Voices from the Past

November 15, 1923

Bay Horse-Biddle Mail Route is not granted

We are sorry to learn that the Bay Horse to Biddle mail route has not been granted. We understand that the reason given is that not enough people would be benefited.

We know of twenty-five families who would have patronized the route regularly and four who would have used it occasionally. When it takes mail leaving Broadus sometimes two weeks to reach Bay Horse via Miles City, Billings, Sheridan, and Gillette, we feel that the route petitioned for to give direct connections is badly needed.

November 18, 1948

Girl suffers Serious Back Injury in Fall

Mabel Littleton, 10 year old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Littleton of Olive, fell from a breaking swing November 2nd seriously injuring her back. She had been swinging before the start of school at the Bidwell school house when the swing broke, throwing her to the ground.

Her father took her to the Miles City hospital where examining physicians said her back had been broken in the fall. Still a patient at the hospital, she is reported as recovering as well and as rapidly as can be expected.

November 16, 1973

November Gardening

When Elliott Barnhart cleaned off his garden for fall plowing just before the hard November freeze he found a large white radish, along with lettuce, tomatoes, and two cucumbers that were hidden under a large cabbage that had escaped the earlier frosts. Mrs. Barnhart made a salad of all except the radish. In September a small crab apple tree bearing for the first time had both large ripe fruit and bunches of blossoms. Violets, marigolds, cosmos and even glads were blooming the first of November.