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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1939
Page
4
Diphtheria ranked second in the state health board list with 13 new Montana cases. Harlem and Livingston reported most, with McCone county noting two. Chicken pox topped the count with 18 cases as the state reports on disease activity.
Attorney General H J Freebourn rules Montana law empowers the state examiner to rescribe delinquent county tax records. Counties must conform to the record, and the cost of installing the records is a mandatory emergency expenditure under the county budget. Meteorites captivate the public imagination in Butte as a curious weathered note ends the fragment.
Helena reports a steady post March rise in Montana business and industry with Barclay Craighead, chairman of the unemployment compensation commission, saying the trend may surpass the fall and winter 1938 levels and the strong business months of 1937.
Miss Ruth Reardon state superintendent announces the 18th observance of American Education Week in Montana and nationwide from November 5 through 11.
Helena Montana frost and purple top blight reduced this year’s potato yield but state agriculture commissioner James T Sparling says growers should still secure good prices.
Sept. 30 total registrations reach 170,073 up from 153,528 last year. Increase driven by more automobile travel with Montana leading registrations at 11,110 vehicles, followed by the Dominion of Canada, California and Washington.
The article notes a Dillon Hereford sale planned for Monday with free entertainment featuring 15 rounds of boxing by Butte amateur boxers under Troy Evans supervision. Refreshments will be served. Sunday’s show starts at 2 p m and Monday’s sale begins at 1 p m.
In the Fine Arts Section Mrs Mary B Emerick is scheduled for an address on The Aims of the Revised Elementary Course of Study in Fine Arts and Mrs Marguerite Birch Clair speaks before the primary section on art.
The Legion auxiliary hosts a Saturday convention with Dillon district president Mrs Harold M Warner presiding and a department president delivering addresses. A joint banquet at St James guild hall features Joe C Wedum as MC and James Lyons of Anaconda receiving the essay prize. Moderated events end with a dance at Elks drum corps HQ with delegates from multiple towns.
Beaverhead Post aims to file its full quota of 100 cues at the meeting. Delegates listed are Dr. R. D. Curry, Bruce Risley, and Earl Fairbanks. The business meeting convenes at 3:00 p.m. at the Elks hall for a small convention aimed at expanding post entertainment.
Calendar lists end of October Mining District Convention of Legion and Auxiliary at Elkshall with business, parade, banquet and dance. Armistice Day on November 11 promises a full day celebration. Regular post meetings occur the second Thursday each month with time and place to be announced.
The P C s and Buck Privates aim to top the list by Armistice day with a day long program planned by the committee. Read the lineup to see if your name appears and join by pitching in or turning in dues to your preferred team.
The Dillon Elks lodge No. 1554 expresses a large vote of thanks to Beaverhead Post and their manager Ken Wheat. The Legion and Elks programs often align, with the drum and bugle corps providing finishing touches in their colorful rhythmic style.
The document lists Past Commanders and Buck Privates on the Legion post membership lines with names and roles. It details a dues system of 3.50 dollars per new member plus additional contributions earning points, and outlines point totals for new versus renewing members.
Beaverhead Post members celebrate George Gosman’s election as Department Commander at Livingston marking the campaign’s successful end. Delegation of members witnessed the ceremony as the campaign concluded.
You alone give meaning to the part you play on life's stage. Great are your responsibilities. One is to bring security and happiness to those around you. Then the show will be worthwhile. You honor your friends when you ask them into your home. To serve them beer is simple hospitality. but to serve them Budweiser is a gracious compliment.
Junior class members elected Francis Weger Hinsdale as president Hope Williamson Missoula as vice president Paul Simons Dillon as secretary and Florence McBain Dillon as treasurer Arnold Clair is faculty sponsor Three students joined the Women's Athletic Association Gwen Brosten Kalispell Erma Schultz Butte Betty Lou VanDelinder Belgrade and Helen Doyle Anaconda pledged Art club initiated Alberta Sparlin Miles City Alice Fox Dillon Blanche Lowery Missoula Robert Frost Lewistown Romell Wiles Ennis is club president Mary B Emerick sponsors the group
Dr Dais speaks at the Butte meet urging engineers to lead in solving national instability. He contrasts human engineering with political rhetoric and warns that lawmakers risk dull, evasive methods. asserts engineers can improve housing, roads, and travel but must avoid becoming liars in Congress.
Louise Piazzola, Donna Lee Wheelbarger, Lois Gowen, Rosemary Tyre and Marilyn McMinnis, with Betty Lou Christensen offering a solo tap, performed a country dance as pupils directed by Miss Florence Hellman. Assembly singing of America the Beautiful opened the afternoon. Dr W H Stephan sang two solos. County Agent Bernard Williams reviewed Beaverhead farming for five years and Miss Gladys Tofte spoke on club accomplishments. Mrs Stella Murray presided.
A Dillon native and public school student died Monday in Great Falls. Survived by mother Mrs Marius Rasmussen sister Edith Christensen and brother Harry, all of Dillon. Body brought by M Brundage. Funeral at 2 PM tomorrow from Brundage chapel with Rev Paris Wells officiating.
Delegates praise Gosman and pledge loyalty to George as Montana Legionnaires vow to smash membership records. The message urges action today with a three dollar fifty cent stake and strong community support.
Dillon men named as members of the local team including Eugene Poindexter and Mark Poindexter. The Intercollegiate series began in 1924 with games against Ricks College Intermountain Union and State College Bob Kittens. The Normal college has won against Ricks 6 to 0 but has not yet beaten Polytechnic in this series.
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