State Livestock Prizes Expanded at Montana Fair
The 1929 Montana state fair introduces new prizes across livestock divisions. Along with cash, silver tableware and a water pitcher headline awards in livestock poultry and sheep and swine, plus stream er rosettes and special prizes from Helena merchants. Firms distribute cash prizes, sacks of staples, and assorted merchandise including cigars and desk items.
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Montana
Tri’ i Tethea
Individ
Uals
Helena
Hay Harvest Return From Big Hole for Chamberlin Family
Nat Chamberlin came home from the Big Hole country with his two eldest sons working in Hirshy and Walcley hay fields near Jackson. Their holdings total 10 000 acres, with 2 acres in hay. About 1.8 acres are put up yearly by a crew of 19, two tractors and two trailers. Chamberlin operated one tractor. A seven foot mowing machine attaches to the tractor and another seven foot machine follows the trailer, creating a 14 foot swath as the engine travels a six mile loop.
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Nat Chamberlin
Big Hole
Bee
Hirshy & Walcley
Jackson
Inaugurate Butte Dillon Plane Route Planned
Keith Seidenssticker, son of a Twin Bridges hardware merchant, is in town to organize a corporation to run a daily air route between Butte and Dillon via Whitehall and Twin Bridges. He holds 63 hours dual and 73 hours solo flight time and aims to establish a Whitehall landing field with auto pickup for passengers.
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Keith Seidenssticker
Twin Bridges
Butte
Dillon
Whitehall
Twin Bridges High School
Butte Training School
Opie Family Visited Dillon Along Anaconda Visit
Mrs Opie and two children travel from Anaconda to Dillon as visitors, spending time in the town and sampling local sights and activities.
Pretty luncheon honors Mrs Roy Lekander visiting from Chicago
Mrs Roy Lekander visiting from Chicago was honored with a luncheon at Mrs Thomas Gilbert’s home on South Pacific street. The event featured garden flowers, an auction bridge game with six tables, and high score by Miss Carolyn White.
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Thomas FE. Gilbert
Roy Lekander
Chicago
Gilbert
South Pacific Street
Carolyn White
Louis Pelzer
Des Moines
Iowa
W. F. Cashmore
East Glendale Street
Lewis Howard
Lorenzo Cushing
Bozeman
Cashmore
West Side Pinochle Party Honors Mrs Orr
Mrs Bert Orr inspired a delightful gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs William E Barry on Saturday night. Four tables played progressive pinochle before a late supper. Mrs Orr and her children Bert Jr and Edith left Sunday for Glendale California to spend autumn and winter months.
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Bert Orr
William E. Barry
Dinner honors Nor mal college students before homeward departure
Melvyn Smith hosted a Thursday noon dinner at his parents home for a group of Normal College students who were leaving the city that afternoon for their home towns. The guest list included D Taft Alfred Taft Joseph Dixon O Dixon Arthur Doleen and J B West with floral decorations of calendulas sweet peas and gypsophilia.
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Melvyn Smith
Normal College
D. L. Smith
D. Taft
Alfred Taft
Joseph Dixon
O., Dixon
Arthur Doleen
J. B. West
Montana and Ohio visits span family lines across states
Mrs George Wolfe and Ruth spent the weekend at the lower Big Hole with Mrs Essie Garrison. Martha Featherly visits from Wenatchee to her parents Mr and Mrs George Featherly. Emma Gilbert and Montana Gilbert return from McConnellesville Ohio where they toured and were entertained. Mrs Gilbert enjoyed reuniting with a sister in twenty two years and noted mutual interest between Montana and Ohio residents.
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George Wolfe
Ruth
Big Hole
Essie Garrison
Martha Featherly
Wenatchee
Wash
George R. Featherly
Emma Gilbert
Montana Gilbert
McConnellesville
Onhrio
Normal College Undergoing Major Vacation Repairs
Significant renovations are underway at the Normal college during vacation. Residence hall kitchens receive plumbing overhauls and a concrete floor replaces the old wooden surface, the 1921 equipment upgrade area. The dramatics laboratory gets cabinets and storage stalls, and a new corridor office is added between the auditorium and the old library.
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Normal College
Lbrary
John Brundage Returns Home to Centennial Valley
John Brundage has returned to his home in the Centennial valley after spending several days in Dill on.
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John Brundage
Centennial Valley
Dillon
Montana counties pay state more than they receive
Montana counties contributed 2,346,296 to state funds in the year ended June 30, 1930, covering general taxes and other items. In return the state distributed 3,494,539 from motor vehicle licenses, school funds, oil licenses and other earnings, leaving a net balance of 1,148,244 in favor of the state.
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Veterans’ Memorial Fund
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J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney CO
Dillon, Montana
State Air
Butte-Dillon
Mrs. Roy
Lekander
Mrs. Cashmore
Ralph Cushing
Great Falls
James Arro
L Lbrarian
the Normal College
Livingston
Leona Hollingsworth
Martha Wilson
Fred Chapman
Roy Jardine
California
L. C. Shepherd
Spokane
W. C. Orr
Kathryn Orr
New York City
Salt Lake City
Peter M. Hacking
Santa Cruz
Cal
John F. Bishop
Bishop
Mildred Thompson
Jean Bishop
Elizabeth Hopking
Barbara Tower
Mrs
Smith Home
Anderson Meat Market
Duncan
Dancing Sweeties
Grant Withers
Sue Carol
Richard DIX
Jack Oakie
Jeanette M Donald , Garamant Pichu
Skeets Gallagher
Kay Francis
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