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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1922
Page
14
The notice explains that optical service is more than supplying glasses and stresses that a thorough eye examination by an experienced specialist determines success. With a growing client base, the shop invites readers to make an appointment at their convenience for glasses if needed.
Ross Sugg manager of the Gem Grocery and Miss Mary Curley married in Butte Monday afternoon. Wedding supper at the Thornton hotel followed by a return to Deer Lodge. The couple will reside at the Roy Michaud residence after February 14.
The Methodist Aid society will meet Thursday February 16. Hostesses named are Mrs. Julia Selway Mrs. D V Erwin and Mrs. George Murray.
Cardwell and Thomas Marshall of Twin Bridges were married Saturday afternoon February 4 at the Methodist parsonage with Rev. Edward Smith officiating. The bride, Roscoe Dillet’s sister, had taught school nearby, and the groom is a young farmer from the Twin Bridges area.
The W. W. G. will meet at Mrs. R. R. Rathbone's home on Tuesday February 14 with Frances Hails as hostess. The society girls are working on a play to be presented later this month. Watch for the date.
Mrs. W. F. Drummey and Mrs. Firant Brundage will entertain the St. Rose guild next Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Brundage's home.
Mrs. H. F. Best acted as hostess Wednesday afternoon for a Bitterroot club gathering, offering refreshment and hospitality to members.
Mrs A A Elliott entertained guests at a Kensington Tuesday afternoon gathering with light refreshments and sociable conversation.
Mrs. W. C. Jennings and Mrs. Gow entertained the Baptist aid society yesterday afternoon with a pleasant social gathering and refreshments.
The Twentieth Century dancing club hosts a character ball tonight at City Hall. The event highlights period attire and social dancing with attendees expected from local clubs and organizations.
Miss Cora Taylor entertained Theta Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. E. L. Poindexter. Percolators and ten thousand other things at Tattersall's. Adg. 191f.
Wm. Hosking audits the Normal College books this week. The Riverside training school hosts rural student teachers with named trainees. Staff visit exams, printing tech, and a hard time party with ginger snaps. The rink reopens for skating. Chancellor Elliott spoke at a primary school dedication. Miss Tessie Devgan is recovering from tonsil surgery. The basketball team lost to Idaho Polytechnic 27 to 10, with Idaho's swift quintet overpowering. A game versus Butte School of Mines is set for February 11.
Dennison Manufacturing Co promotes a bead making leaflet listing wax colors and tools. A demonstrator will visit Dillon in mid April to teach wax and crepe paper work, with a Tribune Store presence. The store stocks all wax colors, wax melters, spatulas, and moulders.
The piece argues for an irrigation style network of perforated pipes along mountain ridges to spray water during fire season. It envisions continuous mist along elevated sides, creating a fire barrier, moistening vegetation, and reducing fire damage while cutting ranger workload and paradoxically aiding stock raisers.
The Dillon page lists advertisements and brief notes: Gamer's candy at Stone & Stone with weekly shipments, visits by George Whitworth and Mrs Mary Snow, fountain pen repairs, K J Bowman from Anaconda on business, home grown flowers from Dillon Greenhouses, Max Lauterbach returning from Butte, plain sewing services, and personnel moves including A McDonald’s resignation. It also notes a George Washington supper on February 22 at the MKE church, Will Featherly returning from California with cattle, and a long column warning about stock peddlers and “hot air” agents preying on Beaverhead homeowners, detailing local losses and the dangers of pursuit of easy riches.
The club met at Miss Josephine Irwin's home. Miss Eleanor Troxell lectures in Montana Broadwater county on reading. Miss Pluma Tattersall returns to teaching after illness. Twenty seven penmanship certificates awarded in the junior high. Milk program for underweight children explained and defended. Dedication of the new primary building held with Frank Eliel substituting for Leonard Eliel. Evening program praised with encored musical selections. two kindergarten rooms crowded.
The piece credits a merchant named Viel with cutting living costs in 1921 by 10 to 50 percent in a Montana region and pledges a third store in Salmon opening April 1922. It notes rumors about market manipulation and touts cash sales as better value.
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