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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1926
Page
10
A Dillon column reports visitors and travels including Mrs William F Bucker and friends in Dillon, Col Denny back from baying trip, and Mrs S A Keller leaving for Chicago and Kansas City. It notes sales offers of sheep tracts, and lists many locals heading to Salt Lake City, Chicago, Milford Utah, or Los Angeles for short visits, teaching assignments, or winters away. A lost bag case is announced with contact for reward.
Mrs Mary Sells will leave Friday morning for Wheeling West Virginia after a three week visit with her niece Miss Elveretta Landorf. Landorf will stay in the South visiting relatives.
A dainty baby daughter arrived last Monday afternoon at Barrett hospital to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Ross. The newborn has been named Isabell Maureen.
A baby girl named Curtis Allen Meeds was born Saturday at Barrett hospital to Mr. and Mrs. David Meeds.
Beaverhead county friends mourn the death by self-inflicted gunshot of James A Peterson 41 a Lima railroad engineer with two decades on the Butte to Lima run. He left his car on Sheep Creek road three miles from Lima and shot himself in the mouth with a 30-80 Winchester after a long illness. A coroner jury in Lima ruled death by own action. Survivors include wife two children Helen and Jay two sisters Mrs Mary Patterson and Mrs Maude Foster and four brothers Peter Lawrence Albert John. Funeral was held in Lima with Rev Earnest Loft officiating.
Be ardash hay crop praised as one of the best with ranchers optimistic about the industry for years. Cattle prices have lingered. two year old steers fetch modest returns while feeders pay tighter prices. Farmers from Big Hole Horse Prairie and locals like Jules Wenger report hay carryovers and coyotes reducing lambs. Government beef cattle outlook predicts light shipments after the stampede with steady demand and rising prices.
The Dillon public schools and Beaverhead county high school will open September 7 along with most rural county schools. Four high school teaching vacancies have been filled, a new principal will replace Prof. Linden McCullough, and two Beaverhead river tracks are discontinued forcing students to arrange their own transport.
R. F. Tattersall, acting clerk of School District No. 10 since 1900, resigns effective Sept. 1 to devote time to business. He will be succeeded by R. R. Price. Trustees express regret at his departure, noting his longstanding reputation for ability and efficiency.
Notice is given that registration books for the general election to be held November 2, 1926, will close September 17, 1926 at 5 p.m. Electors may register by appearing before a deputy registrar or any notary public or justice of the peace as provided by law. John S. Baker, County Clerk and Exofficio Registrar. Adg 35-38.
The estate of the late F. P. Harrison was settled recently. Homer Harrison has taken over the Harrison second hand store on Helena street and will operate it under his own name. He is a native of Dillon and a prominent local business figure. Milk price ad: 81-Ri. Milk 10 cents a quart. Atkeson Dairy ad.
The report notes drought-reduced cattle in the northern Great Plains may cut movements next year. By autumn 1927, further reductions could reveal needs for restocking, potentially easing market supplies later.
Mrs T J Call and Leigh Call of Ennis visited Dillon on Wednesday. Frank Ashworth and wife of Butte spent last weekend in Dillon. Carl Taylor family touring Yellowstone park. John Anderson family from Alder visited Dillon last Saturday. Prof Ransom A Mackie of Noxon faculty travelled to Seattle for a short vacation. Roy Forrester and son touring Yellowstone park this week. Mrs George Whitworth visited from the county’s southern part Wednesday. Maj Cochrane, Civil War veteran and old mining man, in town Monday. Klea Bean left for Los Angeles after week at the R J Dansie ranch. Raymond Noyes and wife of central Washington called on Dillon friends Tuesday then visited Centennial valley and Noyes' Dillon years. Joseph Klebba family returned from two month motor trip to Wisconsin Michigan Nebraska and other eastern states via Wyoming and Utah.
Cent per mile excursion to Idaho Falls on September 3 via Union Pacific system from all points on the Oregon Short Line railroad. Tickets limited for return to reach home destinations before midnight of September 6. See agents for further details.
Mrs. Helen Davis mother of Mrs. Grant E Finch of Dillon died Tuesday evening at 8 at the family home on South Atlantic street after a brief illness. She was 85 and had lived in Dillon seven years. Her son A W Davis and wife and son from Spokane were here for her last birthday. Remains shipped to Spokane with Mrs. Finch accompanied by her sister from Albion Mich. Another sister Mrs. Charlotte Davis arrived from Los Angeles to join the body for Spokane funeral services and burial.
Funeral services were held Saturday at St Rose Church for Frank Carroll a longtime ranchman of the Grasshopper and Big Hole regions. He died at his Jill home the prior Thursday and is buried beside his wife in Mountain View cemetery. An Irish native brought to America as an infant, Carroll lived in Town and Michigan before moving west in 1869 near Butte and later ranching in Dillon since 1906.
H. T. Hedden and his children Earl and Erma drove from Billings on Monday, completing the trip in a single day. Mr Hedden expressed interest in the Golden Rule store in this city.
A plane owned by Fred Woodside arrives as Dillon witnesses its first airflight. Mrs. Charles Phillips and Mrs. Eugene Bond plan Chicago engagements while Mrs Woodside joins for Missoula travel. The craft begins flying local test runs as lamb markets advance and aviation interest grows.
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