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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1931
Page
3
A 32 man crew carves a 406 foot tunnel east of Logan Pass on the Glacier park Transmountain highway. The bore measures 26 feet wide and 9 feet 9 inches high, allowing two cars to pass, with winter work planned to push completion by spring.
Montana pioneer matriarch Emma Ennis, age 96, known as Grandma Ennis, attends the Madison valley pioneers convention in Butte and is a central figure at Rotary Club lunch old-timers society events and the temple ballroom banquet. She survived a 19th century frontier life, raised a family solo, and remains independent despite aging locals noting her resilience.
At Mardin county fairgrounds the Crow tribe hosted attorney Charles J. Kappler of Washington DC for a two day event August 17 and 18. The program featured horse racing broncho riding relay races ceremonial dances and a big feast with barbecued beef. Kappler, famed for recovering funds for tribes, helps compile Indian laws and treaties. The tribe, along with other Crow attorneys, is suing the US government over about 32 million dollars in land compensation and alleged misappropriation of tribal funds. A pow wow at the airfield showcased War dance owl step scalp dance medicine pipe and victory dances. Visitors could join in the owl step. Joe Henmann supplied outlaw horses for bucking events.
Fergus county commissioners meet with Fergus County Taxpayers association and Farmers union committees to review the preliminary county budget. While an appor tionment study was completed, recommendations were postponed. The log includes notes about Nov 7 and Nov 9 activities and personal details about Koch and early settler independence themes.
Cars carrying nearly twenty Havre businessmen left for Waterton Lakes last Sunday to attend the Sunshine Trail association annual meeting at the Prince of Wales hotel on August 9 and 10. The Havre group met Alberta and Montana highway officials to push the Old Forts Trail from Great Falls through Fort Benton and Havre to Medicine Hat. Members included Judge C. B. Elwell, Frank Cowen, A. J. Breitenstein, R. J. Moore, George Bowery, E. C. Carruth, R. C. Timmons, O. R. Rubie, and others.
Supervisor L. C. Hurtt reports July fire suppression costs at 8698 dollars and 13 982 dollars for January through July. Most July fires were under 25 acres and caused mainly by man, with McDonald Pass June blaze the year’s costliest. Costs per day per man ranged 6 to 10 dollars, aided by vigilant forest officials and rapid crew deployment.
Bozeman resident Mrs. J A Bartholomew 53 wife of a noted building contractor died after months of heart trouble. Born in Riverton Nebraska she came to Bozeman thirty years ago.
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