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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1938
Page
5
Dillon residents hosted and visited relatives in Butte Great Falls and Helena with multiple travel notes. Visitors included Mrs Gerald Castein Mrs Catherine Caskin Miss May Stocker and Mr Alfred Cox in Dillon. Local officials attended meetings and a marriage license was issued to Andy Popish and Johanna Kamich.
Fourteen new members were initiated into the Elks lodge at the I O O F hall starting at 8 p m. The event honors the sixtieth anniversary of the national order, followed by refreshments.
Mrs D L Johnson will entertain Entre Nous Friday evening at eight o clock.
Mrs. Bert Williams entertained the Hi Lo club Wednesday afternoon with a social meeting and light refreshments in her home.
LDS Relief Society will gather at the home of Mrs. H M Warner on Thursday. Mrs Robert Gregg and Mrs Paul Temple hosted the Better Homes club at the Gregg residence 703 South Pacific street on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock.
Friday evening a Junior Auxiliary gathering is set for 7 o'clock at the home of Ester Ann Schmittroch. attendees will discuss club affairs and upcoming events.
Ladies and their husbands of the Riverside social gathered for a 1 o'clock dinner hosted by Mrs Peter J Peterson on Wednesday February 16 at her home.
The Ladies of the St. Rose guild will gather Thursday at 3 30 PM at 445 Thomson Avenue. Mrs. Harry Tash will assist Mrs. Kerr as hostess for the afternoon gathering.
The Diana Rebekah lodge will hold its regular meeting on Thursday evening at 8 o clock. A social hour and refreshments will follow the session.
After a Legions Auxiliary meeting at city hall Monday night a social session followed at Mrs A H Warner’s home. Hostesses included Mrs F G Lyons Mrs John Wenger Mrs Carl Mast Mrs Mary Paddock and Mrs Warner.
A church guild session starts at 11 o clock Thursday with ladies sewing for Barrett hospital until five. Luncheon served at 1 30 by Mrs H N Tragitt and Mrs W H Stephan. Junior Auxiliary held a Valentine party at Esther Ann Schmittroch's home and made valentines for Fort Harrison and Billings hospital children.
The program at ten o'clock on Wednesday February 16 featured two one-act plays directed by Miss Myrtle Savidge. Home Rule by Marguerite Bro was staged by Barbara Magnus and others. The Master Salesman by William Upson followed with Vic Cushman Edward Cebull and Violet Burns in the cast.
President Sheldon E. Davis plans a weeklong East visit with one day stops at several colleges and universities. He will join the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City and participate in meetings of the Progressive Education Association and the American Association of Teachers Colleges in New York or Atlantic City. He is a member of multiple professional fraternities including Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi.
Funeral services were held for William O Connell 60 a Wise River rancher who died at his home Saturday night Interment followed at Dewey cemetery He was born October 25 1887 in Elk Horn Montana and had lived in the county for years Surviving relatives include half brother Ben Mallon Wise River brothers Bob Melrose Jim Fishtrap sisters Mrs James Jackson Dillon Mrs Maude Stabler Butte and Mrs Jack Bell Seattle and several nieces
Regular Riverside local of the Farmers Union will meet Friday evening February 11 at 8 o clock in the Riverside school house. Ned Saunders, president. Butte musicians here for gospel quartet provide special music at Presbyterian church Sunday. Members include John Seymor Richard Tregidge Neil G MacLeod Fraser MacDonald.
Western states mostly posted smaller crop receipts in November 1938. Montana and Nevada recorded small gains in farm income, while prices for potatoes fruits sugar beets and cotton fell. Livestock receipts rose regionally in Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico, offsetting declines in Idaho Utah and Washington.
Dorothy Alearn was named to lead the annual round-up of the Penk em Cow club, a stockmen and ranchers group. The event takes place in St. Paul Minnesota with members from farms and ranches attending the Livg fork at St. Déul.
Billings Polytechnic Crusaders edged Normal 35-31 in overtime after a 30-30 regular score. Wetzel led Normal with 16 points while Carlisle topped Billings, as Poly pulled away late in the extra period. In the nightcap Norman Pups beat Lima 17-16.
Scout week activities wrapped up at a scout-cub banquet in the Methodist church with over a hundred attendees. Percy Frazier filled the main address due to Rabbi Gitin’s family illness, Rev. J. A. Meeke gave the invocation, and George Farrell received a scout ring and memento for ten years as scoutmaster in Dillon. Frazier noted over a million boys are in scouting and 350,000 attend summer camps.
Norman Giles the district court clerk issued a marriage license last week to Alfred Kamps of Lima and Letha Crossley of Dillon.
James L Kelly is named on the School of Mines honor roll alongside 26 other students in the latest list. The notice highlights academic achievement within the mining program and reflects a broad display of scholastic excellence at the institution.
The local DeMolay chapter initiated several Twin Bridges youths on Wednesday at 7 30. Both the initiatory and DeMolay degrees were conferred.
The article encourages using room subjects like icebox, stove, pans, and mixing bowls for candid and still life pictures. It suggests high angles for cake mixing, dramatic lighting, and close ups of slicing, washing dishes, and hands at work. It recommends bright lighting, supersensitive film, and careful camera distance for clear snapshots.
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