Red Cross Drive Sees Generous Annual Participation
Over 30 Dillon firms display 100 percent Red Cross membership posters in a community outreach drive. The effort highlights corporate support and local involvement in the annual fundraiser.
20 Nov 1935
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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1935
Page
1
Over 30 Dillon firms display 100 percent Red Cross membership posters in a community outreach drive. The effort highlights corporate support and local involvement in the annual fundraiser.
Beaverhead county reports strong Red Cross support with over 30 Dillon business firms earning 100 per cent strong posters and residential areas contributing well. County Chairman T B Luebben and Dillon chair Mrs Diggle Emerick note expected countywide generosity, as funds are badly needed.
Members of the casts for three one act plays at the college auditorium Gargoyle night Friday Nov 22 highlight prior stage work. Ruth Phelps of Deer Lodge leads in When the Whirlwind Blows after roles in Mrs Moonlight The Artist and others.
The Dillon Business and Professional Women’s Club met at the Andrus hotel dining room for a regular dinner. Education chair Elizabeth Winn led the program with Dora Smith presiding. Luella Stickney reported on the district convention. Marguerite Colling played piano solos.
Lambert Eliel received 25 tickets from the Butte Chamber of Commerce for the School of Mines state college football game in Butte on Saturday. Tickets are available at Eliel's store.
Dillon Elks lodge hosts annual charity ball at Dillmont park with four Dillon orchestras. attendees donate food valued at least 25 cents each. meals support training school hot lunches for children. Key needed items include milk cocoa sugar tomatoes and canned goods plus produce and vegetables.
Dillon public library received new titles from the International Mind Alcove foundation as part of a book week. Librarian notices overdue returns without extra charges and highlights a program where Butte schools superintendent Douglas Gold addressed mothers on children’s books at Wisdom library sponsored by the Woman’s club.
Fred Willson, Bozeman architect, visited Montana State Normal College to discuss PWA project 5023 for reconstruction of residence halls. Operations may begin early winter. The college expands library and training programs with 350 supplementary readers and enhanced freshmen library tests. A pep band will form under Irene Bond, with open invite to community members for the basketball season.
Beaverhead Post will host an ex service men banquet at Lima this evening with local veterans invited to attend. The veterans organization plans a brief program and a social hour following dinner.
Members of the Beaverhead post of the American Legion host ex service men from southern county tonight at the Peat hotel in Lima. The Dillon delegation led by Commander Guy D. Combes will meet at the city hall at 6 pm and travel to Lima for a 7 30 pm banquet with T E Gilbert County Attorney as principal speaker. Father Timothy Clifford and other veterans will also speak as the post nears a 100 member drive.
Carl Hansen of Armstead will travel with Montana State College’s stock judging team to the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago later this month. The Beaverhead County High School graduate earned first place individually at a recent Portland contest and local groups are helping fund his trip.
On Tuesday, Nov. 26, the sale of Christmas tuberculosis seals will be conducted in Dillon's business district. Regular drives in other districts start after Thanksgiving. Early sale in town helps merchants use seals on correspondence and statements. Mrs. J. H. Gilbert leads the team with Mrs. R. D. Curry, Mrs. H. M. Warner and Mrs. H. H. Bates assisting. Violet Eastman guides dramatics students to speak at church and civic groups. Seventy percent of county seal funds aid the county nurse and tuberculin/X-ray tests. Children will not sell seals.
Sealed bids for a Montana State Normal college residence hall will open at a December 9 state board of education meeting in Helena. Plans call for a fireproof three story 250 by 42 foot building with dorm rooms baths and service areas. Separate bids cover general construction plumbing heating and electrical work.
Montana School of Mines crushed Montana Normal 46 to 0 in the annual rivalry clash at Butte. The Miners built a 12 to 0 halftime lead and pulled away in the second half.
Ted Shawn and eight male dancers, praised by press, bring a distinctive touring program to the Normal college gym on Saturday, December 7. The group, famed in the United States, Canada, and London during the King’s Jubilee, is billed as the world’s only men-only dance company.
Members of the St James guild sponsor a public card party at the guild hall Monday night Pinochle and bridge will be played with prizes offered Refreshments will be served
Beaverhead County High School began its basketball season with an interclass tournament last week. Regular practice sessions are scheduled to start this year.
Final day of the deer open season last Friday produced multiple spikes in the county. Elmo Winn and his wife won a contest with a six point and a five point buck in the Argenta district and Willow Creek respectively. Beaverhead hunter Sam Freeman claimed a deer to preserve his record of a deer each season. Dillon resident Carl Hansen brought in a possible elk record weighing over 700 pounds with an 85 inch antler spread. Other hunters Jake Selner Edward Bourquin Jay McCarthy and Marvin Selway also reported elk or deer during the period.
Governor F H Cooney backs the Armstead to Salmon Idaho highway urging Montana Highway Commission to start work on about 30 miles of unpaved segments. He argues completion would recapture half a million dollars in Montana business and could begin next spring. Beaverhead official W B Hartwig notes the governor spoke with commission members and other officials.
Fred Bennion secretary of the Montana Taxpayers association and former Rotary district governor spoke at the Dillon Rotary Club dinner Monday night. He cited Rotary width in Oklahoma and Texas clubs, urged civic participation, and warned that tax burdens rise as government spending grows past forty percent of national income.
The Dilton Elks lodge will hold annual memorial services at the training school auditorium Sunday afternoon December 1. Floyd C. Muent of Butte will deliver the memorial address. The program includes piano solos by Ralph McFadden, the Elks memorial ritual by Exalted Ruler Lee Hoerning and officers, vocal solos by Mildred Spaberg with Marguerite Collins, selections by the Elks quartet, and more performances by Dave Hier, Dale Motlen, Paul Bramsman, Dr. F. H. Bimroge, Mia Jeppson, Mrs. T. W. Sargent, Irene Bond with Ralph McFadden, and Wilma McLaughlin with Nellie Little Poole.
Beaverhead county surveyor Geo Metlen attended the National Reclamation Association gathering in Salt Lake City. He serves on Montana’s National Legislative Committee as part of the western states coalition seeking irrigation development and federal funding, working with western lawmakers and state officials to advance water conservation and project repayment details.
Mrs Fred Lehn of Butte district president of the American Legion auxiliary and Mrs E K Miller past department president were guests of the local unit at the regular meeting in the city hall. Plans and aims of the auxiliary in this district were discussed by Mrs Lehn. The membership committee hosted a social meeting at the home of Mrs E L Fairbanks with helpers listed.
Beaverhead county taxpayers have nine days left to pay assessments due in November. The deadline is Saturday November 30 at 5 pm announced by County Treasurer Norah Connelley. Delinquent taxpayers may also settle pre-1934 taxes without penalties or interest, a second notice stated by Clerk and Recorder Robert Baker.
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