30 Jul 1930
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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1930
Page
1
Dillon budget shows total city expenses for the next fiscal year at 450263.98, down 3650.28 from the prior period. The plan breaks the appropriation among General Fund 15000, Street and Alley 4000, Water, Library 1850, Special Improvement District No 3 2700, Main Fund 1000, Cemetery 900, with continued allocations and a note that details continue on page 8.
Miss Mary K. Sands, former Montana State Normal College dramatics instructor, will read three acts of The First Mrs. Fraser at the college auditorium tomorrow night. The Broadway comedy by St John Irvine, once staged by the Moroni Gisen players in Dillon, centers on a diverting study of divorce.
A three day sage chicken season will begin Sunday August 4 in Bea verhead county after a Bea verhead Sportsmen's association petition. Only sage chickens may be killed. limit three birds per hunter per day and three in possession. The season runs August 4 to 6.
Twenty one Girl Scouts accompanied by leader Miss Marie Latham nurse Miss Louise Birrer and cook Mrs Harry Williams traveled to Elkhorn Springs Beaverhead county for a week long outing. Activities include hiking swimming first aid training and other Girl Scout duties as the group shares an enjoyable and instructive program.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clarke and two sons Bill and Junior, along with Boyd Quick, left Monday for Morrison Lake to fish and then drive to Idaho. Miss Dorothy Gelhaus left this morning for Alamosa Colorado after a vacation in Dillon with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Gelhaus.
W A Lovell prominent Palon man and deputy state stock inspector based in Butte was injured when his Nash sedan crashed over an embankment near Butte this afternoon. Details of the accident were not available.
Preliminary parade plans for Dillon's centennial celebration will be discussed at a general meeting Friday evening at city hall. Citizens are urged to attend as organizers seek a historical float theme featuring early Dillon and Beaverhead County events. Mayor Roscoe Cornell offers to donate longhorn steers if bullwhackers can be found to yoke the animals.
Archie Gibson Beaverhead county pioneer died Sunday at his niece’s home in Butte after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at White funeral home with Rev Groeneveld officiating, and interment followed at Mountain View cemetery, Butte. Gibson, born July 12, 1846 in Endfield Connecticut, arrived in Beaverhead county 45 years ago settling at Bannack and became involved in mining operations.
Joseph Lehr of Leadore Idaho, a noted local merchant, drowned when a sudden squall capsized his wooden fishing boat on Bloody Dick lake last Sunday afternoon. J L Phillips and family aided, body recovered Sunday night with Sheriff Orr and Coroner Phillips assisting. Master Terry Conklin, ten, catches a three pounds nine ounce rainbow trout in Blacktail creek near Medlen hotel.
Beaverhead county reports wild hay cutting in full swing this week with operations starting in the Big Hole basin last week and continuing across the region as weather cooperates.
Thomas H. Dubois, a well known Dillon rancher, accepted the Republican nomination for state representative in a notice filed with Clerk and Recorder John S. Baker. He received 57 write-in votes. He will face Democrat Joe Metlen, Armstead stockman and former Beaverhead representative, who ran unopposed on the ticket.
Beaverhead county officials convened in multiple special and regular sessions beginning July 7 1930. The board approved minutes and allocated funds for printing and expenses while declaring Centennial Valley an insect pest district due to a grasshopper outbreak. Exterminators Tom Fairbanks and James Doyle were appointed.
Mr and Mrs Sam Cardinel announce the birth of their baby boy born last Monday at Bur Yetts Hospital. Parents express joy and gratitude to family and staff.
Montana State Normal football schedule takes shape with Ricks of Rexburg set for Oct 11 in town and Bobkittens at Bozeman Oct 27. Tentative Oct dates include Billings Polytechnic here Oct 25 and Missoula Nov 1 with Idaho Southern Branch at Pocatello in November. An Armistice Day game against Billings Poly in Sheridan is possible if talks finalize. Coach Moe reports strong prospects with many veterans.
Unconscious man found beside a state highway near the city limits remains unable to speak. Authorities pursue clues amid uncertainty over his identity with possible ties to Marvin St. Clair or Thurman Steele and conflicting fingerprint and hospital records.
The Beaverhead board of commissioners announced the county’s tax levy will be about the same as last year after reviewing the preliminary budget. The only possible change noted was a half-mill adjustment.
HORT talks by several members formed the program of the Dillon Rotary club weekly luncheon Monday. Charles H. Niblack was chairman. President Charles Henry reported on the Rotary presidents and secretaries convention in Roundup. Ralph Harding outlined the state golf tournament in Great Falls in which he took part. Judge Henry G. Rodgers added sidelights on po
The Montana State Normal College glee club will present a free concert in the college auditorium Friday night. Miss Vivian M. Robe directs the program, which features light and serious numbers. William Harold Heaney of Butte will solo on flute with Ralph McFadden as accompanist, and the glee club will perform three selections including The Echo and The Cuckoo Clock.
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