Butte Bulletin distortion sparks Dillon readers cautions
A Dillon reader notes the Butte Bulletin's Wild West style report on local events, praising Frank Mauritz while portraying others in a chaotic scene at the Sorenson ranch. The letter questions the accuracy, denounces gang-like claims, and clarifies Mauritz’s status with the Beaverhead American Legion post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Bulletin
Beaverhead County
Dillon
Diamond Dick
Bulletin
B. K
Kar” Wheeler
Bond
Frank Mauritz
Dilton
Sorenson Ranch
Kelly
Nonpartisan League
Fixaminer
Mauritz
Box
Wheeler
Buzzell
Edward Cushing
Frank Jones
Cushing
Jones
John D. Ayan
First National Bank
John D. Ryan
Training School Patriotic Program Placed Before Fourth
Friday marked the last day of school before July 4 as the training school hosted a patriotic program in the auditorium. Summer school pupils participated by room with acts including The Prologue, Soldier Boy Game, The Flag Goes By, Your Flag and My Flag, a marching song, The Hymn of Music, and The Star Spangled Banner. Assembly programs occur each Friday at 9 o clock and visitors are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Scott
Miss Hazard
America
Miss Norris
Evelyn Nelson
Miss Noels
Donald Light
George McDonald
Stanley Mellier
Veneer Arena
Miss Baillie
Miss Stufrt
Dillon Quiet Fourth Amid Downpour and Baseball Win
Beav erhead county endured a heavy rain Sunday scattering campers and dampening plans at Dillmont park. Dillon beat the Marquette club of Butte 7 to 4 at the fair grounds ball park behind strong pitching by Frank Gosman as winds and flooding disrupted town activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaverhead County
Dillmont Park
Ball Fame
Marquette Club
Butte
Dillon
Marquettes
Fair Grounds
Frank Gosman
Poppy Day Drive Raises 280 for Children’s League
Saturday drive in Dillon collected 280.65 to aid the American and French children's league. Mrs Morse led the effort with captains and volunteers supervising many girls. Funds support children in devastated French areas, as poppy emblem honors war dead and raises aid awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
J. &. Morse
F. C.mcfadden
P. I. Smith
Noel
Stufrt
Mary Hester Phillips
Yetta Guilbert
Summer school lectures and entertainments listed
The summer school offers eighteen public interest lectures and entertainments free unless noted. Morning program includes speakers from state and universities in Helena, Missoula and Butte through August with lectures on public health, education, and Montana history. Evening talks cover topics from exploration and fur trade to Indian culture and rural France with several illustrated shows and some paid admission events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Sippy
Helena
Alfred Atkinson
Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Dozeman
W. Fr. Maddock
Butte
Howard R. Driggs
University of Utah
Edward O. Sisson
Montana State University
Missoula
Laurie Jean Reid
May Trumper
Edward C. Elliott
University of Montana
Frank Harmon Garver
Montana State Normal College
Montana
Garver
Grant FE. Finch
Madame Zarada
Mont Blanc
Finch
Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
France
Playground Closing Soon for Summer Recess
The playground operates each afternoon 2 30 to 5 and 7 to 8 30 with equipment for children including slides swings and rings. It offers indoor base ball croquet volleyball bean bags and quoits and will close in two weeks for the remainder of the summer.
Overland Trip Planned by Mrs Mary Judge and Family
Mrs Mary Judge and family left last week for an overland trip to the coast. They expect to visit Idaho Falls Baker City Oregon Seattle and other places before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Judge
Idaho Falls
Baker City
Oregon
Seattle
Kindling to be Presented in Dillon Chautauqua Week
The 1920 Dillon Chautauqua runs August 9 to 15 with high standard attractions. Notables include Judge George J. Alden and Judge Fred G. Bale, Carlton Chamberlayne, Julius Ceasar Nayphe, G. Whitfield Ray, E. B. Fish, plus a New York stage production of Kindling by Maurice Browne players. Mary Adel Mays returns as soloist with Raul Pereira and his quartet, and Royal Welsh Lady Singers headline an international musical lineup. The week closes with An Evening in the South Seas featuring Maori singers and a New Zealand lecture by Lelia Blomfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
George J. Alden
Massachusetts
Fred G. Bale
Ohio
Carlton Chamberlayne
New York
Julius Ceasar Nayphe
Wales
Great Britain
Lena Laska
Alaska Poe He Parnells
South Seas
America
New Zealand
Lelia Blomfield
Legion Convention at Livingston Praises and Plans 100 Percent Americanism
Enthusiastic reports from Beaverhead post delegates describe a two day American Legion state convention in Livingston. The post band impressed crowds and a 1921 Lewistown convention was chosen. Officers elected include W G Ferguson as commander and Mose Cohen as finance officer. Delegates to the national convention were named from several Montana towns. Beaverhead post lauded Dillon’s cooperation and vowed a stronger community service record forthcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Livingston
Beaverhead
Post
Gateway City
Lewistown
W. G. Ferguson
Miles City
W. W. Foster
Mose Cohen
Butte
E. Y. Porr
Wolf Point
Elliot Porter
Harlowtown
C. W. Pew
Heena
E. J. Molumby
Great Falls
Albert Galen
Helena
Charles Sheridan
Bozeman
E. W. Lowe
D. BE. Baird
Edwin Cummings
Deer Lodge
Frank C. Walker
C. C. Lamport
Forsyth
Dan Bristow
Poplar
Howard C. Thompson
Billings
J. Lowrey
Whitehall
Miles Romney
Hamilton
Switzers and Ruth Switzer Visit Dillon
Mr and Mrs N A Switzer and Miss Ruth Switzer of Jeffers spent the fourth and fifth in Dillon as guests of friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. A. Switzer
Ruth Switzer
Jeffers
Dillon
Arad Sings at Normal Friday Evening
Madame Zarad drew a large audience at the university auditorium in Laramie last evening. She captivated listeners with a beautiful voice and dramatic interpretative skill, promising a return to Larame for a cowboys song creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francesca Zarad
University Auditorium
Madame Zarah
Madame Zarad
Larame
Laramie
War Against Grasshoppers In Centennial Valley Begins
Centennial ranchers mobilize ten thousand acres for a big offensive against the warrior grasshopper. A bran compound with arsenic molasses salt and banana oil will be used to kill millions of pests threatening crops. An entomologist from Bozeman will direct the operation with a $4,000 county fund and three days expected for results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centennial Valley
Dillon
Centennial
State Bureau
Bozeman
H. L. Strana
Strand
Cattle and Hog Markets End Week Lower at Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yards in South St. Paul closed the week with unevenly lower cattle values and broad declines across grades. Receipts reached 20 000 cattle and 40 000 hogs with hogs dipping to 14 40 top and sheep prices sliding 1 to 2. Bulls and dairy cows weakened as stocker and feeder trades stalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stock Yards
South St. Paul
Two Drown in Gravel Pit near Dillon
In a Dillon gravel pit incident Mrs. Edward Crocker of Ponca City Oklahoma died while trying to rescue Myr tle Hatfield 14 of Dillon. A 16 year old boy Clyde Webster and Dr. R D Curry attempted rescue. Mrs Crocker funeral held at Dillon with burial in Mountain View cemetery. Myr tle Hatfield funeral in Springdale Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Crocker
Ponca City
Okla
Myrtle Hatfield
W. K. Hatfield
Dillon
Dillmont Park
Beaverhead
Hatfield
Clyde Webster
Myre Hatfield
Tulken
Springdale
Utah
Methodist-Episcopal Church
H. G. Humphrey
Mountain, View
Humphrey
Nannie Bell Crocker
Gladstone Mo
Steven Adams
Prince River
Canada
John Adams
Oklahoma City
Joseph Adams
Eldon
Christ
Nurses' Convention Attendee Visits Butte
Mrs. Helen Curtis of Curtis hospital attended the state convention of graduate nurses in Butte last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Curtis
Curtis Hospital
Butte
Rural eighth grade exam yields many diplomas
The eighth grade exams produced many successful rural students with higher overall papers. Diplomas were issued to Meda Thompson Bannack Sarah Banks Riverside Blanche Pilon Riverside Clara McDonald Argenta Clifford Redfern Dewey Frank Mautz Apex Donnell Gleed Lima Blanche Wakefield Lima John Burt Lima Mae Dowell Lima Wes Ley Walcott Lima William Durant Lima Helen Jardine Wisdom Eric Holmen West Fox Bertha Budd Wisdom Oline Kramer West Fox Lillis Yaterson Gosman Clifford Calvert Gosman Mildred Sage Jackson Maude Sage Jackson Josphine Quigley Jackson Wilhelmina Schindler Jackson Peter Lasich Drummey Joseph Bayan Reichle Ethel Ferguson Reichle Ernest Piercy Gibbons Barney Bray Lakeview Cora Perry Dillon. The highest average 86.3 by Bertha Budd Wisdom, second Helen Jardine Wisdom 85.6, third Wesley Walcott Lima 84.3. Some seventh graders also took physiology and geography exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meda Thompson
Bannack
Sarah Banks
Riverside
Blanche Pilon
Clara McDonald
Argenta
Clifford Redfern
Dewey
Frank Mautz
Apex
Donnell Gleed
Lima
Blanche Wakefield
John Burt
Mae Dowell
Wesley Walcott
William Durant
Helen Jardine
Wisdom
Eric Holmen
West Fox
Bertha Budd
Oline Kramer
Lillis Yaterson
Gosman
Clifford Calvert
Mildred Sage
Jackson
Maude Sage
Josphine Quigley
Wilhelmina Schindler
Peter Lasich
Drummey
Joseph Bayan
Reichle
Ethel Ferguson
Ernest Piercy
Gibbons
Barney Bray
Lakeview
Cora Perry
Dillon
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Letin
J. H. Gilbert
T. E. Gilbert
W. G. Gilbert
Gilbert
Harlow Pease
Frank Hazelbaker
Amalgamated Copper Company
Thverhead Post
Marquette
Legion Convention
Arad
Curry
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