Beaverhead High School War Bond Concert Draws Large Audience
Beaverhead county high school's music department under Fred Honeychurch presented a War Bond Program for the Sixth War Loan drive at the school auditorium Sunday night. Eugene W. Bond spoke on the bond campaign as the program opened with a piano ensemble featuring eight players. The evening included trumpet trombone and soprano solos, mixed chorus, concert band, and a finale with the Star Spangled Banner.
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Beaverhead County
Fred Honeychurch
Eugene W. Bond
Geraldine Gillies
Alfreda Paddock
Peggy Sutherland
Marcheta McMenomey
Miriam Morse
Margot Luebben
Pat McFadden
Janet Curry
Weber
Beethoven
Schubert
Old Kentucky
Clay
Londonderry
Hewitt ‘Martinell
Herbert
Romberg
DeKoven
Smith
Pettis
Bruce Grimes
Keler-Bela
Gay
Marriages Issued By Clerk During Past Week
The clerk reports marriages on Dec 1 including Howard E Olson of Sheridan and Isabel Miller of Hollywood California wed at the Baptist church by Mrs Edna Blackburn. Also Dec 1 Ray E Messenger and Beulah Jane Speas of Idaho Falls were married by Judge Louis Stahl. Dec 3 Herbert A Hall and Donna May Webb of Pingree Idaho married by Rev Norman Benson. Mrs Elmo Winn visited Butte last Thursday.
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Norman Giles
Howard E. Olson
Sheridan
Isabel Miller
Hollywood
Calif
Edna Blackburn
The
Baptist Church
Ray E. Messenger
Beulah Jane Speas
Idaho Falls
Louis Stahl
Herbert A. Hall
Donna May Webb
Pingree
Ida
Norman Benson
Lutheran Church
Veterans Letters and Classifications Donated in WWII Update
The column lists soldiers and sailors from Dillon receiving Christmas packages and notes from service updates. It covers induction in 1942 and overseas service since 1943, with reports from multiple personnel including Fairbank, Laden, Fleming, Koontz, Melton, Rodgers, Boger, Johnson, Bond, Walker, and others. It also records five local selective service board officials receiving Roosevelt citations for three years of unpaid service and lists December 5 1944 registrant reclassifications across 2-C 2-B 2-A and 1-A categories with many names.
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David W. Fairbank
U. S. Navy
Citizens Committee
Dillon
Henry Talent
Ireland
Hawaiian Islands
Selective Service Board
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Jones
George Melton
F. M. Poindexter
W. H.stephan
F. H. Bimrose
Dental
Community entertains firemen next Saturday
The idea originated with Charles H. Niblack and drew enthusiastic support from Dillon residents and surrounding areas as citizens prepare to honor local firefighters with a scheduled event next Saturday.
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Charles H. Niblack
Dillon
Mining Man Speaker At Dillon Rotary Dinner
Beaverhead mining prospects were hailed by speaker Mr Haviland who forecast progress through science. He suggested rays to locate ore bodies beneath the earth. Joe Wedum awarded Joe White a past president pin as head of the Dillon Rotary club. About 20 public school boys sang for the group led by Mrs Edna Moe. Dorothianne Boka was guest student of the month with George M Gosman as meeting chair.
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Haviland
Beaverhead
Joe Wedum
Joe White
Dillon Rotary Club
Edna Moe
Dorothianne Boka
George M. Gosman
Beaverhead citizens committee gifts and donations report
The committee reported cash flow: previous balance 81.56, dance proceeds 92.00, Christmas fund donations 258.26 totaling 431.82. Armistice dance expenses 86.49 and gifts mailing 309.78 totaling 396.27, leaving balance 35.55. A $90.00 donation from W. K. Hall was announced to fund ongoing service member projects, with Dr Beata Hall and family noted as supporters.
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Citizens Committee Today
W. K. Hall
Dillon
Beaverhead
Hall
Beata Hall
Dr. Hall
Henneberry
County tax payments hit record in November
Miss Lloyd said today that about two thirds of county taxes were paid in November, with far more taxpayers choosing full payment now than in prior years. Almost three times as many paid in full compared with previous years, and a four day rush before November 30 formed lines at the treasurer's office windows.
Westminster Fellowship Formed By Local Youth Groups
A group of Presbyterian young people and junior high pupils met at the church Sunday evening and organized a Westminster Fellowship. The Rev. G. H. McCleave of Lewistown was the guest speaker.
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Presbyterian
Westminster
G. H. McCleave
Lewistown
Spehar Brothers Mentioned in War Casualty Notes
The notice reports S/Sgt. Joe Spehar serving in the South Pacific and John Spehar of Dillon among family members including two brothers Harry Spehar killed in action in Leyte and Lucy Krisha of Vallejo with several aunts uncles and nieces and nephews in Beaverhead county.
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Lucy Krisha
Vallejo
Joe Spehar
South Pacific
John Spehar
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Beaverhead County Land Valuation Stands High in State
Beaverhead remains high in land valuation for unirrigated tillable land at 10.62 dollars per acre while the state average is 7.87. The county leads in wild hay tonnage with international championship quality, surpassing many top state producers. Total land valuation averages 3.86 dollars per acre versus a state average of 5.02.
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Beaverhead
Christmas Seal Sale Continues With High School Help
High school Girls club under Miss Mary Louise Louis and Miss Evelyn Mikkelsen sponsors the Christmas seal sale. Next Tuesday Dillon Girl Scouts will sell pencils for five cents to fund the drive. Tuberculosis remains preventable and curable yet claims many lives annually. In 1943 Montana counties conducted 13602 tuberculin tests across 34 counties and funded about 4500 X-rays.
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Mary*Louise Louis
Evelyn Mikkelsen
Dillon Girl Scouts
Montana
Christmas seals aid TB fight in Montana schools
High school students note 1999 Montanans died from tuberculosis in 1943 and 222 cases were admitted to the Montana State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Christmas seals would locate victims, support diagnosis and treatment centers, aid Indian victims, and fund education as a main weapon in control. Mrs. Selway urged all to buy and use seals today, buying as many as possible to insure against tuberculosis.
Dillon visit noted for Fred Hirschy of Jackson
Fred Hirschy of Jackson attended to business matters in Dillon on Monday, engaging with local officials and visiting downtown firms during a brief stay.
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Fred Hirschy
Jackson
Dillon
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HIGH
Elmo Winn
Butte
Tee
American Medical Association
Council On Physical Therapy
Fenith
J. J. Kelley
Butte, Mont
TNAD
Pvt
Thomas Laden
U. S. Marines
Central Pacific
Set. R. M. Fleming
Fort Knox, Ky
George Koontz
Camp Shelby, Miss
Dora M. Melton
Wacs
Camp Beale
SCU
WAC
H. W
Sparky) Rodgers
Leyte
Waldron W. Boger
Iran
Camp Barkley
Texas
Robert G. Johnson
A. S. Johnson
Admiralty Islands
Phillips Bond
Post Exchange
New Guinea
E. W. Bond
Cpl
George Elwood
Woody) Walker
Philippines
Earl Walker
Pacific
Seective
Lewis B. Hershey
Seective Service
Sam C. Ford
Sam W. Mitchell
Sidney Jewel Shafer
Fred Else
George Weldon Else
LeRoy Mervin Zeigner
Charles Jimmie Dunn
Jesse Harland Miller
Everett William Holden
Rudolph William Stefanatz
James Mathew McCullum
Roy Ellworth McNinch
Earl Rolland van Antwerpt
March E. Hopkins
Boyd Berlin Gordon
Victor Andrew Cushman
Roscoe Fay Kindred
George Clayton Kenedy
Charles Wilbert Goodwin
A—Elden
Ray Bybee
David Jay Tingley
Francis Edwin Hixon
Percy Lee Kenison
Ducard Esler Banning
Howard Lee Nelson
Lester Charles Bourquin
Raymond James Gordon
Frank Anton Weisgerber
John Murphy
Glenn T. Wyatt
George Erwin Thompson
Dick Lanius Lancaster
Wayne Glen Halstead
Herman Otto Lyman
Walter Maidmont Selway
Harold Walter Lenius
Paddy Timothy Donavan
Joseph Edward Sprinkle
William Churchill
Durant
Zygmunt Kempenski
Edward ‘Gordon Glassey
Ernest Irving Orr
Thomas William
John William Malesich
Bernard Roland
Dean William Shephard
Francis Johnson Leffler
Raymond William Ladiges
Leonard Everett Peterson
Theodore May
Ross A. Harkness
Barta G. Bare
United States Employment Service
Granite St
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte, Montana
Harry Spehar
Tropics
Uncle Sams
West Coast
Lurope
Heweslines
Amnerree
J V.clarke
American Merchant Marinee Sustotote
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nelson Eddy
Robert Armbruster
EWT
CBS
Montana Power Company
Holverr
WM. J
Bill” Bryant
NEW York Life Insurance Company
Wash
Dillon, Mont
First National Bank
Northwest Bancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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