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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1923
Page
4
Flowers and music marked a birthday gathering for Mrs. Boetticher and Mrs. Brown. Guests enjoyed elegant dress, fine conversation, and a memorable party with eighty four candles on one cake and ninety four on the other. Both honorees blew out their candles together amid wishes for many happy returns.
Correspondence from Melrose reports the funeral of David Woodside, longtime Glendale resident, held in Dillon with services by Rev. Farrell. He is buried in Glendale’s old cemetery beside family. Also noted are recoveries from illness in Butte and social events including a fifteenth birthday party for Sedna Turner and a Melrose marriage license filing for Lee Wilhelm and Marguerite Connors.
Waterloo Montana residents circulate stories of visits to Butte Whitehall and Los Angeles. Births marriages and illnesses surface as families report travel changes relocations and local engagements. Notable notes include Franklin Harbison’s marriage to Helen Moran and Marines service.
A. Peyre departed for California for a short stay while Edna Stewart spent the weekend at home. Mrs. Bowlby travels to Ruth Nevada with mining interests to follow. Railroad officials visited Dell to inspect a prior accident in which a lineman was injured. Cattle and sheep are in good condition amid mild weather.
Mrs. Tom Pierce traveled to Butte on Tuesday. Matt Kay J A Havey and George Kangler visited Dillon last week on business. Miss Alice Roe the school superintendent visited our school on Tuesday. Frank Allen of upper Horse Prairie was in Grant last week.
A January 27 fundraiser event organized by the Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will be held at the Waldorf Co Store. Proceeds support church missions and community outreach.
The Good Government club holds its annual meeting in the library with retiring president Mrs. Etta Metzel presenting a summary of the year. The group notes social events, a renovated rest room in City hall, a matron on duty, magazine distribution, and credit to committees for enforcing liquor laws, along with charity work for soldiers and families. Members praise speakers and announce relief efforts, fund allocations, and new officers for the coming year.
In Bannack Montana on Grasshopper creek ice boats sailed during mining days. The playful plan by Adam Tink Dobe Jimmie and Mike Hoage used a dammed water flow to form a natural surface. A spring freshet washed out the dam ending the brief ice boating era after a couple seasons.
Stockholders at the annual meeting elected J. H. Gilbert as president W. G. Gilbert as vice president W. C. Jennings as cashier EF J. Bowman as chairman of the board and directors including J. H. Gilbert Frank Eliel Frank A. Hazelbaker and W. G. Gilbert.
Three room furnished house for rent at 126 So Dakota. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Joe Herman in the early part of last week. For rent an irrigated ranch inquire of Mrs Rose Heavey 834 So Pacific St Dillon 2 11 The men of the Baptist church will hold a food sale at the Waldorf company Saturday January 20 Ralph Streb prominent Melrose rancher spent several days this week in Dillon on business A party including Mrs Harry Andrus Sr Mrs Wilma Colfer Miss Fern Andrus Otto Galloway Miss Nina Smith and Harry Andrus Jr motored to Butte to see the show Lady Billy.
An Anaconda Standard editorial discusses Capper and Lenroot agricultural credit bills awaiting Senate action. It proposes privately financed agricultural credit corporations with $250000 capitalization insured by the Comptroller of Currency. Papers secured by warehouse receipts or chattel mortgages may be discounted with nine month maturities. livestock mortgages up to three years. President Harding reportedly endorses the plan and seeks swift passage amid legislative sluggishness.
The U S Land Office Helena announces Mose Linz has applied for an oil shale lease on 1 080 acres in sections 3 4 and 10 township 14 south range 10 west Montana meridian and a second unsurveyed tract described by metes and bounds. Adverse claimants must file by February 27, 1923 or claims will be disregarded. F A Motz Register.
The administrator in the estate of Bissell Austin deceased will sell at private sale for cash the Bowers property described as NW¼ of SEM in section 18 township 7 south range 8 west. Bids will be received at the administrator Ge. T. Banks at Dillon Montana on February 3 1923 and thereafter until sale. First publication January 19 1923.
Notice to creditors and all persons having claims against the estate of Fred A Randolph deceased. Claimants must exhibit claims with vouchers within four months after the first publication to the administrator at the law office of Rises Gilbert in Dillon Montana Beaverhead County. George T Banks administrator. First published January 19 1928.
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