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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1921
Page
7
A fragment from the Dillon Examiner references editorial and business matter routing in July 1921 and notes letters addressed to the editor and business management. The text includes 1908 date hints and mentions Dillon Montana and a congressional act from 1879.
Bert Campbell and companions got lost during a July Fourth blizzard while seeking a cabin near Deer Lodge Montana. They wandered two hours in heavy snow before realizing they had passed their cabin by about 75 feet. Campbell notes it as a first for him in Montana.
Mrs. Warren I. Harper of Kent Washington locates the grave of her father E. J. Godfrey a G A R member who died in Anaconda more than a score years ago The search followed incomplete records and annual Memorial Day decorations Now planning to erect a monument she traced the grave with help from W D Kendrick during a Yellowstone trip.
Mr and Mrs C T Magnus returned Monday from Denver and Estes Park Colorado where they attended the 125 600 Field Club convention of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York of which Mr Magnus is a member The convention at the Stanley hotel drew about 150 members from western states and will move to Vancouver British Columbia in 1922.
Grain exporters say Russia’s agricultural collapse shifts Middle West wheat to Europe via Galveston. Trainloads cross the causeway from multiple states with up to 1,000 cars daily. Since July 1920, about 66.6 million bushels exported. May totals show Italy and Britain as top buyers. Galveston led U S grain exports in May, ahead of New Orleans and Philadelphia.
The old Burrill ranch adjoining Choteau in Montana was sold to W C Pratt of Spokane for 175000. The 2800 acre property comes with machinery horses and a Berkshire swine herd and includes a 1200 acre adjoining lease with a dairy plant. Pratt forms Cloverdale Dairy and Packing with William C Gray as secretary manager and plans to staff the ranch and plant.
Eighteen carloads of potatoes grown near Deer Lodge were marketed by Ross Sugg over recent weeks. Four carloads went to Roundup, six to Miles City, one to Terry, six to Sheridan Wyoming, and one to Butte. Prices were below production cost but the sales were welcome amid widespread pricing difficulties.
A civic exhortation denounces the slacker who sits back while townsmen build the community. It contrasts selfish living with labor for a common good and warns that such a person forfeits honor and dies unloved. It quotes lines about titles wealth and fame and the fate of unhonored souls.
US Geological Survey analyst C N Gerry warns Montana metal production in 1921 will fall from 1920 levels due to continued mine idleness at Butte Anaconda operations. Gold and silver outputs decline, with limited copper activity and silver ore shipments continuing from Hibernia and Toulumne mines. A theft report cites Lee Tower whose car tire was stolen from the Pacific street garage.
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