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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1918
Page
11
A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Walter Sewell last week is named Victory and is reported to be doing well. Several society notes record residents traveling for winters, medical operations, and visits across Montana and neighboring states with multiple appendicitis surgeries and hospital stays.
Inquiries to the county clerk show ballots sent to every registered man in service. Official war ballots were mailed to numerous soldiers and sent through the secretary of state for return by December 24. A long list names soldiers by unit and last names who received ballots and their home counties and towns.
L K Adams of Dillon traveled to Butte to escape a three week run of misfortune. He described a hunting trip plagued by flu illness a blizzard snowbound delays a near plunge over a precipice and a ruined bus rear end. He plans another hunt after breaking the jinx.
T H Esterly from Butte here on business. A B E Kathan from Great Falls seen at The Metlen. George Clemon visiting from his Big Hole Basin ranch. John Bevan a Polaris guest registered at The Metlen. Mr and Mrs W L Auten in town yesterday at The Andrus. Dorothy Cheeney of Lima visiting Dillon friends. T J Staral and family and W H Flick from Sheridan in town yesterday. S A Willetts traveling salesman in Dillon. Robert Woody visiting from Jackson. Harry Andrus, Andrus hotel manager, in Butte on business. Mr and Mrs E J Davenport in Dillon from Butte, registered at The Andrus. David Hier and I P Phillips arrived from Pocatello and stay several days. Mrs James Miller arrived from Rochester for several days of business. W M Sweeney of Sheep Creek Basin visiting Dillon for business.
Helena reports Attorney General C Ford issued an opinion supporting paying teachers during time schools are closed unless contracts forbid it during epidemics. The notice also mentions Mrs Isaac Rife improving mildly after influenza illness.
Montana Auto Supply yesterday unloaded a carload of Fordson tractors. Several more cars are to be received and delivery to new purchasers is rapid as the tractors perform well in breaking soil on benchtlands.
Patents issued to Marie P. Barrett for 240 acres near Grant and to W. J. Rosenbaum for 240 acres in Sheep Creek basin. Deeds show Selway Sheep Company selling about 220 acres south of the Selway Sheep Co. ranch to Hurley Leach. Leach Sheep Co. to Hurley Leach recorded.
list of numerous interstate transfers and homesteads across many Montana areas including Big Hole basin Redrock and Dillon subdivisions. named buyers such as A D Shields Mary A Shaw Poindexter & Orr Townsite Co Butte Copper Link Co and solid details of desert land entry notice by Ora BE Rodgers with witnesses and final proof date November 27 1918. jurisdiction Helena land office October 15 1918.
The administratrix Marcia Wombacher asks all creditors and claimants to present claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims must be shown to Rodgers & Gilbert at Dillon Montana, Beaverhead County. First publication November 28, 1918.
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