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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1941
Page
2
For sale listing offers the Encore Cafe at 924 West Montana Street Lewistown Montana. Price cut to half if the deal closes before January 1st. Describes pully equipment and ready to operate. Contact Bertha Harris at the listed Lewistown address.
About 200 acres with million feet of saw and tie timber facing a paved state highway thirty minutes to Kalispell mills. Fenced with old buildings, 15 acres farmed. Land and timber priced at 10.00 per acre, all clear. Submit best cash offer. Owner, P. O. Box 463 Fullerton California.
The tale recounts Pike Sandusky in the Big Horn area near Flat Willow Creek during a clash with Piegan and allied Indians. Joe Hamilton and Bob Heart confront the amassing party at Lucky Fort with Pike briefly firing as tensions rise, leading to a chaotic store confrontation and a brawl that tested temper and courage.
A firsthand account describes Pike wounded during an Indian attack on a fort. White Calf tears a lighted store window with a tall stick, Pike fires and is severely injured. The narrator flees to Riel’s half-breed camp, plans a rescue, and returns with help to Fort Maginnis while pursued by Indians.
Pike survived a gunshot wound to the jaw with the bone broken in two pieces. A second operation re-broke and reset the jaw after initial failure, with ten days of no improvement. By April he recovered enough to leave bed and later opened a store in Maiden with Joe Hamilton.
Frank Johnson, regional clearance officer for the social security board, told a meeting of Montana employment service officials that Montana would gain defense industrial work in a few months. He noted plants might move inland from the coast and urged Mortaria employers to assess future labor needs and plan now for a labor supply, including surveys to see where women can substitute for men entering war industry or the armed forces.
A. H. Kruse named the first state apprenticeship council. Members include George Jacoby G A Porte J F O'Brien Walter Arnold William Jackson and G B Baker representing employers and employees. Initial terms run to 1942 1943 or 1944 with Dec 1 start and subsequent three year terms. Read the Classified Advertisements.
The report by Jay G. Diamond notes a likely rise in Montana sheep and cattle feeding during 1941–42, with feeder lambs moving to corn belt states up about 25 percent. November shipments to western stockyards increased while cattle movements to the corn belt rose for the first time in five months. Montana winter-feeding should hold, while increases occur in Colorado Utah Idaho and Washington and decreases in Wyoming Arizona Nevada and California.
George A. Troxel of Kalispell, a World War I veteran and grandson of a Civil War general, says he captured four men and a Austrian machine gun nest during Vittorio Veneto. He allegedly visited Hitler in an Italian prison camp, shared cigarettes, and later exchanged a photo with Hitler who allegedly destroyed it. Troxel earned Italian bravery medals and an Italian service bar.
Governor Ford receives a message from M. P. Moe of the Montana Education Association stating teachers will back the war effort. The association with nearly 6,000 members in 110 communities plans to promote defense bonds and stamps and train people for defense industries. The Malay Archipelago is noted as the world's largest group of islands.
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