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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1917
Page
7
Mrs Matilda Hickman aged eighty eight died in this city last Thursday morning from a general breaking down from old age. The remains were shipped to Salmon City Idaho for funeral and interment. Mrs Barney Peterson of this city is a daughter of the deceased.
John Kennedy from Portland arrived Monday to receive three hundred head of beef steers contracted from W. S. Tash of Grasshopper. The cattle, shipped to Kansas City by Union Meat, were later sold through Duff Brothers and Frank Rife of Dillon to the Union Meat company. Kennedy praised the lot as the finest ever to leave Bedrock yards, averaging about 1385 pounds each and described as sleek and prime.
The narrator praises Mr. Tash’s ranch as modern and well equipped with a prestigious home, sanitary barns, clean corrals, and orderly buildings. He notes it resembles a well regulated small city and suggests high school agriculture students visit to learn how a real ranch is kept.
Montana's State Board of Health urges physicians to report spotted fever cases immediately and to notify the secretary Dr. Cogswell at first doubt. With ticks soon active after heavy winter, experts may be dispatched to examine doubtful cases while the season runs toward mid July.
A public health effort aims to cut tick bite cases this year. Dr Fricks from Washington leads outreach to county commissioners in tick infested regions urging intensified gopher poisoning to curb tick hosts. Summer lab work seeks a serum to neutralize the bite’s poison.
Lambing has begun at several Beaverhead County ranches and, despite cold weather, reports indicate a successful season. Early lamb producers prepared with warm sheds to reduce losses, and most lambs are already contracted at high prices for 1917.
A man described as Jack Campella was brought in from Feeley yesterday morning by passenger train. He was taken to the county poor farm for treatment after being found along the railroad tracks near Feeley. He sustained serious cuts and bruises to his back head arms and legs, injuries believed to be from a train.
Miss Innes a Dillon school graduate and critic teacher under directors Bagley Robins Finch at the Normal college now in charge. She trained at Teachers' College Columbia University School of Education Chicago University and University of California and is noted for strong primary work and calm genial teaching style. Card of Thanks. We thank friends for help after the death of our mother Mrs Amanda Stover. Mr and Mrs P J Sullivan Grant Stover. 34tl
The March issue of the Inter Mountain Educator from Missoula features a sketch on Miss Mary L. Innes, critic teacher in the Montana Normal College training school's primary department. It notes her long service overseeing the beginners' grade and her previous role as a Dillon public school primary educator.
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