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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1924
Page
8
The Dillon high school auditorium hosted a senior class production of The Intimate Stradgery by Booth Tarkington. The cast delivered polished performances with Paul Judge and Dorothy Potter in leading roles, earning praise for natural interpretation and entertaining comedy.
The younger generation Martha Featherly and Lloyd Covert performed tough roles with pleasing interpretations while William Dunn and Mary Holden held station and maid parts. Lee Stone produced sets and lighting, and Miss Reed directed the show to a highly pleased audience.
Joe Liemert and Fred Pascoe lead a plan to establish Dillon's first golf club. A plot three miles north is eyed for a course and, once organization is assured, development will begin. Beaverhead Motors Co. advertises used Fords with easy terms.
Beaverhead County Chapter of the American Red Cross will fund the county public health nurse for the next three months. Miss Elsie Witchen, Red Cross field representative, praised Miss Lian’s work, noting improved child health, milk use, and hygiene. She hopes the program continues and becomes a lasting asset to the county.
Bozeman May 3. Arizona Bill Gardiner Indian scout and guide returns to town for a few days with old friends. He attended the Dillon stock show last week then heads to Yellowstone National Park for the opening season. At 79 he looks fit and still travels on foot, recalling a 60 year old crash with a fire truck and a later pneumonia setback.
Barrett Hospital announces open house on May 12 from 2 to 5 PM with tea served. Visitors will tour the Dillon hospital under escort and Dr. T C Witherspoon will speak at 8 PM on "The Mouth of the Child."
Last Wednesday a new board of electors for the Dillon Rotary club was chosen. The board includes Dr. J. E. Monroe John B. Somerss Hon. Frank Eliel 8 E Davis and C BE Blinn. They will meet to select officers for the coming year. At today’s luncheon G T Paul presides with guest Stone in charge of Hecla mines and George B Conway also involved with Hecla mines. Also notes on used Fords from Beaverhead Motors Co.
R. J. Dee reports at Dillon meetings of the Montana Livestock association and the Montana Woolgrowers' association that foot and mouth disease in California halted the stock show but overall attendance was strong. Dr. W. J. Butler warned of disease risks while Dee urged that once California control is achieved, Montana beef and dairy stock demand should rise and prices improve.
W. D. Cameron former Western Union branch manager was arrested in Sacramento on a embezzlement charge. Rumor says he took French leave with several hundred dollars. His young wife and small baby are in Butte. the family had lived here for months.
The Commissioner of Internal RevenueRequires all corporations to report names and addresses of individuals or firms receiving $500 or more in dividends during 1923. File Form 1097 with the IRS Sorting Section Washington D C by June 15 1924. Penalties apply for late filing. Corporations with no $500 payments need not file. -C A Rasmusson Collector.
A group led by Kenneth Slack Tom Harris Walter Foster Miss Evelyn Gleed Miss Lois Wheat and Miss Margaret Roe traveled to Virginia City last Saturday afternoon for the high school Junior Prom. They stayed as guests at the G G Wheat home during their visit.
The First Baptist Church schedules 10:00 Sunday school for all ages and 11:00 worship with the theme Ideal American Homes. Mothers Day observed in morning service. choir offers special songs. Sunday 8:00 sermon The Inspiration of the Bible. Wednesday 7:30 Romans 12 study. Ladies Aid at Mrs Murray’s Kentucky avenue home. Junior and Intermediate B Y P U at 6:00. Senior at 7:30. Recent meetings yielded several professions of faith.
Under Dillon Rotarians direction a public camp ground is being constructed at Bannack and Pacific streets in the city center. The large plot will be covered with clean white sand, illuminated, with cooking areas, dressing rooms and shower baths in a nearby building.
Stillwater County Woolgrowers Association sold a pool of about 50 000 fleeces weighing 400 000 pounds to Tom Mulvihill for Silbermann Co at 43 cents per pound. The sale totals around $175 000 with farmers optimistic despite disease hitting markets in Colorado Arizona and parts of Utah. Lamb prices hold at ten cents with some early sales near 10.40 dollars per head. An 8 pound fleece valued at 3.60 and a 7.00 lamb illustrate healthy margins for the season.
Mrs Marie McMenomey of Armstead died April 26 1924 at her parents' home in Butte after illness lasting a year. Born in Denver April 28 1895 she grew up in Butte, attended schools and the state normal at Dillon. She taught in Lima Big Hole Basin and other Montana communities and married Mart McMenomey in June 1920. She is survived by husband and child.
Besides her husband and child she is mourned by her father and mother, two brothers and four sisters. To the husband and two year old baby goes the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community.
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