Foote Dillon Montana News Digest Headline
Local Dillon Montana issue presents scattered items from the day. The page includes agency notices and ads with no clear single event.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
4
Local Dillon Montana issue presents scattered items from the day. The page includes agency notices and ads with no clear single event.
Rates listed for six months at 125 and three months at 65 cents. Notice states mail matter and post office handling.
Mrs C Eudora Bordwine, longtime Dillon resident now in California, reports pleasant southern California weather and ample produce. She notes Montanans in Alabama, Selways active in church work, Brock confined by rheumatism, Ripleys thriving with walnuts and chickens, and many roses in bloom. She sends holiday greetings.
The Beaverhead post of the American Legion held its annual meeting on Monday evening for officer elections. D V Paddock was chosen commander with Jay V McCarthy as vice commander and George Gosman as finance officer. Other officers named were J B Cluley chaplain Walter Stamm historian and Warren Sutherland sergeant at arms. E W Bond T S Gilbert and F G Lyons joined the executive committee. The retiring commander W Bond spoke briefly and visitors shared remarks. Plans for 1929 focus on increasing membership.
Funeral services were conducted in Dillon on Friday for C. L. Miller long time westerner and former Beaverhead County resident. He died the previous Monday at his daughter Mrs. T. J. Murray’s home in San Jose California. The service at St. James Episcopal Church was led by Rev. H. N. Tragitt and interment followed at Mountain View Cemetery.
Pleased she will be especially pleased if the candy comes from our shop. Our candy is made of purest ingredients, healthful and tasty. We offer jawbreakers and chocolate creams with something for every sweet tooth.
Funeral services for William Finsley were conducted Saturday in Jackson with Rev. T. J. Simons of the Presbyterian church presiding. Interment followed in Wisdom cemetery. Finsley, 54, died December 8 after influenza. He lived in the Big Hole basin for years before ranching in Arizona. He is survived by three sisters and two brothers.
This excerpt advises immediate relief for persistent hacking coughs by holding a dose of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in the throat before swallowing. It emphasizes the product’s active ingredients, non opiate nature, and notes Geo M Gosman as the seller.
W T Scully longtime manager of the Pennsylvania Oil Co reports Hughes Oil Co of Billings has purchased all holdings here including the service station tanks and warehouse. The price is not public and the new owners will take possession on January 1 with W K Harris of Roundup to manage locally and move to Dillon after the holidays.
Sam Robinson and Pat Smith visited Jackson on Monday for business. Mrs. Fred Hirschey returned from Butte with a baby boy. Dan Penderfast visited Dillon for business. James Dodd bought cows from George Lemon. Clemon family attended George Gray funeral in Dillon. William Finsley funeral held in Jackson with local pallbearers. Interment at Wisdom cemetery. George Rheine and Otto Schultz attended business in Dillon and Jackson. Jorgensen and Peterson families hosted and visited Missoula, with others traveling for meetings and social events.
Last Monday evening at the Masonic hall Mizpah Chapter of Eastern Star held a special installation. Mrs Nellie Lovell past grand matron installed officers led by Effie Roe as worthy matron and W F Shaffner as worthy patron with Myrtle Oberem associate matron and Cecil Cluley conductress. Appointive officers named include T E Luebben marshal Alice Hansen Ada Elizabeth Rife Ruth Helen Anderson Esther Geneveve Metlen Martha Elfreda Woodside Electa Ruth Dart chaplain Martha Opp organist Florence Backus warder Roy Herndon sentinel.
In Beaverhead County Montana the administratrix RS Erwin of the estate of Phoebe Crowell deceased asks creditors and any others with claims to file them with vouchers within four months after first publication. Mail or deliver to J E Kelly law office Dillon Montana the designated place for estate business. Dated November 28 1928 Dillon Montana.
A $1,000 reward is offered for evidence leading to conviction of anyone unlawfully butchering or stealing beef or veal on the ranges of the Big Hole Horse Prairie Grasshopper Centennial Red Rock or Black Fail. Report evidence to Sheriff W. C. Orr or stock inspector D. W. Erwin.
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