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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
1
Time for petitions ended at five o clock Monday with sixty four candidates for public office and precinct committeemen filing. The list includes Madison Dyer seeking clerk and recorder as a Republican and James Kirkpatrick as Dillon North Central precinct committeeman.
A tramp died yesterday afternoon when he was crushed beneath a baggage car wheel. His name was not known and reports say his head was partially severed.
The Beaverhead Automobile and Good Roads association with county action will erect durable metal road guides on Beaverhead County highways. Theo dore Nelson and Dr. M. A. Walker direct erection with signs at intersections rail crossings curves and grades to aid tourists and motorists.
County Commissioners name precincts, polling locations, and registered voters for the August 29 1916 primary. Dillon Central Brundage Parlor 317 Lakeview Lakeview school 70 Monida Farmer Smiths hotel 62 Lima Lima school 198 Dell Dell school 157 Dillon City Hall 216 Bedrock Armstead school 92 Grant Grant school 70 Brenner Brenner store 35 Barratts Ewing bunk house OD Bannack Bannack school 71 Dillon Guild Hall 402 Dillon High school gym 334 Dillon Metlen Hotel 245 Bishop Theodore Nelson bunk house 69 Argenta Argenta school 47 Birchcreek Hopp bunk house 70 Glendale Glendale school 60 Polaris T L bunk house 59 Jackson Jackson school 135 Wisdom Wisdom school 326 Dewey Kenna building 67 Total Registered unspecified.
Sportsmen predict the best duck season in years as birds are reported abundant in favorite hunting spots. Mentions beds of young ducks on sloughs and ponds, Centennial valley reports, Bedrock lakes swarming with ducks, and lodge keepers preparing for a record season. Dolph Peterson visits Dillon from Butte to see his mother.
Beaverhead County commissioners set the 1916 levy at thirteen mills for Dillon and eighteen mills countywide, unchanged from 1915 and excluding city taxes. Livestock tax drops by half mill, school tax varies by district, Lima gains a 3 mill fire tax, and county valuation totals 8.204 million dollars, up about 0.25 million from last year with the apportionment across state and county funds detailed.
E F Price a Dell sheepman was pinned beneath his Buick Six when it rolled after hitting a deep road rut near Clark canyon. He was freed by Dr W C Orr and Fred Hale, treated at Curtis hospital for a strained back and multiple bruises. B Q Brainard of Lima visited.
Two special trains carried about two thousand picnickers from Butte to Dillon for the annual Sons of St. George picnic. Lodges and families used city spaces and private lawns, with a Montana State band leading a parade down Dillon streets. An afternoon sports program followed a grand lunch.
Wilbur G. Palmer known as Billy Palmer was executed by hanging at Rawlins Wyoming state prison last Friday. He murdered his wife in Casper in January 1916 by slitting her throat then attempted suicide. Palmer, a longtime Dillon resident, was tried in Casper and sentenced to death after two stays were denied.
Dillon wins fourth game by defeating Butte East Side Athletic Club. A special train from Idaho Falls will carry 600 Idaho supporters to Dillon for a Sunday game against the Snake River Valley team. Last week Dillon Independents clinched their fourth straight victory 4 to 3 with key hits by Pease Gosman and Barrett supporting Frank Gosman’s strong pitching.
A Butte group led by Wm. Gemmell James T. Finlen and others visited Dillon last Monday. They dined with George Edinger at the Sugar Bowl and toured Edinger's ranch to view Gemmell's racing colt. The visit included jokes about the colt ending with a gag gift of a tin speedometer cage instead of a gold watch.
Mrs Marie Sorenson, 44, born in Denmark and longtime Beaverhead Valley resident, died at the family home on Kentucky avenue after a lung ailment. Funeral at four this afternoon from the home. Interment Mountain View cemetery. Survived by husband Martin Sorenson eight children two brothers two sisters and other relatives. The Examiner extends condolences.
Frying Pan basin ranchman C. W. Scott reports horses running loose suffer loco weed poisoning. He notes abundant loco weed this year and urges immediate removal of horses and dispatch of riders to round up the animals to save them.
Chancellor Elliott spent yesterday and today in Dillon meeting with Normal College President J. E. Monroe and handling education matters. He addressed the student body Tuesday morning. State Superintendent H. A. Cave also visited last Tuesday. Sheep rancher H. D. Hildreth was in town Friday on business.
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