Big Dillon horse sale to feature famed band and miniature ponies
Hats off to Horse Smith as Dillon hosts a grand horse sale on the 26th with the Boston Montana Band in attendance and a free Opera House concert. A miniature sale includes eight Shetland ponies from J W Kenney, plus numerous mares, geldings, yearlings, and prized Percheron and Arabian stock from multiple local dealers led by Smith and several county breeders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horse Smith
Dillon
Boston& Montana
Butte
Opera House
Thorpe & Jensen
George Ditty
Jeff Lavelle
Smith
Charles Snook
Tenday
Idaho
Wm. Carpenter
Brandenburg & van Housen
Lima
Ike Edinger
Craig Cornell
Prince
Edinger
Hawley J
United States
Canada
James
Dillon Voters to Decide $44000 Bond for New School Building
Dillon to hold a school election next Saturday February 1 to authorize coupon bonds totaling 44000 for a new public school building. Women and non taxpayers may vote. The current facility is crowded with every room in use and some classes held in the library and at the sad college. Citizens urged to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Busy Week Ahead for State Legislature and Public Works
Helena Jan 28 The thirteenth assembly forecasts a busy week in both houses with enactments and two investigations under way. Edwards railroad rate probe resumes hearings with Northern Pacific reps, while Carey Jands reclamation work also begins. House labor hearings on compensation run ten days as eight hour and minimum wage bills surface. The equal suffrage bill passes both houses as lobby activity ramps up. County division proposals and a consolidation education bill are debated amid a flurry of committee actions and potential pay raises. The week also features film showings and local business notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
House
Senate
Assembly
Edwards Joint Railroad Rate Investigating Committee
Northern Pacific
Edwards
Abbot and
Survant
Rhoades
Annin
Baina
Carey Jands
United States Reclamation
Whiteside
Abbott
Brownlee
Jewell, Brower
Spogen
House Committee On Labor
Murphy
Cutts
Organized Labor
International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ Union No. 107
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Joint Legislative Committee
Railroad Men’s Organization
Donlan
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Missoula
Flathead
Joint Rules Committee
Democratic House
Richland County
Dawson
Phillips
Blake
Valley
Wibeaw
Custer
Lake
Sanders
Senate Judiciary Committee
Larsen
Higgins
Burfiend Purchases City Drug Store in Dillon
Henry Burfiend Jr. becomes proprietor of the City Drug Store, previously run by the late Chas Ballenger. Burfiend, a licensed pharmacist and Bozeman Agricultural College graduate, plans to expand stock to offer a complete line of standard medicines and high grade drugs.
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Dillon
Henry Burfiend
Chas Ballenger
Hennie’’ Burfiend
City
Agricultural College of
Bozeman
Borfiend
Interscholastic Debate Set For Dillon Next Saturday
Dillon hosts its first interscholastic debate with the home team of Leslie Shobe Eugene Bond and Lawrence Price opposing Gallatin County High School's Llewellyn Lice Lee Park and Don Langsohr. The question is whether the government should own and operate telegraph lines. Judges W W Kemp G F Reynolds and C W Tenny will preside. Admission 86 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Leslie Shobe
Eugene Bond
Lawrence Price
Gallatin County High School
Llewellyn Lice
Lee Park
Don Langsohr
W.W. W. Kemp
G. F. Reynolds
Univeristy
C. W. Tenny
Montana Wesleyan University
Helena
Grand Theatre Presents The Last Performance At The Grand
The Grand Theatre in Dillon hosts weekly specials from General Film Company via Patents Company. On January 80 and 81 the Pathe two reel feature The Last Performance screens, telling of Rose Maitland and Count Van Warten and a jealous wife who drugs a horse in The Platform of Death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Film Company
Butte
Patents
Grand Theatre of Dillon
Little Picture House
Pathe
Rose Maitland
Barnum
Count van Warten
Haining Havens Wed In Woodstock New Brunswick
A Christmas evening wedding in Jacksonville marks the union of Miss Alice B. Haining and Mr. Harry Wilfred Havens officiated by Rev. F F L Baird. The couple plans immediate housekeeping with guests including Rev. George Ayers and Mrs. W B Fozzard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Haining
H. W. Havens
Woodstock
N. B
Jacksonville
Alice B. Haining
Harry Wilfred Havens
FF. L. Baird
Goldie Havens
John A. Judkins
Alice ‘Tilley
George Ayers
Walter Shaw
Evans Tells Montana Voters He’ll Seek Indian Aid in Congress
Congressman-elect John M. Evans toured Bitter Root and Flathead areas to learn constituent wishes. He plans to be in Washington by February 15 for the extra session after President-elect Wilson’s March 4 inauguration and will press Interior Department for relief on tribal pensions and land issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Evans
Montana
Hamilton
Washington
Wilson
Evans
Fathead
Missoula
Flathead Reservation
Jocko
Charlot
Morese
Evang
Indiana
Interior Department
Arlee
Irrigation Project
Reservaton Agency
Western News
Yeomen to Increase Numbers
A large Yeomen group met at Jos Thompson’s home on N Pacific street to plan a February initiation. District Manager W H Bennetts from Butte announced a February 7 initiation and will confer degree work. A second class is in the works and Thompson hosted a banquet afterward praising Bennetts and the local Yeomen group in Dilton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brothers of American Yeomen
Jos. Thompson
N. Pacific Street
W. H. Bennetts
Butte
Bennett
Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Gtder
Dilton
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J. W. Kenney
Melrose Livestock
Ladue & Sanders
James’ Mauldin Place
Diamond 0 Ranch
C. A. Smith
North Dakota
Bob
Joseph Murphy
Kalem Company
Jad
Australia
Conn
Shaughraun
M. Frosig
California
Mr. Frosig
Sacramento
City Drug Store
The
Getic
John M
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