Locals Pass Through Dillon From Nearby Towns
A stream of visitors arrived in Dillon and nearby areas from Grant Bannack Wisdom Horse Prairie Armstead Lakeview and Deer Lodge over last week. Attendees included families from Centennial valley and ranches on Horse Prairie with reports of social events and a planned second dance in Grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Robinette
Dillon
Lakeview
Jalek Anderson
Wisdom
Alf Decker
Armstead
Hal Brenner
Horse Prairie
Andrus
James Mansfield
Grant
Tom Pierce
Kay
Lowell Smith
B. B. Roe
Vocational Congress
George Harrison
Bannack
Guy Gray
Millpoint
Martin
Deer Lodge
S. P. Meade
Beaverhead High School Ag
Chevrolet Cars Most Popular During Weepah Gold Rush
The Weepah mining camp in Nevada drew miners and visitors with Chevrolet cars common in the camp, seen as economical and reliable transport over pack animals. Frank Horton Jr. is credited as discoverer of the new lodge and his father arrived after the claim drew attention. The article notes the camp’s growth, tents, and early transportation habits, with Chevrolet widely used among early workers. The piece references local notes on patents and land deeds in nearby Dillon and Beaverhead County.
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Virginia City
Goldfield
Nevada
California
Weepah
Bret Harte
Mark Twain
Frank Horton, Jr
New Lodge
Chevrolet
Beaverhead County Transfer Records Recorded
Record of all transfers filed in Beaverhead county clerk and recorder office as shown by Southern Montana records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaverhead County
Montana
Dr H McFarland Osteopathic Physician
Dr H McFarland an osteopathic physician listed with Medlen block details office phone 245 and residence 203 W.
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H. McFarland
Medlen
Parsons and Visitors List from Local Briefs
Home from California Bert Paul prominent Monida merchant returns from Southern California and visited Dillon last Friday. Pennsylvania Visitors Dr and Mrs L T Russell arrived from Perryapolis Penn and will spend summer with their daughters Louise at Dillon and Mrs Oscar Brown near Sheridan. Injured With Discuss Berlin Gordon high school athlete injured by a flying discus during football practice. deep head wound, not seriously hurt. Dies in Butte Mrs Patrick Carney dies in Butte after illness. funeral at Waterloo. she was mother of J W Carney now Helena game warden chief deputy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Paul
Monida
California
Dillon
L. T. Russel
Perryapolis
Penn
Will
Louise
Oscar Brown
Sheridan
Patrick Carney
Butte
St. James Hospital
Waterloo
J. W Carney
Helena
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Oxfords
Nunn & Bush Oxfords
UTZ & Dunn
Elies Bros., Inc
Dillon, Montana
Lambert Eliel
Chas. Montgomery
City
Centennial Valley
Elsie Garrison
Bill
Sugar Bowl
Dillon's. S
Roy. Jackson, Mer
Reichle
Ellen Judy
Alder
George Strube
National Catholic Women’s Council
Gladys Scully
Missoula
Hugh
Elwyn Metzel
Harold Blinn
Dillén
Horton Jr
Abstract and Title Company
U. S. of A
George Richardson
James D. Berry
E. O. Selway
Maynard M. Lovell
U. 8. of A
Sam L. Parker
William H. Sharp
Carl W. Nelson
City of
Michael Stefanatz
Mountain View Cemetery
Sylvan H. Cheney
Julia A. Mathews
Lima
Leda
R. Flynn
A. L. ‘Stone
Pennsylvania
Berlin Gordon
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