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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1925
Page
3
Mixed advertisements seek seed samples, automotive bargains, live poultry and meat market reports, Kodak finishing, assayers, water wells, and buy sell personals. Includes dogs for sale, livestock, purebreds, food deals, mail order marriage ads, auto and tractor training, salesmen wanted, fur repairs. Names and places: Billings Butte Great Falls Fargo Spokane Molalla Oakland Wichita.
The items report on 50 fox breeders in the two states, the Missoula DAR convention set for October 8-9, a doughnut plant fire at the Fiddy Bakery in Butte causing 12 000 dollars in damage, and the resignation of veteran U S game warden George A Sawyer. Also noted are medical, agricultural, and local infrastructure updates including a hunting accident leading to arm amputation, the death of saddle maker Al Furst, Somers Lumber’s hot pond plan, a Conrad creamery, bridges and street improvements, and various regional notes on schools, leprosy cases, Glacier park buildings, and fire department concerns.
Enrollment figures reported by Supt. W. E. Moser show Shelby Public Schools with a record total as the high school registers 180 pupils and the upper grades total 300. An overflow country school was moved four miles into town. Mayor C. W. Smith warns police against drinking or visiting questionable places while off duty. The district census lists 18059 children ages one day to 21 years. County irrigation yields are high with oats near 100 bushels per acre, barley around 90, and spring wheat near 60. non irrigated Turkey Red wheat tops 42 per acre.
Reports detail financing for sheep farming in Lake county with half interest for farmers and half wool and lamb crop for the lender. Cascade county shows 30 percent winter wheat planted with furrow drill from summer demonstrations, plus five double-rod weeders built. Great Northern Railway lists 100 plus land sites in Pondera county priced 45 to 75 per acre with water from Walter irrigation. 4-H Pine Hills plans a pig club after successful corn work. Yellowstone county fields show pea plots from selected seed outperforming ordinary seed. Roosevelt County Farm Bureau praises extension work on summer fallow burning stubble corn ground and furrow drill planting. Communities in Carbon county organize home demonstration work to start cloth ing projects.
Albert A. White named assistant prohibition enforcement director for Montana by administrator J. Marsters. Proclamations ban black currants. office renovations for a larger vault. Bozeman sewer bonds refinanced at 60 000. Chateau water bonds 32 000 bid authorized. Montana purports seed protection expansion. sheriff foreclosures carry safeguards. Auto mileage cap set at 10 cents per mile. Bank loss distribution reconsidered. court dates for Carter districts. Belt Valley injunction against Silver Dyke mine water diversion. Sugar tariffs at Chinook filed by Great Northern for railroad rates.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup for gentle bowel relief in children of all ages. It warns to request the genuine product to avoid imitations and promises a pleasant taste with a single teaspoonful today to prevent future illness.
Montana governor and W B Riley spoke at the Lincoln county farmers picnic held at Trego lake. Rain forced part of the program to Fortune. Attendees called the event a success despite weather. A 60 acre Rosebud county field used a combine to harvest flax efficiently. Caution urged on flax harvesting with a combine due to hail risk.
H. E. Cushman, Montana extension poultry specialist, says the state will market about as many turkeys this fall as last year but fewer birds will be ready for the early Thanksgiving market due to a late spring start. Growers show strong interest in proper fitting and packing with grading schools planned in key turkey centers and at least a 10 percent rise in No. 1 grade birds shipped.
Walter J. Perry a Rockies forest ranger warns winter wanderers who are lost to move only downhill seeking safety and aid. He cites safer routes and the likelihood of reaching inhabited areas as conditions allow.
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