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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1938
Page
7
The Sumps drive away from Mike Brent's camp after a tense encounter over blankets and a gun. Mrs. Sump remains calm and persuasive, while Brent regains his dignity and escorts the Sumps toward the river to continue prospecting and depart with the blankets.
Mike Brent and Mr Sump trek to the river with mining gear then descend into the diggings. Brent pushes Sump to work under harsh heat and dust as they confront rattlers, boulders, and a brutal climb. They discover two dead men along the trail and push toward sluicing their gravel for gold.
Estimates place US domestic cat population near 120 million with about 80 million stray animals. Canadian farmers account for roughly 50 million dollars in annual poultry and egg sales, indicating sizable agricultural trade.
A. J. Barton announces Montana’s wheat acreage allotment under the 1939 farm conservation program at 3,414,642 acres. Farmers seeded 4,918,000 acres to wheat this year. County committees will assign individual farm allotments from the received county figures.
Miss Anna McDonald, the last woman city mail carrier in the United States, ends an 11 mile route after two decades of rain or shine service. She started as a letter carrier in September 1918 during World War I shortages and reportedly logged about 66 600 miles with 2 690 112 stops and 283 tons carried. Postal officials say a national record for women was set, but regulations now bar women from city mail routes, so she moved to a clerical post in the Anaconda post office.
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