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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1916
Page
4
The Rosebud Camp School on a mountain lake inspires visitors with its grit. Miss Rosa Dell founding and Miss Burton crafting 150 pegs in 11 minutes shows hands on carpentry and rustic design with log stairs and cement fireplaces supporting student tents.
The passage describes Miss Vinnie Burton of Billings, supervising music in public schools, collaborating on a long held camp project. It details log construction, scarce materials, and a roving community of teachers and students traveling the 44 mile route up the Stillwater and Rosebud valleys to a scenic camp site with evolving camp life.
Jeannette Rankin of Missoula tops the Republican slate as a congressional nominee, possibly the first woman nominated for representative. Kalispell’s May Trumper seeks state superintendent on the Republican ticket, while Teresa O’Donnell of Butte runs for the same post as a Democrat. Mrs. Wm. Roza of Butte vies for Silver Bow commissioner, with multiple Montana counties fielding women for superintendent of schools and other offices.Women actively engage in voting and seeking public office across the state.
W. H. Schoregge has arrived from Balfour North Dakota to open up the Square Butte State bank indicating a new banking venture in the town.
Helena women advance civic work by completing Hill park second unit. About 5000 dollars spent on labor and materials with plans for further upgrades next year. A fountain, effective lighting, a pergola, and rose gardens were installed funded by local women and Louis and Clark county, with support from businessmen and the teamsters union.
The Good Government organization led by Mrs. Harvey C. Colt of Big Timber advocates non partisanship and aims to improve Montana women’s status. They supported recall, an eight hour day for working women, and studied child welfare with focus on mentally deficient children at Boulder. A farm training home for wayward girls was discussed and Martha Falconer of Sleighton Farm, Pennsylvania, was invited to lecture. The next meeting is set for June 1917 in Miles City.
The city market in Great Falls, costing 58000, connects farmers with consumers direct and boosts home life. Mrs. T J Walsh wife of the senator arrives in Helena to open Democratic women headquarters at the Placer hotel and organize state women for party and ticket support.
Miss Lucile Miller once a Red Lodge city schools teacher has found success as a moving picture actress. During a vacation she watched her own performance in Billings where the film Aulda From Holland featured her as secretary to the leading man. Mary Pickford is the leading lady in the production and Miller has also acted with Marguerite Clark.
The fourth district meeting of the State Federation of Women’s clubs will be in Red Lodge on October 10 and 11. The district covers Gallatin Park Sweet Grass and Stillwater counties.
A pioneering women’s train crosses Montana October 10 with stops at Billings and Helena as part of the Hughes campaign outreach. The tour will visit twenty nine states and over a hundred cities to promote the candidate.
The fifth district federation of women’s clubs meets in Billings October 11 and 12 with Yellowstone Rosebud Custer Mussel shell and Dawson counties in attendance. Mrs. Ward Nye of Billings presides. Delegates from Red Lodge attend the joint session October 12, the first such two district meeting in years.
The Butte Business College, founded 26 years ago, ranks as the seventh largest in the nation with a winter term average attendance of 700. Under proprietors Messrs. Rice and May, fourteen teachers offer courses in expert accounting auditing banking shorthand court reporting, and drafting with day and night sessions and up-to-date equipment.
A global brief reports American subscriptions to Canada war loan near ten million dollars. Prices rise as bread costs jump in Chicago. Pershing is set for major general promotion. Canadian Rockies tunnel opens December. Canned fruit prices expected to surge. Havana calls Hello as New York to Cuba links. grain car moves debated in Baltimore. Cranberry red dye may trend in fashion. a man dies after a Crevasse incident in Alaska. Troop withdrawal talks stall in New London. U.S. border costs reach eighty million. London settles rail wage row. Combles gains boost Allied morale. Canadian and Argentine speculation on trade share. Denver bakers weigh dime loaf over nickel.
Northern Pacific announces start of a 35 mile line from Billings through Reed Point Columbus Big Timber Melville and other points in the Lake Basin country. Groundwork begins at once with material and equipment moved for spring construction while rail traffic strains persist and coal and grain shipments rise to ease potential congestion.
Over 250000 bushels of wheat will be threshed near Square Butte this season with crop value exceeding 300000 dollars. Stephen Clark has 26000 bushels and Hobart Mysick 30000 bushels among the largest, while many neighbors expect 5000 to 10000 bushels.
The Flook ranch near Lewistown was sold to Town farmer C. J. Bleasdell for $50,000, ending the Judith Basin Parm ownership.
A father expresses how hard it is to arrange his daughter’s marriage and admits discouragement can slow his efforts. He seeks guidance on balancing duty, pride, and happiness.
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