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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1941
Page
2
A collection of assorted notices includes selling reasons for a business in Payette Idaho, product ads from Minnesota and Alaska suppliers, a Linotype sale in Conrad Montana, a general nursery catalog offer from Milton Oregon, and various curios and craft items with scattered addresses and postal requests.
The 3,000,000th Holstein-Friesian registered in the United States belongs to Owen D. Young’s Van Horne Farms Calf Van Horne Denver Aqain Geraldine named Miss 3,000,000th. The calf’s sire Dutchland Denver the Great cost 4500 and the dam Van Horne Onyx Paladin Aquin has a year milk record of 23 332 pounds. Young, a 36 year breeder and Holstein director, notes the lengthy lineage and the breed’s growth across states and nations. The piece ties early education in Montana to frontier life and praises brave pioneer women who built schools.
A Montreal Star item notes a young father reporting his eight month old baby is starting to recite part of Baa Baa Black Sheep. The father jokes the child has begun with the familiar opening line.
Looseness in the timing chain causes a slapping sound while excessive tightness leads to a humming noise. The balance between slack and tightness affects quiet operation and may indicate wear or improper adjustment requiring inspection.
Reports from various sources indicate more meat for home consumption being raised on American farms. After holidays and cold weather, sausage making begins as big kettles are seasoned to taste, with mothers testing and adjusting flavors in the iron skillet.
A playful dialogue has a wife asking if her husband was surprised by a gift check she gave. He confirms the moment, while she jokes about signing the change. The light exchange captures domestic humor and wordplay.
An Irish doorkeeper recalls a club scene where men fought with chairs. A policeman asks why he acted and Pat replies there was no other chair available.
District court records show 12 divorces granted in the county in 1940 with alimony ranging from 12 to 40 dollars monthly. Helena hosts carpenters union convention February 4-5. George Yeager of Great Falls is state president. Chinook sugar factory reports 1940 beet crop averaged about 14 tons per acre on the Sun River project. Dr. Henry Huntington Swain, longtime Greater University of Montana executive secretary, dies of a heart attack at home in Helena. John Moran, first child born after Great Northern tracks and Malta station naming, dies and is buried at Malta cemetery. Conrad elects G. W. Wagner president of the Farmers Co-operative Oil & Supply Co. in Conrad. Henry Larson named director, LeRoy Anderson resigns for army duties, Albert Vermulm and E. L. Crook named VP and secretary-treasurer. Max Dean to manage Finlen Hotel replacing Maurice S. Weiss, who retires after 20 years. Shelby elects Earl Marto as chief of volunteer fire dept. Tom Cavett as assistant chief. Perry Talbot as assistant chief and Walter Tillman as president. Fire drills ordered at Shelby high school and grades. Neihart postoffice issues its 100,000th money order. local post office activity surges with CCC camp mail handled here. Fairfield nominates two slates for town officers for February 1 election. one slate lists Schoensigel for mayor with Han sen, Blossom, Genger, Young for aldermen, the other lists Graves for mayor with Henneford, Crary, Duenow for aldermen.
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