Local notes on shifting plans and minor town news
The piece records a San Diego convention moved from Butte, a water line dig with frozen ground, a New York murder confession from a string clue, and general town scenes. It notes a well drilling outfit needing license plates, highway grading work between Dillon and Twin Bridges, and J. C. O'Comner overseeing 25 relief-recruited workers on the highway project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Twin Bridges
J. C. O’comner
Rhode Island Representative Proposes 300 Ton Airship for War
Representative John M. O Connell introduces a bill to build a Respess suspension-bridge-frame airship as a 300 ton military asset. He claims fifty such airships create mobile aerial airports with squadrons able to move at 100 mph to danger zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. O’connel
Rhode Island
Respess
O’connel
Honor Roll Listings and Anecdotes from Montana College
The page records honor roll names with grades and credits for students at Normal College, listing many names and scores such as Edythe Wehrle and Doris Newman, plus a Special Honor Roll for those earning more than two grade points. It ends with brief crime notes about a Colorado Springs watchdog and a Stockton, Missouri jail escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edythe Wehrle
Edna Marie Kelly
Anaconda
Kleis Larsen
Antelope
Doris Newman
Conrad
Albert Raymond Redburn
Dillon
Gertrude McColly
Hirstdale
Ruth Hyre
Camas
Evelyn Wood
Mary ‘Ann Diehl
Winston
Philip Gauchay
Marion Kruzic
Butte
Aldora Wood
Wheeler
Grace M. L. Frost
Hureka
James Leo Kelly
Edna Eleanor Nelson
Kalispell
Jess Whitney
Whitefish
Verna Arthur
Ringling
Elizabeth Bingham
LeRoy
Minnesota
Henry Edwards
Silver Bowl
Lillian Price
Simms
Mary Louise Purdy
Corinne Willey
Wisdom
Beulah Madsen
Reserve
Florence Tacke
Fort Benton
Margaret Thompson
Josephine Cebull
Klein
Myrtle Herigstad
Glendive
Luella Fern Johnson
Redbone
Wallace Forsgren
Dorothy Spegar
First American Fleet Organized by Washington
George Washington organized the first American fleet to defend the colonies at sea prior to the Continental Congress. He outfitted armed schooners including the Hannah under Captain Nicholson Broughton and the Lynch Lee Washington and Harrison, manned by sailors from Glover’s regiment. The flotilla captured 35 small vessels starting with the Unity on Sept. 6, 1775.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Continental Congress
Boston
Massachusetts Bay
Washington
Continental Army
Hannah
Nicholson Broughton
Glover
Lynch
Lee
Harrison
Unity
Broughton
Taken From Old Files of Tribune Across Years
A collage of notes from the Dillon Tribune archives recounts events from 1887 to 1936 including a failed train bombing near Butte to Melrose, a Helena oil painting by a cowboy, Dillon cyclists on a tandem, top grades at Montana College, talk of an electric railroad, earthquake aid for San Francisco, urban life in 1916, a new moving picture theatre on Idaho Street, a long-delayed postcard, a mother’s cigarette incident, and Navy enlistments. The piece also includes a notice to creditors for Goodwin T. Paul estate in Beaverhead County Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Eenger
Butte
Melrose
Helena
Charles Russell
Messrs. Makinson and
Waldorf
Dillon
Will Cushing
Montana College of Agriculture
Bozeman
Virginia City
San Francisco
Idaho
Lemhi Reservation
Prom the Tribune
Tribune
W. B. Hartwig
The
Pastime Theatre
Idaho Street
Dillon court orders sale of estate property pending hearing
The district court in Beaverhead County Montana orders the administratrix to show cause why to sell all or part of the estate property in sections NW and SE. hearings set for May 1886. Notices require publication in the Dillon Tribune for two consecutive weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Fifth Judicial District
State OF
Montana
Beaverhead
Attilio Giudici
Marley Giudici
Beaverhead County
West Side Canal
Sexnex
NASH
St Dillon
Dillon Tribune
Dillon
Fred Rife
Notice to creditors in the Williams estate in Dillon
Henry G. Rodgers administrator of the estate of John J Williams deceased directs creditors and all persons with claims against the estate to exhibit them with proof of claim to his law office at 21 S Idaho St Dillon Montana Beaverhead County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodwin T. Paul
Henry G. Rodgers
S. Idaho Street
Dillon
Montana
Beaverhead County
Mary Paul
District Court
Fifth Judicial District
State OF
Beaverhead
Antonia Pga
Antonia Spehar
Perenne
J. E. Kelly
Frank Spehar
William Spehar
Carleton Innes
John Collins
Poindexter Block
Mary L. Innes
John J. Williams
Gald
Henry . G. Rodgers
S. Idaho St
Notice of Stockraising Homestead Proof in Montana
U S Land Office Great Falls Montana dated March 25 1986 announces Doris C Gray of Grant Montana filed intent to make three year proof to establish claim on land described in Lots 1 2 7 SEYNWY% Sec 31 EX4SEY Sec 19 SWASW% Sec 20 NW4NW% Sec 29 E%4 Sec 30 Township 0 S Range 14 W Meridian before F A Hazelbaker Dillon Montana on May 1 1936 with witnesses James H Selway Guy Stevens Charles G Johnson and Roy L Stocker. Registar CORBALLY 14-18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Great Falls
Montana
Arne Wand Pettersen
Armstead
Ney
Thos
F. Corbally
Register
Blair R. Sprinkle
Dillon
Seyney
Lota
Township
Prin. Meridian
F. A.hazelbaker
U. S
Daniel Mooney
Thomas ,Pyeatt
Marion Pyeatt
Leo Tallent
Thos. F. Corbally
Mary E. Ferguson
Reichle
F. A. Hazelbaker
Joseph E. Ferguson
Lee Joy
Ernest Watters
James Mcllirath
Great Falla
Doris C. Gray
Grant
Charles G. Johnson
Roy L. Stocker
Fe Corbally
Registar
Also Mentioned on This Page
Representati the
American Pressee
Dillon Postoffice
San Diego
Court House
New York
Nova Scotia
Bremerton Navy Yard
Kearsarge
Andrew Jackson Robertson
Walla Walla, Wash
Fred Spohr
Waverly
Iiowa
Tary
William S. McLean
Indiana
General Motors
Normal College
Paul Robert
Colorado Springs
Colo
Tom Peach
Stockton
M & O Cigars
Rialto
van Dyke White Owls Cigarettes and Tobacco
Dillon Bottling Works Distributors
Audrey Olson
Lillian Bell
F. T. Sibley
J. B. McCullough
Pawtucket
R. I
McCullough
Harold Young
Wichita
Kans
Navy
Salt Lake District
Northwest Bancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance ‘Corporation
the Star OF Montana
County OF
Beaver
Marion E. Deladd
Alonzo C. Deladd
Dillon Canals
Dillon Canala
N. P. Christiansen
State OF Montana
Logan Wilson
Hazel Wilson
Francia J. Gellaus
Kathleen
Faust
Liebestraum
Moonlight On the Handson
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