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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1931
Page
8
The article explains intercropping flowers with vegetables to extend beauty and utility. Rows of annuals alternate with vegetables in raised, straight beds with narrow borders. It lists suitable flowers and edgings and suggests transplanting annuals as vegetables mature, using spinach radish and lettuce beds for fresh annuals, and planting gladiolus bulbs for cutting in spaces freed by early crops.
Sid Coffee of Missoula, head of the Montana Automobile Association, says approval of referendum No 365 on May ballots would finish most highway work in four years. He cites $32,834,393 spent since 1919 to build 2,777 miles of federal aid road and projects about $23,000,000 more in four years with federal aid and state funds.
Mr and Mrs Henry Thompson recently returned from California and were to the city last Saturday from Kiad, outlining a brief travel update in local notices.
Campaign opened and it is believed to reach the 1921 quota established by the state before the routing week comes to a close.
Dillon Elks initiated nine candidates at their regular meeting last night led by Past Exalted Ruler Terry Browning. A parade preceded the ceremony with the lodge drum and bugle corps.
Movietone shifts titles with Mr Lemon of Orange as a box office draw. Virginia Cherrill and John Wayne star in Girls Demand Ex citement with Cherrill also in City Lights. Edward Woods repeats Last Mile chair scene. Marie Dressler and Polly Moran in Reducing. Dorothy Mackaill and Warner Baxter in This Mad Moment.
A trio of films including Hell's Angels Queer People and Adam and Eve faces censure as local officials debate public screening at speakies. Audiences may learn if censorship changes will allow or deny revised showings.
The readable fragments hint at a feature involving marriage or love themes and references to French phones and movie English. The passage is incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, or concrete events to establish a specific news item.
Actress Lois Moran discusses trends in cinema and fashion as women move away from traditional roles and styles. She references evolving tastes, modern vitality, and shifting expectations in Hollywood during the era.
Waldron Boger receives recognition for an act of heroism while in Maine as a Life Scout. Recommendations were submitted a month ago and the official notice was announced Monday by Daniel Carter Beard, a noted National Boy Scout leader.
Mrs. A. H. Franch left Monday for Helens to attend the golden wedding anniversary of her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Conway former residents of Dillon.
Orleans Cuba the Panama canal Central America the west coast of South America and California. President E Davis gave a talk on Student Myth ology at the weekly assembly yesterday morning, discussing myths about instructors of long tenure. The winter term closed last Friday with many students spending the weekend at home in nearby cities.
A joint session of Twin Bridges and Dillon Rotarians will feature an entertainment program with vocal solos by Dr. W. H. Stephan dances by Claudia Faust and three pupils Helen Ida Best Hope Mathews and Helen Wilkinson and other features. The Twin Bridges club hosted a similar event for Dillon last October.
Faust School of Dancing presents toe dance by Joanne Covall and musical comedy by Ebba Anderson and Edythe Kenison plus two vocal items by the Dilton Choral club under Mrs W G Gilbert. The public event aims to raise about 100 for supplying curtains on both hospital floors, aided by support from the Men’s bridge club and public patrons.
A fragment notes a nucleus of $20 toward a fund with further support from men in the community, urging assurance of the required sum.
A Dillon event features a school orchestra directed by Miss Myrtle Savidge and six Philharmonic selections led by L A Gregory plus piano solos by Miss Fiddler. Proceeds fund cello purchases for children with limited means. Admission lowered to 35 cents for adults. matinee Friday at 3 30 PM with 86 cent adults 11 6 cent children. Evening shows charge 26 cents for children.
Dr. E. Davis leads Friday session with Emma Golden and Gladys Garr among participants. Morning program covers census plans, training of new teachers, music education, birds and flowers topics, and the White House conference. Afternoon program includes Governor Erickson, health talks, and high school code discussion with closing suggestions.
The article notes a noncredit option with a one dollar fee and urges early enrollment at the registrar's office. Tennis enrollment already totals eighty, straining courts as two new ones are being prepared for spring quarter. Registration began with 343 students, with total spring attendance expected around 360, up about 35 from last year.
An agronomist with a history in Africa Europe Central and South America and parts of the United States came to Montara from Kanseg to take a position with the Anaconda Copper Mining company. He also served as an aviator during the war.
Mr Williams and the Beaverhead Future Farmers chapter laid out several test plots on local ranches including alfalfa and grain plots. Samples will be sent to laboratories for analysis. The group plans more plots in the Big Hole basin and will supervise harvesting and data collection this summer.
The Dillon county board reviewed bids for sewer system completion on March 14 1931 with Harold H Hanson offering 2107 and Dart Hardware 2161 and Thos E Luebben 1900. The lowest bidder Luebben was awarded the contract after consideration with a 10 year guarantee and potential cement tank alteration reducing cost by 100.00. Final plans to be set at the April commissioners session.
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