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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1919
Page
12
John F. Melia, appointed January 1, 1919, heads a raid blitz in Butte and Silver Bow county. He has conducted 42 raids with over $30,000 in liquor seized, including many from Walkerville, and relies on special deputies to uncover illicit stock and fixtures.
Colonel William Boyce Thompson heads a Roosevelt Memorial Committee proposing Belleau Wood in France be acquired and made into an American National Cemetery for Theodore Roosevelt memory. Notables like Taft Hughes Peary Wood and Gibbons back the plan. Quentin Roosevelt’s grave would lie within.
J Bruce Kremer a prominent Butte lawyer has been elevated to vice chairman of the National Democratic Committee following a Washington convening. He has long served as a national committeeman for Montana and acted as secretary during the 1916 St Louis convention managing the Wilson campaign in western states.
Col. William Boyce Thompson a Virginia City native rose to dominance in American business as a Federal Reserve Bank of New York director and president of Inspiration Copper. He controlled Knox Hat and Curtiss Aeroplane, financed Red Cross Russia relief, aided Hoover Belgian relief, and allied with Roosevelt, poised to shape national life.
Merritt W. Penwell of Gallatin county, 78, eldest Montana legislator and early wheat grower, helped found the state’s grain industry. He and brother O. E. Penwell, with John Thomas and Henry Davis, pioneered commercial wheat and barley in the Gallatin valley starting in 1864, building mills and a thriving flour trade as Montana’s wheat output surged to 50 million dollars in 1918.
The 163d regiment of United States infantry, once the Montana National Guard, arrived home from fourteen months of overseas service in France. Some 2,600 soldiers gathered at Liberty theater for a New York company performance and speeches by Col. Thomas L. Lanson Chaplain William Pippy and Col. Frank White. The farewell emphasized the unit's demobilization and highlighted the regiment’s wartime contributions in Toul sector Chateau Thierry St Mihiel and the Argonne.
New York interests advance the Comet mine near Basin in Jefferson county as the first unit of a new 150 ton per day mill is planned. Led by E. P. J. Burgess, the project expects 200000 tons of milling ore with an average silver value of 15 ounces, shipping ore already moving 20 to 25 tons daily.
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