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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
5
Dr H H Scarough will make his regular pre eye visit to Dillon at Andrus hotel Thursday December 9. Those needing eye glasses or eye care should keep the date in mind. Mrs Numbers and Miss Josephine Numbers spent the weekend in Butte.
Billings Nov 24 The Montana State Teachers association approves forming local councils of public school instructors that may affiliate with national groups and plans to reconstitute the state body governed by delegates from locals. Officers elected include S R Logan first vice president and Miss May Trudmoer second vice president. The group backs constitutional changes to reduce political influence on county superintendents, seeks Fees and Smith Towner bill support, urges school holidays rule tweaks, and outlines new pay scales and illiteracy funding proposals.
Thirteen valley ranchers led by Jorgen Jorgenson and others plan a Kansas City shipment as local prices lag. Their move tests risk and economy, with outside commission men eager to buy and hopes rising for cooperative, lump-sum purchases to cut fall buying costs.
The Sheridan Forum reports varied hay prices across the region. Ranchers hold for about 15 dollars a stack, with some sales confirming that level. others show prices from 5.50 to 17.50 per ton or more in different markets.
Boston reports a wave of newspaper mortality driven by rising newsprint costs. The News Bureau notes profits vanished as prices rose, forcing papers to near wholesale prices and some to close. Figures show suspensions and losses across 1917–1919, while many papers rely on spot pricing and middlemen for supplies. The piece closes with a local note on Potter, Carbon County resident and former sheriff.
Sylvia Breamer and Robert Gordon star in a Blackton Pathe release of Eleanor Porter's Dawn. Keith Burton, blinded artist, finds purpose through Miss Stewart and Dorothy Pinkham, learning blindness is not helplessness and achieving happiness with renewed ambition.
Red Lodge announces M. W. Potter of Red Lodge will be named state game warden of Montana. He will take office April 1 after Governor Dixon assumes office at the start of the year.
Mr and Mrs E I Harkness spent last Saturday at the county seat from their Sheep Creek basin ranch home. Mr Roy Lund and his wife returned from Virginia City where Lund faced two grand larceny charges. The jury did not reach a verdict on the first charge and Lund was acquitted on the second. H G Rodgers from Dillon defended Lund with witnesses including George Ditty T E Gilbert Bert Selway Dr W C Orr Undersheriff Dan Morror and D W Erwin state stock detective.
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