Train Service to Continue for Weeks in Community Morale Drive
Edwin R. Buck announced two weeks of jar collections totaling 69.58 to fund the community train service. Jars in 32 business houses will stay on display. top jar totals included 8.90 at the Metlen hotel, 5.75 at the Stockman, and 4.85 at the Club. The program supplies morale boosting treats to service members, including apples cigarettes magazines post cards playing cards and newspapers. A Fort Douglas letter from Col. C C Harshman praised the effort and noted breakfast stops with morale boosting distributions amid severe cold.
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Edwin R. Buck
Metlen
Club
Dillon
Col. C. C. Harshman
Ordnance Department
Fort Douglas
Utah
Beavers End Basketball Season At Butte Friday
Beavers wrap up their season with a loss to Central in Butte. Dart misses game due to illness. Returning players include Dart, C. Davis, Thompson, Hansen and Pierce. Principal Johnson hints at strong prospects for next season. Beavers faced top A teams like Butte Central, Livingston, and Anaconda this year.
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Harold Babcock
Missoula
Prin. D. L. Johnson
Dart
Beavers
Butte
C. Davis
Thompson
Hansen
Pierce
Princ Johnson
Butte Central
Livingston
Anaconda
Mid-Winter Concert by Dillon Public School Band and Orchestra
Fifty members of the Dillon public school band and orchestra performed in the mid winter concert at Bagley school auditorium. A large audience enjoyed band and orchestra numbers plus specialty pieces including a cornet duet and woodwind ensemble. The new band uniforms did not arrive in time for the concert under director L A Gregory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Public School
Bagley
Jéan Staudenmeyer
Hewitt Martinell
Mary Beth Smith
Dick McCracken
Dean Romers
Lambert Eliel
Walter Scott
Marion Camps
Joanne Shaw
Teddy Hazelbaker
Vera Sargent
Eugene Bennett
Jean Staudenmeyer
Robert Cardinale
Jimmy Bateman
Norman Garrick
Jack Nightingale
L. A. Gregory
War era notices and service updates from Dillon town
Local soldiers and recruits are named with new assignments and statuses. Gordon Berry transfers to Fort Lewis Washington. Sgt Al Sipes serves in New Guinea sending letters home. Robert W Medsker seriously wounded in North Africa. Lt Gilbert graduates Officer Candidate School and is called to active duty. Seth Tayne on furlough in Dillon. Wyman Rider returns from Navy leave. Harry Schuler promoted to aviation chief ordnance man in Hawaii.
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Robert Bruce Gilbert
W. G. Gilbert
Dillon
Quartermaster School
Camp Lee
Army
Gilbert
Robert W. Medsker
North Africa
Edna Medsker
du Quoin
Ill
War Department
North African
Harry R. Schuler
Anna Schuler
U.S. Navy
Schuler
Hawaii
Beaverhead County
Powerites Eliel's Tie For First In Municipal League Play
In the pin play of the Montana Power and Eliel's league both teams share first with .733 average. High games by Eliel's 2676 pins and Claude Lay 543 across three. Winn's led individual with 2653 total. Roscoe Cornell had 212 and 519. Bowling schedule outlines matches from March 19 to 26 with several teams listed. Also notes servicemen and transfers including Schuler, Bramsman, Paul Temple family updates and Navy Air Force movements.
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Montana Power
Eliel
Claude Lay
Ross
Winn
Roscoe Cornell
Rock Crushers
Optimists
Buzzsaws
Johnny's Cafe
Hazelbaker’s
Screwballs
Alley Cats
Cash Market
Standard Lumber
Paddock & Tyro
State Bank
Tribune
Gosman Drug
Eliel’s
Bond's
Orr Flowers
Winn’s
Montana Power and Tash ‘Transfer
Texaco
Montana Auto
Men’s Store
Paramount Cleaners
Warner’s
Dillon Implement
Powerettes
Emerick Insurance
Merle’s
Skeet’s
Stephan’s
City Drug
Great Falls Paper Publishes County History
The Great Falls paper presents a county history with a supplement showing battlegrounds. It includes a summary of early Indian days and features Rhoda Fenn Willey’s Beaverhead history and Miss Jean Bishop’s story of the county’s first settlers.
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Beaverhead
Rhoda Fenn Willey
Jean Bishop
Jackson couple visits city for business Monday
Mr and Mrs Harry Lapham of Jackson were business visitors in the city Monday.
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Harry Lapham
Jackson
City
County Commission Minutes Cover Bids and Appointments
The county board met March 1943 in regular session with all members present. They opened bids for a 65 Caterpillar Tractor, awarding it to T Lee McCracken at 90 percent of value. Printing bids were reviewed under Section 19, with the county attorney confirming Tribune Publishing Co.’s quotation lawful. Dr W H Stephan was reappointed county physician and a contract with $2,000 salary prepared. Dr F M Poindexter reappointed health officer. Reports on county farm and high school finances approved and filed.
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Dillon
T. Lee McCracken
Tribune Publishing Co
W. H. Stephan
F. M. Poindexter
County Farm
Books Donated to Beaverhead County Museum by Mrs. Anderson
Mrs. Clark Anderson donated a Seminole arts and crafts collection and Spanish American War relics to Beaverhead County Museum. The museum plans to grow exhibits as donations increase and invites local residents to join as museum associates with a $1 annual contribution.
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Clark Anderson
Beaverhead County
Meat Rationing Begins March 29 Under Fair Share Plan
The government explains farm families should keep red stamps equal to the value of rationed foods they produce and eat at home to share supplies with city shoppers. OPA keeps April processed food points at March level 48 with no broad liberalization. blue stamps D E F total 48 will cover foods March 25 to April 30, while A B C expire March 31. Consumers may spend April stamps in the final March week to use remaining March stamps.
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Rocky Mountain States
OPA
Mrs Charles Wenger Visitor From Jackson in Dillon
Mrs Charles Wenger of Jackson was a visitor in Dillon last week, spending time with local acquaintances and touring area landmarks during her stay.
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Charles Wenger of
Jackson
Dillon
John Jackson and Johnny Nelson Visit City
John Jackson and Johnny Nelson were in the city from Jackson on Monday for unspecified business.
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John Jackson
Johnny Nelson
Jackson
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Beaver-Central
Central
City Hall
Citizen’s Party
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Christian Science Monitor
THE
Christian Science Publishing Society
One
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
the Monitor
Christian Science Reading Room
White Block
Dillon, Montana
Leonard Hubbard
Norman W. Grant
Andrew G. Garr
Philip B. Cottom
Daniel Mayne
Pascal J. Bimat
George Wesley McKinney
Spencer Edwin Whitworth
James L. Hudgins
Florian A. Burlingame
Robert Carl Shepard
Roy Pennington Ford
George Tinsley Holt
John V. Stevenson
Bernard Williams Rife
Wesley George Skeeters
Bartlett M. Lawrence
Norman C. Wynes
Thomas W. Kess
Elbea W. McNinch
Earl L. Tash
Emil Schindler
Mathew A.lasich
Henry A. Peterson
Peter Dc. Ampo
Anthony F. Rogan
Joseph P. Thompson
Joseph Herbert Buck
McCoy Rice
Clark G. D’evelyn
Homer M. Faust
Elmo L. Winn
Lee Randel England
David P. Keefer
Clarence T. Holter
Melbern Lloyd Jones
Nicolas Deleon
Frank Joseph Lasich
Cloud H. Shaver
Wallace Pease
Enoch A. Cheek
William T. Pinkerton
Edward E. Hazel
Louis E. Dieterle
Earl J. Keane
Paul B. Bramsman
George H
O’connell
Dwight
Leslie Johnson
Verner Christensen
Walter Francis Edwards
Raymond P. Hawkley
Delbert Peterson
Paul L. Anderson
George H. Johnson
Gordon Berry
Boise
Idaho
Fort Lewis
Wash
Pvt
J. G. Berry
DEML
Sca
al Sipes
Big Hole
U. S. Army
New Guinea
Ras Hansen
Armstead
Harry
U.S. Army Air Force
Lincoln
Neb
Harry E. Hansen
T.S.S. Bks
Lincoln Air Base
John E. Tayne
Timothy Tayne
Set
Tayne
Army Air Force
Denver
Colo
Wyman Rider
U. S. Navy
Harry Peterson
Kingsville
Texas
Powerites
Winn’s and
Eliel’s Roll High
Atlantic
Puerto Rico
Baffin Bay
Anthony Bramsman
Navy
Argentia
N. F
Paul Simons
McClelland Field
Calif
Paul H. Temple
Warren Temple
New Jersey
U. S. Army Air Force
Jack L. Temple
Pascoe
Corpus Christi
Wu Stephan
Benen Steer
Enneeneesenes
Skeet
Pee Be Ee En Ee Wennssereseaneee
Seree Eens Es Teen Senna Eers Optimists
Penne
Cba
Johnny’s Cafe Ee Eers
Neces
Great Falls
Milady
Montana
Montana Power Company
Dillon Implement Company
First National Bank
SEA Fe Community
Ated
Northwest Bascorporation
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