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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1925
Page
8
Community notices highlight residents visiting nearby towns, ranches, and schools. Names include Linder, McCracken, Johnson, Brundage, Lasich, Roe, Beehrer, Hedges, and Williams, with travels to Dillon, Bozeman, Butte, and bound for Seattle. Local shops advertise supplies and new goods while ranch news and classifieds fill the page.
Rev F X Leschner drove up to Butte last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Elmer Gordon of Armstead spent Monday in the city. Henry Thompson came from his ranch near Dell to start the week. Emery Smith visited Butte for two days returning Tuesday evening. Mr and Mrs E F Sill motored to Butte Tuesday and stayed at the Grand hotel. Paul Bramsman returned Tuesday evening from Butte where he had an appendectomy. D D McKnight of Dell visited friends and handled business in Dillon Wednesday. Charles Niblack left for New York and other eastern markets to buy for his store. A baby girl was born January 16 to Mr and Mrs Dave Crabuthers of Stevensville. E I Harkness attends the stock show in Denver this week and plans visits to Kansas and Missouri before returning to his Dell ranch. Fred Carter and his brother Lee left Tuesday for several weeks, Fred seeks medical care at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore while Lee enters a sanitarium at Hot Springs Arkansas.
A week of warm weather has rapidly melted the December snow in Beaverhead and another thaw will give the valley a springlike appearance. While New York faces a costly winter cleanup, other states report varied snow depths and cold hardships across the nation.
The night sewing class for Dillon women, started in November at the high school, has high satisfaction. Only two dropouts. remaining members show strong interest. The 12 week course includes plain sewing and fitting with some designing and remodeling. all members made useful articles.
Alice Roe appeals to county taxpayers to pay the remaining half of spring district taxes to keep schools open. She notes many districts are in poor financial condition after full payments and county apportionments, and farmers struggle to pay the second half in May.
California prohibits the use of the roller towel by law. The lowly muskrat, familiar to every farm boy, has been one of the chief factors in maintaining a high total value for our annual fur production and, in commercial importance it now heads the list of fur bearers of the United States. Beavers, otter and martins have disappeared from their former range, and minks, raccoons, and skunks are rapidly diminishing.
A captain and an engineer aboard swap jobs to prove each other’s work is tough. The captain struggles below deck while the engineer controls the wheel. Returning to the deck, the captain admits the boat cannot move and the engineer reveals the vessel is aground. Moral: understanding comes from walking in another’s shoes.
The installment man visited today and took our radio leaving the family without a device. No details on the sender or location are provided in the fragment.
A saying from experience warns that a man who boasts about ruling his own home will also lie about other matters, suggesting a pattern of dishonesty across situations.
Judkins reports Pete Muzzletop hanged himself after a failed bid to beat the fast mail to the crossing in his six. Perkins wonders why. the early morning attempt ended when the last car passed by, six inches from his vehicle.
A light dialogue notes monthly trouble with an old car as Lem answers that the payments are the cause. The exchange hints at ongoing financial pressure from car ownership.
Blonde Bess comments on matrons waiting for their turn at the beauty parlor calling them optimistic and hopeful about their chances. The remark reflects salon crowd chatter and social mood of the scene.
Nearly three-fourths of U S mint oil and about half of world output come from roughly twenty counties in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan, highlighting regional dominance in this commodity.
A short Radio Age item urges listeners at Pingville to study practice think and plan to become a better man through the XYZ station. It emphasizes self improvement and achievable goals.
Landon Taylor of Dorchester Tow a writes that Foley Pills are the best he ever used and cured his kidney troubles. The ad praises Foley Pills as a diuretic stimulant for the kidney and notes Potts the druggist as the advertiser.
A gray-haired veteran engineer named Bill is fired after forty years of service. He recalls a near miss at a grade crossing while trying to beat a fast 1925 twin-twenty automobile, provoking a grim response from the division chief.
A speaker asks for patience and promises to plant seeds in April and, if helped, to pull weeds in June. The exchange centers on cooperation and timing for garden work.
A segment notes a tree in India that bears sugary flowers used for candy. Women and children gather the petals each morning, spread them to dry in the sun, and a single tree is claimed to produce about three hundred pounds of flowers each year.
Plans are made to remove the carivet from Heathfield Hall Handsworth where James Watt conducted early steam engine experiments and relocate it to the South Kensington Museum in London. After Watt's death the room was locked and untouched for years with his tools benches and leather apron still there.
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