Local notes and society items from Dillon area
George McKean of the revenue office at Great Falls was in the city on official business last week. Various residents and visitors travel, visit, or receive treatment in Dillon while others attend events and meet in nearby towns. Additionally, hospital and board meeting notes document local affairs and a serious train wreck incident leads to a patient’s amputation.
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George McKean
Revenue
Great Falls
Ivan Ledbetter
Miles City
Octavia W. Graves
Western Montana College of Education
Lester Kurtz
Judith Gail
Butte
Northwest Airlines
Rochester
Minn
Kurtz
Dell Lloyd
Wisdom
Soren P. Larsen
California
Kathleen Mountjoy
San Francisco
Wes Mares
Frank Pavel, Jr
Baltimore
C. Gosta Miller
Pavel
Ben Proctor
Lima
Youth Fair Weekend Highlights With Music Contests
The courant notes the youth fair this weekend features an old time fiddler contest and an orchestra contest open to county residents. A street dance is run by the Dillon fire department with livestock sales and a brisk ticket market. Exhibits cover farm products school work cooking sewing canning shop work crafts under the grandstand with prize awards and a flower show at the fair grounds.
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Dillon Fire Department
Stephan Couple Return From Vacation Trip East
Dr and Mrs W H Stephan have returned from a vacation trip to the eastern states.
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W. H. Stephan
Early Montana Smelters Shaped by Electric Power Use
In Wickes and East Helena Montana, early lead smelters processed ore from the Alta and Comet mines and from Idaho and Canada. The East Helena plant, acquired by American Smelting and Refining in 1899, ships ten ton pigs to Omaha and Perth Amboy for refining while pioneering electric power use for dust suppression cranes and haulage.
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Montana
Wickes
Jefferson County
Alta
Comet
East Helena
American Smelting and Refining Company
Coeur D’alene
Idaho
Points
Canada
Omaha
Nebraska
Perth Amboy
New Jersey
Former Dillon resident Jake Fishburn dies in Zenith
Word comes of the death in Zenith Washington on July 2 of Jake Fishburn longtime Dillon resident He drove a drag business before cars and served as water commissioner He is survived by a daughter Mrs Ben Brown of Seattle two grandchildren and three great grandchildren
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Zenith
Wash
Jake Fishburn
Dillon
Fishburn
Ben Brown
Seattle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virginia City
Fairweather Inn
FORD
Chevrolet
NASH
Dillon Merchants
Beaverhead
Bernice Sargent
Leonard Schul
Joe White
Montana Auto Sales Co
Jackson-Wisdom Road
Traderhorn Mining & Construction Co
County Board of Public Welfare
Norman Giles
Harry Helming
Ted Sivalon
Mary Jensen
Margaret Thompson
Board of Public Welfare
Board of County Commissioners
County Farm
Parket, Scott
The
Examiner Printing Co
P. O
Butte, Mont
State Farm
J.C. Fuller
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CO
Bloomington
Ilinois
Winn’s, Inc
Wales
Germany
Corinne
Utah
Fort Benton
Montana Power Company
Westinghouse —Laundromat
Electric & Variety Shop
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