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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1927
Page
7
Miss Dorothy Stevens of Wisdom is appointed stenographer in the college office replacing Miss Lora Allison who will attend the University of Idaho next year. Miss Gertrude Quinlan of Deer Lodge is named stenographer in training duties.
Dr. S. E. Davis of the teachers service division spends the week in Chicago on editorial work for a forthcoming high school American government textbook. The book is expected to publish January 1 as the second in a social science series. Annabelle Desmond tours Yellowstone Park then heads to New York City. Frances Foster visited Virginia City and Butte over the weekend.
Mrs Edith Herndon is away from the office on her annual vacation spending part of the time in Helena and part in Butte as she travels.
With the close of the summer session many of the faculty members leave or shift posts. The article notes adjustments in departments and mentions several names associated with the faculty transitions.
Mrs Lilian Free and family will visit via Washington while R E Albright and family motor to Spokane Astoria and Portland. Miss Nash and Mrs Nash accompany Rush Jordan and family through Yellowstone park. Mr and Mrs Earl Fairbanks with children and parents camp at Miners Lake in the Big Hole. Mrs Sarah Dellinger Black returns from coast cities and motors to Billings.
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers association posts rewards for crimes against its members. A $250 prize is offered for the conviction of any sheep thief and a $100 prize for the conviction of any camp robber.
A Texas druggist advertises Foley Pills diuretic claiming 25 years of reliable use. The testimonial notes many suffer kidney irregularities and delay treatment until it is too late, urging readers to ask for Foley Pills.
A brief exchange hints at a performer or narrator asking who accompanied someone after a show. The reply notes that the other person’s parents were home, implying a quiet, private ending to the evening. The fragment suggests social expectations and personal boundaries in a small moment.
The article traces wedding customs across cultures, noting flowers worn by lovers, bridesmaids carrying garlands, and the rice shower as a symbol of fruitfulness. It links the wheat shower to medieval and prehistoric rites, and explains beliefs about appeasing evil spirits with rice after weddings.
Maui stands proud with Haleakala as world’s largest extinct crater and the site of Hawaii’s first Christian chieftain funeral in 1828. It hosted Hawaii’s earliest island newspaper Ka Lima Hawaii in 1884 and the first telegraph between Haiku and Wailuku in 1878. Maui grew Hawaii’s first wheat in 1845 and later the first potato plantation at Kula aiding local culture.
A practical yet attractive house dress pattern features a straight simple line with a pretty front collar and three center buttons. It can be made in printed wash material with a color collar and plain button trim. Sizes 16 to 44 available. size 36 requires 254 yards of 40 inch material and 44 yards of trimming. Patterns delivered for 25 cents by Hand-Cut Pattern Dept, 17 West 28th Street.
A historical note explains how normal air has about 21 percent oxygen and how workers perform best near that level. It describes effects at lower oxygen, including dizziness and rapid heartbeat, and warns of unconsciousness and death when oxygen drops to very low levels.
The Manchester Guardian remarks Trollope kept an entire wall of his library fitted with airtight cedar bins to season and age choice cigars. He refilled each bin with imports from Havana and claimed to have attained the most perfect smokes in the world.
Researchers describe a porpoise with a voracious appetite feeding on fish. A giant porpoise was captured and otoliths found in its stomach. Otoliths are ear bones of fish and indicate the prey remains. The study notes the animal may dominate as a fish eater once settled.
The article discusses unknown authorship and multi author contributions to The Arabian Nights, notes its introduction to Europe from Syria, mentions Antoine Galland as the key translator, and cites its publication in the early 18th century.
Dr J P Lee of Dillon visited Jackson on Tuesday. Fielding Rheine left for Anaconda to visit friends for a few weeks. George Loss went to Jutte for business. Mr and Mrs Fred Hirschey visited in Butte and returned. Mrs Herb Sehrum rode to Dillon to visit friends. Various locals including J Jardine and the Pendergast party spent time in the basin and Butte for shopping and visiting.
Miss Michel Anderson a Wisdom visitor enjoyed a weekend camping trip at Miners lake. The Catholic ladies of Jackson hosted a well attended dance. Fred Lane from Butte spent the weekend in Jackson fishing. Miss Ann Jorgenson stayed at the Jardine home while Mr and Mrs George Clemon visited Wisdom. Europe lags the United States in telephone development by about a quarter century with similar phone density to 1900 US.
Mrs Ellen Reighard of So Fork Va reports relief from kidney pain using Foley Pills diuretic. The advertisement claims general use for kidney disorders backaches dull headaches and nervousness and urges customers to ask for Foley Pills with no substitute.
Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn advertises a $100 reward for any person not a regular law officer who arrest and convict someone collecting bounty funds illegally. Also notes 5 old newspapers available for use under car pets and rugs or other purposes from Tribune Print Shop.
French dyeing and cleaning service at 60 West Galena Street Butte Montana offers satisfaction guaranteed and outside work. Phone 516.
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