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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1920
Page
3
A Missoula reader credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending a severe backache and kidney symptoms after two boxes. The testimonial notes headaches dizziness and bladder inflammation improving, with price 60c and availability at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY markets the remedy.
The Department of Agriculture warns Montana road projects face severe delays as Congress provided no funds for 1922 after allocating 1 505 242.60 dollars for 1920 21. Plans for highway construction may be dropped unless new money is found, with Congress not meeting until December and highway mapping taking more than a year.
Mathias W Wildschutz, a Fergus county homesteader amid oil activity, sold half his bar ren land for 45000 dollars near Frantz and Mid-Northern wells. He keeps the rest trusting oil royalties will pay. A year ago he lacked fencing funds and offered half the tract if the neighbor built the fence, a deal that failed. He had also once offered 40 acres for a horse and was refused.
A bank markets itself as progressive and conservative and may share its financial approach with Hard ing-Greenville in South Carolina and Piedmont.
Fire damages destroy Fresno Herald building in California with losses around 100000. Reports cite Irish envoy Gavan Duffy forced to leave France within 24 hours. Noted divorce suit in Los Angeles involves Kid McCoy real name Norman Selby and eighth wife Dagmar Dahlgren. Other items mention Brazil credit curbs, Fort Leavenworth prison council, Republican women’s tour, a $1000 reward for a missing chauffeur, Japan’s Vladivostok troops, Sedan day protests in Germany, Greece anti king talks, a Chicago blackmail plot and a Hegewisch speed trap shooting in which two men were wounded.
State Senator George W. Clay of Phillips county died of pneumonia in Malta after a several day illness. A physician by trade he rose to aid a boy with a broken arm then worsened and died. He was 62 and a noted northern Montana figure with a reputation for independence and service. He never married and had no Montana relatives. He had served twice in the Montana Senate representing Valley then Phillips county. He was recently renominated by Republicans to seek another term.
A masked robber burst into a Malta card game with money at stake, fired a warning shot, and secured about 150 dollars from the players then fled, leaving investigators seeking the gunman.
Mineral County prospers with a revival in silver and lead, driven by new placer mining near Superior and Sallese. Eastern syndicates invest in rich placers, bedrock cleanups rise, and lumber from western pine and larch supports Henderson and St. Regis mills. Dairy farming expands as forests aid grazing, with most county land in the Lolo forest reserve. A new courthouse costing about 40000 dollars will be ready by October 1, and the Yellowstone trail improves with lower grades over Bitter Root pass. The county seat Superior, population around 500, sits on the Yellowstone trail between Missoula and Wallace with a solid local economy.
Montana towns report enforcement actions on prohibition, school dress codes, drownings, burglaries, and a range of local incidents. Notable items include the death of miner William Shovel in Los Angeles, a Scotty of arrests and appeals, and the Libby high school earning accreditation. Police and officials in Miles City, Lewistown, Scobey, and Missoula detail local affairs.
Damien Ledeaux 94 pioneer of Montana died at his daughter's home 10 miles northwest of Huson. He arrived in Missoula in the 1860s and freighted in the state during the Indian wars. Born February 4 1826 in St Charles Quebec he later lived in Vermont and traveled the south. He visited every state and went to California during the 1850s gold rush. He knew Captain Sutter who mined there in 1848.
The passage describes a picturesque mountain country with the Missoula river winding through it. It notes two railroad lines, the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and the Northern Pacific, plus the Yellowstone trail tracing the river’s irregular course through a land of beauty.
Sheriff Frank Baney of Lincoln County halted a fleeing four person party near Gateway after intercepting their Ford. He stopped the car by firing at its tires, recovered 12 quarts of whisky tossed en route, with six bottles smashed, as the chase ended within a mile.
In a retrospective reminiscence the North American notes the Reds toppled the Russian government to end Russia’s involvement in the war. The piece reflects on the event’s significance and its impact on Allied efforts.
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