Chautauqua program highlights national service drive
Ellison White presents a Chautauqua week with government endorsed lectures from Lincoln L. Wirt war correspondent and Dr C J Bushnell plus Hoover era food demonstration. Notable speakers include Judge Roland Baggett and Edna Eugenia Lowe. Hawaii travelogue closes the event with Mildred Leo Clemens and Mark Twain kin. A county war savings drive launches Friday with promises of patriotic school programs and a goal of one hundred percent thrift stamp ownership in Beaverhead.
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Wilson
Washington
United States
Lincoln L. Wirt
Western Front
Europe
Pershing
U. S. Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Chautauqua
C. J. Bushnell
Bureau of
J. A. Pattee
Thavin
Chicago Grand Opera
Treble Clef Club
Morrison-Smith Company
Zedeler Symphonie Quintet
Fenwick Newell Concert Company
Hawaii
Land of Music
Royal Hawaiian Quintet
Mildred Leo Clemens
Paradise
Beaverhead County
Arthur Pilon Narrowly Survives Train Collision
Arthur Pilon a Montana Auto Supply employee narrowly escaped injury when the Ford he drove was struck by a freight train last Monday noon. The car was crushed beneath a boxcar but Pilon freed himself with only scratches after the wreck was cleared. Onlookers say he drove onto the tracks, unable to see the approaching train. Co M Maley Ray Maley Web Lyons and Vicki Miller of Monida are in the city.
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Arthur Pilon
Montana Auto Supply Company
Ford
Young Pilon
Co. M. Maley
Ray Maley
Web Lyons
Vicki Miller
Monida
City
Plunge Construction Starts At Grasshopper Valley
Chris Olsen of Dillon will oversee the hot water plunge project with concrete work to begin immediately. Most materials are on site and residents will assist in hauling remaining supplies to speed completion targeted for late August.
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Chris Olsen
Dillon
Olsen
Grasshopper Valley
United States Forestry Department
Beaverhead County
Elkhorn
Forest Department
Grasshopper
Wise River
Anaconda
Butte
Elkhorn Springs
Shaw Predicts Big Hay Crop
Shaw forecasts a vast hay harvest with hundreds of workers needed this year to cut, haul, and bale the bumper crop across the region.
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Shaw
Celebration for Soldiers to Hold Fourth of July Parade
A city mass meeting led to a planned Independence Day celebration with a parade, speakers, singing, and a big farewell dance for 118 soldiers departing tomorrow for Camp Lewis. A banquet at Andrus Hotel precedes the dance at Dillmont Park to honor the contingent.
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F. WH. Bimrose
Richard M. Cosgrove
George M. Melton
Albert Stamin
J. H. Gilbert
Camp Lewis
Andrus Hotel
Banqguet
Dillmont Park
Seave
Beaverhead County
Salons to Close During Mobilization Period in Dillon
Saloons in Dillon will close today at noon and stay shut until after a large troop movement ends tomorrow afternoon. Sentries with new mobilization badges will be barred from serving any intoxicants to badge wearers. Mrs. Nelson arrives from Twin Bridges to stay until Alderic Tessier departs for Camp Lewis.
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Dillon
Mrs. Nelson
Twin Bridges
Alderic Tessier
Camp Lewis
Fourth of July celebration moved to Dillmont park
A Dillon fourth of July event is canceled in town and moved to Dillmont park. The plan is a large community picnic with picnickers bringing their own meals, band music, patriotic speeches, singing, and dancing in the pavilion. The Baxter Tonney Orchestra will provide afternoon and evening music.
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Dillon
Dillmont Park
Roy Jackson
Ten Men to Leave Dillon for Aeronautical Service
On July 1 ten men will depart Dillon to report at Vancouver barracks Washington for limited service in the aeronautical branch. Named are Patrick Dougherty Butte Edgar Luster Watson Lima Anton Christensen Butte Fred Arthur Anderson Las Vegas Nev Felix Lester Woody Butte Orin Trevor Fox Dillon Patsy Odds Dillon Jack Flansburg Clinton Richard Leslie Hill Plains Henry F Erwin Dillon.
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Dillon
Vancouver Barracks
Jack Flansburg
Clinton
Richard Leslie Hill
Plains
Henry F. Erwin
Dr Hugh A MacMillan Receives Army Medical Commission
Dr Hugh A MacMillan was informed by telegram that he passed the U S Army medical examination and has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps. He replied he would be ready for duty by July 1 and requested overseas duty as his friends celebrate this wartime appointment.
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Hugh A. MacMillan
United States Army
MacMillan
Beaverhead Crops Saved by Heavy Rainfall
A Beaverhead County farmer reports drenching rainstorms saved both irrigated and dry farm crops, predicting one of the biggest agricultural seasons. He notes some wheat fields are backward but cites dry farming practices and summer fallowing as key to strong yields, urging scientific farming for big crops.
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Big Hole Basin
Joe Shaw
Mr. Shaw
United States
Bill Tash
Big Hole
Butte
Anaconda
Egr Gon
Beaverhead
DRAFTED MAN DROWNED NEAR LIBBY
Jay Baker reports Harry David Strain, drafted Dillon resident, drowned in the Kootenai river near Libby while breaking a horse. Strain had registered at Gibbons in the Big Hole basin last June and worked in the region for several months before the accident.
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Jay
Baker
Harry David Strain
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Kootenai
Libby
Strain
Gibbons
Big Hole
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Ellison
Sam
Liberty Bonds
Frank Hazelbaker
National War Savings Campaign
Beaverhead War Savings Committee
Ford Automobile
Dillmont
Constantin Bocson
Charles Lee Dorsey
Thomas Johnson
Frank Kambich Charles Fred Stoll
Jerry Crow
Pedrietti
Gioachino
Alexandre McFarlane
Fred Lea Franklin Albert Spencer
Fred Yost
John Prohosky Nephi Gideon Jensen
DR. Macmillan
The
Dillon Examiner
Kootenai River
M. V. Wilson
Anderson
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