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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1932
Page
8
The 7 year Moorer Dam on the Colorado River progresses under Six Companies for the Bureau of Reclamation. Boulder City grows to house 3,000 workers with tunnels, rail lines, and power plans as 200,000 cubic feet per second capacity awaits river diversion in 1933.
A close contest saw the ladies basketball team edge the public school boys 18 to 14 on Tuesday. In social news, George Melton and his sons Monte and Robert visited Haviland. a New Year masquerade ball featured costumes and prizes, with local residents attending gatherings in Dillon and Laurel.
Mrs Berg Christensen will entertain the Ladies Aid at the Lutheran church on Thursday January 7. Sunday schedule lists Sunday school at 10 a m worship at 11 a m and Luther League at 7 p m. George W Dart remains at home ill.
Advisory groups note a British forecast from thirty years earlier that global wheat acreage would reach 320 million acres by 1931, risking shortage. Instead, yields rose from 12.7 to 14.1 bushels per acre, expanding output and creating surplus amid expanding cultivations in Canada and Australia. The rise is tied to mechanization, with reapers, binders, and modern combines slashing costs and labor per acre.
A yearlong review details monthly activities in Jackson across lodge groups, schools, and civic clubs. Highlights include R N A and Rebekah events, flag days, Memorial Sunday, Mother’s Day programs, a July rodeo staged by Johnson Be Burdick, and the December Christmas banquet. The Basin Wranglers formed, aiding entertainment, with plans for 1932.
The name Foley's Honey and Tar Compound explains its quick relief for coughs and distressing chest symptoms as described in the observed text little context or dates provided. The fragment references opiates or chloroform and notes rapid effectiveness in stopping coughs and aiding healing.
In a tale of boastful club lore a Salmon River barge trip inspires a film that two men shot. Roy Forrester and Louis Schmittroth paddled 185 miles in six days to Riggin earning 300 feet of cinema. The film later vanished after a custodian loan at a forestry meeting in Ogden and Salt Lake, leaving Schmittroth worried.
District Commander W L Chapman forecasts a record Mining group of Legion posts meet in Dillon on Saturday. Department leaders Art Lamey George Horkan Herb Kibler Al Livingston Mrs Gestring and Mrs Utzman will attend alongside Chapman. Banquet at the Metlen hotel starts at X o'clock. Ex service men and wives invited.
The Legion on Parade, a complete sound picture of the Detroit national convention, will play at the People's theatre in Butte next Wednesday and Thursday January 14 and 15, sponsored by Silver Bow post. The film records the eight hour parade past the reviewing stand, includes addresses by notables, shows Legionnaires and Forty-eighters enjoying themselves, and runs over 4 000 feet.
The record details multiple property transfers in Dillon including Ajax mining claims in T 5 S R 18 W to J E Senne and Hattie M Noyes and the Edna lode in the same area to the Sullivan firm. Other entries cover sales to Stone Realty Company, Harold H Hanson to Agnes C Hanson, and various parcels on Pacific Court Kentucky and Cornell streets. An estate sale order confirms Mary D Craver’s estate to Peter Hanson Company for Sheep Creek basin property. Tax deed transfers by Bertie Mathews to Dan Mooney for easterly half of Lot 17 Block 8 Dillon original townsite.
W. M. Sweeney of Dell was a business visitor in the city early in the week. DeLos Selway was in town on business from the Selway ranch on Slacktail Wednesday. Frank McLean of the Upper Blacktail section was in town Tuesday on business.
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