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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1930
Page
12
Federal agents raided Bannack Montana the old territorial capital early Friday arresting J. D. Ellis for violation of prohibition laws. Bannack long led prohibition in the region with saloons fading years before 1919 and two Lima soft drink establishments were raided Monday night.
Butte witnesses a crowded Northern Pacific depot as more than a hundred students from State Normal College at Dillon arrive for the long summer vacation.Groups formed early, stampedes followed the train, and college girls with colored dresses and tennis racquets were seen walking home in pairs and small groups. Commencement exercises for the graduating class had been held earlier in the week.
A spirited survey of early talkies notes how studios use phrases like Enclosed find check and explores themes around money youth and morality. It references Betty Ford and George Arliss in relation to Old English and Warner Bros talkies and plays with taglines from Alarm Clock Andy to The Flame of Youth.
The era shifts from hoarding theatre programs to saving theme songs as Richard Barthelmess stars in Dawn Patrol. Al Jolson debuts in Big Boy, signaling a maturing of the infant film industry with talking, singing and broader appeal.
Beav erhead county residents learn of the marriage of A G Williams to Mrs Lillian Parkinson in Brigham City Utah last June. Williams, longtime local figure, led Poindexter Orr Livestock and now shares a home in Dillon with Mrs Williams, formerly of Dubois Idaho.
Billings Montana Aug 19 Preparations for the republican campaign will be made at Helena August 30. State central committeemen congressional state and legislative candidates will answer the call of A H Brown chairman of the state central committee. Voting strength at the meeting includes 56 members of the state committee congressional candidates supreme court justice railroad commissioner 28 or fewer senate aspirants 22 holdover senate members and 102 or fewer house candidates.
In a 15 minute span Mrs. Pearl Gleed formerly of Dillon now West Yellowstone opened the sequence by obtaining a divorce from Donnell Gleed before District Judge Henry G. Rodgers. She then had her Korean maiden Koski name restored and quickly secured a marriage license before Clerk Fred Rife and wed Harry L. Hanson with Justice George Opp officiating.
Ranch hand Thomas Curley Shappard, jailed in Missoula, faces charges after a stolen car linked to his arrest near Dillon. He allegedly took 15 year old Howard Hart on a trip from Darby toward his grandmother’s ranch and then toward the Big Hole country before being captured. Sheriff's offices pursued them across multiple towns.
A parade of Dillon residents and visitors were noted last Saturday and the following week. Mrs. C C Montgomery Mr and Mrs E R Gleed Mr and Mrs H L Hurley Mr and Mrs Henry Thompson Frank Tait Miss Betty Roe Hzra Thompson C EB Blinn and Dorothy Blinn visited in Butte and Dillon. Mrs George Taylor visits Blackfoot. Dan Henneberry plans a two week vacation in Bitter Root valley and Idaho Washington. W J Tope W B Hartwig Maud Wampler and A C Morrow were in Dillon or Butte for business and travel. A forthcoming film features Jack Oakie Skeets Gallagher Kay Francis and David Newell with a cast including William Austin Eugene Pallette and Charles Sellon.
The Duncan sisters headline the Hartwig Theater premiere of It Is a Great Life directed by Sam Wood. The plot follows clerks fired after an organization song leads to a split and eventual reunion with Hogan sisters amid romance with James Dean at the piano. Technicolor scenes enhance the show along with memorable songs by Ballard Macdonald and Dave Dreyer.
The program titled Let's Go Native opens Tuesday at the Hartwig theatre featuring Jeanette MacDonald and James with a stellar cast claimed to be the most imposing Hollywood youth ensemble since Paramount on Parade.
NBC launches September 8 a drama about John C Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont. Jack and Ethyl portray the famed explorers with Kit Carson guiding a perilous Oregon Trail survey toward California and Sutter’s Fort amid the pre gold rush era.
In Great Falls two con artists calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Ed Davis advertised a Ford tri motor air tour linked to the William Wrigley Gum Company. They collected debts totaling about 160 dollars, leaving town in a Graham Paige sedan after promising 1100 to 1200 free flights aboard the plane. They previously used the alias Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller in Havre. A Chicago Wrigley reply denied any connection. Davis, 37, and Mrs. Davis, 30, face flight and fraud implications.
The Simmons sleep study at Mellon Institute and University of Pittsburgh finds noise affects slumber less than expected. Sleepers' reaction depends on personal habits and adaptation rather than universal noise disruption.
A fragment claims many lawsuits start from such accidents and warns that even winning may cost more than the benefit, urging insurance with Hazelbaker.
August survey from the U S department of agriculture indicates total cattle on feed in the 11 corn belt states is about one percent below last year at this date. Eastern states show nearly eight percent fewer cattle on feed, while western states are up about two percent.
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