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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1931
Page
6
Montana white carcass wheat fed turkeys gain about a pound weekly on growing mash. Miss H. E. Cushman extension poultry specialist cites U. S. Range Livestock Experiment Station Miles City trials as key to cost cuts and quality gains.
Seven Montana counties will stage one day picnic schools in August under state home demonstration leadership. Miss Blanche L. Lee notes low-cost delegate plans with lunches to be brought by attendees. Miss Ella Gardner will direct programs including songs games and discussions at Forsyth Sidney Wolf Point Scobey and Brush Lake with Stillwater and Sweet Grass combining for a two day event at Columbus.
Grass Range reports a large wool shipment from the Carmichael-Snyder clip totaling 11 cars. J H Carmichael left for Boston to market the wool, bringing the season to roughly 375000 pounds from Grass Range this month.
Report notes that one eighth of the United States cotton crop is destroyed annually by the boll weevil, impacting farmers and production nationwide.
The Security Building and Loan Association based in Billings Montana is described as a strong financial institution with over 5 million dollars in resources. It has operated since 1819 and serves more than 10 000 members across Montana. Dividends are paid biannually at least six percent per year and withdrawals are promptly handled. The article highlights conservative management and the institution as one of the state’s largest and most outstanding financial bodies.
John P. McGregor born March 17 1859 in Madison Wisconsin pioneer stock moved with his family to Minnesota and Montana. He worked with lumber mills in the Bitter Root Flathead valley and Half Moon region, helped build the Great Northern railway right of way, served as road supervisor and deputy sheriff, financed local schools, and left timber contributions found in Kalispell Columbia Falls and surrounding ranches.
Heavy July rainfall eased fire danger in Helena National Forest and removed travel restrictions as Supervisor L C Hurtt announced. Travel without permit or registration is allowed with no further notice. Camping fires and smoking rules stay, and each vehicle must carry an axe water bucket and shovel to combat small fires.
Everett Batten drives from the state fish hatchery with about 8 000 native six inch trout per trip, delivering to P A McIntosh listed streams. Six trips planted in North fork of Smith river Sheep creek Eagle and Birch creeks and other waters. Bozeman hatchery expects 20 000 fingerlings. Officials say this will be the largest native fish distribution in the valley in years.
C. G. Doherty of the Great Western Sugar company and E. F. Flynn of the Great Northern railway will address the Montana State Press association convention in Havre from August 27 to 29. A committee plans editor transportation for the Fort Belknap Indian agency dedication of a $130,000 hospital on August 30. Mrs. O. B. Koepke directs entertainment for visiting ladies.
With the granting of medical degrees at Manchester University England to a son and a daughter of the late Dr Patrick Sheehan, four brothers and two sisters are now doctors. The family achievement highlights a strong medical vocation across generations.
Sallie Bickford, believed to be the first woman of African blood in Montana, owned and ran the Virginia City Water Company after marrying white businessman M. D. Bickford. Arriving from Tennessee about 1864 as a slave family member, she guided the utility for decades, overseeing its pine pipe system and the Holter fortune's rise.
The article recounts Comanche, Captain Keogh’s horse, as the lone survivor of the Little Big Horn battle. It details the horse’s rescue, transport on the Far West, and recovery at Fort Lincoln. General Sturgis orders special care and ceremonial treatment for Comanche, to be saddled and paraded at mounted regimental functions.
Mira G Bryant longtime Butte Post staffer and oldest Post employee in service, moved to Chicago to live with her son William J Bryant and his wife. She began in her father Henry G Evans's Illinois printshop, joined Typographical union in 1887, later worked at St Louis Post-Dispatch Omaha World-Herald before joining Inter-Mountain in 1901.
English crime experts say prison terms in the United States exceed those for equivalent offenses in Great Britain. The observation highlights diverging penal policies and sentencing norms between the two nations.
Chinese people avoid drinking water, believing it makes them ill. They favor tea, whose leaves are thought to purify water and protect health.
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