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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1927
Page
5
Local item highlights include Moroni Olsen players selling seats at the door for tonight and tomorrow night, plus ads for strawberry plants and a tire sales job in East Liverpool. Reports note travel and social visits by C W Stallings, Mr and Mrs Tokin, S M McKnight, Dr and Mrs S E Davis, Ross Sugg, and William Hosking, with Dillon fans attending a Legion boxing event in Butte.
Tra Wagner of this city suffered a serious facial injury when a horse kicked him at the Selway Sheep Co. ranch. His lower jaw was fractured and his collar bone broken. He was transported to the city for care and is resting at home.
Local groups plan May Day activities to promote child health, combining school, church and community efforts. Posters showcase health facts for display at training school exhibits as churches pledge spiritual guidance to align with physical and mental development.
The annual class play The Arrival of Kitty by Normal Lee Swacrout will be staged May 20. Mildred Carlson plays Jane and Ralph Smith Bobbie Baxter with David Williams Eleanor Forsgren Alden Mast Clyde Sewell Harold Cashmore Florence Nedrow and May Clemow in supporting roles.
A smoldering bonfire in the rear of the 400 block on Atlantic Street spread to a coal shed. The alarm was turned in but the fire was extinguished with a garden hose before the department arrived. The town was aroused and many cars followed the emergency trucks.
Walter Brown and pilot A. W. Stephenson returned from Troy Ohio with a new Waco plane similar to Miss Dillon to be operated by Mr. Brown. They then headed to Butte and Missoula. Pilot and Mrs. Earl Vance arrived by plane from Los Angeles and caused alarm when a siren sounded like the city fire siren.
Mrs Edward Connolley daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Drummy of Dillon died at her home in Dubuque Iowa on Tuesday as reported by her sister Mrs H M Brund The deceased was well known in Dillon and visited here often Her parents had been summoned to Dubuque weeks earlier due to her illness.
The Beaverhead county high senior class won the interclass track meet last Friday and Monday afternoon with 45 points. Sophomores were second with 83, freshmen 80, juniors 18. High point individuals included Little 1934 18 Williams 17 5, Hignight 18, Peterson 945, Cosgrove 9, Yale 844. Whitehall visits Dillon Saturday for an interscholastic meet with Beaverhead, likely sending top performers to Missoula state meet next month.
G T Paul reported Ed Montgomery a longtime conman in Beaverhead and Madison counties died in Portland Oregon on April 20 at about 70. He was born in Nebraska and came west as a boy working as a cow puncher in eastern Oregon then Montana. He served as foreman for the Paul Brothers cattle operation in Centennial for 15 years and was employed by Bert Paul of Monida when cancer led him to Portland for treatment.
L B Ripley named water commissioner for Canyon ditch. Laura M Preikstas earns first citizenship papers after residing in the U S since infancy. she attends Laurel Normal College. Nettie West and Essie Watt petition for probate of Charles Tl West will, estate includes 76 acre tract with a water riffle in Beaverhead Water Co.
I B Ricketts minister. Sunday school class at 9:00 for news boys. 9:45 church school for all ages. 11:00 morning worship with sermon Borrowers of Oil. 6:30 Epworth League led by Flaine LaBar. 7:30 evening services topic Keeping up With the Jones.
Mrs Wilma Colfer departed last Monday evening for St Louis Missouri to visit her brother Harry and continue vocal lessons for two months before proceeding to New York to complete training.
Judge Henry G. Rodgers awarded a judgment for A. F. Waldorf. The decision forecloses a mortgage on 600 acres of land on the east bench, against Alphan L. Davis and others, issued Tuesday.
A brief call line invites readers to contact the Tribune Messenger or Tribune Book Store at number 66 for inquiries or purchases. The item reads like a vintage classified or ad blurb.
Real estate transfers list multiple deeds in Dillon and vicinity including Cook to Lane Davis to Lane Nelson to Sharp Murray to Anderson Miller to Carrier Rade to Anderson McNinch to Scott Knox to Scott Kellum to Scott Cardinale and Cardinale declare homestead. Also 100 trees planted at the Normal college campus as lawn development proceeds.
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