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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1917
Page
8
Reichle P O February 21 reports visits by Lacy McYntire W O Shelton Odell Green and others. Potato buyers from Butte seek scarce crop. Measles affect Rock Creek school. Dillon and Helena trips noted. Naval academy appointment for Clinton Wilson praised. Community events include a charity concert raising funds for the Methodist church.
Mrs F A Bryan and children visit the Conner family while the children stay home sick. A Glen dance drew Apex attendees who enjoyed the event. Water was struck in the school House well at about fifty feet. A dance is planned at the Haining house Saturday night. Mr and Mrs W R Hyland made a brief Divide visit. T H Dubois attended a wool lecture in Dillon. Mr and Mrs Cal Morrison rode the morning train. Walter Siria did Dillon business. Mrs J Stevens and son came up from Dillon. Will and Mike Hegarty traveled to Dillon. Frank Maclair did Dillon business. Ed Bryan from the Big Hole sawing wood for Beaverhead Ranch Co and others.
McHessor notes Hayden of Wilbur Washington visiting his son Joe Hayden on a Big Dry homestead and considering land investment. Local dry farmers attended Martin auction, including Charley Reis George Reis Jess Reis and others. Jeff Cox nears completion of a barn with a boar roof as Mrs Davis heads to Hurley Linder ranch for house care and Mrs Hurley Linder undergoes hospital surgery.
Miss Marguerite Barclay, ill for a week, returned to Bozeman last Monday with her mother joining her. In Dillon, the first two basketball games of the tournament saw the Seniors beat the Freshmen 40 to 11 and the Juniors top the Preps 28 to 8, drawing strong class rivalry. Miss Josephine Walters has left school due to ill health but plans to rejoin at the start of spring quarter.
Students enjoyed a league social at the M. E. church Friday night. Normal girls filled the high school football game bleachers to cheer the Seniors. Miss Stark Hazard and Riches dined at the dorm last Sunday. The Zctalethian Literary Society plans a 7 30 program Friday. Martha Behrer will not return this quarter. Measles have appeared at the dormitory and Kate Guilbault is quarantined.
Mathaw returns from Anaconda with cattle to market. J. W. Scott visits Dillon. Rev. Ellis preaches at schoolhouse and a Sunday school is formed. Mrs. Julia Morris travels to Leadore to visit Mrs. W. E. Eatman, returns by train. Claus Anderson breaks leg while working for John Peterson on Horse Prairie. Carl Beardslee ill with cold. Mrs. H. H. Bates visits Dillon. Mrs. L. M. Pfummer shops in Dillon. Ralph Mark from Short Line departs for Salmon. Tom Mullan drives new 1917 Ford. Joe Metlen takes horses to Dillon for sale.
Loomont reports work on the eastward county road is advancing with a gravel chute built and teams hauling gravel. Local social life includes a masquerade ball, Valentine party at Wisdom, and a well attended Eastern Star meeting with a supper. Community members attend visits, illnesses, births, and events across Loomont, Twin Bridges, Whitehall, and nearby areas.
Messrs. G. Davis and Stone returned from Dillon and Butte. A Valentine dance was held in Wisdom on Wednesday night at the Mess Hall. It was well attended and all enjoyed the evening.
Stone Creek notes report a dance scheduled for March 3 at the Stone Creek school house hosted by the O D O club with all invited. The club plans a meeting with Mrs J M Tame on March 1. Local items include business trips to Dillon and well drilling progress on the Dan Sullivan ranch and a 150 foot water reach by Harry Franks.
Henry Wetmore suffered a crushed foot while log skidding in the timber. His foot was amputated above the ankle in Dillon after a failure to recover. His son Cecil and wife Mrs Wetmore remain at his side as he progresses.
An advertisement promotes Mayr's Wonderful Remedy claiming to remove stomach poisons that cause indigestion constipation and other ailments. It cites judges congressmen doctors and others as sufferers and promises a free book and money back guarantee through Geo H Mayr Chicago or Potts drugstore.
The speaker notes only one day in upper areas with no feeding this winter and no four feet of snowfall on level ground. They acknowledge severe winters but argue locals know the season better than outsiders and report a good winter so far for stock and feeding.
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