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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1937
Page
4
A miscellaneous clippings blend about western booster imagery, housing shortages, and a Navy morale piece. It includes a poem praising the West, a note on chaplains and religious services aboard ships, and a defense-minded boast about Army and Navy efficiency and national protection. Names and places are sparse, with general references to the United States and navy life.
A 20 year old item highlights Dillon Tribune style bargains and local notes. Civil Service exams openings in 1937 for Mason and Operator roles target U S Forest Service vacancies across Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington with distant filing deadlines.
From the Tribune February 3 1888 Dillon is described as lively and busy with new court house hotel railroad depot and flouring mill projects. Beaverhead county is placed in the First Judicial district by the Montana Supreme Court. Groundhog Day is noted with a superstition about six weeks of good weather.
John Van Guilder notes that many amateurs now print and enlarge their negatives. They choose paper, surfaces, and toning to shape contrast and mood, mask sections, print from multiple negatives, or use enlargers to magnify details and create unique, improved pictures.
Forty years ago the Wisdom area logged 50 below while Dillon hit 36 below. Freight teams hauled timber for a dredge boat past Bannack road. In Dillon Chinatown a minor affray with hatchets and guns occurred, no deaths and two injuries among Chinese residents.
The 1907 Tribune notes $81,177 appropriated by the state legislature to construct and equip the main building and heating plant at the State Normal college. Dillon faces a coal shortage with businessmen hiring teams to meet freight trains for coal, while parts of town sink several feet due to subsurface quicksand between Bannack and Glendale streets.
The Boston Traveler notes savings forms aid incomes and highlights life insurance as crucial amid hard times. George D. Smith of the Mark Hopkins Hotel hails the San Francisco Oakland Bridge as a $70 million feat of public convenience and a national landmark.
A young woman student at Miami University asked how to catch a cold to avoid a speech assignment. She had tried exposure like sitting in a draft but failed to get sick.
The State of Montana summons Earl Townsend Defendant for absolute divorce filed in Beaverhead District Court. Plaintiff alleges desertion for over a year and ongoing. defendant must answer within twenty days or risk default judgment. Clerk Norman Giles issued the summons on February 3, 1987, with attorney John Collina listed for the plaintiff.
The U S Land Office in Great Falls Montana announces J W Potts Wise River Montana filed November 11 1936 as Serial 082174 to exchange SE SE Sec 34 Tp1N R11W for Lots 1 2 and NWSW Sec 10 Tp12S R1W containing water rights and a 600 foot width road right of way with all phosphate deposits reserved to the United States Comments or protests must be filed with the Register U S Land Office in Great Falls Montana by the response deadline.
Public notices include land patent proofs in Great Falls and Dillon. Amy M. Stephens seeks final three year proof on stock-raising homestead in Wisdom Montana. Sheriff sale set for February 11 1937 in Dillon, with property details and witnesses listed. Probate notice for Kate R Lewis estate set for February 6 1987. Elizabeth Rieber files final proof in Reichle for sections 29 and 38 with witnesses named.
The undersigned administrator of the Estate of Matt Stimac requests all creditors and claimants to exhibit their claims against the decedent. Provide written claim details to the administrator by a specified deadline and according to state probate law.
Jan 21 10387 first publication for the estate of Matt Stimac deceased. FRANK McFADDEN is administrator. Vouchers worth six dollars must be sent within four months to the administrator at the law offices of John Collins Poindexter Block Dillon Montana for estate business. Beaverhead County Montana.
The administrator of the Frank E. Foote estate in Beavershead County Montana offers at private sale, with court confirmation, merchandise from a book and stationery business, shop equipment, printing shop gear, goodwill, accounts receivable, and household furniture. The Dillon Tribune office will exhibit property and provide sale terms. Bids accepted before sale. payment terms require 44 percent cash and the balance on notes up to 20 months at 6 percent interest. Sale dated after February. administrator Thomas W. Jones.
The executor Roy Winn of the last will of Fred Rife deceased notifies all creditors and claimants to exhibit claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims should be sent to the law offices of John Collins Poindexter Block Dillon Montana, Beaverhead County. First publication February 4 1937.
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