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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1918
Page
20
Town reports list numerous arrivals and departures from Butte Ogden and Seattle. Names include H Rupert C Ohl J Finsley M T Dickensen and others visiting from Dell Sula Monida Anaconda and Polaris. A county commissioner and various ranchers discuss illness and travel amid recent snow and hunting plans.
Several residents and visitors were noted in the region last week and weekend. J. P. Murray and D. Knotts visited Butte. Wm. Finsley visited Jackson. Henry Dowling came from Dell. Ed Roe from Bedrock spent days in Dillon. E. Q. Brainard arrived from Lima. Mrs. Elsie Garrison shopped Reichle. Al Gruwell returned from Alaska. Talton Long went to Dillon for business. C. W. Robnett of Dillon Oil traveled to Butte.
The board of county commissioners met in regular session Monday and adjourned until the first Monday in December. They will reconvene to canvass election returns once all twenty two precincts have reported.
Glen Decker was in town Saturday to close up the business in connection with the schoolhouse recently built at Armstead. The brick structure cost $10,000 and includes a basement with two large rooms for town meetings and for the Armstead Red Cross chapter.
W A Lovell reports October livestock totals for Beaverhead County. 6044 cattle were loaded for shipment to Butte and eastern markets, 4824 headed to Kansas City, South Omaha, St Joseph and Chicago. Walter Hansen led with 820 cattle for the Butte market. Nearly all cattle from the Big Hole basin. Horses totaled 96, shipped mostly from Dillon. November shipments begin with 600 head loaded at Monida for Kansas City.
The first major snowstorm of the season hit Monday and Tuesday, turning rain to snow and delaying threshing. Cattlemen may move herds from ranges in good condition, and officials urge precautions as the flu epidemic looms.
Eighteen soldiers from the 11th will depart for Fort Worden in Washington. Names listed include Edmund Miller Lakeview John Arthur Hideen Jackson Leslie Henry Emery Jesse Lawrence Swafford Melrose Carl William Spender Jackson Arthur Roy Coll Wisdom Paul A Renner Dillon Louis Peter Hoyrup Wisdom Horace Boise Helming Fox Geo Wm Langdorf Dillon Chas W Mikus Dillon Francis T Carroll Dillon A Price Townsend Dillon Earl G Bickmore and several transfers George W Curtis Edgar Dotson Edwin Larrabee Glenn Church.
A number of teachers from the state Normal and training school and high school volunteered as nurses to aid the sick. Names include Delia Dorchester Nina M Nash Harriet Wemyss Laura McDonald Mabel Noel Maude Shepard Marguerite Henry Anne Hazzard Pluma Tattersall Georgie Baillie Clelia Stufft Edna Ketchum Mrs Katherine Willis Anne Johnson Mable Dillon Ruth Weenick Esther Shametz and Lucritia Snyder. Also reports move to Kansas Geneseo and a family trip of thirteen days. Mrs Charles S West called to Pocatello due to her mother’s illness and plans winter coast trip.
Chris Hansen of the local Moose lodge visited Mooseheart home 37 miles from Chicago and filed a glowing report. The institution houses over six hundred orphans from Moose lodge families on 1014 acres with farming, water, electric, sewer, and steam systems, a modern dormitory complex, school, printing plant, dairy and canning facilities, and twenty eight trades taught. He praised meals cooked from farm produce and noted daily dental and monthly ear eye nose examinations.
One standard computing scale new in box never unpacked. Call or write Harry C Graves Dillon Montana. 12 w3
The document lists editors and business managers as B Adams Dillon Montana with owner Poindexter Sadie Poindexter and others. It declares no bondholders owning 1 percent or more, notes fiduciary relationships, and asserts full knowledge of stock and security interests. Sworn before R W Boone on October 31, 1918.
Clean quiet steam heated rooms at 14 South Idaho Street Dillon Montana. Rent is $1.00 per day and up. Phone 102-3 for inquiries.
Community record noting ownership management and circulation for the Dillon Examiner weekly publication in Dillon Montana during October 1918. Includes details required by the 1912 Act.
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