Beaverhead 4-H Youths Win Awards at County Fair
Beaverhead 4-H youths earned sales prizes at a calf auction with 86 calves averaging 915 pounds selling for about 10 3 4 cents per pound. Mary Liggett and Anna Christensen placed in Midland Empire Fair wool ensembles and Mary Liggett led a Dillon 4-H style revue entry. Robert H Melton enlisted in the U S Navy and trains in San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolf-Langman Commission Company of
Great Falls
Mary Liggett
Dillon Girls
Beaverhead County
Billings
Anna Christensen
Bill Jennings Returns Home After Absence
Holbert named cashier at First National Bank of Twin Bridges with Miss M. Sanders as assistant cashier. C. M. Holbert praised for county assessors work and ties to Dillon. Jennings had been cashier for six years before being replaced. Bank and Bank of Sheridan are Madison county’s two institutes. June 30 figures show deposits of 319809.93 and loans of 175309.26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holbert
First National Bank of Twin Bridges
C. M. Holbert
M. Sanders
Madison County
Jennings
Twin Bridges Bank
Dillon
Bank of Sheridan
Madison County Forum
Miss Alice Fox Heads to Pipestone Springs Vacation
Miss Alice Fox departed Monday for a vacation to Pipestone Springs and Roundup, planning leisure and sightseeing during the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Fox
Pipestone Springs
Couple from Idaho Visiting Relatives in City
Mr and Mrs Walter Schmit of Couer d Alene Idaho formerly of Dillon are visiting relatives in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Schmittroth
Couer d’ Alene, Idaho
Dillon
City
Former Dillon Resident Killed in Butte Accident
Francis E. Linton, 23, once of Dillon, died Thursday in Butte when a high powered rifle he was cleaning discharged, a bullet striking him in the head. He had planned to hunt this fall. his wife found him dead in their kitchen after she left briefly. Born in Dillon, he had lived in Butte for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis E. Linton
Dillon
Linton
Butte
Changes in Forest Service Personnel and Transfers
The article details the transfer of Flock and changes in the Deer Lodge Butte region. Wilfred W. White remains regional training officer after a 1930 start, while Fleck moves to a new assignment following selection from a national list. Transitions affect Absaroka and Bitterroot forests with vacancies in the regional training officer post at Dillon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Lodge
Butte
Helena
Wilfred W. White
Forest Service
Bitterroot
Hellgate National
Missoula
Division of Operation
Fleck
United States
Flock
Division of
Absaroka Forest
Livingston
Dillon
Thirty Nine Students On College Honor Roll for Summer
The list names 39 students from Montana towns such as Butte, Dillon, Livingston, and Great Falls cited for full term academic honors. A second group lists students who completed only six weeks with GPAs above two per credit, including Ruth Koenitz Grass Range and Gertrude VanderArk Manhattan among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bynum
Sylvia I. Warren
Lewistown
Bess V. Stone
Butte
Thelma LaVern Baird
Wibaux
Elizabeth Collins
Dorothy E. Johnson
Livingston
Gwendolyn Mitchell
Dorothy Lauber
Blythe Schenefelt
Eureka
Edith L. Frost
Florence McBain
Dillon
Earl O. Watts
Boulder
Lillah A. Harrington
Alma Johansen
Dagmar
Carl Jacobsen
Kalispell
Isabel Taylor
Fortuna
N. D
Elmer Tuomi
Sand Coulee
Norman DeBoer
Manhattan
Kathleen Ashburner
Mandan
Dora M. Irwin
Mabel V. O'Leary
Don Rex Roberts
Roundup
Rachel L. Smith
Dilion
Paul L. Walker
Great Falls
Elsie M. Bakewell
Culbertson
Mary Funk Leh
Townsend
Katherine D. Mitchell
Stanford
Harriet Jane Pratt
Margaret Gee
Belgrade
Norma Coon
Billie Baxter
Vernon LaValley
Collins
Opal M. Mountjoy
St. Ignatius
Agnes Mary Cassidy
Gertrude Signe Overby
Plentywood
Virginia Watts
Evelyn Gibford
Hamilton
Ruth I. Koenitz
Grass Range
Gertrude Rogers
Georgia Mae Metlen
Emma C. Feeley
Norman B. VanderArk
Amy M. Stephens
Wisdom
Mary Frances O’leary
Agnes K. Olson
Gertrude VanderArk
Agnes O. Benson
Outlook
Mildred E
Miss Brunell May Leaves for Great Falls Visit
Miss Brunell May who has been visiting at the home of her aunt Mrs Joe Lynch this summer left for Great Falls Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunell May
Joe Lynch
Great Falls
Dillon People Make Weekend Trips and Marital News
The column lists numerous Dillon residents and visitors. It notes weddings and licenses, far flung travels to Seattle Idaho Falls and Denver, and visits from Salt Lake City Glasgow Riverside and Missoula as well as wedding at Wisdom and a family reunion in Iola Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Romersa
Idaho Falls
Mary Jane Paul
Butte
Mary Paul
Marcus Hilden
Glasgow
Hilden
Carl Taylor
Mildred
Albert Erickson
Pacific Coast
A. J. Wedum
Long Beach
Calif
Dillon
Joe Wedum
Dan Tovey
Myla
Wisdom
J. J. Smith
New York
Jean Bishop
Katherine C. Orr
Bishop
James O. Melton
Riverside
Orin
Otto Sassman
Minnie Sassman
Seattle
Mina Perkins
J. W. Walters
Mark
Frank Bassett
Myla Tovey
Charles R. Lee
Homer Faust
C. H. Peterson
Mary Alice
Jeanne
Bozeman
Denver
Colorado
C. E. Trolinger
Donna
Salt Lake City
S. E. Davis
George M. Gosman
State Board of Education
Helena
Dan Henneberry
Janet
Sheridan
Irene Ericson
Great Falls
C. R. Denson
Billy
Minoak
C. E. Medsker
J. J. Brown
Russell
F. Daly
Missoula
Iola
Kansas
Noel Jackson
Jackson
Bertha Battle
George
Alder
Bert Orr
William Dunn
Bumper Crop Seeds Growth Hope for State Ranch Lands
Ralph D. Mercer, extension agronomist, notes a bumper crop of crested wheatgrass seed this year. He believes it makes it possible to start an acreage program on every ranch and farm in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph D. Mercer
Extension Agronomist
Westmont Tractor Gets County Road Machinery Order
County commissioners opened bids by 10:00 o clock for a road machine and, after evaluating all offers, found Westmont Tractor and Equipment Company of Missoula Montana to present the lowest and best bid at 9529 77 and granted the order with a 2 percent cash discount. Attest: meeting adjourned August 18 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Implement Co
Dillon
Montana
J. D. Adams Co
Indianapolis
Indiana
Mountain Tractor and Equipment Company
Missoula
Westmont Tractor and Equipment Company
Westmont ‘Tractor and ‘Equipment Company
Dillon Woman at Missouri Resort
Mrs. B. W. Emerick of Dillon is in Excelsior Springs at the McCleary sanitarium. She reports she is doing well and enjoying her visit. She missed the Eastern Star meeting due to the chapter's summer inactivity but participates in other programs and entertainments. She has toured the Hall of Waters, a newly completed $800000 facility in Excelsior Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Resort
B. W. Emerick
Dillon
Excelsior Springs
McCleary Sanitarium
Eastern Star Meeting
Emerick
June Farm Receipts Drop 25 Percent in West
Receipts from principal farm products fell 25 percent in June this year compared with June last year across western states. The drop highlights a weaker market for farm outputs and implications for regional agriculture.
Party Committees Organize For Campaign In County
Republican meetings in the court room at the courthouse named a resolutions committee of J E Kelly J L Mayland and Joe Metlen. They re elected Chairman Ditty, named Bert Megquier as vice chairman T Lee McCracken as treasurer and Frank A Hazelbaker as state committeeman with Mrs T E Luebben as state committee woman. Paul Stahl Sr presided in Ditty’s absence with William Backus as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Hartwig
F. M. Poindexter
James Doyle
Joe Metlen
Edgar B. Rife
Jim Campbell
Joe Fuller
Bertie Mathews
Norman Giles
J. L. Mayland
Margaret Sweeney
Irving Orr
A. J. Fitzsimmons
J. E. Kelly
Blinn
Ditty
Bert Megquier
T. Lee McCracken
Frank A. Hazelbaker
T. E. Luebben
Central Committee
Paul Stahl, Sr
William Backus
Court House
Tom Dubois Named Wheat Crop Supervisor
Tom Dubois is named wheat crop supervisor. Harvest in 1939 noted with reference to Agricultural Conservation program compliance. Farmers may contact the County Agricultural Conservation committee for more information. Final date for receiving applications to plant winter wheat is August 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Dubois
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Southerners Visit Noted Potato Farm by Stockton Growers
Southern visitors tour a famous potato farm last week. Roscoe Zuckerman and Covalle Higley, noted potato growers from Stockton California, were also seen visiting the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Zuckerman
Covalle and Higley
Stockton
Calif
Montana highway project bids and completion dates
A Montana public works notice lists grading and surfacing costs for the Dillon Butte highway and related roads. It includes grades for the Browning Glacier Park cutoff, Wolf Creek Cascade material supply, and Mossmain Yellow stone material, with completion targets ranging from October 1938 to August 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning-Glacier Park Station
Glacier County
Glacier Park
State Highway Commission
Wolf Creek
Cascade
Lewis and Clark
Mossmain
Yellostone
Billings-Pompeys Pillar
Browning and
Butte-Dillon
High School Opens Term Sept 6 With New English Dramatic Teacher
Miss Betty Ann Polleys, a State University of Montana graduate, joins the staff to replace Miss Violet M. Eastman who resigned for a Helena post. Polleys, taught the past two years at Ismay and will handle English and dramatics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Ann Polleys
State University At
Missoula
Violet M. Eastman
Helena
Risley and Flinn Tour Yellowstone Park
Mrs. B. A. Risley and sister Mrs. R. S. Flinn of Phoenix Arizona visited Yellowstone Park during the past week and toured the famed natural wonder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. A. Risley
R. S. Flinn
Phoenix, Ariz
Yellowstone Park
Horticulture Chief Harrington Tops Montana College Visit
F. M. Harrington, head of the horticulture department at Montana State College, spent last Thursday at the farm and is expected to join tomorrow when the Union Pacific excursion stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Harrington
Montana State College
Union Pacific
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Chevrolet
O. K
Wit
Montana Auto Supply Co
Beaverhead Club
Robert H. Melton
George Melton
U. S. Navy
San Diego
Bill Jennings
MR. Boggs
Stuart Erwin
Helen Chandler
Toby Wing
Saturday Evening Post
Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy
Loretta Young
Joel McCrea
Marjorie Weaver
Arleen Whelan
Don Ameche
Ellis Island
Lyston Dansie
Martin
Dark Horse
Big Hole River
G. H. Jensen
Vera Bingham
Beverly
Betty
George Stimpson
Judson Best and Sons
Wallace and Judson, Jr
Marjorie Wetmore
William Hardy
Ira Judd
Rupert
Idaho
Louis Stahl
C. A. Gleason
Elmer Pond
Jack Smith
Joan
Melrose
Isabel Watson
Valera Fairbanks
Billie Ann Rife
Medicine Lodge Ranch
Centennial Valley
Anna Franick
Rose and
Mary
Florence Baker
Anna Mrabvitz
Pittsburg
Joe Gelhaus
Mrs. Pettibone Butts
Mrs. Pettibone
Gur Sli Desbe
Dillon-Butte
First National Bank
The
Northwen Bancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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