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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
8
Mary Wisdom hosts senior club birthday celebration with a two course luncheon for 22. Vocal solos by Marion Hurley and Ed Glassey. Dorothy Hurley on piano. talks by Mrs. Woodward and Mrs. Ralph on expositions and Treasure Island. Card party, PTA meeting, bridge event, and community updates follow with many local residents and households named.
Beaverhead high school Beavers celebrated annual sneak day with a picnic at Elkhorn Springs on Friday. Local families and visitors including Mr and Mrs J D Harrison and Mercedes Hansen from Salt Lake City joined events and ranch visits around Dillon.
Mrs. Mary Regan Bills unveiled the tale of the Silver King mine near Superior. She presented a silver spoon made from early ore after returning to Arizona from a 72 year absence. The mine’s discovery by her first husband and three others occurred while tracking a lost pack animal.
Rawleigh department seeks a distributor for a route serving 800 families with rising sales this year. Write today to Rawleighs Dept MTD-51-SA in Minneapolis Minnesota. Also listing farm for sale four miles south of Dillon Montana near the country school with good hay and pasture. contact R. K. Nedrow.
Beaverhead D A R chapter will meet next Tuesday May 2 at 3 oclock at Mrs T E Luebben home. Election of officers planned and Mrs Luebben to present Native Plants Used for Food or Medicine by Prehistoric Indians. Vice regent Mrs H G Rodgers presiding in Regent Willys absence. Mrs A J Rahn of Lewistown named Vice President General at continental congress in Washington marking first Montanan honored to that post.
Mr and Mrs Charles H Niblack return from a nearly 11000 mile motor trip covering the midwest and eastern seaboard. They started in Dillon in January visiting New Orleans Mardi Gras with stops in Florida Washington D C New York City Boston and Maine En route they saw Niagara Falls Chicago and other points before coming home.
The Rev John Como of Anaconda will be guest rector at St James Episcopal church Sunday evening April 30 at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. St James choir will render part of the vesper service. Rev Como is familiar to Dillon residents from prior appearances.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive examinations for Chief Engineering Aid Principal Engineering Aid Senior Engineering Aid Engineering Aid Assistant Engineering Aid Junior Engineering Aid and Under maemeering Aid.
Sheriff Temple and deputies warn two men in a Washington plated car pose as lottery winners offering a Puget Sound summer home valued at 585 dollars. They seek 90 dollars to cover a supposed manager deposit. Local residents urged to call if doubtful and avoid cash payments.
Dr George H Burfiend formerly of Dillon Mont died Thursday night at age 60. Funeral services are set for 2 PM Monday at Carlson chapel Payne avenue and Rose street Stillwater with burial in Fairview cemetery Stillwater. He practiced medicine in Afton fourteen years before moving to St Paul in 1920 with an office at 365 Earl street. Survived by widow Edith two sons William and Philip and three sisters Mrs Hugh Bates Dillon Mont Mrs Roy Elliott Fort Benton Mont and Mrs Sophie Grant Alhambra Calif.
Normal College marks its annual Go day tied to a long tradition since 1906. Students journeyed to Torrey en route to Birch Creek for a day of games and sports with a lunch at the Women’s Athletic Association’s Torrey lodge.
A high school discovers two seniors, Jo Ann Fuller and William Tower, tied for valedictorian with identical four year averages. Each has a grade index of 2 811. Officials decide to draw straws to designate who delivers the valedictory and who gives the salutatory.
City health officer Dr. F M Poindexter explains the Schick skin test to show susceptibility to diphtheria. Schick tests will be offered at the Bagley building on Monday during a Child Health day clinic with local doctors conducting vaccination and diphtheria information on Wednesday.
Gladys Garr and others visit. Miss Gladys Garr called home from Lewistown due to her father’s illness. A Garr from Dell is a Barrett hospital patient. Ivo Birrer of Twin Bridges visited Joe Birrer’s home. Mrs. Olive Irion and Ettie Holderman guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bastian. Denton Oliver returns from Idaho trip. Margaret Sweeney surveys Dell school. Julia Poe weekend with Evan Poe at Snowline. Mrs Ettie Holderman back home after visit. Mr and Mrs Jim Muncey mentioned.
Washington dispatches report Representative James O Connor of the second district asked Congress to extend the suspension of the annual assessment work on mining claims held by location. The request aims to keep claims in good standing without the usual yearly work.
Representative Jacob Thorkelson proposes repeal of the 1934 act that provided conservation and development of Indian lands and resources and established a credit system plus other facilities for Indians. The measure aims to remove existing federal programs affecting tribes and their lands.
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