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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1936
Page
2
The Dillon Examiner is published as a second class matter and lists the 1936 volume and issue details. It notes the newspaper’s post office status and subscription price and provides editorial and business address information at 124 S Montana Street in Dillon Montana.
Montana farm data show 50 565 farms mortgaged for 74 407 000 dollars about 20 percent of value. Land bank holds 21 300 000 on roughly 12 000 farms, 42 percent of state debt. Owner operators exceed 74 percent of farms, with 57 percent mortgaged. Cash income rose to about 100 500 000 last year. foreclosures declined to 22 per thousand in 1935.
Montana educators push a 25 percent increase for the Greater University system and associated institutions including Missoula, Bozeman, Havre, Billings, Dillon. The drive spans state universities, normal schools, the state school of mines, experiment stations, and extension services as lawmakers prepare for January sessions.
The text notes debt scaling by creditors and rising mortgage indebtedness. It discusses tenant farmers and young farm owners buying farms while savings allow, with finance partly via borrowing. The Land Bank seeks to stabilize credit, avoid extreme fluctuations, and loan on long-range normal property value to guard against over-borrowing and foreclosure risk.
Mrs Karl H Hinz of Herbert Wisconsin is visiting her sister Mrs A J Simons in Dillon.
Myron Yeager arrives from Spokane to join his wife and two children visiting Mrs. Yeager's sister Mrs. W. J. Romersa. Mrs. Lulu Shaw and Mrs. Luella Hobson depart for California to visit relatives. Mrs. S. B. Howell of Grant visits Dillon. Bernard Bray and spouse announce birth of a son at Barrett hospital. Mrs. W. N. Bichler and Mrs. L. B. McGivney visit Dillon. Miss Mary Colson of Dubois wed Glenn Crampton of Stockton in Pocatello. they will live in Stockton. Sam Freeman attends the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Al Simon become parents to a son at Barrett hospital. Earl L. Wheat attends beer distributors gathering in Great Falls. Mrs. Dan Henneberry visits Butte where her father R. M. Funk is a patient at St. James hospital. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hawkins and sons plan a motor trip to Mexico and southwest states for several weeks.
The annual Christmas program featured readings from Luke 2 read by Dora Mae Porter and songs and plays by students of the 7-1 class and grades 4 to 5. Highlights included It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Silent Night, Jolly Old St Nicholas, and Gifts for Two directed by Marilynn Routledge, with many named students and performers listed. The event, announced by Ray Conger, was held at 2:30 pm in the old training school auditorium, inviting community attendance.
The Beaverhead Rangers provided entertainment at a high school Future Farmers of America dinner. The meal was prepared by Mrs D L Johnson Mrs Nels Christensen and Mrs Smith Ames with help from Anna Christensen Amy French and other Future Farmers. Serving duties were handled by Anna Christensen Amy French Jeanne Covall Ruth Pyle Lucy Pyle and Ruth Wilberg.
The crew of the US Navy destroyer USS Childs adopted forty Russian children while in Constantinople years ago, providing for their maintenance and education.
Notice to stockholders announces the annual meeting of Interstate Building & Loan Association at its Dillon Montana office on January 4 1937 at 2 p m. The agenda includes election of directors for the ensuing year and other business. Secretary C E Blinn signs the notice.
Sunday December 13, 1936 readers explored the theme God as preserver through Psalms 16 1 and 34 19 20 and a Science and Health passage by Mary Baker Eddy. The golden text urged trust in God while the lesson noted protection of bones and deliverance from afflictions.
Prof Lee R Light dean of the school Rev J A Meeke chair man of the board Fred R Chap man financial secretary and Mrs Robert Gregg secretary Rev Willis Loar heads publicity committee This leadership training school will be held in February two nights a week for three weeks with two fifty minute class periods each evening and a brief fifteen minute worship period.
In the Fifth Judicial District of Montana the District Court fixes regular 1937 terms for Beaverhead Madison and Jefferson counties. Sessions start at ten o clock on the listed Wednesdays Mondays and Fridays from January to October 1937. Dillon is noted as the county seat with Judge Lyman H Bennett presiding.
Notice that Myrl Erwin will apply to Beaverhead County Treasurer on February 8, 1937 at 9:00 a.m. for a tax deed to an undivided one half interest in Indian Queen Lode Mining Claim Lot 38, Township 5 South Range 10 West MPM Beaverhead County Montana. Amount due $17.67 dated December 9, 1936.
Mrs. Bruce Greene and her son accompanied by Mrs. Etta Metzel of Alder spent Monday in Dillon, enjoying a day of visits and local sights.
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