Film Show Reveals Spud Industry at Irvine and Cottom Farm
Dillon Rotary Club heard a motion picture history of Irvine and Cottom potato farm east of Dillon. The film traced soil preparation to market shipment showing planting with a four row planter, roguing to remove diseased plants, two row diggers and conveyors hauling 3000 to 5000 half sacks daily, and seed stock selection with greenhouse testing. Lambert presided. guests included F M Harrington and Kenneth Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottom
Dillon
Dillon Rotary Club
Philip Cottom
Irvine and Cottom
Irvine
Cottoms
South America
Montana State College
Lambert
Eliel
F. M. Harrington
Kenneth Brown
St. Paul
Beaverhead county borrows 3.49 mills for 1939 tax levy
Beaverhead county plans a 30.49 mill levy for 1939 40 raising 193658.32 from taxes while facing a 80 877 drop in taxable valuation to 4 762 665. General fund 14 99 roads 5 poor 6 bridges 2 WPA 2 50 mills with no county fair levy. Public inspection open until August 9 final levy by August 14.
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Beaverhead
Board of County Commissioners
Beaverhead County
Dillon
Lima
Rainfall Reduces Fire Hazard in Beaverhead Forest
Rain fell last Friday and Sunday across the Beaverhead National Forest, lowering fire danger from high four to 3.64 on Saturday and improving further with Sunday showers. Lightning sparked two small fires under half an acre in Jackson and Dillon districts, while three acres burned across 13 fires to date. One man caused fire was reported. Smoke from an Idaho sagebrush fire drifted into Armstead, causing thick haze not from local Beaverhead county fires.
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Beaverhead National Forest
Jackson
Miner Creek
Dillion
Medicine Lodge
Fines Given in Justice Court for Excessive Fish
Youlten and James Hislop were fined 27.50 each Thursday in justice court on charges of possessing more than the legal limit for fish. The case stems from a dispute over fishing regulations and limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Si Youlten
James Hislop
Grraighied
Justice Court
Mrs Smith Paddock Joins Regional Girl Scout Board
Mrs Smith Paddock, local commissioner of the Girl Scout Council, has been named a member of the regional board governing Montana Idaho Utah Wyoming and Colorado. Her appointment increases Montana representation on the board to three, honoring two summers of free recreational girl camps in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith Paddock
Mary Jane Littlefield
Salt Lake City
Girl Scouts of America
Girl Scout” Council
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Colorado
Sylvester P. Meade
L. A. Gregory
Mount Moriah Lodge
Butte
E. G. Craine
Oscar A. Johnson
Anaconda
Masons of
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Grand Lodge
Johnson
Masonic
O. A. Johnson
W G. Gilbert
Beaverhead County High School
Conrad Orr
J. H. Schuch
Public Works Administration
Paul Anderson
Farmers urged to wire homes for REA line
Langford Electric Co. reports successful bids for the Jefferson Valley REA line in Beaverhead Madison and Silver Bow counties. Crews to dig pole holes next week as wiring begins, with 75 percent of homes in each section required before electricity can pass. Applications, loans, and a list of licensed electricians available through the Twin Bridges association office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
REA
Jefferson Valley Rural Electric Cooperative
Langford
Langford Electric Co
Beaverhead
Madison
Silver Bow
Twin Bridges
F M Roe Dies in Gornia Finley M Roe Former Resident
F M Roe, former resident of tion, died Monday at his home in Gornia Finley. The brief notice records his passing and notes his previous affiliation with the community. Further specifics are not provided in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gornia
Finley
M.roe
Ition
Metlen sisters return from month long trip
Miss Berniece and Georgia Mae Metlen returned from a month long tour to Minneapolis Chicago Niagara Falls Hartford Philadelphia and Washington D C. They visited friends in Hartford and were guests of relatives in Denver before finishing their trip returning to Dillon via Denver.
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Metlen
Minneapolis
Chicago
Niagara Falls
Newy Re
World’s
Hartford
New Dean Appointed at Local School
Anna Catherine Moser was chosen to succeed Miss Angeline Smith as dean of women at the Montana State Normal College. Moser, a 1924 graduate, holds a BA from Montana State University and an MA from the University of California, with graduate work at Columbia. She has about ten years of teaching in Montana and will split duties between teaching and managing student life and residence halls starting September 1. Miss Smith plans to travel to Idaho and California before future plans.
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Anna Catherine Moser
Dean Smith
State Normal College
Tana State Normal College
State Board of Education
Miss Smith
Miss Moser
The
Normal College
Montana State University
University of California
Columbia University
Montana
Kalispell
Flathead County
Angeline Smith
Dean
Idaho
Calfornia
Bozeman Road Boosters Plan Feeder Roads Meeting
A Bozeman Chamber of Commerce delegation visited Dillon to coordinate a tri county meeting on improving feeder roads. The gathering in Sheridan on Friday August 4 will include residents from Beaverhead Gallatin and Madison counties. Bozeman representatives Charles Sanders and Jack Lovelace attended.
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Dillon
Bozeman Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Sheridan
Beaverhead
Gallatin
Madison
Charles Sanders
Jack Lovelace
Bozeman
Roosevelt Chin Under Fire in Congress Drama
Washington report recounts Franklin D Roosevelt facing a rebelling congress as he seeks a free hand in world power policy. The president, depicted amid advisers Hull and Garner, outlines looming European conflict while Senator Borah presses for war warnings and foreign advisories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Key Pittman
Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Steve Early
Mr. Roosevelt
Europe
Cordell Hull
Borah
Prisoner Healy Sentenced to Two Years Suspended
Ernest Monk Healy of Anaconda was ordered to prison for a two year suspended sentence by Judge R. E. McHugh after arrest in Wisdom with John Wood. Healy, previously under a suspended sentence for burglarizing an Anaconda beer parlor, was transferred from Dillon by Sheriff Barney Larsen and held for larceny in Wisdom for theft of wearing apparel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest
Monk) Healy
Anaconda
Wisdom
John Wood
Jim Schofield
R. E. McHugh
Dillon
Barney Larsen
Healey
Beavershead Sportsmen Back Open Season Proposals
At a Beaverhead Sportsmen's Association meeting members supported a one day upland bird open season and a 15 day pheasant season. They urged uniform open dates across Montana and asked the state game commission to consider third season dates. The group favored extending pheasant hunting limits and possibly delaying the season toward late fall after November 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaverhead Sportsmen's Association
State Game Commission
Montana
64 Beaverhead ranchers receive AAA range payments
Sixty four Beaverhead county ranchers received about 16856 dollars for maintaining range land productivity under the 1938 AAA range conservation program. Over 257300 acres of range land and 53100 acres of mountain meadow land were covered. Largest practice was mountain meadow reseeding on 7225 acres.
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Beaverhead County
J. C. Ferguson
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Birth Announcement for Morris Adams Son Tuesday Morning
Mrs Morris Adams reports the birth of a son on Tuesday morning at the Bar. The notice includes the infant’s gender and the parents, with no additional details provided.
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Morris Adams
Baby Beef Exhibits Lead Beaverhead 4-H Show
Beaverhead 4-H clubs prepare ten prime calves from five members for the state baby beef competition at Great Falls after a Friday pre fair showing at Carl H. Hartwig ranch two miles west of Nelson school. Entries include Hartwig, Graham, Platt, Cantrell, Green and others with style revues from Klassy Kadets and Mountain View clubs and Billings Junior show in October.
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Bernard Williams
Carl H. Hartwig
Hunsaker Place
Nelson School House
Great Falls
Beaverhead Livestock
Beaverhead
Beaverhead Livestock Club
John Hartwig
James Hartwig
Otha Graham
Rudy Platt
LaRue
Harold Cantrell
Charles Green
Billings
North Montana
Margaret Ann Ames
Klassy Kadets
Klassy Kadet Club
Helen Christensen
Estella Hansen
Patricia Smyth
Mountain View
Former Dillon Resident Dies in California
Funeral rites were held in Dillon for Joseph Consentina 40 a native of Italy who died July 23 in Los Angeles California He moved to Walnut California in 1925 to work for Union Pacific and was a member of Moose Lodge 184 in Los Angeles He is survived by his wife two children a brother four sisters and his mother in the old country Interment was in Mountain View cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Consentina
F. X. Lechner
Dillon
Los Angeles
Calif
Brundage
Consentina
Italy
Walnut
Union Pacific Railroad
Moose Lodge
Joseph
Jennie Lee
Old Country
Childen
Rebecca Sias
Las Vegas
Nev
James Mitchell
Salt Lake City
Mountain View Cemetery
Railroad Officials Visit Dillon Firm
Railroad officials including Paulsen of the Union Pacific tour Dillon facility. The visit highlights improvements at the plant and cooperation between railroad managers and local producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railrod
Dillon FC
Paulsen
Union
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A. M
Grand Lodge of Montana, A. F
Masonic Hall
Metlens
Miss Berniece
Georgia Mae
Angeline
Mon
Bozeman Road Boosters
Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
United States
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
76Th Congress
Congress
Chistes
McNa
Warren
Sportsmen
Beaverhead Club
Jack Keenan
Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association
Beaverhead Sportsmen’s
William Lloyd
Butte Angler Club
4-H
California
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