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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
4
The notice lists subscription rates in advance: one year at 1.00, six months at 60 cents, and three months at 60 cents. It also notes the paper is entered as second class matter June 12, 1886, at Dillon Montana, with the Dillon post office and telephone contact 66.
Rail way Express agent C M Casterline predicts record breaking Christmas business as American shoppers prepare to spend near four billion dollars. The service urges early shopping and shipping with pickups available across the city and last moment express options for fast Christmas delivery.
A sermon-like piece urges the American Legion Auxiliary to unite four hundred twenty thousand hands for God and country. It frames service to God as the first duty and service to nation as the second, calling on women to use their hands in patriotism and education.
In 1887 opinion labels the Panama canal plan a failure after huge spending and many deaths. The piece shifts to health, citing Dr Thomas Parran Jr addressing tuberculosis as the nation s top health threat and urging wartime action with Christmas Seals to wipe out the disease.
Mark Poindexter will leave the year’s start for Helena to join the office of his brother T W Poindexter Jr state auditor elect. Dillon council plans a new city hall next year with ground floor space for fire department apparatus a jail council chamber library and other city offices on the second floor.
From the Tribune notes a 1906 county treasurer report shows taxes collected at $125 215 07, up $10 215 07 from prior year, with delinquents at $1 377 70, $350 87 less than the year before. It also lists Huber Bros awarded the court house clock installation for $1 683 50.
Presentation of past commander's badges to Joseph C Wedum and Guy Combes at the Legion meeting in city hall. District Commander Lehn of Butte and other officers attend. meeting starts at 8 p.m. with a goal to report the post over the 1937 quota.
Union Pacific announces an eight million dollar program adding new engines passenger cars and auto freight cars plus air conditioning and modernization of other cars. The plan follows a 3 million dollar award for 20 high speed engines with bids open for 40 passenger coaches and five dining cars. Three hundred auto cars will be built at Omaha shops and air conditioning work has begun employing hundreds more workers.
A Montana district court in Beaverhead County requires interested parties to appear on January 9 1937 in Dillon for show cause why the administrator should not be allowed to sell the decedent James M McKay's mining claims including Sir Walter Scotts Robert Burns The Thistle The Hunter The Amaranth Curfew 1 2 Tally Ho Victory Reward Tallaman Sentry Protector and New Addition. The order calls for publication in the Dillon Tribune for four weeks. Also includes Dillon ordinance prohibiting solicitation on city streets with fines for violations.
Frank McFadden is named as administrator of the estate of Bessie Mori, deceased, with the filing dated December 1 1936 in Dillon Montana.
Department of the Interior notices Frederick G. Lyon of Dillon Montana intends to prove up a stock raising homestead entry filed December 21 1931 for sections 15 11N 5W principal meridian. The hearing will be December 19 1936 before I A Hazelbaker in Dillon with witnesses Roy Lyon Sam Conklin William A Logan and John W Lyon of Dillon.
Frank H Weyerstall of Butte Montana filed intent to make three year proof to establish a land claim on Lot 1 New NWY N4NEV Section 91 Township 43 4 Range 8 W Montana Meridian. The hearing will be before U S Commissioner George W Howard at 528 Phoenix Ridge Pitt Montana on January 2 1937. Witnesses: Edward J Glennon James McIlrath George Reichle Reichle Montana and P H Dallas Phoenix Building Butte Montana.
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