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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
3
Mose Smyth a Blaine visitor. numerous local residents travel, visit relatives, and attend events in Dillon. Notable items include medical absences, vacations, Yellowstone trips, a 30 day sentence for Phillip Mercer, and local crop and livestock outlook. Also reported are conventions, mining updates, and travel by residents to Butte Milwaukee Salt Lake and Armstead. Local highway and oil advice appears with Blaine water duties concluded.
Neighbors in Grasmere New Hampshire wondered what medicine Mrs Arthur De Mulle used to feel better. She says she used Foley's Pills after seeing an ad. After fifteen years with kidney trouble she reports renewed health and activity. Takes Foley Pills diuretic. For sale by Geo M Gosman Potts adv.
About 86 local Girl Scout members will camp at Elkhorn Springs for four days starting Monday. Mrs Lenvaert Elicl will lead the outing and supervise the strict camp regulations after returning from Butte for training.
Beaverhead river water restrictions ease says Forrest G. Bayerd chief commissioner. Rights through 1884 in effect with last year’s limit at 1882 and two years ago at 1880. Alfalfa second cutting expected lighter but harvest possible. Late spring hindered crop more than water this year. Short restriction period occurred briefly up to 1882.
Miss Gladys Garr spent the week end at Dell, enjoying a quiet visit. The time away was noted as a pleasant break from routine.
Fred Weber Mrs H G Weber and Mrs Gregg of Blackfoot Idaho arrived in Dillon Sunday for a ten day stay to collect honey from local hives and prepare it for shipment in the region.
High priced pitcher Wallie Brush, age 22, of the Tampa Club in the Southern League, is reported sold to the New York Giants for 12500 dollars, a record price for players from the Southern Loop.
A $1 000 reward is offered for evidence leading to the conviction of anyone unlawfully butchering or stealing beef or veal on the ranges or premises of Big Hole Horse Prairie Grasshopper Centennial Red Rock or Black Tail. Report evidence to Sheriff W C Orr and Stock Inspector D V Erwin.
An excerpt discusses how fear can be a pleasurable sensation. Dr. Joseph Label cites the idea of dread as a domestic sport and notes that even a mother awaiting a child’s return invents a dramatic scenario for relief when the child arrives safely.
The American elk or wapiti is described as the most beautiful deer of the tribe though not a true elk. The piece notes the name’s European elk origin, Native usage for wapiti, and a hunter’s encounter near the Nek. It recalls historic range from Atlantic to Pacific and the decline of elk, now found mostly in the Rocky Mountain woods, driven by winter snows to lower valleys.
Sunshine, a life giving force, through geranium leaves, can kill insects. Prolonged sun exposure increases poison strength, paralyzing and killing insects that feed on the leaves. Researchers pursue the death-dealing agent and its potential as a new insecticide.
Spokane readers note how New England culture shapes Northwest education names. Isaac I Stevens the first Washington territorial governor hailed as a Massachusetts man reflects regional reverence for New England traditions across Spokane schools such as Webster Adams J Emerson Hawthorne Holmes Longfellow Lowell Stevens Whittier and others.
A Vancouver Province writer attacks the “average blue law” as a mass psychology urge to sacrifice a vivid nature warped by centuries of poverty driven teachings. The remark is cited with surprise and agreement echoes from Detroit News.
A giant tortoise on St Helena is cited as the longest living animal. T G Boulenger of the London Zoo notes tortoises outlive all others. Some Rothschild tortoises weighed over 500 pounds and lived nearly three centuries before they died.
The Daily Courant of London began as a single page daily in 1702 offering only foreign news and promising no comments. It lasted until 1735 when it was absorbed by the Daily Gazetteer, as noted by the Detroit News.
County commissioners planned to petition Judge H. G. Rodgers for the appointment of a land appraiser to value land the county owns through tax deeds. The appraisal includes land in the Big Hole basin Irrigating district slated for sale.
Mr and Mrs D P Thurber leave Dillon for Fairfield Montana where he will serve as agricultural advisor at the Sun River Irrigation project They have lived in Dillon for years and earned many friends in the community John Peterson reports a Grant trip with haying underway and a may imply crop expectations
T K E Luebben chairman of the committee announced the annual flower show will run Friday and Saturday August 23 and 24. The event is expected to attract hundreds of exhibitors with a large display of blossoms possibly the largest yet. A suitable venue has not been chosen, but several sites are under consideration.
Denis Cavanaugh was arrested last Sunday for refusing to pay a meal at a local cafe. Judge Pat Phillips sentenced him to fifteen days in the county jail Tuesday morning.
A superstition traces planting an apple tree in front of a house to Oriental origins, claiming it would bring many male children to the family living there.
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