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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
8
Community members enjoyed winter events at home and on the pond, with skating parties, fires, and a New Year card dance hosted by local firemen. Guests and residents attended dinners, bridge games, and family gatherings, while some children traveled for schooling and others prepared to return home after holidays.
Federal study based on Cook County hospital records identifies home accidents as a major concern with 18 percent in kitchens. Steps and stairs pose high risk with falls most common, plus hazards from gas, electric devices, and improper storage of poisons and medicines.
Pola ris Miss Stella Leo reopened school Monday after the Christmas holidays. Various local residents and visitors are noted in encounters around ranches and homes including New Year's visits, cattle movements, and hay sampling for shipment to Tia Jauna Mexico.
All Girl Scouts resumed their regular meetings Wednesday afternoon after girls who participated in the swimming class checked their swim records. Many have Bearly earned the progress noted in the records.
The Social Bible column records guests and visits during the holidays. Cecil Carpita and family in Lima hosted relatives, Mr and Mrs Tadovic with grandson Larry Brakoveey visited Piccone, and Mrs Julius Hartwig Sr spent time with daughter Louise Kambich in Melrose. Regina and Elizabeth Rieber hosted a holiday party with games and cards. Mr and Mrs Dan Smith are moving to a farm near Divide. Kathryn Brakovee spent New Year in Butte. Fay Gransberry shopped in Butte, and Grace Trainor visited Reichle. Nicolas de Leor and others were in Dillon.
Leo Pfiffner and Ruth come back from Los Angeles while George Hildreth visited Dell friends last Friday. Roger Sweeney returns from Logan Utah. In Dillon from Dell this week are Floyd and Joe Birrer, Asa Meclam, D D McKnight and family, Nellie McKnight, Henry and W A Price families, Gertrude Price, and Jay Talent. Attendees from Dell at Mrs. Margaret Elliott’s funeral in Butte include H C McNinch, Asa Mecham, and Joe Dowling families. Elliott had lived in Dell previously and resided in Glendale California the last five years.
New Year gatherings mark visits among Buckinghans McCarthys Sharp and Sharp families and other neighbors. Arch ie Pilon reports a fine two ounce elk kill while I B Mining ships Shafer ore to Bannack for milling under Oren Pilon contract. Local exchanges note snow melt from Miles City visit and pinochle at the Hand home with high scores by Homer Pilon and Barbara Cole.
Rotarian Magazine January presents fiction and non fiction top ten lists for 1937. Notable entries include A Mighty Fortress and Northwest Passage in fiction and Look Eleven Years Younger and Life With Mother in non fiction. Mr and Mrs Herb Wheat Jr spent holidays in Dillon and left for their ranch near Dell today.
About 260 children, students, and parents attended the first annual free matinee at Dillon city hall auditorium on New Year’s Day. The Dillon Parent-Teacher association and the Dillon Girl Scout council sponsored the event, featuring Claudia Faust School of Dancing numbers and Vic Cushman vocal solo. A mixer and grand march added dancing fun.
Mr and Mrs Ott Gordon are parents of two daughters born Wednesday at the Foxfirett hospital.
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