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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
8
Wisdom residents attended the Wisdom Ladies Aid and Beaverhead high school play sponsors. Mrs Wilson Young was reelected president and Mrs M G Ramsey secretary. Community members hosted gatherings, hosted guests, and marred by muddy roads and a warming spring mood.
The Manse society of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Carl Taylor Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. J. G. Mattingly will be hostesses. All women of the congregation are welcome.
Mrs Carl Kambich shopped in Reichle on Tuesday. Wick Freeman from Armstead was a business visitor in Dillon Tuesday. The Entre Nous bridge club will meet Friday at 8 oclock at Mrs A M Jones home 703 South Pacific.
Poem describes Montana’s landscapes and lifestyle in a nostalgic club magazine piece. It paints sapphire skies, wheat fields, blue lakes, log cabins, wildlife, miners, and seasoned frontiersmen. The verse invites readers to seek happiness by settling in Montana’s mountains and valleys.
Chairman Ferguson explains that 1940 grazing payments will rely on supplemental practices rather than direct cash. Operators may earn up to 75 percent of their non crop pastureland allowance by deferring grazing on 25 percent of land, plus using practices like fencing water development wind breaks and weed control, with payments set by a county committee.
The larger crowd attended the opening of a new high school funded by two bond issues totaling $176,000 and Public Works Administration grants of $135,000 and $9,918. Northern School Supply supplied chairs and stage equipment while Northern Plumbing and Heating of Denver held plumbing and Western Plumbing and Electric of Anaconda handled electrical work. Hugenin and DeKay designed the building.
Mrs. Nick DeLeon, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Smith host a Divide birthday party. Cattle sales circulate in the area with some direct to market and others set for sugar company fattening. Postings detail visits from Rudolph Polish and Cebu visitor Theresa Landon, plus trips to Butte, Idaho Falls, Whitehall, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
In Montana 600000 will be spent to help 3400 high school students and 760 college boys and girls. Superintendent Paul Anderson introduced the speakers. Guests included L Streit senior and Pierce Streit of Missoula and Andrew V Corry and R J Thomas of Butte.
Before the Diana Lodge meeting on Thursday evening a potluck dinner at 6 30 will be served at the hall for Rebekahs and families Melrose and Jackson lodges will attend as guests A program will follow the meeting.
The state tax board reports year over year gains with 1939 comparisons showing $23,930 more collected and total last year at $434,000. Traveling income tax staff will visit communities before the April 15 filing deadline to assist residents in preparing returns. Governor Ayers names Maude Appleyard, Albert Roberts, and Helen Laird to a five year state textbook commission term ending March 7, 1945.
Johnny Knoll returns to the DL ranch from California after hospitalization. Judge, a patient at Barrett hospital, hurt his right leg when attempting to jump a ditch near his Polaris home. He previously broke the same leg years earlier. J.D. Harrison and Mrs Judge accompanied by George Pyle transported him for care. Dillon visits and Beaverhead County high school event noted.
The Women s Glee club of the Normal college will hold a formal dance at Recreation hall Saturday evening. Miss Ruby MacLean of Butte is president. Kenny Martin s orchestra will provide music. The fourth and final matinee recital by Ralph McFadden s class is set for Friday April 5 at 4 15 in the college auditorium with performers from Dillon Browning and Big Timber and high school pupils aiding at the Missoula festival April 12 13. Two vocal groups and two piano numbers directed by Mary Castles and Jeanette Spaberg complete the program.
The Montana Tuberculosis Association will hold its annual meeting on Saturday April 6 at the Placer Hotel in Helena to elect officers and directors. The program will include discussions on all phases of tuberculosis control work with Co A Stewart of the University of Minnesota to be the principal speaker.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the abandonment of a historic miller rail line from Leadore to Gilmore and Salomon in Idaho and Montana. The 1910-built mystery road served 15 stations over 45 miles in Montana with 11 miles of yard tracks, facing dilapidated property and no funds for repairs.
L. Mallon led the Dillon Junior Rifle club Tuesday with a 938x100. Koenig followed with 92 as members fired for pro marksman medals from the National Riflemen's Association. Several medals were awarded to top junior riflemen for proficiency.
Montana residents paid 35 percent more federal income taxes in the year to date than a year earlier, with collections totaling 1,362,022 versus 1,008,692. Assistant collector T. M. Robinson attributed much of the rise to better business conditions, noting Montana outpaced the national 25 percent increase.
The almanac history of Montana prepared by the WPA writers division and sponsored by the state department of agriculture, labor and industry has been published by the State Publishing company of Helena and is for sale statewide. The volume chronicles 50 years of major statehood with humorously written historical events and upcoming events this year and features western styled illustrations.
Dillon Montana firm Clark Canyon Gold Mining maps a program for expansions at its Dillon operation. Company details additions and intended improvements to increase production and efficiency at the mine site.
The Dodd party including Bhitley and Mrs Kettnetha plan a three week trip visiting Utah Colorado Nevada Texas and Wyoming. In Dillon Mrs Shepherd hosted a bridge lunch with high score by Mrs Nelson. Local events included operetta open house at the new high school and pinochle at the Clemon home.
On April 5, a naval recruiting officer will be at the post office building at 10 a.m. to interview and examine all young men for enlistment between 18 and 31 who are physically qualified and can furnish good references. J. L. White, U. S. Navy recruiter of Butte, says opportunities in naval service were never better.
The Merry Mixers club will meet Friday at Mrs. W. J. Romers home with Mrs. Dan Henneberry and Mrs. Russell Gray as co hosts. Refreshments will be served promptly at 3 o clock. Miss Gladys Tofte home demonstration agent and Mrs. Margaret Tuller of Butte state home management specialist will be present. Mrs. Tuller will demonstrate the business center in the home.
A pamphlet from the Thornton and Minor Clinic advertises a free illustrated book on hemorrhoids fistula and colon troubles explaining their nature and offering guidance. The notice emphasizes the book’s publication by a historical Ayurvedic line as the world’s oldest. It requests afflicted readers to send for this educational resource.
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