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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1931
Page
1
Committee members and local business leaders met to discuss parade features for the annual exposition. Preliminary plans were reviewed as part of the fair board session, with committee assignments outlined.
Preliminary plans for a county fair to surpass last year’s record are discussed by the fair board and Dillon business men. A parade will feature agricultural and industrial displays led by the high school band and Elks corps with new features. Lieutenant Governor Hazelbaker named chairman of the central committee.
Entomologist R. E. Wall reports worm numbers have dropped in Beaverhead valley cut worm affected alfalfa plots. Bernard Williams aids field plots and warns ranchers to monitor crops next spring. R. N. Herberg from Anaconda Copper Mining co. surveys treated plots, while local students plant four acres of certified seed potatoes.
Butte salesman H. Saundner stopped to aid two men beside a disabled car on the state highway south of Dillon. He lent a hand with their tire and lights, but the two men reportedly robbed him and fled. He vows to offer only a cold stare in future distress cases.
Commencement exercises for a class of 100 seniors at the Montana State Normal College are set for next Wednesday morning with Dr. Willam Trufant Foster as speaker. Activities include a Saturday reception, Baccalaureate address by President S. B. Davis, a senior dinner, the class play The New Lady Bantock, and three traditions such as the candle-light procession. Hazlebaker named to a new state water and flood committee along with H. Carruth and H F W Collins to study water resource protection and flood control.
Dillon Elks celebrated the second anniversary of Dillon Lodge No. 1554 with a well attended dance at Dillmont park last Friday night. Elks from Beaverhead county and from Butte Anaconda and Madison county joined. Mayor Archie McTaggert of Butte attended. A midnight supper and continuous punch accompanied Baxter Tonney orchestra music.
Jay B. Holtz, a prominent Dillon resident and former city water commissioner, was found face down in a swamp on the John Peterson ranch near Jackson. He had been missing since May 17 during a snow storm and apparently died from exhaustion and exposure after an extensive search failed to locate him.
SFRED SCHLAGEL of Dillon was a guest of Beaverhead post of the American Legion at a dinner at the Metlen hotel last Thursday night. He served four years in the trenches during World War I and gave an interesting talk on the war from the German perspective.
Beaverhead County board of commissioners issues a bid call for a new grandstand at the fair grounds. Work on the old structure recently razed. some lumber to be reused, with cash bids due by June 15 and sealed bids filed with Clerk Albert Baker and George Dart, secretary of the fair board. Tom Hoke, 61, a ranch herder, died of natural causes at his camp on Medicine Lodge. Burial in Mountain View cemetery followed services at Dillon.
Three crews under F T Carroll burn beetle infested trees in Madison and Beaverhead national forests. Work has covered Little Sheep canyon Blacktail Creek and South Fork of Blacktail with plans to move to West Fork Madison. Weather has hindered but progress remains steady.
Ranchers along rural routes numbers 1 and 2 from Dillon will receive mail three hours earlier. Carriers on the two routes now leave the post office at 9 o clock each morning instead of noon, improving service for patrons.
W. E. Colbert, a Dillon ranch laborer, died at the Matt Anderson ranch Sunday night after a period of poor health. A Beaverhead County native born in the Centennial valley, he was 40 and had worked on several ranches. He is survived by his widow.
The Dillon Rotary Club weekly luncheon featured several World War I veterans and Spanish American War veterans. George M. Gosman spoke on Memorial Day origins and the American Legion work. Katherine MacGregor and A I Cashmore gave brief talks. Chester Hale chaired.
Vacation plans of training school instructors vary greatly with most teachers spending part of the summer at home or in other communities. Mrs Emma B Golden handles the primary department for a six week summer session at the college and offers primary methods reading and rural school methods courses. She also teaches a three week Parent Teacher course from June 15 to July 3 for one credit. After the summer, Mrs Golden will travel to Aberden North Dakota via Yellowstone Park and Denver Colorado. Miss Mary L Inites will teach Continued on page 8.
Memorial Day exercises were held on the Oregon Short Line depot lawn last Saturday, under Beaverhead post of the American Legion. A large crowd attended after a parade in which veterans, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and patriotic groups participated, led by the Elks drum and bugle corps.
The Montana fish and game commission extended the closed season on streams and lakes in the Big Hole basin. The order, issued after the May 28 meeting in Anaconda, runs to June 30 annually for Pindar Mystic Mussigbrod Twin Minor Deerhead Sand and O'Dell lakes and connected creeks within two miles or to the National forest boundary.
I. B. Mining company of Bannack announces personnel changes. F. H. Hancock becomes general superintendent of mines and mill, filling roles formerly held by C. W. Stringlings and William H. Gaines. Several employees have been reassigned or affected.
Beaverhead and Madison counties youth can earn a free admission to the Al G. Barnes circus in Dillon on Monday June 15 by subscribing to the Dillon Examiner for six months and paying 1 dollar 26 cents. The ticket covers the main show side show and Wild West show and is valid for either matinee or evening performances.
The Bea verhead Mining association will meet at the courthouse next Saturday evening. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and plans discussed for representation at the Northwest Mining association convention in Spokane June 16. Secretary Roy B. Herndon urged all miners who can attend Spokane to confer with him.
Mr. and Mrs. 8. D. Hirschman spent the double holiday at the home of their daughter Mrs. Harry Eckhoff in Boseman.
Bea Beaverhead county high school and the Normal college training school concluded their regular term last Friday. About 69 seniors graduated from the high school in a large class as commencement exercises were held Thursday night. Three senior speakers, Margaret Jordan Wilber Squires and Albert Polish, gave talks on education. Valedictory was delivered by Ebba.
A water suit over Big Sheep Creek rights near Dell opened in district court with about 20 ranchers testifying. The case of F. M. Carr and others, represented by Sweeney & Rogers, is before Judge Lyman H. Bennett. The proceedings include seven parties and several attorneys.
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