Dillon News Briefs Highlight Local Moves and Travel Plans
M Barrett and wife plan departure for California next week. Armstead girls plan a Saturday night dance on January 17. Frank Gist returned from a visit to Missouri. Mrs Kate Holcomb buys a Long Beach bungalow. Miss Mary Gist ill but improving at home. A J Wedum buys a Long Beach home for at least a year. Several residents including Mrs Hattie Dart and Geo F Dart set to leave for Los Angeles. Alma Harwood and Clara Chapman to Long Beach until June. Elks and candidates departed for Virginia City for a meeting and banquet. Sixty piles being driven at Lima dam with P T Scott supervising the work.
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M. Barrett
California
Armstead
Frank Gist
Missouri
Kate Holcomb
Dillon
Long Beach
Cal
Mary Gist
A. J. Wedum
Hattie Dart
Geo. F. Dart
Frank Esterwold
Los Angeles
Alma Harwood
Clara Chapman
Virginia City
Lima Dam
P. T. Scott
Sunday church schedule with sermons and leagues
Sunday School at 10 AM led by Prof. Lee R. Light. Preaching at 11 AM and 7 30 PM by Pastor H. G. Humphrey. Epworth League at 6 30 PM.
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Lee R. Light
H. G. Humphrey
Epworth League
Forger Fred Sohl Sentenced in Great Falls
Fred Sohl, a known forger in Great Falls, received a sentence ranging from two to four years in the state pen for his crimes.
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Fred Sohl
Great Falls
Reunion Over Training Plan for Returned Soldier
A wife in an Iowa town surprised her husband Johnny who had returned from France and learned he would begin vocational training. District officers refuse to discuss details while confirming no withdrawal from training. The wife now assists in ensuring Johnny receives the training he sought and a different kind of training at home.
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Johnny
Iowa
France
Federal Board For
UNSPOILED TRIBES OF AFRICA REMARKS OF TRAVELER ON CONGO FOLK
English traveler May Fe. Torday praises Congo Free State natives as naturally good tempered hospitable and trustful across seven years of inland journeys. He notes varied customs such as skin embossing designs red painted women and gifts, cannibals, houses with door windows, and long distance signals on wooden gongs. He departs with regret as natives wave farewell calling him Deke and promising not to forget him.
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Torday
Congo Free State
Congo
Deke
Word Coinage of War and Its Lingering Echoes
A schoolyard exchange highlights a wartime word for junk and new terms born from conflict flood lexicon. The 1919 dictionary records many soldiers slang and inventive terms. Lingering roots may enter language while others fade as passing fads.
Sugary mishap spawns street car joke moral
In a hurried dash to catch a street car a man dropped a two pound sugar package in the street. The sack burst and the granulated cane was ruined while onlookers offered local quips and moralizing lines about his wife and oats before he could recover.
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Vox Popull
Legal quip on life insurance case unsettles tavern crowd
A Petunia tavern landlord complains the law is not flexible enough as a life insurance agent faces trial for calling an off stock seller a Har. The guest questions how both can be stuck by the law tomorrow. Kansas City Star commentary notes the humor in legal limits.
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Petunia
Kansas City Star
Postmaster Seeks Recipient For Unnamed Letter
An Arkansas Batavia postmaster received an unaddressed letter and asks the intended recipient to call and collect it. Boston Transcript notes the notice avoids naming any sender or addressee.
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Arkansas
Batavia
Boston
Transcript
YWCA World Service Campaign Seeks 3 Million
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. chairs the National Educational Campaign Committee as the Federal Council of Churches plans a YWCA Sunday. The drive targets 3 million dollars to support World Service work in the U S Europe China Japan India South America Egypt Siberia and Mexico during 1920 with 1.5 million already secured.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Young Women's Christian Association
United States
YY. W. OC. A
Europe
China
Japan
India
South America
Egypt
Siberia
Mexico
Federal Council] of
Chuches
Young Women’s Christian Association
France
World Service Program
Educational Campaign Committee
Small Y W C A as Community Center
Recreation for girls is a key goal of the Small Y W C A town secretaries in towns under 10 000. They organize activities for girls and the wider community in shared spaces, sometimes a single rented room or a building with a recreation room and, if possible, a kitchen and reading areas. If a building exists it serves as a community center hosting all women’s groups.
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United States
Clerk Cuts Refusal Puts Department in Bind
In Washington the department head says he wishes to let some clerks go but argues there is nothing for them to do. Senator Graball dismisses the excuse as a queer reason, prompting debate on staffing and budget.
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Washington
Senator Graball
Louisville” - Courier-Journal
Summons in Basin Mercantile Co v Martin Six
In Justice Court Dillon Township Beaverhead County Montana before Justice Frank Nelson Basin Mercantile Company sues Martin Six for 88.65 dollars for goods sold and delivered. Defendant must answer within twenty days of service or default judgment will be entered. Witness date January 8 1920.
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Justice Court
Dillon Township
Beaverhead County
Montana
Frank Nelson
Basin Mercantile Company
Martin Six
State of
Pease & Stephenson
Dillon
Farm for sale near Dillon with stock and equipment
Ideal irrigated 160 acre stock farm five miles from Dillon on the main highway. Includes 55 cattle 10 horses 15 hogs 120 chickens turkeys ducks and farm machinery seed potatoes oats and 60 tons of hay. Good spring center of field some brush terms offered at 125 per acre.
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Dillon
Dillon Implement Co Stockholder Meeting Notice
The annual meeting of the board of directors and stockholders of The Dillon Implement Co. will be held at 86 North Idaho Street Dillon Montana on Saturday January 31 1920 at 2 o clock p m for election of officers and other business. There will be preaching at the Baptist church Sunday by Rev. J A Hoffman.
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The
Dillon Implement Co
North Idaho Street
Dillon
Montana
Baptist Church
J. A. Hoffman
The New West Magazine Building The West
Advertises The New West Magazine established 1910 for Western industry farming mining oil and scenery. States subscription prices and multiple city offices in Salt Lake Seattle and Detroit with contact details for nearest office.
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Samonle
New West Magee
Detroit
Mich
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F. E. Foote
Tribune
Dillon Postoffice
Telephone
Dillon News Briefs
Africa
Association
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Small Y. W. C. A. IS Community Center
By Randall Parrish
Joe Kirby
Devil's Own
Beaucaire
Knox
Stock Farm
Mary Hester Phillips
the New West Magazine
DELCO
Willis
Hamiton Bt
Butte
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