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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1925
Page
4
The Boosters' Club carnival Saturday night drew a large crowd with lively side shows and a main show. About 200 dollars was collected from admissions to aid the Chinook project. Miss Bernice Hirschman won the beauty contest with the top votes among the finalists.
Jim Hayes has been ill but is able to be up. Al Crossley drove to Dillon. Noah Allen and Enoch Young fished the Big Hole river Saturday. Mr and Mrs Sanders and Milo visited the Enoch Young home Sunday. Walter Lima cared for the Apex store Saturday while W Cheeley and wife handled Dillon business. Enoch Young and Noah Allen left for the timber Sunday. Al Crossley returned from Kalispell on business. The United States area is 3,026,789 square miles, larger than the Sahara Desert when including Alaska and island territories.
Medcine Lodge notices Frank Rife and Mrs Rife drove to Armstead for a masquerade dance Saturday. Several local residents including John Hildreth, Dick Freeman, Edgar Rife and Tex Killener made trips to Armstead or Dillon. Sophia Guyaz reports her mother improving.
Feb 19 items from Armstead report residents and visitors traveling to Dillon for events and shopping. Highlights include Mrs O Brien and Billy Ann Rife joining Edgar Rife, L D Brown and Edgar Rife winning masquerade prizes, and a Valentine party with dancing and stunts. Nearby residents attend a recital, enjoy visits, and share hospitality at a hospital convalescence.
Fine weather continues in Centennial Valley with sunny days. Cattle from Lake Idaho were driven through the valley on the 11th. Mrs. McNabb plans a return to teach seven months of school. Radio entertainments are popular at the Buck and Hanson homes. The last machine sawin g job in the area finished by Tom Fairbanks and Jimmie Hanson with help from local helpers.
Tom Brown and Tom Knoll staged a boxing exhibition at the store on Tuesday night. A Saturday radio party at Pad Dock Ranch in Bannack was described as very enjoyable.
A crowded social season features Olive Harrison and extended family visits with large cattle drives to Beaverhead Duke Gist ranch, and birthday gatherings for Frank Marchesseau. Dwight Harrison, nine, injured after a horse fall and recuperating in Dillon. Clare Judge passes eighth grade exams. Jack Brown installs new store radio drawing evening crowds.
Irrigated farm to let with cash or shares option. Acreage to suit, fenced, ditch ed, springs, house, barn, corrals, garden, ample water, machinery, tools, tractor. Close to station town school and good roads. Lessee must finance himself and be a good irrigator. Write box 416 Dillon Montana Adv 7 tf.
Each year more Americans travel by car from London to Stratford-on-Avon a 93 mile scenic run. Shakespeare’s memory has made Stratford famous and tourists visit his birthplace and Anne Hathaway’s cottage at Shottery. The thatched cottage was bought for the nation in 1892 and Americans are said to visit Stratford and Shottery nearly as much as English, a claim likely exaggerated.
The report lists players Ward Murray Sel way Bock Evans and subs Jahr So lace and McMasters with referee W D Ross. It notes positions left forward center right guard and a brief lineup mention from the game.
The eighth grade pupils earning diplomas in mid year exams are Mary Burt Lima Mabel Stamper Lima Elton Maxwell Lima Lily Clark Lima Lloyd Jensen Lima Evelyn Fairbank Upper Lakeview Helen Olsen East Fox George Else Gibbons Ruth Tope Wisdom Wilbur Tash Polaris Clare Judge Polaris Susan Hand Rock Creek Elizabeth Reiber Rock Creek John Reiber Rock Creek Robert Watt Nelson Charles Pilgrim Nelson Alice Roe Co Supt of Schools.
Springtime offers in town and country with ranches of all sizes for sale or exchange at low prices. Dillon homes described as cozy bargains. Three investment propositions in residence property paying near 10 to 12 percent net. Company C Newman adv 89.
Montana State Bobcats overwhelmed the Normal college five 50 to 11 in Bozeman. Bobcats used strong defense and close-range scoring led by Hartwig Cottam Glynn Williams and Hatfield as Normals struggled with guarded long shots.
A Quin cy Illinois reader praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for night cough relief with no opiates. Separately, Chinese forces in the civil war use firecrackers as camouflage for assaults near Shanghai. A Lille mill incident burns a mouse to cinder, causing $20,000 in damages.
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