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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1929
Page
1
Forty six seniors will receive diplomas at the high school during tomorrow night’s graduation exercises. The event marks the culmination of years of study for the class as faculty prepare to honor the graduates with diplomas and remarks.
The Davis Speaker Music Department presented its annual concert last Monday night. Commencement exercises for the Beaverhead County High School graduating class were held, with details continued on page 8.
Beaverhead county high school star Frank Little may represent Dillon in the national Interscholastic track meet at Stage Field Chicago May 81 and June 1. He plans entry in discus and shot put, aiming to surpass last year’s 122 foot discus record as he recently threw 128 feet in Missoula to break the state record. He also won the state shot put event.
Dillon hosts ILLON Lodge No. 1654 Elks ceremony with nearly five hundred attendees and about a hundred candidates. District Deputy W H Reif presided, assisted by John Claxton and Archie McTaggart. A special train from Butte brought 300 Elks. Terry F C Browning elected exalted ruler.
Mrs. J H Gilbert of Dillon was re elected president and Mrs. A F Waldorf re elected state secretary of the Montana Congress of Parents and Teachers at the Butte convention. Principal A T Peterson was re elected vice president. The Dillon group praised the program and speakers included Lt Governor Hazel Baker and Montana Standard editor E G Leipheimer.
RS Leotie Graves, pioneer matron of Beaverhead county, died at Barrett hospital after a long illness. A Bannack resident since 1868, she was born in 1859 in Nebraska and married Fielding L Graves in 1877. She was beloved for her gracious nature and long service to the Bannack community.
Dillon’s volunteer firemen answered three alarms in the past week, unusual for a Saturday afternoon run, all extinguished with little damage. The shortest run of the season occurred yesterday afternoon from Fred Oliver’s lunch conduit near the station, with a fourth alarm sounding.
George Baldwin announces the death of his wife Dillon matron after brief illness. Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow at 2:30 PM at Grace Methodist church with Rev. Howard B. Ricketts officiating. Interment will follow in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Baldwin, born February 23, 1866 in Kansas, came to Montana in 1900 and settled in Beaverhead County with her husband.
Services will be held at the Methodist church for Joseph Bertzen Browning 44 killed in an airplane crash Saturday afternoon. He flew from Encinitas airport in his own plane but did not reach his destination before the tragedy. His body was found after a search.
The Dillon Country club plans its first tournament of the season a mixed foursome on Sunday June 2. Entry requests should be sent to members of the sports committee comprising W. B. Hartwig H. M. Brundage and Dr. A. H. McFarland.
The American Legion auxiliary will hold its annual poppy sale within the next week. Poppies are made by disabled veterans in hospitals and sold for whatever the buyer wishes to pay, from ten cents up. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and their families, with the sale held the week before Memorial Day.
Norman Hamill and Paul Judge traveled from Missoula to Dillon last Saturday in a coastal style trip described in local notes.
Commencement exercises are scheduled for Wednesday morning at Normal College as graduation activities begin next Sunday.
The May graduating class of Montana State Normal College announces a Monday through Tuesday night schedule including a college sing pow wow and a candlelight procession. The events mark campus traditions and are open to students and faculty.
RED GILL'S annual rodeo is set for Wise River on June 8 and 9 with manager Gill seeking top riders and ranges from Beaverhead and adjacent counties. The event draws hundreds from Beaverhead and Butte, with big cash prizes expected. A separate Dillon notice reports the Big Free Fourth of July slogan contest winner: Bring Your Children, Bring Your Wife Biggest Fourth in All Your Life.
The Montana State Baptist convention ends after a three day session in Dillon with over eighty delegates. Dr John W Elliott of Philadelphia delivers closing address and a resolution opposes tobacco advertising on radio. Funeral services held Sunday for R F Tattersall, former merchant of Dillon.
Thirty four graduates of Dillon Training School will receive diplomas at commencement in the school auditorium next Tuesday evening. Principal A T Peterson will give the address. Superintendent Charles Henry will present candidates and diplomas will be conferred by Leonard Eliel, board chairman. Rev Howard B Ricketts will offer invocation and benediction. A musical program is planned.
Pupils of Mrs Mason Johnston presented two recitals this week at the training school auditorium and will give a third Friday evening. Sunday and Tuesday audiences heard performances by many named students including Dorothy Groshean Valera Fairbanks Rosa Lee Brown Eloise Olmstead Lorraine McGrath Gertrude Welborn Don Mulkey Ruth Kelly Bernice Bids trup Merle Schmittroth Helen Bay Lois Medsker June Brown Helen Hoerning James McCulley Margaret Bidstrup Anna Bell Hartwig Roy Forrester Dorothy McCulley Ruth Deputy Hazel McGrath Johnnie Mayfield Betty Hall Dorothy Graves Mona Harding Johnnie Mayfield Mary Ricketts Monte Melton.
Montana State Normal college on campus tonight hosts the annual May Fete beginning at 6:30. Over two hundred pupils and Normal students will perform under Miss Constance Bregan with the Women’s Athletic association backing. The program features dances coronation of the May queen and May Pole winding in a Ye Olde English setting. The queen and attendants are chosen but unnamed until show time.
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