Dillon Firms Invest In Plants And Mills In 49 Years Ago Notes
The Dillon Electric Light Co buys lots on Railroad Avenue to build a new plant. Golden Leaf Mining in Bannack erects a five story mill for southern Montana with 60 workers and expansion to come. Grant monument groundwork in New York draws elaborate ceremonies. Feakin of Rockford visits Dillon to explore a potential 20 000 flour mill with 50 barrels per day capacity. Jacobson reports a copper gold silver ledge found in Elkhorn district near Comet mountain.
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Dillon Electric Light Company
Railroad Avenue
Charles Beers
Berkiny Divinity School
Middletown
Eourt
Golden Leaf Mining Company
Bannack
Monetana
John T. Yee
Lima
Dillon
Mary Innes
Grant Monument
New York
Feakin
Rockford, Ill
Jacobson
Elkhorn
Comet Mountain
Beaverhead near flood swallows rider and helper
W R Henneberry and his hired man pitched into the Beaverhead while attempting to cross in a double loaded horse. A flood swollen river and the relief crew escaped injury as they clung to the horse and struggled to safety.
Wedding at Gran don Hotel Bridges Miss Waldorf and Tooley
Wednesday afternoon a spring wedding took place at the Gran don hotel as Miss Harriet E Waldorf wed Mr Clarence Tooley of Two Dot Morse Waldorf the brides nephew served as ring bearer A new girls dormitory funded by state will rise at Montana Agricultural College with 50000 dollars approved George E Jewell bought Shively blacksmith shop and wagon property and plans a modern shop in town
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Grandon
Harriet E. Waldorf
Clarence Tooley
Two-Dot
Morse Waldorf
Montana Agricultural ‘College
George E. Jewell
Dillon
John Shively
Beaverhead bonds fail in county vote May 1920
Beaverhead county electors rejected all three bonding propositions last Friday including 50 000 for county highways to fund a central heating plant and for a high school dormitory. Kraffganz and Frank of Butte began work on the new public school building. Montana saw a 1919 record in game and fishing licenses with about 70 000 sold.
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Kraffganz
Frank
Butte
Montana
Daughters of the American Revolution
Stewart
Dillon
Reynolds in Jail on Four Counts of Criminal Libel
D N Tip Reynolds publisher of the Pink Reporter was jailed in Bozeman with bail set at 3000 dollars on four criminal libel counts. Complainants include Governor Roy Ayers and officials Herbert Haight Dale Woods Ben Moulton. Reynolds pled not guilty and bond was 750 dollars per count. The Pink Reporter has long attacked public figures and has moved production from Belgrade to North Dakota.
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Tip’ Reynolds
Three Forks
Pink Reporter
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Roy E. Ayers
Herbert Haight
Lewistown
Dale Woods
Hobson
Belgrade
North Dakota
Water Board Seeks Missouri River Basin Survey
The state water conservation board asks the federal Reclamation Bureau to survey the Missouri River basin from the Madison Gallatin and Jefferson headwaters to Great Falls to assess future irrigation water availability. The study would be funded jointly by the state board the reclamation bureau and Montana Power Company.
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Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Missouri River
Madison, Gallatin and Jefferson Rivers
Great Falls
Reclamation Bureau
State Water Board
The
Montana Power Company
Guild To Rose Meet At St Rose Hall
St Rose guild members and friends are invited to a Thursday afternoon gathering at St Rose Hall hosted by Mrs Carl M Kenney. The event promises entertainment for all attendees.
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St. Rose Guild
St ‘Rose -Hall
Carl
World Crises and Heroes Echo in War Time Reflections
A compact column surveys wartime themes with Churchill on Jellicoe, Shakespeare’s enduring fame, lunar journeys, and Nobel’s peace prize ideas. It blends notes on war strategy, literary reverence, science aims, domestic virtue, and America’s destiny through a series of biography vignettes and historical reflections.
Soil Conservation District Approved at Reserve Community
Federal approval has been obtained for an 8000 acre soil conservation district at the Reserve community in Plentywood Montana. R. R. Rasmusson says the secretary of agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding and the district was favorably reviewed by the state committee after a petition filed October 7 and a hearing on November 6.
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Maginot
Siegfried
Soil Conservation District
Plentywood
Mont
U. P
R. R. Rasmusson
Rasmusson
Secretary of Agriculture
State Soil Conservation Committee
Montana State University heads in six unit system
Helena April 24 The state board of education extended Dr George Finlay Simmons tenure to be on par with other university presidents and kept three faculty from resigning after January investigations E A Atkinson N J Lennes and C E F Mollett remained in place Keeney librarian resigned and a budget of 1814861 40 for six units was approved for the next fiscal year
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E. A. Atkinson
N. J. Lennes
C. E. F. Mollett
Philip O. Keeney
Appointment of College Art Instructor
George Nightingale earns the Master of Arts in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa this term and has been appointed as a college art instructor.
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George Nightingale
University of Iowa
Apf
Montana Fourth in Conservation Payments for 1938
Montana ranked fourth among western states in total conservation payments certified or to be paid under the 1938 farm program the AAA reported. Through Dec 31 1939 Montana had $7 025 919 26 certified with $6 549 72 remaining to certify, totaling $7 032 468 97 for the year and $7 162 291 30 including state costs.
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Washington
U.P
Montana
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Treasure State
Knox Family Visits City This Thursday
Mr and Mrs William Knox and their family were callers in the city on Thursday visiting local friends and enjoying a day of sightseeing and social calls.
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William Knox
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