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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1927
Page
1
Nearly three hundred delegates expected for the annual meeting of the Odd Fellows lodges in the ND area. Local officers planned sessions at the conference hall with themes of fellowship and community service.
Dillon will host a district convention next Saturday with delegates from thirteen Western Montana lodges. About 300 delegates are expected if travel by car permits. Attending will include grand master W B Shoemaker of Glasgow deputy grand master N E Bolinger of Bozeman and past grand master W B Bennett. Rebekah leaders expect Mattie Boyd of Livingston and Mrs W B Bennett of Anaconda to attend.
Pupils at the training school auditorium present four piano recitals under Miss Nelle Little. The first concert, held last Saturday, drew a large audience as six beginners performed well. A flower themed program comes tonight, with a future recital featuring national themes and a final concert on Tuesday June 7 by intermediate and advanced pupils.
The Jackson women hosted a minstrel show and dance last Saturday despite poor weather. Interlocutor Tom Clemon and good men Harry Lapham and Wendell Jardine led a night of laughter with Mrs. John Wenger directing. Local musicians donated services and supper by Mrs. Dan Pendergast accompanied overall praise for the event. Mr. and Mrs. D. Hirschman returned from Butte where he had surgery and is improving.
Beaverhead county high school wrapped up the term with 47 diplomas awarded at the thirty sixth annual commencement. Principal A T Peterson and Prof Edmund Freeman of the state university delivered the address on Democracy and Education. Several instructors plan summer study or work at universities and colleges.
Detroit May 26 Ford Motor company will soon introduce a new light car to replace the Model T. Henry Ford signed a statement via a national ad agency noting limited details and promising full description and price in weeks. Production timing and full features were withheld.
The Normal college training school will hold its commencement tomorrow evening in the training school auditorium. Forty five eighth grade graduates will receive diplomas. Prof Rush Jordan will deliver the address. Music will include L A Gregorys orchestra a girls trio and the girls glee club. The Rev Howard B Ricketts will give the invocation and benediction.
The Wise River rodeo was postponed from last Sunday due to wet weather and rescheduled for June 12. Manager Fred Gill says conditions may change and notes a larger lineup of wild west talent could make it one of Beaverhead county’s best shows.
Mrs. Anderson died after a short illness at her home Friday morning. Born May 82 1895 in Sweden, she would have been 92. She came to America in 1868, lived in Kansas, moved to Montana in 1889, and resided in Lima. She leaves two sons Louis Anderson of Cordova Alaska and Peter Anderson of Lima. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm Rev Smith of Butte officiating. Burial in Lima cemetery.
Harry Hatch a well known Dillon drayman was found dead in his room last Friday morning by a friend who awakened him He died Thursday night after suffering a slight cold He was about 54 and had lived in Dillon about ten years Hatch came to Dillon in 1917 He owned the transfer business of W and Hedges for a year prior to his death His relatives in this section are not listed The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at Brundage chapel with Rev H B Ricketts officiating.
Memorial day in Dillon was observed quietly with no public program. Beaverhead Post of the American Legion laid flowers and wreaths on graves of soldiers who died in American wars, while Dillon residents decorated many graves.
The Dillon Rotary club elected Harry Gilbert as president for the year starting July 1 at a regular luncheon in the Andrus hotel dining room. Lew K. Adams became vice president and Tom E. Gilbert was re elected secretary treasurer. The board pledged 100 percent support to the new president and to District Governor elect Frank A Hazelbaker. Ben Stevenson of the Beaverhead American Red Cross spoke on the South flood relief and Beaverhead county’s quick fund response. Tom E Leubben received a bouquet for his flower show efforts as committee chairman. Senator Hazel baker spoke on a new flower species he claimed to have originated and presented the bouquet.
Sealed bids for federal aid highway construction near Dillon will be received by the state highway commission next Wednesday morning June 8. The project covers grading drainage and gravel surfacing of the Dillon-Butte road for 9 876 miles south from Brown's station with a 5 percent bid bond. Bids opened publicly on receipt.
Dillon air expert A W Stephenson of Montana Airways may enter the New York to Spokane air derby sponsored by Spokane business men. If planes are not classified he would fly a Waco plane from Miss Dillon with Missoula support, competing for 35000 in prize money alongside famous aviators including a Lindbergh invitation.
About 50 bankers from Missoula and nearby counties will attend the Montana Bankers association gathering in Missoula on June 8. District group meetings follow in Glendive Opheim Great Falls Havre and Butte on June dates. No program yet. R W Bailey of the State Bank of Somers organizes the Missoula schedule.
The Normal college senior class will stage Charm a three act comedy by John Kirkpatrick on June 13 and 14. It recently played on professional stages in New York and Chicago and was released for amateur production only months ago. The Gargoyles club at Montana normal promotes the Little Theatre Movement along with Missoula Montana Masquers and Bozeman Tor mentors.
A new law effective June 1 tightens controls on butchers and meat peddlers. It defines those at fixed locations as slaughtering for sale and imposes licenses of 5 dollars for counties and 100 dollars for meat peddlers, with full hide inspection to curb rustling. The livestock commission will assist enforcement with county agents.
A landmark Western will screen at the Hartwig next Sunday and Monday. The Flaming Frontier stars Hoot Gibson and Dustin Farnum in a dramatic epic of the old west culminating in Custer’s Last Stand. Montana history comes alive with the Battle of the Big Horn depicted in detail.
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming begins opening for self supplied camping as of June 1 with north and west gates accessible by car and public camp grounds ready. Roads to Mammoth Hot Springs Grand Canyon Yellowstone Lake and geyser basins passable though high altitude routes remain closed for ten to fourteen days. Accommodations at Old Faithful Lake Yellowstone available by contacting C A Hamilton.
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