Sixth Annual Chautauqua Opens in Dillon Tomorrow
The Dillon Chautauqua begins Thursday with a strong program promising novelty acts, lectures, and music. Highlights include the Dixie Doll Company, Movieland hour, Harry Bland’s orchestra, Glenn Morris electrical demonstrations, Virginia Colored Jubilee singers, and talks by Wm. BE. Thompson and Booth Lowery. Season tickets offer value at about twenty cents per number. six hundred tickets must be sold. Reserved seats available at Security State Bank.
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Dillon
Dixie Doll Company
Dixie Doll
Yankee Doll
Douglas Fairbanks
Charles Ray
Mary Pickford
Harry Bland
Marne
Ymusic
Glenn Morris
Wm. BE. Thompson
Balkans
Booth Lowery
Georgene Faulkner
Ladies Home Journal
New York World
Chicago Tribune
Victor Phonograph
Christian Mathisen
Madame Lenander
Mathisen
Victor
Columbia Phonograph Company
Liege
Badethe
Chautauqua
Security State Bank
Thornton Brundageretain Manhattan Cup at Dillon shoot
Sunday shoot in Dillon features six events plus a seventh, led by Thornton and Brundage retaining the Manhattan team cup with 26 singles per man. Roy Forrester wins the Dillon cup with 16 singles and two pairs, Renfro takes the Klepetko medal, and Schulz claims the Eiel hat yardage handicap. O'Brien of Butte and local interest point to a statewide Dillon event as a major future draw with participants from Butte and Dillon.
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Dillon
Thornton
Brundage
Roy Forrester
Klepetko
O’brien
Butte
Renfro
Schulz
Bog O’brien
Smith
Forrester
Birrer
Fryberg
F. Dart
Graeter
G. Dart
Im. Orr
Melton
Williams
Dr Poindexter Leaves for Extended Europe Visit
Dr F M Poindexter a prominent Dillon physician departed Sunday for Chicago en route to Montreal then sails June 18 for England to attend post graduate clinics for two months. He will tour the continent for a month and a half after. Senator Frank Hazelbaker hosted a stag dinner in his honor with local doctors and guests, ending with a solid gold Howard watch presented to him as he prepared to board the train.
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F. M. Poindexter
Dillon
Chicago
Montreal
Canada
England
Frank Hazelbaker
Will Have Charge of Lima Star
The Lima Drug store has secured E. P. Ward a registered pharmacist who will have charge of the store. Ward is a Beaverhead county native born in Dillon and is an energetic experienced pharmacist. The Ledger congratulates Mr. Smith and Mr. Ward on the new alliance and wishes them success.
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Will
Lima Star
Lima Drug Store
E. P. Ward
Mr. Ward
Beaverhead County
Dillon
The
Ledger
Mr. Smith
Lima Ledger
Good Roads Day Dance to Mark the Montana Event
Governor Dixon proclaims June 21 as Good Roads Day in Montana. Dillon observes with a Dillmont park dance to fund road repairs between Dillon and the park. A. L. Anderson and Bud McGrath coordinate efforts. park taxis offer free service. Proceeds support highway improvement statewide.
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Dillon
Montana
Dillmont Park
A. L. Anderson
Bud McGrath
State Highway Commission Ag
Joseph M. Dixon
Helena
President Clapp Guest of Wranglers Club
President Clapp of the School of Mines attended a Wranglers club banquet in Dillon after arriving from Butte. He toured Smallhorn canyon oil shale work Beaverhead Alberta drilling site and Axe canyon graphite mine before returning for a late afternoon dinner and a talk on the oil situation.
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Clapp
School of Mines
Wranglers’ Club
Methodist
Butte
Smallhorn Canyon
Beaverhead-Alberta Company
Axe Canyon
Lynch
Dillon
Beaverhead County Wool Clip Grows With Blues and Blanks?
Beavershead county sheep shearers number about two hundred with close to 250 000 sheep to be shorn in the coming month and total wool expected above two million pounds. A new fireproof wool warehouse is under rush construction and will grade store and issue receipts to growers under government plan. A motor party to Butte last Wednesday included Mr and Mrs E S Duff Mr and Mrs Russell Fryburg and Mr and Mrs George Melton, returning with Misses Josephine Jones and Dorothy Thomas.
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Beaverhead
Montana
Big Eastern
Butte
E. S. Duff
Commencement Week at Montana Normal College
The twenty fourth annual spring commencement was held this morning at 11 in the Normal College auditorium with diplomas conferred by Chancellor Elliott and President Davis after speeches by Supt. W. R. Siders and others. The day featured the Chinook play, Junior events, Alumni Banquet, Senior Sunday, and Class Day exercises, with diverse campus activities, dinners, and a large list of graduates.
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Normal College
Davis
Elliott
Father Foley
College Glee Club
Margaret Lang
W. R. Siders
Pocatello
Mary Emily Elliott
Chaminade
Davia
Eliott
Glee Club
Brahms
Edward Smith
Andrus Hotel
Iva Davidson Taylor
Victor Parker
Mabel Selway Erwin
Agnes Scallon
McBain
Alice Walker
Miss Degan
Montana Crowley
Floy Wright
Aged Prospector Theodore Batson Ends Life at Bannack
The Bannack prospector Theodore Batson aged over 70 committed suicide last Sunday by shooting himself. His body was found outside his cabin door. He kept a diary showing chronic thoughts of ending his life and notes directing burial arrangements and payments to helpers. Batson had lived in Bannack for five years and relatives have been notified.
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Theodore Batson
Bannack
Batson
Bridd’s Lake, N. J
Baston
Mother Earth
Philipeburg
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Boulder
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Potomac
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Hamilton
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