returned from state educational institutions are: Audrey Graff, Lloyd and Arthur Stubkjare, Wilbert Carter, Herbert Wullum, Billy Rees, and Harriet Templeton, from Missoula; Ruth Pravda and Sigrid Haugstad, from Dillon; and Claire Frang and Mary Steensland from Bozeman. Bridger Creek Breezes: Mr. and Mrs. O.P. Terland and three daughters were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bue. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fraser, Jr., are the proud parents of a baby boy, born at the Big Timber hospital on Saturday. They have christened him William Sidney III. He is the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fraser, Sr., and also of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bayers. Mrs. Lora McKenzie of Big Timber is visiting this week with her grand-daughter, Mrs. Fred Hausserman and family. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, June 21, 1934: Buddy, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Arneson, received a broken left arm in a fall from a teeter-totter at the ranch on Tuesday afternoon. O. Miller, living at the first bridge on the Boulder, above this city, has presented the Pioneer with two sets of Siamese twins from the strawberry family, raised on his place. They are as large as the largest butterfly, and in shape resemble one. Guests numbering about 200 were at the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hart of Melville, Sunday, to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, Mr. Hart having been a resident there for 50 years. After a dinner served by guests, Paul L. Van Cleve, Sr., presented the silver offering, Mrs. Hart responding. Tributes were paid by E.H. Ellingson and Robert Brownlee, early day residents of Melville. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 5, 1934: E.L. Frang, of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co., started his vacation of two weeks by leaving Saturday evening, with his family, for the new Frang summer cabin on the Boulder. Yesterday, the Fourth, they were hosts to the Nordstrom, Amery and Arvidson families of this city, and the Ortons of Bozeman. Peter D. Lamb of Dry Creek made the first sale of starved out cattle today, letting 23 head of mixed ones go at two cents per pound. Mrs. George Clarke and two sons arrived on Tuesday night's North Coast Limited to visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Elmer M. Arneson. Belinda Tjaaland, student nurse in a Great Falls hospital, is home for a vacation of three weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Tjaaland. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 12, 1934: Buster, a 16-year-old dog of Floyd Bailey, and for many years a familiar figure around the Bailey hardware, passed out last week. He had been sick with fever for a week and made frequent trips to the water holes to cool himself. Then he disappeared, and the first of the week was found dead on the Boulder River above Fireman's Island. Ben S. Lavold, old time sheepman living 10 miles north of the city, visited in town Monday. He states that his boys, who are out with the sheep, have killed 27 rattlesnakes so far this summer. Recently a sheep dog, nosing around, got too near a rattler and was bitten by the side of the nose. A large lump formed right away. The boy decided the dog might as well die from a bullet wound as a snake bit, placed the muzzle of a .22 rifle against the lump and pulled the trigger. The bullet tore the lump away and evidently took the poison along. The dog recovered, but with a disfigured nose. Mrs. Bertha Cremer, wife of Leo Cremer of national rodeo fame, won second place in the riding contest at Livingston with their pet saddle horse, one of the showiest animals at any rodeo and known to all who attend the annual shows in Montana. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 19, 1934: A party of friends gave Mr. and Mrs. Fred Colt a real charivari on Thursday night of last week. After the customary cart ride about town, they were taken to the Tom Prather home west of town to spend the remainder of the evening. They were presented with many gifts. A. Ronald McDonnell made a 35 on the local golf course Sunday. Par for the course is 34 but it has never been made in those figures and only a time or two 35. Mal Goosey playing with McDonnell, played rounds of 37 and 38, which is real golf, also. Reed Point: Mrs. Chester Fraser, Mrs. Earl Askwig and Mrs. Marie Moler attended the meeting of the Bridger Creek Womans club at the home of Mrs. Henry Hausserman Wednesday afternoon and had a very enjoyable time. There were ladies from Grey Cliff, Big Timber, Absarokee and Spring Creek present. A lovely lunch was served on the lawn after the business session closed and a pleasant social time enjoyed. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, July 26, 1934: About 20 friends of Mrs. Jacob Johnson gathered at her home on Swamp Creek Sunday afternoon to spend several hours with visiting and lunch. The following amounts have been awarded property owners on the east side of town, by state highway adjusters, for right of way for the new highway now under construction: Stubblefield heirs, $650.75; Elam Kepler, $200; Susan T. Dodge, $125; A. Berg, $10; John Lamach, $50; Alfred Rudd, $15; J.J. Lacklen, $70.30. Maj. G.H. Goosey, in charge of local emergency relief, started ten recruits to the CCC camp near Missoula the latter part of last week, as follows: Hal B. Gambs, Charles Freeberg, Charles James, Marshall Frank Dryer, Harry Allen Jones, Virgil Richard Saxton, Elmer Merta, Eugene Lamach, Willie Peterson and Thomas H. Venin. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 2, 1934: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Hauge, July 27, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cort, July 31, a 10 pound son. The annual fish fry of the Sweet Grass Woolgrowers association will be held Saturday, August 11, at the usual place, Ralph S. Jarrett's cabin on the Upper Boulder. This year there will be a variation in the program, especially as to those who will attend, it having been decided to make it a regular stag party. About 200 invitations will be mailed to the male members of the association, as well as to friends in this county and other sections of Montana, and admittance will be by card only. Eli Rice's colored orchestra of 15 pieces put on a show and dance at the Rainbow Gardens in Greycliff Friday night to one of the largest crowds seen anywhere in this county. There was not a standing room, not even dancing room. It was a jam everywhere. Lighted cars between this city and that point gave a good representation of a city street after night. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 9, 1934: Mrs. G.W. Mason, who divides her time between the Mason ranch on the boulder and her Gregory shop in Billings, made a flying trip to New York last week, being away from the ranch just one week. Charles and A. Ronald McDonnell left the first of the week, by auto, for the Century of Progress fair in Chicago. Reed Point Notes: E.C. Robbins completed a deal this week whereby he purchased the Pete Peterson ranch on East White Beaver. At the Bonner Bros. Show here Tuesday evening Doris Thompson was voted the most popular lady there and was awarded a string of pearls. A deal was completed this week by Sam DeFrance and son, Frank, disposing of their garage and camp cabins on the corner of Division Street and Highway No. 10 to a Billings party. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 16, 1934: A wedding of more than usual interest was solemnized on Wednesday evening at the Henry Wullum home when the eldest daughter, Signy Marie, became the bride of Bernard T. Deeney, Jr., of Reed Point. Mrs. Deeney is a graduate of the Sweet Grass County High School and of the State Normal College in Dillon, with additional training at the University of Montana. She has been a member of the public school faculty of this city for a number of years. The groom is occupied with ranching near Reed Point. Raymond, Hoem, who returned the first of the week from work in the mountains, states that hornets are nearly as bad as grasshoppers this year. All working in the timber make the same complaint. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Sven Thompson, August 2, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Erickson, August 2, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Afton Ryan, August 11, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Widdecombe, August 12, a son. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 23, 1934: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Sven Stenberg of Big Timber, August 19, a boy; to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Voges of Big Timber, August 21, a boy. W.G. Robinson, ranching on the Sweet Grass, met with a peculiar accident Friday evening in which he received broken wrist bones. While riding horseback he passed near a bull, apparently gentle. The bull made a lunge, threw its head under the animal's fore legs, raised up and dumped horse and rider. Mr. Robinson threw his right arm out, landing on the hand with the above injury. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, August 30, 1934: David Busha, son of Chief Busha, was host to 13 schoolboy friends last evening, it being his seventh birthday anniversary. The program included lunch at a cafe and an evening at the movie. A tour of Yellowstone park in the Paulson and Sell cars was made this week by Mesdames C.D. Paulson, Mervin Sell, C.A. Bishop, Ceryl V. O'Leary, C.F. Ullman, B.F. Henry, and Maud Hickman. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, Sept 6, 1934, 1934: Carl E. Busse and Nick Lorig are in an argument over who was to blame in an auto accident at the E.H. Budd gate, on the Boulder, Thursday of last week. Busse admits that he was in his car on the left of the road, but that Lorig attempted to go around him and damaged his, Lorig's, fender of a new Plymouth car. Lorig says that Busse was on the wrong side of the road and backed into his car without looking back. At a meeting of trustees of the public school, Mrs. Signy Deeney recently married, was present and stated that she will teach during the coming year. There were several applicants for her place in case she decided not to teach. A crowd of more that 600 enthusiastic fans witnessed Melville's third annual rodeo last Sunday, and they were kept on their toes by the performance of Cremer's horses and Brahama steers as they shook their riders into the dust. Ed Schultz of Miles City was at the top of the list of rough riders, closely followed by Bill Dickenson of Big Timber and Jesse Langston of Melville. Mabry McDowell, Ed Schultz and Bob Hart won in the calf roping stunts. A wild cow milking contest, bulldogging, and a relay race won by Paul L. Van Cleve, Jr., furnished more thrills. A big dance in the evening topped off a first class show. Eli Rice and his cotton pickers will play a return engagement at Rainbow Gardens in Greycliff on Friday, September 7. A big floor show and other special features will be given during the evening. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, Sept 13, 1934, 1934: Louis S. Brannin has filed with County Clerk W.A. Conwell, notice of location of 17 mining claims located principally in the Boulder country, but some on the Stillwater. Mrs. F.M. Lamp served a delicious dinner to 14 members of the Past Chiefs at her cabin on the Boulder last Friday afternoon. Products from her own garden were featured on the menu. Arthur T. Ellison, superintendent of county roads, and crew have about finished on the roads north of the city, grading and dragging. As a result Howie, Gibson, Sour Dough and Glasston thoroughfares are in good shape. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, Sept 20, 1934, 1934: A Sunday auto mixup at the corner of McLeod Street and Sixth Avenue between cars driven by Bill McKenzie and John Cremer, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Cremer, resulted in considerable damage to the Cremer car, damaged trees and lawn of Elmer M. Arneson, but ended with nobody hurt. A total of 437 coyotes, 20 bobcats, two lynx and 27 stock-killing bears were slain during the last month by hunters in the employ of the United States bureau of predatory animal and rodent control, according to a report of R.E. Bateman of Billings. During the same period losses were reported as follows: sheep, 808; turkeys, 292; chickens, 188; sage hens, six; pigs, two; grouse, nine, and deer, one. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, Sept 27, 1934, 1934: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vandervoort of Big Timber, September 26, a son. Paul Van Cleve III was married at Minneapolis yesterday to Barbara Knutson of that city, daughter of a former Harlowton banker. The mother and sister of the groom attended the ceremony. The groom is a student at Harvard and the bride is in her last year in college. Later reports from the ranch home of Maurice Tronrud, the old T.S. Lavold place on the Sweet Grass, northwest of Melville, are that his loss of hay is between 175 and 200 tons. First reports were he lost all buildings, in addition to the hay, but only the barn, which was partly filled with hay, was burned. T.S. Lavold, who made the place fit to live in and sell, but who now resides in this city, was all upset by first reports that everything he had constructed had been wiped out. Mrs. C.A. Bishop and Mrs. C.W. Haas were hostesses to two groups of friends this week, on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Sixteen women were invited to the Bishop home for each occasion, 7 o'clock dinner and cards featuring the entertainment. Robert McKenzie came home last night from Billings, where he had been for three weeks receiving treatment for a crushed elbow. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 4, 1934, 1934: Organization of a Boy Scout troop in this city is up in the air temporarily. an organizer was here and the Lions Club named a committee on organization, but the removal of Owen Loftsgaarden, who would have been scout master, to Missoula upset the original plan. The commissioners have donated the use of a basement, said by the organizer to be the finest scout room he has seen. Mesdames C.D. Paulson, Henry Witten, Wm. Dallman and Clara Severance looped the loop in Yellowstone park yesterday in the Paulson car. In the fall festival put on by some of the local merchants, Janet Beley was high with 702,300 votes. Other leading contestants were Josephine Connolly, 608,700; Margaret Jarrett, 579,300; Edna Travel, 329,000; Agnes Refsland, 203,000. Reed Point Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krone are the happy parents of a baby girl born to them last week Wednesday at a hospital in Big Timber. The little lady has been named Gladys. Mr. and Mrs. George Wimsett and daughter, Leta, were up from Columbus and spent Sunday with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Broadwater. Mrs. Wimsett was displaying a real black widow spider which she caught in a jar before it could have time to bite her. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 11, 1934: The Lutheran Church in Big Timber was the scene of an impressive wedding on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the marriage of Miss Edna Blanche Traver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.O. Traver, and Johnnie Boe, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Boe, was solemnized, with Rev. A.A. Holbeck officiating. Friends of W.K. Amery gave him his first birthday party last evening, taking cards and lunch to the Amery home and spending several hours there. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Coit and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sell gave pleasure to a number of friends on Friday evening, inviting them to dinner at the Big Timber Cafe, and cards at the Coit home, six tables being filled. Last evening Mrs. Coit and Mrs. Sell entertained for 16 ladies, with dinner at the cafe and cards at the Sell home. Reed Point Notes: Mrs. Jim Stephens was helping to deliver lambs to the stockyards Thursday for shipment and when about two miles from town the neck-yoke dropped, frightening the team and throwing Mrs. Stephens from the wagon. She suffered many bruises but was fortunate not to break any bones. Dr. Baskett from Big Timber was called to dress the wounds. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, October 18, 1934: Ralph S. Jarrett, for 52 years a resident of what is now Sweet Grass County, and one of the best liked residents of the community, died at his ranch home on Duck Creek, about 12 miles west of Big Timber, at 3:30 Saturday morning. He had suffered from an enlarged heart for the last two or three years, but a long rest is California had improved his condition. Friday he was in town, remaining until 6 p.m. When he reached home he ate a hearty meal, retiring at the ususal hour. At midnight a severe coughing spell seized him. Dr. D. Claiborn was called from this city, but efforts to stop the attack were futile. At 3:30 he passed away. No man had a greater love for family, friends and life, and it is too bad that one who had so thoroughly enjoyed life should have had it terminated at the age of 58. Mrs. Ross E. Shaver and Mrs. Dorman Kellogg invited 24 ladies to the Shaver home on Monday evening for a delicious dinner, with auction bridge following. A rain the ranchers of Sweet Grass County wanted and needed started at 6 p.m. Monday and did a good job all that night and the day following. Fred A. Webb, government weather man, reports a total fall of .73 of an inch. Thirty-two friends enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. H.E. Mjelde, Mrs. J.D. Herries and Mrs. Ted C. Busha last evening at the Big Timber Cafe. Dinner was served at small tables in the private dining room, and cards followed. About thirty ladies gathered at the home of Mrs. Ole Hoyem last week to welcome her back to Big Timber after an absence of five years, in Billings. The afternoon was spent visiting, after which a delicious lunch was served by the self-invited guests. Mrs. Hoyem was presented a purse of silver as a token of the day. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 1, 1934: Miss Alice Kellogg was hostess to a group of girl friends at a Hallowe'en party Friday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dorman Kellogg. Covers were laid for 12 at 7 o'clock dinner, with games following. Members of the Business and Professional Women's club met at the home of Mrs. Margaret Bray, Tuesday evening, to be entertained by Mrs. Bray and Miss Sadie Erickson. As a surprise on their hostesses, the guests made it a hobo party, with costumes and program in keeping with that idea. Hallowe'en was not so bad last night, although business houses were busy all forenoon removing paraffin and tallow. The little ones did a little marking below, the larger ones went as high on windows as they could reach. Around the city damage, if any, was light. Some hoodlum squads with intent to do real damage were headed off by Night Patrolman Fred Ellison. Reed Point Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fraser entertained a number of friends at a Hallowe'en Hard Time party Saturday evening at their home. Games and stunts provided amusement and later in the evening a treasure hunt was featured which took the party to the river and back all over town to the high school building. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hausserman were awarded prizes for the best costume for man and lady. The prize for the treasure hunt was won by Clarence Anderson and Mrs. Hausserman. Refreshments served were in accord with the occasion. Those enjoying the affair included Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Swift, Mrs. Walt Bayers, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hausserman, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Brumfield, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Askwig, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fraser, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Chink Luper. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 8, 1934: Miss Helen West, a Junior, was chosen queen at the annual high school carnival Saturday night. A big crowd attended. Elmer O. Larson and Miss Sadie Erickson were married at the William Muir, Jr., home Sunday at 7 p.m. by Rev. A.A. Holbeck of the Lutheran church, in the presence of a few invited guests. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of the state by L-W Ranch company, general ranching business with headquarters in Big Timber, Sweet Grass county. Capital stock, $50,000 to be divided into 500 shares of $100 value each. Directors, Rockwood Brown, Horace S. Davis, and Karine Rue, all of Billings. Mrs. John Sago took her class of small boys from the Evangelical Sunday School to her ranch home Saturday afternoon for a real party such as only a farm offers small boys. They had the time of their lives. A runaway car with three children of Mr. and Mrs. John Wright of the City bakery, took a spin up Third avenue Tuesday evening. Mrs. Wright had stepped out of the car to pick up a child who fell out, and the car started in some unexpected manner with three screaming children inside. It came up the street, started toward the Beley alley, cut in across the sidewalk and parking at the Williams home, went back into the street and continued up the street until it ran into the car of Jake Osterhaut in front of his garage. Nobody was hurt but the cars were damaged some. Reed Point Notes: Miss Ethel Prather, music teacher, brough Ruth Marian Cohn and Donna Plaggerman, both seven years of age, here Friday afternoon and present a musical in the high school assembly. Reported very good. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 15, 1934: The annual banquet and election of officers of the Sweet Grass Pioneers Society, held Saturday evening, was by far the largest in attendance and good will of any held. A switch was made in the program, there were no doleful tunes of "Crossing the Bar," etc., but everyone felt that he was not yet in sight of the bar and thoroughly enjoyed a vaudeville arrangement by Mrs. Margaret Deegan. P.J. Deegan acted as announcer and toastmaster. Officers chosen are: Mrs. Henry Ellingson, honorary president; George W. Kauffman, president; T.S. Lavold, first vice president; John Tobin, second vice president; Nelle Lamb, recording secretary; Mrs. Margaret Osburn, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Ida Shipton, treasurer. Sheriff Bartels and Under Sheriff McAllister received invitations to the intended hanging of Zorn at Miles City, yesterday morning. The filing of an appeal did not disappoint them as they had not intended to be present at the execution. While assisting in putting cattle through a chute at the W.H. Donald ranch near Melville Wednesday of last week, Harold C. Bourke received a broken upper jaw bone by being struck with a pole. The fracture was set immediately and this week Mr. Bourke is in the mountains with a hunting party. On Monday evening, November 5, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Boe entertained 16 boys and girls at the John Boe ranch. The evening was spent in playing games of various forms. A lunch was served and a very enjoyable evening was had by all. The American Legion put on a fine dance at Grey Cliff Saturday night with a large crowd, 170 tickets being sold. The crowd was orderly inside, an intended fight on the outside being nipped in the budy by Sheriff Bartels before it got under headway. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Budd, November 8, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Eystein Birkeland, November 11, a daughter. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 22, 1934: The local post of the American Legion dedicated its new home, 28 by 60 and adjoining the city park, Saturday evening, and it was one great celebration. Outside cities attended, and Bozeman, with Commander Hines and the drum corps of that city, came over had headed a big parade down McLeod street. Aside from Claude T. Williams, local commander, and the major domo and drum corps, there were 61 veterans of wars from the Spanish-American down in line. At the new hall there was a little of everything. Between 100 and 150 were served with lunch, every man furnishing the eating implements, and the balance of the evening was devoted to sports of all kinds. Eatables remaining were auctioned off, a bottle of dill pickles going on the block four times, and a chocolate cake at least three times. To be more exact, any buyer who laid anything down saw it come up for auction again. It was a big event in the history of the local buddies, also in the history of this city. When Freddie Benson was seven years old, on Monday, he invited 10 school boy friends to his home for a party after school, with games and lunch. Tuesday evening Marian Esp, little daughter of Mrs. Gene Parker, gave a party for 14 friends, it being her seventh birthday. A surprise party for Mrs. Olga B. Tangen and daughter Helen was given at the Knute Lavold ranch on Otter creek Sunday by about 50 or 60 old neighbors and friends. A sumptuous dinner was served and an enjoyable afternoon spent by all. Return to Sweet Grass County Home Page. +++ From the Big Timber Pioneer, November 29, 1934: Jimmy Anderson now has the niftiest bicycle of any Big Timber kid, one his daddy sent him from Alaska. More than 200 friends celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Grosfield of this city, Sunday afternoon at the Masonic hall, with a big dinner and varied and interesting program. On behalf of those present Rev. A.A. Holbeck presented the honor guests with a silver set of 12 pieces, also a purse of silver. Mr. and Mrs. Will Churchill entertained with a delightful Thanksgiving dinner, Sunday, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hoyem of Melville. Nearly 120 boys, parents, members of the school board, and faculty were present at the annual Future Farmer Parent and Son banquet held in the home economics department of the high school on November 23. The home economics classes and their instructor, Mrs. Haynes, prepared the decorations and the food, and the girls in the commercial department, under their instructor, Miss Marquardt, made the programs. At the beginning of the evening all the boys introduced their parents to the group, and this innovation contributed to the sociability of the crowd. The Big Timber Buckaroos, the FFA Harmonica band, played a couple of selections. Vocal selections were given by the high school quartet, under the direction of Miss Ellen Rein, and by the Sage Brush Sifter, an FFA group. 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