Livestock Transport Committee to Be Chosen in Bozeman
An Area Livestock Industry Transportation committee will be elected at a Monday evening meeting in the Montana Power building Bozeman. Producers truckers dealers and processors from Gallatin Park Madison Beaverhead Jefferson Broadwater and Meagher counties are invited to attend and elect representatives to advise the Office of Defense Transportation on moving livestock by motor trucks in the region.
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Bozeman
Montana Power Building
Fred A. Noble
Office of Defense Transportation
O.D.T
Gallatin
Park
Madison
Beaverhhead
Jefferson
Broadwater
Meagher
Miss Ottilie Brauer Granted One Year Leave
Normal College training school instructor Miss Ottilie Brauer received a year's leave of absence to help her brother operate the home farm in Steinauer Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottilie Brauer
Steinauer
Neb
Service Men Honor Roll Update From Dillon Readers
Local citizens list service members with new addresses and assignments. Names include S/Sgt John Schonenberger Jr, Cpl Heber C Mecham, Pvt Joseph Michelish, Sgt L A Meeds, Pfc John W Denny, Don J Smith, T/Sgt Joe Carroll, Pvt Matt Orr, T/4 Oliver W Winters, and Sgt W H Gilbert. Also notes Dan Bergeson’s commission and other veterans’ visits home and training milestones.
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Heber C. Mecham
Sta. 16
Nawatc
Grenier Field
New Hampshire
Joseph Michelish
Station Hospital
Ft. George G. Meade
L. A. Meeds
Wendover Field
Wendover
Utah
John W. Denny
2Nd Casual Co
MCB
San Diego
Calif
Fire Chief Speaks on Aeronautics at Dillon Club Dinner
Fire Chief addresses Dillon club on aeronautics stressing the value of local airports for small communities. He notes feeder air routes linking smaller ports to major stations and praises Dillon's atmospheric and topographic conditions. Ralph Eudaily, ex-Dillon resident and Philipsburg school principal, outlines Rotary work. T. Lee McCracken chaired. William Lloyd attended.
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Dillon
Ralph Eudaily
Philipsburg
Wisdom Social Notes Include Local Visits and Accidents
AWisdom column lists many local engagements from Darby Dillon and Butte including Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Wenger visiting family, Sheriff John Troupe in Wisdom, and Gail Huntley visiting. Sam McDowell’s horse accident led to hospital care in Butte. Multiple trips to Dillon and Butte for medical and familial reasons are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Wenger
Darby
Jules Wenger
D. J. Stephens
David and
Raymond
Raymond Johnson
Maryellen
Dillon
Warren Shaw
Ralph Huntley
Leo Walsh
Butte
George Cottrell
Walsh
Sheila Gay
Big Hole
Gail
Sam McDowell
St. James Hospital
W. L. Knudsen
Don Francis
Della Rasmussen
Bremerton
Wash
Norman Vaughn
Norma Jean
Opportunity
Jack Anderson
Fred Anderson
Charles Lovell
Merle Stone
Andrew Arvish
Edna Vaughn
Train Service Donations Reach 116.33 Citywide
Mrs. F. A. Hazlebaker president of AWVS and sponsor of Dillons community train service reports donations totaling 116.33 gathered in jars at local business houses and from contributions. Moose bar led with 12.07, Eagle 11.45, Crystal 6.26 in the month.
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F. A. Hazelbaker
AWVS
Dillon
Dillon Man Drowns in Blacktail Funeral
An aged Dillon man who came to Dillon to make his home drowned in Blacktail. He is survived by his niece Anna MacGregor of Detroit. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon and interment was in Mountain View cemetery.
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Dillon
Anna MacGregor
Detroit
Mountain View Cemetery
Cole Brothers Circus to Show Here With War Bond Seats
A Cole Brothers circus representative announced in Dillon that one full section of reserved seats will be donated to purchasers of war bonds from $25 to $1000. Tickets remain $2.05 with no extra charge beyond the 34 cent federal amusement tax. The seats are distributed via Eliel's store, aiding the war effort which gains about $700 daily in value and supports large bond sales.
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Dillon
War Finance Committee
U.S. Treasury Department
Cole Brothers
Eliel
W. W. Hawkins
Cole Brothers Circus
Uncle Sam
Mrs Hracker Leaves for Minnesota Amid Family Illness
Normal Notes reports Mrs Ruth Hracker, summer music instructor, has departed for Minnesota due to her mother's serious illness. She left Sunday and plans to return by plane late this week. Miss Ruth Shumway, home economics instructor at Normal College in 1936, visits campus this week and is a teacher at Tacoma high school.
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Ruth Hracker
Minnesota
Ruth Shumway
the Normal College
Mrs Herman H Bramsman Claimed and Remembered in Obituary
Mrs Herman H Bramsman is named in a family obituary. She married Herman Bramsman May 10 1892 in Council Bluffs Iowa and lived in Iowa South Dakota and Dillon before settling in this city. She was active at St Rose church and guild. Surviving are her husband a daughter and son in law three sons and two daughters in law a sister and a brother four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Bramsman
Council Bluffs
Iowa
South Dakota
Dillon
St. Rose Church
St. Rose Guild
Fred Simons
Puyallup
Wash
Anthony Bramsman
U.S. Navy
F. H. Bramsman
San Jose
Calif
Paul B. Bramsman
Great Falls
Pauline Schwartz
Jake Schwartz
West Point
Dillon annual rodeo to get top performers
Prize money is 100 dollars. Manager Lay has offered the cup he won last year in amateur calf roping or will award a new cup if he can obtain one. The event was one of the most popular on last year's program. Posters and placards advertising the show are being distributed throughout the state.
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Lay
Beaverhead Candidates File Expense Reports
Sugar Jr. paid 50.75 dollars, Martin C. Jackson 38.00, John Prohosky 7.25. L C Ford, Louis Stahl, Harry Helming, L. Peterson, and George E. Baker show no expenses. Helming and Baker were write-in candidates who qualified, Helming as a Democratic commissioner candidate from the Big Hole district and Baker as a Republican justice of the peace candidate in Dillon township.
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Beaverhead
Sugar, Jr
Martin C. Jackson
John Prohosky
L. C. Ford
Louis Stahl
Harry Helming
L. Peterson
George E. Baker
Big Hole
Justice of the Peace of
Dillon Township
Five New Teachers at Grade School
The district hires Violet Harvick Luella Lundberg Frances Dorr and Mary Emmett to teach first fourth sixth and junior high English. Harvick has nine years experience most recently in Bozeman. Lundberg taught Kalispell and earlier work in Minnesota Kansas. Dorr comes from the State Normal College with six years in Malta Bozeman. Emmett from Reinbeck Iowa, Cornell College graduate, will lead junior high English.
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Wilbur Squires
Violet Harvick
Normal College
Bozeman
Miss Harvick
Luella M. Lundberg
Jarussi
Minnesota
Kansas
Kalispell
Miss Lundberg
Taylors Falls
Minn
Moore
Red Lodge
Frances Dorr
State Normal College
Dillon
Malta
Mary E. Emmett
Reinbeck
Iowa
Cornell College
S. J. McLaughlin
Montana State University
Soldier Dale Selvidge Killed in Action in Normandy
Sgt Dale Selvidge, brother of John W Selvidge former proprietor of Dillon Furniture, was killed in action on the Normandy front. He served as a tank driver and had worked at his brother’s store in Dillon, where he was well known. John Selvidge is serving in the Navy.
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Dale Selvidge
John W. Selvidge
Dillon Furniture
Normandy
Selvidge
Dillon
John Selvidge
Navy
Golden Wedding Celebrated at Elkhorn
The Funk family marked a golden wedding at Elkhorn with seven children in attendance. Present were Willis and wife and children from Sheridan, Myron and wife and sons from Spokane, W J Romers and sons from Dillon, Dan E Henneberry and daughter Janet from Dillon, and Harold Funk with baby Jimmy at the home place. Absent were Mary A Leh of Helena, Robert Funk Supt of Schools at Oilmont, the eldest grandson Robert James Funk in the navy, and Dan E Henneberry’s wife who is in the armed forces.
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Willis Funk
Kenneth and
Theresa
Sheridan
Myron C. Yeager
Walter and
Lowell
Spokane
W. J. Romers
Dean
Robert
Dan E. Henneberry
Janet
Dillon
Harold Funk
Jimmy
Mary A. Leh
Helena
Mayo’s Hospital
Robert Funk
Oilmont
Mont
Robert James Funk
United States Navy
Armed Forces
Angus McKay Found Dead Last Friday
Angus McKay was found dead last Friday at the page chapel with Rev. Father F. X. Lechner officiating. Interment followed at Mountain View cemetery with pallbearers Tom Pierce Herman Peter son Alex Christie William Mc Mannis Hubert Flynn and James i Prohosky.
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Page
F. X. Lechner
Mountain View Cemetery
Tom Pierce
Herman Peterson
Alex Christie
William McMannis
Hubert Flynn
James i Prohosky
Scrap paper drive gains near full carload
Milton Bourassa drove as the Legion extended the collection drive through the week. Legionnaires will load paper and rags from the Irvine and Cottom warehouse next Sunday. A Polaris truck delivered paper, Lima contributed five tons, with more county communities expected to contribute before week’s end.
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Milton Bourassa
Legion
Legionnaires
Irvine & Cottom
Polaris
Lima
the Couny
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P. J. Lovellco
PROAD
Wata
John Schonenberger, Jr
West 2Nd St
Chico, Calif
Don J. Smith
L. H. Smith
U.S. Naval Reserve
Abbott Hall
Northwestern University
Joe Carroll
Bill Carroll
Big Hole Basin
Ardmore
Okla
222Nd Combat Unit
The
Air Service
Pvt
Matt Orr
U.S. Marines
John T. Orr
California
Oliver W. Winters
Ashland
Montana
Melvin Wilbur
1537 Ordnance Group
Fifth Air Force
New Guinea
Manila
Australia
Phillippines
Santa Monica
W. H.gilbert
England
Emma Gilbert
Atlantic
V-mail
John G. Rebish, Jr
Ord. Dept
Torpedo Shop
USNAS
Alameda, Calif
Pfc
Wesley W. Mosely
Alaska
Cpl. Cylde Mecham
F. R. McDowell
Wisdom
Melvin
Citizens Committee Fund
Ed Roe
John Mountjoy
Tom Mihlberger
Marfa Field
Texas
Joseph M. Bergeson
O. A. Bergeson
Air Corps
Republic Steel
J. A. Johnson
Steve
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industrits, Int
Cole Bros. Circus
Montana Power Company
Sgt Dale Selvidge
Elkhorn
Angus McKay
American Medical Association
Council On Physical Therapy
Zante
J. J. Kelley
Butte, Mont
Dillon Feed & Seed Co
First National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance’ Corporation
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