S Roberts of Grant Attends to City Business
S Roberts of Grant attended to business matters in the city early in the week.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
8
S Roberts of Grant attended to business matters in the city early in the week.
A Polaris school house Christmas event featured Miss Stella Leo guiding pupil performances from 7:30 onward. The program included choruses, recitations, plays such as The Sick Baby and Reading the News, Norwegian Silent Night, and Santa visits with treats, followed by dancing and music from Miss Leo's orchestra. Attendees included relatives from Miles City Dillon and Seattle visits planned by Olivia Harrison and others.
Mrs. G W Richtenour offers a Christmas meditation praising peace and goodwill amid world conflict. Local groups plan gifts for needy children and Spirit of giving through American Legion and auxiliary. Sheridan Woman's Club held a December party with songs and a winter romance contest. several members departed for Pasadena to visit relatives.
A festive Birch Creek schoolhouse event drew residents and guests from nearby towns for a decorated tree and program by students. Performances included carols by four large pupils and a small student, poems, piano solos, a highland dance, and a Swede Santa gift distribution. It also announced Miss Doris Binder’s forthcoming marriage to Ralph Eudaily and a new teacher to lead next term.
An election of officers occurred on Wednesday evening with Odste Imogene Rice as vice president Charity Hill as secretary Rose Lapham as treasurer Ollie Krause as chancellor Jimmy Dell Hutchins as marshal Isabel Zebarth as inner sentinel Mrs W Mel-ogue as outside guardian May Christiansohn as musician Rose Clemow as delegate Celia Wilson as alternate Geraldine Hutchins. Mrs Jim Johnson hosted her bridge club Thursday afternoon with prizes won by Mrs Harry Lapham and Mrs Sanford Shepherd. Families and visitors from Dillon and Rochester attended gatherings and a sixth card party with ten tables at the I O O F hall produced turkey prizes for Mr and Mrs Harry Lapham.
Walter B. Pitkin and M. L. Tillery figure in a humorous note on keeping a dairy herd history. Tillery, Idaho Bingham County agent, has long maintained a complete bull registry used by farmers to judge stock, earning the nickname Encyclopedia Bullanica for its detail.
Stores filled with Christmas shoppers faced a power outage last Saturday evening forcing candlelit service. Householders cooked by candles, delayed reading papers, and condemned the utility for unreliable service amid a rate cut. Notable items include LSU routing SLI 93 to 0, a divorce suit in St Francisville, a probate oak in Athens, a Stamford siblings protest for allowance, a Maine woman with a duck that quacks to music.
A 12 member Montana security committee in Helena finished bills and reports aimed at integrating state welfare activities for January legislation. They reviewed university materials, health set ups, and a broad child welfare bill with academic input from Montana State University.
Government and private experimental stations test feeds for value to livestock nationwide. A Department of Agriculture publication highlights soybean oilmeal as a nutritious, palatable protein source with a nut-like flavor, digestible properties, and growing use in mixed feeds for poultry, dairy cows, beef cattle, hogs, and sheep.
The report notes Frank Sinnotta and partners driving a 200 foot tunnel into the Charter Oak mine in the Blue Wing district with a new air compressor. McClosky ships ore from Gold Bug near Bannack, Ed Cole extracts ore from Lake Mine near Argenta, and a mill deal is discussed at Argenta along with Badger and Shafer on French Creek. Wilson of Great Falls shows interest in Mauldin property while Ermont remains a major, valuable, unique Montana venture with ongoing large scale operations.
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph announces Christmas Day and January 1 reduced long distance rates. Rates, already in effect after 7 p m on weeknights and Sundays, extend to all day Christmas and New Year holidays. Service begins 7 p m Christmas Eve and ends 4 30 a m Dec 26, and 7 p m New Year Eve to 4 30 a m Jan 2.
The Tomilson Arkwright company of Great Falls won the Ruby Valley dam project in Madison county for 349 761 10. The firm also received two more dam awards in the state under the joint supervision of the PWA and State Water Conservation board. Martin Elvone of Cleveland was sentenced for stealing a ring, telling the court he was broke with no home but prison.
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