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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1937
Page
3
Jackson residents enjoyed a Saturday double feature with the Friendship club bazaar yielding about $100 for Rev. A W Nelson’s trips to the Big Hole, and the I O C F dance/social clearing $80 to fund electric lighting for the I O O F hall. Local trips, visits, and Thanksgiving plans fill the week’s notes.
We thank friends and neighbors for sincere sympathy help and condolence shown after the death and burial of our wife and sister We also thank Rev Moehring for his words of consolation Arthur Klessig Martha M Jones Jahnke Bros
John J. Jewell secretary to Governor Roy E. Ayers will dine with his parents and old friends at the Decorah Iowa family home for the first time in thirty years. He left last Saturday by automobile and will meet his wife in Chicago to motor to the festival.
Guy L. Pierce of Lima visited on Tuesday to handle local business affairs and conduct routine tasks in the area.
Wisdom Montana reports on visits and gatherings including the Blazina family in Fishtrap, Will Knudsen and Bud in Butte, and Hattie Walker in the Big Hole. The Wisdom Women’s club raised 40 dollars for Red Cross, hosted institutes on social sanitation, and planned a December bazaar.
Miss Lillian Berry and Sigfred Johnson wed at the Baptist church in Dillon with Rev. Willis J. Loar officiating. The bride, daughter of John W. Berry, plans to live on a Johnson ranch in the Big Hole basin. In Butte, Miss Bessie Stewart and Peter Rasmussen married at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. The couple will honeymoon in Spokane and Montana, then reside in Wisdom.
Cattle receipts remain near record levels as demand grows. California range and feedlot operators buy about 40 percent of cattle and calves as replacements while total Los Angeles area slaughter nears the 1936 record. Hog prices slip on eastern markets with best grain fed hogs at 9.00 to 9.60 per hundredweight. The Great Western Livestock Show in Los Angeles features auctioning of prize cattle after judging and offers breeders from California Arizona Utah Oregon and Washington chance to buy high quality stock.
With 154 auto deaths reported this year the new ice and snow blanket prompts Lou Boedecker chief of the Highway Patrol to warn motorists to slow down Nine more deaths have occurred this year than last to the same date First winter months have proved deadlier than any other period Boedecker says Drivers told to stop saving seconds and losing lives.
I S McQuitty state purchasing agent bought a carload of flour for the state hospital at Warm Springs from Flour Mills Co Great Falls for 1401 dollars in the past week.
Fleming associates based on Gold Finch Argenta complete deal with McCloskey and partners. Ground Hog Argenta crews, Toolesen and Cole assume Fleming interests on May Day mine and move equipment. I B Haviland to run Shaffer property on French Creek and Golden Leaf Mill at Bannack aiming full operation by December. Power line surveyed from Bannack to Bow Canyon to supply dredges next spring. Turner and sons lease Stone Creek with 60 foot shaft and good assays. Hand ships from Midnight mine high grade ore. Charlie financed Idaho interests south of Ermont. Ermont cage and ship upgrade aids hoisting, 300 ton ore bin to ensure above-ground ore supply. Turner reports nearly a car of ore ready to ship from Stone Creek. Pepperling and Glass fined $100 each after antelope meat found. deputy investigates.
State health officer Dr. W F Cogswell reports a mysterious sore throat outbreak in Columbia Falls forcing two weeks of school closures. An infantile paralysis death was recorded at Arlee as investigators probe the outbreak source.
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