New Gymnasium Near Possibility for Beaverhead County
Bonds may be issued and sold to fund a combined industrial building and gymnasium for Beaverhead County High School in Dillon. Voters would decide next fall, with estimates of 20 000 to 30 000 dollars for construction and equipment, plus architect and plan costs. The proposal aims to expand Domestic Science, Agricultural, and physical training programs while boosting school spirit and student fitness.
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Beaverhead County
Dillon
A. J. Galen
Beaverhead County Considers School Measure Approval
The text argues for an improved institution in Beaverhead county, praising the principal and faculty and urging voters to support the measure for establishment. It emphasizes that the measure could advance the school’s achievements with proper action by the community.
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Beaverhead County
General Grant dies suddenly in New York
Major General Frederick Dent Grant eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant dies at the Hotel Buckingham New York heart failure diabetes and digestive trouble cited as cause. He was born May 30 1850 in St Louis and served in the Civil War and after in various posts and diplomacy. body kept at Governor's Island awaiting arrival of his daughter Princess Cantacuzene for funeral services expected in about ten days.
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Fredrick Dent Grant
Department of the East
Buckingham
New York
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
St. Louis
Young Grant
West Point
Union Pacific Railroad
General Sherman
Europe
Grant
General Sheridan
Stanley
Black Hills
Austria
Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Governor’s Island
St. Cornelius the Centurion
Esteemed Woman Burned To Death In Dillon Fire
Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh of Kansas City, foster mother of Mrs. Pearl I. Smith of Dillon, died after severe burns suffered while burning brush at her home on the eighth. She cried out for help, neighbors aided, but inhalation injuries and extensive burns proved fatal within hours. Mrs. Smith left for Kansas City after her mother’s death.
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Pearl I. Smith
Kansas City
Elizabeth Marsh
Mrs. Marsh
Mrs. Smith
Beaverhead Republicans Unite for 1920 Campaign Drive
A Wednesday April 17 meeting at the county courthouse drew about 110 Republicans to organize a united effort for the fall elections. Col Alf Decker urged loyalty to the ticket, warned against factional fights, and stressed the county and state’s welfare. Frank Eliel and Dr. R. R. Rathbone were named as secretary and a member of the resolutions committee, with a three member executive committee to lead the drive. The article also notes Titanic disaster details and Carpathia survivors, with Halifax dispatches on April 17.
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Court House
Beaverhead County
Chicago
Col
Alf, Decker
Armstead
Cummon
Frank Eliel
Col. Decker
Armsstead
Helena
Montana
Republican Party
Taft
Roosevelt
Hughes
R. R. Rathbone
Dr. Rathbone
Dillon
Carpathia
White Star Line
New York
Atlantic
Camperdown
Halifax
Associated Press
Mackay- Bennett
Titanic Sinks After Iceberg Collision On Maiden Voyage
A wireless message reports the Titanic struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and is sinking. About 2,000 aboard with 1,470 passengers and 860 crew, many Americans. Southampton mourns crew families as icebergs, fog, and derelicts are cited as north Atlantic perils.
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New York
New Foundland
New York City
Cape Race
N. F
E. J. Smith
Hawke
North Atlantic
Grand Banks
Remy to Leave Penitentiary After Road Work Credit
Helena dispatch reports Camille Frederic Remy will be released April 18 from the state penitentiary after a manslaughter sentence for killing Wason J. Oliver in a Wolf Creek grove in 1905. He earned three years and nine months good time plus 87 days for road work. The case drew juror questions about self defense and Remy fled to Canada before arrest in British Columbia. County commissioner Charles W. Frances, a cattle raider, was in Dillon from Wisdom Wednesday.
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Helena
Standard
Camille Frederic Remy
Wason J. Oliver
Wolf Creek
Remy
Canada
British Columbia
Oliver
Strange Man Issued Bad Checks At Local Bank
A man using the name R. M. Miller posed as a salesman and cashed two bad drafts at the First National Bank around March 26 and April 1, paying $75 and $49. He claimed ties to A. M. Kelly Broom Co of Leavenworth, Kansas. He left town after cashing the drafts, and the sheriff is circulating descriptions nationwide seeking identification.
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R. M. Miller
First National Bank
Graeter Grocery
A. M. Kelly Broom Co
Leavenworth
Kansas
Salmon City
Sheriff’s Office
Dillon’s Fine Colt Eli-dure Sired by King Red Bloodlines
Carruthers brings over from Brook Nook ranch a three year old brown trotter named Eli-dure. Bred to high standards, he is registered in the American Trotting Register with lineage tracing to Dan Patch and Uhlan among many noted ancestors. The colt shows classic trotting traits and bold pedigree, promising speed and soundness for harness racing.
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Binger
Uhlan
Admiration
Albion
Administrator 357
Adjuster
Kitty Patchen
Georgiana
Anglin
Effie Hall
Patchen Wilkes
Dan Patch
Mambrino Patchen
London
Betty Brown
Wilkes Bay
Pickles
Mambrino Chief
Dan’ ‘Patch
Alien
Mr. Carruthers
Genec
Hig Tahd
Tra
Annual Montana Sunday School Meeting in Great Falls
The Montana State Sunday School association holds its annual meeting in Great Falls from April 30 to May 2. An elaborate program has been prepared and is in circulation statewide.
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Montana State Sunday School Association
Great Falls
Railway system's stationery bill tops two million dollars
A technical journal cites a major railway system reporting 1400 stationery forms and a paper printing bill of 2.3 million dollars in a year, exceeding its prior year expenditure for steel tails by a significant margin.
Coal Mine Opens in Roundup Country With Seven Veins
C W Scott and partner C C Schultze of Melrose plan to develop 160 acres west of Roundup Montana near Painted Rock Creek. They will build camps order rails mine cars and a blacksmith shop and begin in three months with initial small scale coal extraction from seven located veins promising good prospect in Montana coal country.
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C. W. Scott
Roundup
Montana
Painted Rope Creek
Mr. Scott
Billings and Northern Railroad
Scott
C. C. Schultze
Melrose
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New York Hotel
Republican Club
Southampton
Eng
White Star
Wason Oliver
Charles W. Frances
Eli-dure
King
S. S
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