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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
5
Dillon Oil company moves fast on a cylindrical retort project as castings arrive from Anaconda and are set out to the works. Installation work is being hurried and materials are available.
Monroe, longtime voluntary weather observer, reports June rainfall at Dillon totalled 0.37 inch, the lightest ever recorded locally. Trout fry shipments arrive for planting in Rattlesnake, Bedrock and Horse Prairie streams. Eugene White, 72, dies near Riverside road and is buried after illness. Orphans Home band performs a well attended concert at the county courthouse lawn led by C. T. Estlin.
MES Hollis and Morse travelers arrived in Dillon from Chicago for a visit. Harry Hunter the piano tuner came from Butte and will stay about two weeks. The shay crop in Beaverhead valley is not expected to exceed 500 percent of normal. Miss Caroline Barbour, former Dillon kindergarten supervisor, is a guest at the Lorenzo Cushing home. George B. Conway and daughter Alice arrived from Helena and went to the A. H. French home in Argenta. Conway returned home Wednesday while Alice will visit relatives in Argenta and Dillon.
Sunday school begins at 10 a m with preaching at 11 a m. Theme for the sermon is the Attainment of Spiritual Power. Union Bee on the college campus at 8 p m. Mid week service Wednesday at 8 o clock. Pastor John H Hamstra invites worshipers to recover body and soul with divine refreshment.
July services include Sunday school at 10 a m and preaching at 11 a m by Pastor H G Humphrey. Evening union services on the College Campus under Y W C A auspices with Rev Bennett preaching at 8 p m featuring saxophone music.
Episcopal church schedule for July 6 includes holy communion at 7 30 a m and 11 00 a m with sermon. Evening prayer and sermon follow at 7 30 p m. Rector Thomas W Bennett presides.
The Beaverhead Abstract Company lists property transfers in the week ending June 28, 1919. Records detail buyers and sellers, locations, and parcel descriptions reflected in title books.
A Buffalo Express clipping notes the Red Boot Shoe Shop offers shoe repairing while you wait and lists ED ELY with phone 177-W. A humorous dialogue follows about what to do if a robber demands money, with Empeck Jr and Empeck Sr replying with a joke involving the mother’s address.
The well known piano tuner Barry is in town and accepts work. Intersections can be left at the Tribune office.
Theta journeyed to Mrs Walter Taylor's ranch south of Dillon on Tuesday evening for a pleasant social gathering. The Jolly Club met at Miss Louise Amy's home last Tuesday evening with delightful entertainment for members.
Miss L H Carson and Miss A E Russell entertain Friday evening in the Guild hall for Normal students who are members of the Episcopal church.
Mrs Rathbone and Mrs Luebben hosted a Saturday bridge luncheon with many friends. The same couple plus Dr and Mrs Rathbone held a dinner party in which Miss Leslie Neely of Rogerson Idaho sang as a guest of her aunt Mrs Geo Campbell.
The 20th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Thompson of Twin Bridges was the motif of an entertainment hosted by J. F. Bishop on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, Miss Bishop, and Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Anderson acted as hosts and hostesses.
Mrs. R. W. Boone and Mrs. J. E. Monroe entertained at a bridge luncheon today at the Monroe home, eight tables in play. This evening the quartet will host eight more tables for another session of bridge at the same residence.
The Dillon friends of A Jardine Rife learned of his wedding to Miss Elizabeth von Tobel in Lewistown on Tuesday. The bride, daughter of Judge Rudolph von Tobel of Fergus County, studied at the Normal College and made many friends in Dillon. The couple plan to reside on the Rife ranch after a Pacific coast honeymoon.
W N Bichler superintendent of Gilmore and Pittsburg railway at Armstead and head of the Idaho telephone company tied with Miss Bessie Wall of Dell Montana. The couple will reside at Armstead where a new bungalow awaits the bride.
Advertisement lists fifteen hundred dollars of first class furniture and a house for rent offered as a complete sale at a Dillon Montana address 237 South Dakota street with the marker 261f.
Administrator George E Patton of Hugh Patton deceased invites all creditors and claimants to present their claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims should be sent to Lew L Callaway and E J Callaway law offices in Dillon Montana, Beaverhead County. First publication July 1 1919.
Olmsted Stevenson Company sues F M Stratton in Beaverhead County Montana for 555 dollars plus 382 40 for goods and interest and costs. Defendant must answer within 20 days or face default judgment. filed July 3 1919 with clerk Fred Rife.
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