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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
7
The Great Falls city council, in its first reading, fixed taxi rates including 50 cents for the first 12 blocks and 25 cents for each additional six blocks. Charges include 23 cents per baggage piece over two and 4 dollars per hour for time-based hires with up to four passengers, with fines from 5 to 100 dollars for violations or passenger nonpayment.
Indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Butte accuse the Utah Idaho Sugar Company of conspiring to evade the Lever Act. The charges claim excess profits of 18.421 cents a pound with sugar sold to wholesalers at 23.881 a hundred, and list separate indictments against the corporation, officers, and directors.
Helena Senator O. G. Willett, Montana’s only leprosy patient, resists chaulmoogra oil treatment. Dr. W. F. Cogswell reports Willett and his wife remain in quarantine on his Mineral county farm since 1917. Disease traced to the Philippines in 1902. Willett says he seeks divine healing.
Frank A. Silver pledges a Montana House bill to grant a cash bonus to former service men. He notes Montana suffered high casualties yet has not provided compensation, citing other states with cash or bond bonuses passed in recent elections.
Helena Montana report states Frank Zupan a Butte miner fell 1800 feet to his death in an East Butte mine shaft his family cannot receive compensation. Accident board notes voluntary acts by an employee are not covered hazards and the employer cannot anticipate or prevent such acts.
Helena report states women election clerks did not violate the eight hour limit though many worked 12 to 24 hours. Attorney General S C Ford said the eight hour law applies only to workers in manufacturing, mechanics, merchandising, and several service industries, not election duties.
Mrs William M Green of Washington receives a box of candy from the president as a family heirloom gift. She has greeted the president and Mrs Wilson during daily automobile rides and later sent a scarf and embroidery to Mrs Wilson. The president later returned with the box of sweets for Mrs Green.
Belgian cue champion Edouard Horemans of Antwerp has arrived for a match with American champion Wille Hoppe to contest the world balkline billiard title.
Alice a sorrel mare at Berkeley California has donated blood for over two years to produce diphtheria serum. Miss Margaret Williams at the Cutter laboratory reports that more than 1 000 children have been saved from death thanks to the antitoxin derived from Alice blood.
A Budapest dispatch states Hungary will create the largest family of heroes by a government measure. Eligible soldiers must prove World War I service and opposition to the Red government. Beneficiaries may add the word hoss meaning hero to their family name, changing names like Vargo Jan to Hoss-Vargo Jan.
A guide on choosing stallions emphasizes higher service value from proven sires, distance over convenience, and weighing conformation, weight, and feet. It notes disinterested expert opinions and show winnings aid decisions, urging sound, well‑bred stallions free of faults for healthy foals and predictable likeness to ancestors.
A Iowa State Farm test fed spring pigs buttermilk along with corn and tankage. Pigs drank about four gallons of buttermilk daily and consumed two and a half pounds of corn plus one seventh pound of tankage, gaining one and a half pounds per day versus pigs fed corn and tankage alone. Buttermilk mirrors skim milk in feeding value, suggesting no danger of overfeeding if two to three pounds of grain per pig daily are supplied.
Iowa experiment station reports that hog cholera vaccination given to pigs from one week to six weeks old by simultaneous inoculation provides immunity of up to nine months. In 171 immune pigs the test saw three non cholera deaths but no vaccine related ill effects. Serum dosages varied by age, with final testing at five c c of virus confirming lasting protection.
Farmers make hog mineral mix from burnt corn cobs burnt bone and ground limestone but often overlook it. A good home made formula uses three bushels charcoal two quarts slaked lime eight pounds salt and one bushel wood ashes.
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