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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1920
Page
4
Governor S. W. Stewart designates December 6 to 12 as health week urging all Montana businesses social welfare groups churches and schools to cooperate. The proclamation stresses disease prevention health knowledge and hygiene to promote a stronger healthier population statewide.
Wheat pooling by Montana farmers disrupted grain car supply for Great Northern last week as Stanford and Hobson suspended all corn orders. Agents say local growers will withhold wheat until prices rise, freeing 12 cars daily to other stations on the Butte division.
In August 1877 Nez Perces under Chief Joseph swept Yellowstone Park causing deaths and captivity among travelers. The party captured Shively as guide and attacked Helena tourists, killing Kenck, wounding Stewart, and separating Cowan party members before escape through the park’s dangers with several victims left behind.
The city of Butte reports 19 296 residents under 21 in the school census, down about 3000 from last year. The Sullivan family, with 342 pupils, is the largest clan while the Harringtons follow with 199. Males outnumber females slightly, and 16 to 21 is the largest age group. Six enumerators took 30 days to complete the census.
Montana state health board requires ripe olives packed in tin or glass to be sterilized for 40 minutes at 240 degrees. H. M. Shea, director, says this allows tracing every shipment to the original packer and aligns with federal efforts for checks on packed food.
Anderson 21 drowned when the car she rode in ran off the ferry on the Missouri river near Wolf Point. Budy Vig four, rescued 60 feet downstream after seven minutes in water. Body recovered 50 rods below the site of the crash.
Montana banks report total resources of 219 million 115 thousand 593 dollars and 83 cents across 278 state banks eight private and 145 national banks with a jump of 1.165 million dollars between calls dated June 30 and September 8 1920. The abstracts note a rise in gold holdings and a small drop in deposits with reserve levels edging higher. The report lists detailed asset and liability totals for private banks led by loans and discounts about 89 million dollars and large figures for deposits and reserves.
Fergus county pioneers gathered at Moore for a reunion that drew about 200 people. Speakers included T. E. Rice C. W. Stone Joe King and others. Old songs fiddlers and square dances followed a splendid repast organized by the Moore Woman's Civic Club led by Mrs. Harry Wight.
Clifford Manley was shot while hunting and taken to Deer Lodge hospital with injuries to his knee and side. William Peterson, another hunter, mistook Manley for an elk and killed a calf he believed to be prey. Peterson also sustained a severe dog bite after returning to town. Manley’s horse was killed during the accident.
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