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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
4
A review of archival Tribune clips reveals vivid editorials, notable local figures, and landmark events from past decades. Readers glimpse community shifts, anniversaries, and era defining sports and cultural moments captured in vintage pages.
The Tribune notes arrival of a Mason and Hamlin upright piano to be used for school purposes. M A Henneberry returns to town with cigars and good spirits after a rumored Beav erhead canyon incident. An ice cream festival at the M E parsonage is announced with 25 cent ice cream and cake. Calls for a direct public highway link between Dillon and the Argenta mining district due to ore shipments and return freight patterns.
Ed Cushing leaves for Zeigler springs while Professor Monroe and others tour Yellowstone by train and wheel. The Dillon Fair prepares premium lists after Idaho trip. A group including Eugene Poindexter and Robert Morton returns from the park boasting wonders witnessed. Master Judson Best sustains a forehead wound at the iron works, four stitches given by Dr. Schwartz. The daily Dillon newspaper hopes for sufficient support to resume publication.
Ben Hager secured the Lima dam contract, let by civil engineer George Metlen for eastern financiers backing the project. The dam will stand tall enough to hold 40 feet of water, creating a lake 10 miles long and two miles wide, covering 6 000 acres and storing 60 000 to 65 000 acre feet. Backers paid 40 000 to 50 000 for the dam site and inundated land. Forrest Bayerd returned from a two week camping trip. Will Tash, who shot his arm at the Tash and Lenkersdorfer ranch on Grasshopper creek, is healing as he returns to Dillon. George Baker, son of John S., travelled to Lima on Wednesday to visit his sister Mrs. John.
Mr. Lovell believes the tendon wound on the horse’s front leg will heal in time for entry in the county fair races. The update suggests cautious optimism about the horse’s condition and racing plans.
Twenty years ago in August 1918 the Tribune notes the completion of concrete work on Elkhorn hot springs bathing pools and says the resort will soon reopen. The wool crop is projected at 23 million pounds with flock prices around 63 to 64 cents. Polaris mine starts its first run with 30 workers.
Yellowstone Park in Wyoming reports the lost lake remains missing on official maps while rangers discover a new sausage shaped pond near the Flat Mountain arm of Yellowstone Lake. Frank Obersansley and Maynard Barrows say the pond is about a mile long and appears permanent, though the vanished Lost Lake has not been found since 1921.
Fort Peck Montana engineers call for bids on two steel hulls to serve as a utility barge and a derrick boat for the reservoir. The barge measures 100 by 30 feet and the derrick boat 105 by 40 feet with two 100 hp boilers and a 70 foot boom. Previous week contracts were awarded to Sinclair Produce Glasgow for onions, Martin Pickling Billings for pickles, Nash Finch Glasgow for subsistence, and Alemite Montana Billings for supplies.
In a Treasury shooting contest at Abingdon, Va., Lee Echols led the Customs team to the Morgenthau trophy with a 299 of 300. Separately a dramatic medical incident shows a baby saved after a near death, proving infants can survive shock and need rapid treatment.
In New York City the WPA era teeth shortage ended when the Department of Public Welfare hired nine dental laboratories to manufacture about 35 000 plates after X rays extractions and impressions from WPA clinics.
Northwestern Law School in Chicago ran a Crime Seminar for rural prosecutors with 35 attendees from 23 states. Montana reports include 7,000 head of stock affected by sleeping sickness, Hoover urging anti rubber-stamp congress, liquor receipts for 1938, a parole denial for Theodore Chronopolous, 11 new highway patrolmen, Wheat allotment critique, a 15 cent expense claim by E C Carruth, a forgery arrest of Roy Hutcheson, low grain yields in northeastern Montana, a $92,000 PWA grant for Galen sanitarium, 35,767,895 eggs collected by fisheries, and winter and spring wheat estimates at record levels.
Berlin's Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels announced via German press wires that in June 310000 job seekers remained unable to find work. The claim cites a large unemployment pool and reflects Nazi attempts to shape public perception of labor shortages.
Edwin ONeill of the Crime Laboratory presented two-year research on erasures and the discovery of a chemical talisman for red and green inks, announced just before the Crime Seminar opening.
A Montana list records summer term students earning over two grade points per credit for eleven or more credits. The roll names Ruth J. Nicol, Bernice Swanson, Ella Irwin, Sylvia Warren, Bess Stone and many others with GPAs ranging from 2.07 to 3.00, followed by a second list of six weeks attendees with GPAs above two.
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