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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1921
Page
5
In Silver Bow County the commissioners ordered Treasurer Puckett to provide a detailed report of all money collected as fees from various officers and to specify the offices from which the funds came. The action follows prior disclosures about lax handling of funds.
On February 8 a communique from the Chinese Nationalist party in Butte condemns the Peking government loan plan. The party argues a dollar loaned is a dollar for war and opposes the international financing effort.
Announcement of a new manufacturing concern in Butte notes the Garland Suit Case Company filing for incorporation with capital of 25000 dollars. Incorporators listed are William W. Garland Charles Fasel and Levi L. Mattson. Shares are valued at 100 dollars each.
Helena reports a bill by Rep. Miles Cavanaugh to authorize cities to set up permanent wood coal and fuel yards and sell fuel to residents at cost without financial benefit. The measure, announced in the house, outlines support and maintenance provisions and defines at cost.
Bonner Mercantile company of Deer Lodge via vice president W. C. Spottswood assigns to H. H. Parsons of Missoula to protect creditors and business. Parsons as assignee retains Spottswood as manager to collect debts immediately. Local notes include Wheat Growers' association branch formed at Shields Valley meeting in Wilsall, and Hardin oil discovery by Mid-West Oil on Soap Creek with oil column rising past 1000 feet, likened to Salt Creek field.
E L Jones of Colby arrives from the Yellowstone border mountains with 50 Hudson Bay sable skins. The trapper disposed of the pelts in Billings shortly after his arrival.
Billings reports a 60 cent per barrel cut in Mid-Continent fields with a 35 cent cut made effective February 1 for Cat Creek crude. A further one cent per barrel adjustment accompanies this action, reflecting a wider price reduction trend in the regional oil market.
Silver Bow county with federal help will spend more than 100000 this year to changed the grade on the highway east of Butte at Highteen Mile hill in the Piet Stone pass. The board of commissioners Friday passed a resolution authorizing the state highway commission to advertise for bids for the work.
Twenty years ago Frank Landon recovers from pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. J. F Bishop visit Twin Bridges to see daughter Mrs. Leslie Thompson. Groundhog Day hints at six more weeks of winter. Sidney Johnson takes a job at Dillon News Store. Rocky Mountain Telephone to lay extra wire from Butte to Dillon. Tom Poin Dexter and family visit from Helena. High Five club hosts at Mrs. O M Best. Governor Toole appoints Martin Barrett to state livestock board for Beaverhead. Churches preach against card playing and dancing. Fred Huber heads to New York for optical training. Anna Huber to Chicago for nurse course. Two thousand stock sheep shipped from Dillon yards to Ogden, bought from J. E. Morse by W. J. Lindsay. Kindergarten planned in Dillon. committee forms to hire teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Will Metzel of Puller Springs lodging at the Metlen.
Residents petition Governor Dix to oppose establishing an insane asylum at Fort Assiniboine calling it a breach of faith with the federal government which granted the land for a school. The dispute centers on the fort's proposed use and local opposition persists. Meanwhile a fatal car crash near Silver Bow Creek claimed Jeremiah Casey, 46, as occupants James and Robert Balkwill survived.
In Fort Benton on February 4 Leroy B. Tole admitted guilt in district court to grand larceny as bailee, with a sentence of one to three years in state prison but suspended on the recommendation of County Attorney Miller. The charge alleges he misappropriated $2834.80 in 1916 while managing a Gallatin Valley Milling Co mill or elevator at Loma.
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