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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
12
Mail orders received by the store were sent out the same day, ensuring prompt delivery. The note confirms rapid processing and shipment timing for customer purchases.
Notable rancher Jesse Finsley from the Big Hole basin motored to Dillon Monday evening to secure a baying crew. A sequence of visiting and travel notes follows, with residents and guests arriving and departing between Dillon, Missoula, Helena, and surrounding towns.
Numerous visitors arrive from Butte, Georgetown, Dell, Twin Bridges, and Polaris while locals attend to mining, ranching, and legal matters. Stores advertise cracked corn and horse feed at 3.50 per hundred. several Dillon residents travel to nearby towns for business and shopping during the week.
Great Falls Montana July 31 Twenty three million pounds is the estimated total wool crop of Montana for 1918 with prices to producers from 60 to 67 cents per pound. The government directs distribution the growers receive advances 40 to 50 cents and remittances settle the balance. Some sales reach 66 percent.
To Enter Hospital Miss Florence Cirbett and Miss Edith Roche depart Bannack for Butte to train as nurses at the Deaconess hospital. If war continues after graduation they expect overseas service. Also Wilbur G. Gilbert leaves Dillon for Boyne City to bring back his wife and three sons after the birth of a baby boy.
Hans Anderson of this city was among the Madison county contingent sent to Camp Lewis last week as part of the call of young men.
Economists note England’s 1916 rise in small depositor bonds and deposits. In America, $10 billion in Liberty Bonds and $500 million in War Savings Stamps accompany savings bank activity. New York state reports show only an $8 million year decline in deposits but a rise of 21 252 depositors, indicating growing saving habits amid wartime costs.
A string of visiting residents and returning locals headline Dillon life with Mrs J O Newcombe Miss Julia Bray and others spending time in Butte and Dillon. Business and leisure stops include A Potts Jess Hart Max Lauterbach H B Selway Dixon Brown and families from Grant Horse Prairie and Bozeman visiting Dillon and the surrounding ranches and schools.
Polaris notes haying across Grasshopper valley with Sanders Harrison and Judge starting last to miss rain. Hundreds of tons damaged by recent weather. Charles Richman dies after appendicitis operation and is buried in Dillon. Mining firm buys a heavy truck to haul freight from Dillon and Armstead as road conditions allow.
Pro vost Marshal General Crowder urges immediate enactment of a manpower bill to register about 13 million men nationwide. The plan targets ages 18 to 45 with September 5 as potential registration day and outlines exemptions and class one eligibility, detailing estimated registrants by age group and the senate and house committees' schedules.
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Jasper Nelson and his family recently returned from Long Beach California have taken the Schuler residence on Atlantic Street for the winter. The home was formerly owned by Mr. Nelson.
The article notes Europe’s draft horse industry collapse due to war, with Britain and France strained to meet local needs. It predicts rising American exports as Europe seeks surplus stock, especially from the United States, after the conflict ends. Belgian stock has been wiped out, leaving America as the key source for foundation breeding stock.
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