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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1932
Page
2
A roundup of weekend and weekday social soriety, church, and business activity across Dillon and nearby communities. Families and officials including Mr. and Mrs. Leon Foote, County Commissioner Martin C. Jackson, Jorgen Jorgenson, and others are listed with travels, visits, and events. The news also notes church remodeling talks, teaching assignments, newborns, and wool shipment completion at the First National warehouse.
Two accounts emerge as investigators probe a Bannack robbery where a bandit known as Bobbs forced a Dillon area man to surrender 2100 dollars. Rebich and associates Norton Ward are implicated. Bobbs reportedly vanished in a car. Barley Barnes recalls Rebich losing 300 in a poker game and traces Bobbs owning 1800 and seeking a soft drink parlor. Officers pursue both leads.
There will be no services at the Methodist church on Sunday September 4. The pastor will preside the following Sunday September 10. Read the Dillon Examiner.
Miss Dorothy Gelhaus and Mrs Ira Richards arrived from Alamosa to visit at the Gelhaus home. The theatre will open Friday with Mystery Ranch starring George OBrien. Donald Lemons and Vinnie Stevens were married in Dillon. Hamilton Niblack returned from buying trips to Minneapolis and Chicago. Mrs Edna Emerick fractured wrist and ankle in a depot fall. Probate petition filed for Eudora Weenink will. Hartwig theatre closed until Friday for sidewalk work. Golf tourney rounds continue at Dillon Country Club with Turner trophy funds to winners.
Montana range conditions dipped about four points in July yet cattle and sheep stayed in good shape thanks to strong feed grounds. July rainfall averaged 1.14 inches vs 1.54 normally, with growing-season precipitation at 7.91 inches. Cattle remain 98 percent of normal. sheep at 99 percent, lambs thriving. 1932 wool clip estimated at 30.728 million pounds, fleece weight 9.2 pounds, Montana leading in fleece weight.
A digest of Dillon city items chronicles political moves and local events. It notes the 1892 sheriff nomination interest, Hecla Mining Co. shutdown plans, a streetcar franchise vote, a 1902 Rebekah lodge founding, a drowning tragedy, frost damage, 1912 baseball wins, bank staff changes, debates over women smoking, jail break scare, medical lectures, Elkhorn Springs visits, a new Yost typewriter, primaries, early snow, a Lady Maccabees lodge, Carnegie library work, Labor Day turnout, windmill connections, a Normal college start, and beaverhead fair aviation draw Terah Maroney.
Governor Roosevelt will travel through 21 states with 16 stops in 20 days aboard a special train starting September 12 from Albany. The itinerary includes Topeka Denver Cheyenne Salt Lake City Butte Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Williams Albuquerque Sioux City Milwaukee Chicago Detroit and Buffalo ending October 3.
Mary Ann Funk daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Funk Sheridan pioneer residents married Spokane on Thursday August 18 to Clark Franklin Leh of Trident. Bride taught at Three Forks schools since 1926 graduation from Montana State Normal. They plan to reside in Trident.
The Examiner serves Beaverhead County with countywide interest, reporting on community events, local officials, and matters affecting residents throughout the region.
National Park Service reports 118 272 visitors to Yellowstone up to August 16 this year, down from 168 905 in the same period of 1931. The travel decline totals 50 633. Peak travel day was July 3 with 4 071 visitors, compared to July 4 1931. Rail travel fell to 5 309 from 13 388 year to date.
LA observes fundamental reductions in production for lambs wool wheat cotton and hogs lifting price pressure. 1932 lamb crop expected 8 percent smaller than 1931. sheepmen selling ewe lambs to raise cash threaten replacement of old ewes. Grain farmers hold back with California barley marketing less and grain areries full awaiting better prices.
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