Pioneer Day Celebrations At Dillon Schools
Dillon school events recount Pioneer Day plays and neighborly exchanges with the Fourth B and Fifth A rooms. The Junior High staged a student led program featuring historical figures, with a mirage wagon train tale and a chorus about the West. Halloween parties in nine primary rooms showcased fairyland themes, with parent help and baked treats. A bond election for $75,000 to finish a new primary building passed 165 to 1 with 166 votes.
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Mra.low
Iblings
Dillon
Shining Mountains
Montana
Miss Tattersall
Martin Barrett
Miss Shortt
J. F. Bishop
Mr. Bishop
Mildred Curnutt Frelehting
Tom Yost
Alma Trolinger
Wallace Forsgren
Joe Wilcomb
Virginia City
Hlwyn Metzel
Douglas Thomas
Miss Mills
Shoshone
Idaho
Helen Jolly
North Dakota
Wool market warns of foreign dumping and action needed
The Examiner prints a full communication from J. R. Edgehill of Hallowell Jones & Donald Boston urging local sheepgrowers to press senators and congressmen. He notes 90 percent of this year's clip owned by growers, a world wool surplus, war-driven markets, and that Europe can dump tops yarns and cloth into the United States at below production cost unless Congress acts before December.
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J. R. Edgehill
Hallowell, Jones & Donald Company
Boston
France
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Russia
Austria
England
Australia
Europe
United States
Congress
Former Dulon Man Recovers After Siberian Ordeal
John Lampe, once employed by Dillon Dry Goods, returned from Siberia where he was prisoner of the Soviet government for months. He arrived in Seattle last Friday a physical wreck after surviving brutal conditions and a stroke of paralysis. Lampe’s friends in Polson and Wayne Dunbar report hopeful recovery with medical care, while his Los Angeles family awaits him home.
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John Lampe
Dillon Dry Goods Company
United States
Siberia
Lampe
Dillon
Alaska
Russia
Flathead Courier
Polson
Oo Jno
Seattle
Swenson
Wayne’ Dunbar
Wayne
Mr. Lampe
Mr. Lampé
America
Montana
Los Angeles
First basketball practice draws twenty five players and hope
Twenty five students turned out for the season's first basketball practice on Monday night. Coaches expect to develop a championship quality team for the inter scholastic season. The early session aims to build class teams ahead of the interclass tournament. The return of George Hildreth tightens the race for the first team as his hard work last year gives him a slight edge, but other players will push for a strong lineup.
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George
Hildreth
Beaverhead County Republican Landslide in Election Returns
Beaverhead County posted a sweeping Republican victory with a record turnout on Tuesday. Presidential electors totaled 3001 votes, 2144 for Republicans. Local races showed large margins for McCormick over Watson and other officials, with several county tickets yielding the biggest majorities, including Mathews over Wyman and Emerick over Featherly. The tabulated results are on page gift.
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Dixon
Emerick
Mathews
Beaverhead counTy
McCormick
Congress
Watson
Galen
Hallowey
Palmer
Peasey
Reynolds
Matthews
Joe Dixon
Wheeler
Story
Arnold
Rankin
Irvin
Staware
Haste
Walker
Lord
Porter
Sanvik
Trumper
Hannah
Ross
Meadors
Fred Rife
Rodgers
Hartwig
Gosman
Frank Rife
Baker
Newnes
Mooney
Carney
Wyman
Featherly
Gilbert
Stephenson
Rigg
Banks
Drummey
Dedmore
Fuller
Sutherland
Nore
Genevieve Metlen
Chapman
Lovell
Death of William Hayward in St Joseph Hotel Shooting
William Hayward sixty a night clerk at the Galt House in St Joseph was shot to death in the hotel office by an unknown assailant. John Sanders and Charles Whitlock were detained as investigations continued with police noting no robbery motive and an old grudge as a possibility.
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William T. Hayward
Dillon
St. Joseph
Masonic Lodge
William Hayward
Galt House
Fourth
Sylvanie Streets
Hayward
John Sanders
Chages Whitlock
Central Police Station
G. W. Gay
Sanders
Perso
Whitlock
Cosby
EB. V. Rust
St. Francis Hotel
Rust
Henry ‘Talbot
Ste.Jozeph
Montana
Talbot
Ingland
Forrest Thomas
H. O. Sidenfaden
Thomas
Charles Whitlock
John Bayees
Roy R. Ford
Jorgen Jorgenson
Moses D. Jardine
A. W. Wilson
Wisdom
Wisdom School Tus
Eee
L. Holman
Joe Arnold
H. Capchart
Albert M. Smith
A.x Pomeroy
Dewey
Dewey School House
Patrick Dillon
Walter C. Jones
Fred R. Gill
Nicholla
Nicholla School House
Ora B. Rodgers
Wm. M. Sweeney
Willam Harrison
Vera M. Baker
Crescent Ribbon & Carbon Co
Georgia Mathews
Jay B. Cosgrove
Rodman, Co
Fred R. Chapman
H. H. Soper
George Opp
Sam W., Ditty
John E. David
Harris Opp
Charles Martin
A. M. Kear
Joe. Hughes
Chas
Higganbotham
Taylor Electric Shop
Meaverhead Cleaning Works
Court House
W. H. Smith
Evalyn H. Pyle
Albert S. Baker
Dell Lloyd
Ida M. Landon
William Logan
Elizabeth Sutherland
Catherine Paxton Willis
John W. Graham & Co
Monida Merc. Co
Grasshopper Campaign
Amelia Ruffner
W. H. Thomas
Wee
Bessette-Stork Co
Halloween party and convocation events at local campus
Mabel and Irene Seidnick left for a weekend at their Butte home. A Hallo ween stunt party featured faculty seniors juniors and alumni with dancing and refreshments. Preparations for a play for Better Speech Week Convocation and a Pow Wow by first graders highlighted the schedule alongside dormitory dances and Y W C A gathering.
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D. 8. Horn
A. Verona
Lida Dyer
Marion Dyer
Mary O'Donnell
Anaconda
New Bank Opens in Lima Amid Blizzard Festivities
Security National Bank of Lima opened to the public last Saturday as a blizzard raged, drawing over two hundred visitors. C. C. Thornton of Dillon serves as president, with Frank Merrill of Lima as vice president and H. T. Krabbel of Sumatra Montana as cashier. The brick fireproof building measures 25 by 56 feet and marks the sixth bank of its kind in the state.
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Lima
Security National Bank of Lima
C. C. Thornton
Security State Bank of Dillon
Picture Pleases All at High School Film Showing
The Bottom of the World shown last Friday night at the high school held audience interest from start to finish. It illustrated the old saying Truth is stranger than fiction with a striking presentation.
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Audiéneia
Beaverhead County Commissioners Meet for October 1920 Session
Beaverhead County commissioners convened October 11 1920 with D D McKnight and J B Shaw present. They audited claims inspected the Delco Lighting plant at the poor farm and approved a final balance. A second meeting October 14 placed road district and election tasks, approved land class levies, and set up polling sites.
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Board of County Commissioners
Beaverhead County
D. D. McKnight
J. B. Shaw
Vera M. Baker
R. R. Baker
Delco Lighting System
Baker
0. M. Best
O. C. Gosman
Bedrock Commissioner's District
Montana
R. W
Valles
Messra
Dy McKnight
W. EH. Chapman
Henry Witter
J. H. Brundage
Clarence Bucy
Alma M. Egan
Lima
Town Hall
Beardsley
J. D. Brandenburg
J. E. Keller
Charles Truax
L. A. Latham
Dell
Dell School House
M. McKnight
E. M. Martinell
J. D. Burke
Dillon North Central Prec
City Hall
F. P. Harrison
George R. Featherly, Jr
Elza BE. Patrick
Robert R. Given
Edward Smith
Bedrock
Armstead School House
Parkercott
T. F. Mullen
E. B. Roe
Grant
Grant School House
Frank P. Blair
James, N. Mansfield
Warren O. Churchill
Bannack Hotel
H. J. Paddock
Fred J. Gibson
C. A. Norman
Dillon South
Guild Hall
T. D. Olmsted
E. H. Brundage
Thos. W. Bennett
Albert C. Gruwell
Chester H. Gilbert
Dillon North
H. S. Gym
Charles F. Retallack
S. D. Hirschman
Carrie O. Hirschman
Roy Selway
John Tessier
Dillon West
Metlen Hotel
Wm. J. Cushing
James O. Melton
L. T. Taylor
George Bott
Maude F
Melrose Social Roundup Highlights Campaign and Visits
Melrose residents hosted a Saturday event with republican candidates discussing local political issues. Jim Carley, Ed Hawes, Jack McGinnis, and Peter Olson visited Melrose from Heela. The Lyceum first entertainment featured the Watteau girls and Joe Young's orchestra. Mrs. C J Clark shopped in Dillon while Andrew Thompson returned from Hecla to vote.
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Emma Clark
Melrose
Butte
Ring
Alois Fassler
Dillon
Patrick, Smith
Jim Carley
Ed Hawes
Jack McGinnis
Peter Olson
Heela
Joe Young
John Peterson
Lyceum
Watteau
M. Perry
Tom Draton
Catherine Drayton
C. J. Clark
Joseph Langley
Bue
Andrew Thompson
Hecla
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Hallowe'en
Miss Innes
Fairyland
Mrs. Cluley
Harvey
Hudson Roe Weetet
Farle Bes Donald
DULON
Delco
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