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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
7
Doss Wright of Montana Auto Supply writes a patriotic poem praising the U S A. He pledges love for the flag and willingness to serve, noting soldiers who may die in trenches and others who shed blood for the red, white and blue.
Mrs. Josephine Giudici, born in Sweden and married to ranchman Frank Giudici, died in Chicago after months under medical care. Her remains will be shipped to Dillon for interment beside husband and two children, Lewis 12 and Madaline 9, with four sisters in Chicago and one in Dillon surviving.
Beaverhead county agent R. G. McChord joins state council in Bozeman for a county agent conference to report county conditions and plan summer work. Weather and labor shortages slow farm activity with winter wheat killed and replanted to spring wheat. State defense council to hold four Beaverhead meetings in mid July with local hosts and one distant speaker including a woman.
A deep June snowstorm in Beaverhead County lasting fifteen hours disrupted telegraph lines and damaged trees. Sheep shearing is delayed by a week, but dry land farmers gain as the heavy snow protects the 1917 wheat crop.
The Montana Auto Supply Co sold several Ford models including M. 8 Reohlk Apex and multiple buyers in Dillon and Wisdom. Dodge sales included George Woodworth and Dr R H Ryburn among others with listed buyers across Dillon Wisdom and surrounding areas.
A. H. Neate and Miss Edith Halliday will lead the Plan grounds opening with public gym facilities. The program outlines apparatus hours for primary to adult classes, daily evenings except Wednesday and Saturday, and multiple class/team groupings for grades, town groups, and dances. A weekly schedule will follow.
In Blaine the garden and canning club grows, while residents like Al Nichols and Ray Koontz attend to town matters. Sheep shearing by Sherman Sapp and Frank Robson proceeds as weather and rains hold. Local fires, brush cleanup, and grazing moves reshape nearby land use as families visit Dillon and Twin Bridges.
Redrock cattleman E. B. Roe completed a purchase last Thursday of the Boatman Ranch on the south side of the Redrock river in Centennial valley. The 3000 acre parcel with ample hay land changed hands for 20 dollars per acre, with Roe running the ranch alongside his Redrock cattle outfit formerly known as Shineberger.
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