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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
7
A folk tale explains mistletoe as the solitary plant that harmed the sun god Baldur, Loki’s ruse, and Frigga’s plan. The myth ends with Baldur’s restoration at Easter and mistletoe becoming a symbol of friendship and love hung at Christmas.
Vermont annual shipment of Christmas trees totals over 1,500,000 trees with about $100,000 paid to farmers. Trees are consigned to commission merchants in New York Philadelphia Baltimore and western cities to St Louis. Bundled by size with 50 to 600 bundles per car and 1 500 trees per car. Fir is standard though balsams rise in New York demand. Debates on impact on reforestation continue amid second growth and scrub.
The greatest work has always gone hand in hand with the most fervent moral purpose spoken by Sidney Lanter. This reflective remark highlights the link between creative achievement and ethical intent.
Helena reports across state institutions the University of Montana including Bozeman Dillon and Butte will see salary increases from 10 to 20 percent effective January 1 1920. The raises funded by last session's appropriations were approved unanimously by the state board of education and state board of examiners as war time steadiness credentials.
Helena reports estimates by the state game warden show elk killed during the 1919 hunting season near Yellowstone National Park surpassing 2000. The season ends December 25 and the heaviest slaughter in decades depletes the herd. Early snows pushed animals to easier hunting grounds, prompting a call for district closures to protect species.
Judge Bourquin of the U.S. district court rules he has jurisdiction to hear the Montana Development Association versus Montana Trade Commission case. The injunction against enforcement of the cost display order remains in effect while briefs on jurisdiction are filed.
Governor V. Stewart said federal troops stationed in Montana are under orders from the western army department and he cannot say when they will leave. Officers and men want to depart due to unseasonable weather, with troops sent to protect coal mine workers and not to influence the miners dispute. He reports law and order in the coal fields has been satisfactory with no disturbances.
Helena reports state chemist could not detect poison in Kalispell canned foods similar to the Java outbreak. Food cans were discarded except for remaining samples from the same lot, while a federal bureau chemist investigates the five deaths.
The article recounts William B. Johnson known as Pussyfoot a mild antisaloon crusader who rode a plank in London and suffered a black eye. It covers his Nebraska student days his Lincoln business early government work against liquor to Indian sales controversies and his rise as general agent for the Antisaloon League with a London office mission.
Carter Glass, former Virginia state senator and longtime congressman from the Lynchburg Sixth district, was appointed by Gov Davis to fill the late Thomas S. Martin’s U S Senate seat. At sixty one, Glass is owner of Lynchburg newspapers the Daily News and the Daily Advance and has chaired the banking and currency committee. He will serve the term expiring in 1925 after consulting President Wilson.
Sir Thomas J Lipton sails for a new attempt to win the Americas Cup with Shamrock IV named as challenger His plan calls for a June race on the Sandy Hook course and a windier season after war delays.
Whitlock, minister to Belgium for six years, is to be raised to ambassador and returned to Belgium. The move honors a diplomat who guided relations with the Germans before and during World War I, aided Belgian relief, and worked with Hoover on relief efforts.
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