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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1921
Page
7
The Dillon Examiner shows the September 20, 1902 filing as second class matter under the 1879 act. It notes editorial and business correspondence should be addressed to the Dillon Examiner.
Miss May Trumper state superintendent of public instruction favors prosecuting parents who keep children from school to work in harvests or other labor. She notes arrests in Stillwater county where eight men were charged for keeping children out to work in beet fields and says fines and suspended jail terms were issued to ensure regular schooling.
A county superintendent Miss Jennie Moore of Stillwater county led calls to protect eight year old children working in beet fields. The report contrasts city safeguards with farm labor and hopes more county superintendents will adopt her vigorous action.
Beaverhead prep notes report bench practice by Mr Knudson and visiting town volunteers. Miss Mulkey, state Child Welfare representative, spoke to students on health education work recreation and religion with warnings about coffee tea and tobacco and care for teeth. Local events include gym gear arrivals eight girls' sleepover and a theater party for Rachel's sixteenth birthday with area attendees. Big football game in Butte drew many locals including Mrs Foster Miller Stabler and Foster family as champions fell.
The members of the B C H S faculty acted as hosts and hostesses at a dancing party last Saturday to honor the training school and normal college instructors. Punch and wafers were served and music was supplied by Miss Dunn of the high school and Miss Phelps of the normal.
Several nonstudents have been coming out nearly every night for football practice, enabling hard scrimmage before the next game. Mr Knudson used the favorable turnout to push the team to the limit, and the school benefits from their effort and dedication.
Thomas H. Sappington, 77, died October 17 after a yearlong illness. A Melrose Mercantile founder, he lived in Glendale Salt Lake and Melrose, leaving a wife Kate and daughters Mrs. Harrison Mrs. Wilson and Carrie Sappington. Funeral Wednesday at the Presbyterian church drew mourners from Butte Divide Dillon and Melrose. Interment in Melrose cemetery reflected his Montana ties and generosity.
Washington reports the treasury department issued new regulations letting beer be used as medicine under prohibition laws. The move, based on Palmer 1903 opinion, prompts dry supporters to push anti beer measures while lawyers warn of weak public policy. The rules cap prescriptions at two quarts per order and two quarts per prescription while limiting wine and spirits similarly.
The piece praises Dillon residents for choosing wholesome reading and manners. It ridicules modern literature's provocative trends, notes the absence of certain magazines at the public library, and offers witty social tips on balls dinners and theatre etiquette, depicting local morals and humor.
A quirky readers guide offers odd rules for social conduct. It includes advice on table etiquette, saluting a entering lady, cracking jokes at weddings, refusing liquor, making soup noise and tangling with a servant while serving coffee.
Fragmentary text mixes counts of auto springs and street crossings with unrelated queries about graduation times and a doctor’s prescription. It mentions Apdy Snell with many jobs, a Ford on Idaho Street, and a hypothetical streetcar line for Dillon. No coherent event or outcome is present.
A stranger visits Stone and Stone Book Store and asks about the sheet music titled Sweet Kisses. A clerk blushes as it is noted that “the boys seem to think so.” A hurried young man enters the Sugar Bowl Café demanding milk, soup, and a piece of pie.
Special services at the Methodist church on Sunday morning October 30 include new memberships announced and Holy Communion to conclude the morning worship. An evening informal service with popular hymns will offer comfort and enjoyment to all attendees.
Hang Hansen, a Sheep Creek basin rancher, paid the county seat a business visit yesterday afternoon.
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