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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1931
Page
3
A federal census report released yesterday details Montana's gainful workers across industries. It records 537 606 total population with 434 261 aged 10 plus and 184 117 males and 82 354 females employed. Agriculture leads with 79 678 workers while trade and transportation show strong totals and manufacturing employs 26 982 across segments.
Changes and improvements update perennial garden varieties with new dwarf Anchusa blue varieties and pale blue Wilson's Aconite from China. Aquilegia spurs lengthen while flowers enlarge, old English Daisy declines to a new gigantic aster form, new butter yellow hollyhock, fringed and fly-leaved forms, larger tufted pansies, several new Orient Poppy colors, and many Iris and Peony newcomers.
Henry Seifken arrived in town last week from his Bloody Dick home after a winter spent in Anaheim California.
Town patrons and ranchers frequent Dillon as Davis county mentions roll through. The piece notes visits by J. Anderson from Jackson and others from Bannack, Lima, Sheridan, Sheep Creek and Big Hole basin with meetings at the county seat. A hospital patient, an explosion victim, is described with neighbors responding.
Lewis Stone heads Greta Garbo's Hartwig theatre feature In Inspiration. Stone, seen with Garbo in A Woman of Affairs and Wild Orchids, plays a steadfast friend as Clar ence Brown directs this new MGM vehicle with Robert Montgomery, Mar yJorie Rambeau, Judith Vosselli, Beryl Mercer, John Miljan, and Joan Marsh in the cast.
The Montana highway board announces rapid sale of gas-tax debentures totaling 1.5 million dollars to match federal funds for the good roads program. Debentures, issued in 1.5 million dollar blocks, will be sold to the highest bidder at par plus accrued interest, with bids opened publicly in Helena. The Harding Way-Whitehall road will be advanced with plans drafted by Chief Engineer R. W. kader as federal forestry work continues on part of the route.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rife and children of Medicine Lodge spent part of last week in Dillon. Also visiting on Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rife Jr and Sr and Edgar Rife.
A young mother recalls a birthday party planned with healthful foods that delighted children and impressed parents. The feast featured whole-wheat bread, crushed peanut patterns, fruit salads, cocoa malted drinks, and decorative fairy princesss on a daisies motif.
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