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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
2
Alfred Atkinson state food administrator appeals to parents to back boys and girls club work to increase state production. He cites education value and future community leadership. Service Cards issued to registered youths. thousands already distributed.
American units are slated to reinforce the Italian forces facing Austrian invasion. The move strengthens allied defense as the two nations coordinate operations and supply lines.
Montana farmers will receive 500 to 1,000 Ford tractors around August 1 at cost. The state council of defense will supervise delivery with a plan for service, repairs, and no profit to distributors. Demonstration units may precede shipments, with funds remitting to Ford and Son via a local bank.
Poem extols farmers plowing across vast fields from sea to sea in wartime. It links tillage to liberty, victory over despots, and feeding nations while soldiers march and hunger rings. The refrain celebrates furrows as symbols of resilience and freedom's defense.
Utah style: Montanans often carry firearms with district judge permits. Officers report widespread gun carry and self defense claims. At a Montana Council of Defense meeting a resolution urged judges to be extremely cautious granting concealed weapon permits to reduce threats to public tranquility.
President Wilson asks Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board to form a bureau to closely monitor all war work. The scope covers coal and steel production war materials and transportation.
Butte born Arthur T O Leary plans military training at Bozeman while flying his home built airplane described as an original self invented machine with a stabilizing device He hopes to carry his mascot across and amuse himself with several thousand feet of flight when not in military duties and expects to have fun.
Dan Floweree brought a fine herd of Shorthorns from Missouri in 1865 and John Grant and others built up early Montana stocks. The Montana Shorthorn Breeders Association formed in 1916 under officers R. P. Heron and others, promoting showings and sales to improve state herds. the article notes 26,000 manure spreaders in New York and envisions similar adoption in Montana.
A plea for divine rainfall to end scorching winds and save a half-acre farm and global grain supply. The speaker asks God to bless crops, aid wartime needs, and deliver a bumper fall harvest.
A. R. Seaver, a lineman, was killed by lightning 25 miles south of Great Falls near Orr. Montana Power Co through the state compensation board paid the death compensation in full on the second day after the death, believed to be an American record for quick settlement.
A sweep of brief Montana notices reports crop damage from heat and floods, new factories planned in Malta, roads and mine incidents in Roundup and Helena, arrests for sedition in Lewistown and Corvallis nurses’ diplomas. War chest growth in Gallatin, draft deserter roundups in Butte, and lighting upgrades in Malta.
Ralph W. Miller yeoman in the U S Navy on the steamer President Lincoln when it was sunk by a German submarine is alive and safe in New York after 18 hours on a raft. He had been missing and was believed lost, sending a brief telegram to Egbert Carney of the Anaconda company.
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