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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1936
Page
4
A montage of harsh weather and policy chatter. Officials warn of rising vehicular wildlife fatalities and bootleg gasoline traffic while WPA relief funds fund arts and entertainment programs. Citizens endure cold, high taxes, and debates over government spending and culture.
Forty nine years ago the old adobe building once hosting Montana’s legislature sits at the lower end of Main street, Bannack, weathered but sturdy though aging. Mark Twain’s wealth is noted at 1.5 million, up from a reporter’s $25 weekly twenty years earlier. The Dillon Argenta coach shifts from wheels to runners about eight miles from Dillon. A new Beaverhead River bridge at Twin Bridges costs about 2500 dollars with approaches. Local businessmen pursue a water supply project for homes and fire protection to avert water shortages during fires.
In Dillon the wholesale liquor business changed hands with R C Halliday selling to S S Patterson who will continue the operation at the same stand. A Kansas tornado last Wednesday caused extensive damage lifting roofs breaking windows overturning smoke stacks and uprooting trees.
Dillon basketball team led by Paul Stahl Wilbur Gilbert Doc Erwin Harry Graves and Drumme y defeated Anaconda 26 to 14 Saturday night at the theatre. Otto Gosman a famed Oregion Short Line conductor has given up railroading for ranching.
Frank A. Hazelbaker was the honor guest at a Friday night banquet recognizing his service to Beaverhead County and Montana at the San Francisco and San Diego expositions. Local sheepmen consider 31 cents for wool the high mark, with many holding out for 33 cents.
John Bray and James Mansfield report heavy snowfall across Centennial and Horse Prairie valleys, with snow above knee height on Painter Creek. Medicine Lodge and Big Sheep Creek also confirm deep snows aiding pastures, promising extra grass, hay, grain, and a bigger 1936 harvest. Bedrock reservoir owners may refill emergency supplies next spring, fueling optimism. Fire in Pocahontas Va. turns out to be their own firehouse blaze.
Ninety six percent of over 300 reporting clearinghouses across the United States show concrete evidence of favorable shifts in public opinion toward banks. The American Bankers Association survey notes deposits rising, fewer people using safe deposit boxes, and a decline in postal savings as signs of improving sentiment.
A beacons of National Parks Airways helped a Boise to Salt Lake flight drift to Twin Bridges Montana during a bitter night. The crew found a small field amid alkali bogs and frozen knobs, then landed safely after a perilous descent. A second plane, nearly overtaken by fog and cold, guided by a beacon above Roe’s Bedrock home, landed safely after pilots improvised flares and a steer to a snowbound field.
Madison report from the American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission outlines soil erosion as a national crisis. It cites 1.5 billion tons lost yearly and details measures like terracing strip cropping wind erosion control and other land stewardship strategies.
During the past fiscal year there were more applications for enlistment in the United States navy than any year except the world war years 1917 and 1918.
DPS will apply for a tax deed on or after March 18 1986 to the Beaverhead County Treasurer Dillon Montana for Pederson brothers property described as E half SE quarter Sec6 Ex quarter Sec8 NW quarter and SW quarter Sec9 Twp10S Rnge12W with due amount 69 90 plus publication and deed costs dated January 7 1986 8 12
The undersigned will on April 22 1936 apply to the Beaverhead County Treasurer for a tax deed on two described tracts. The first tract covers 159.74 acres in H E S No 149 with metes and bounds ending at the original corner. The second tract contains 27 acres more or less along Wise River in H E S No 46 part of H E B S 149, both in Section 4 and 9, Township 1 South Range 11 West.
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