Fourth of July in Centennial region praised for unity
Wisdom Ed Kramer plans to spend the Fourth and urges more school marms. Joe Marble returns from the British possession with no rival to Centennial found. Lon Pickett assumes the basin mail route July 1 with Fred Vance on the box. George Steuer, known as the lightning snatcher, caught 200 pounds of whitefish while fishing yesterday.
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Ed Kramer
Lon Pickett
Basin
Fred Vance
George Steuer
Izaak Walton
Beaverhead wool clip tops one million pounds this year
Beaverhead county wool buyers report the clip will exceed one million pounds with an average price of 16 cents per pound. Robert T. Boatman returns from Oregon with mules for the Grand Avenue Horse and Mule Commission Company. D T Barton features a large tobacco plant in his saloon window. Willard Pyle and brother George travel to Ogden Hot Springs for rheumatic treatment.
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Beaverhead
Robert T. Boatman
Oregon
Grand Avenue Horse and Mule Commission Company
D. T. Barton
Willard Pyle
George
Ogden Hot Springs
Local Notes and Social Happenings From Dillon
The Tribune items report Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Landers arriving from Lima after purchasing the Peat hotel interest and praising business. Mrs. James Conger closes her boarding house for July while Mrs. Conger and children plan visits to Great Falls and Anaconda. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Birrer host a dinner for newlyweds Nicholas J. Birrer and his wife. Francis Johnston, back from overseas, returns to Dillon before pursuing art studies in Portland. Marriage licenses issued include Allen Franklin and Mae Hoerning.
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Dillon
Lima
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Peat
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Bedrock
Pat Ward
James Cong
Francis Johnston
Portland
Allen E. Franklin
Mae Hoerning
Will .George Jeft
Denver
Eure
Washington Memorial Bell Drive at Valley Forge Montana DAR
The Montana D A R sponsors funding for the Montana bell in Valley Forge's Star Spangled Banner National Peace Chime carillon. Each bell costs 600 dollars with an endowment for a carilloner. Beaverhead chapter was first to submit its full quota.
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Union
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Dillon
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Hill
Dale Witty
Beaverhead
Fish Screen Program Changes Statewide Plan
The $10,000 annual fish screen program is altered due to land assessments on eight ditches in Stillwater county. The board shifts from screening an entire river to installing screens in irrigation ditches based on urgency, as determined by John W. Schofield. Six Stillwater river screens cost about $2,500, leaving $7,500 for the rest of the year.
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Stillwater
John W. Schofield
March of Time recounts Britain Japan disputes and Lou Gehrig health decline
The piece notes British anger over Japan policy and possible counter measures. It cites General Sugiyama on Japan's war aims and a nurse to describe the Asia for the Asians concept. It reports Lou Gehrig's diagnosis with ALS, his retirement from baseball, and his stoic remark about facing the end.
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British Empire
Britain
Guen Sugiyama
North China Army
Japan
European crisis rises as nations flex military might
Amid signs of renewed danger Europe readies for a tense summer. Germany mobilizes 2,000,000 men along the Limes line while antiaircraft units shift to East Prussia and a Polish border strip. Italy touts a grand maneuver culminating in a Battle of the Po, and Britain delays naval drills. France’s Gamelin warns that respect cannot be bought with concessions at Verdun.
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Gehrig Seeks Help At Mayo Clinic In Rochester
After a long streak of 2130 consecutive games Lou Gehrig visits the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota to diagnose his failing legs and grip. Dr Harold Clinton Habein delivers a verdict after a week of tests, diagnosing lateral sclerosis.
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Lou Gehrig
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Rumors and Signals in 1940 Politics and Party Tales
The piece catalogs varied political stances and rumors including Garner advocating tax cuts to spur restraint, Murphy declining a ticket, McNutt in California via the Philippines, Minton predicting a non-run, Smathers Guffey Hughes labeled Third Termites, Van Nuys not running, Roosevelt playful about a bid, and Midwest Republicans backing Harold Stassen as 1940 convention senator candidate.
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Frank Murphy
Indiana
Paul Vories McNutt
California
Philippines
Senator Minton
McNutt
New Jersey
Senator Smathers
Pennsylvania
Senator Guffey
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Kenater
Italians urged to join French army amid sabotage claim
Regime Fascista urged Italians in France to enlist in the French army as alleged sabotage intel. Editor Roberto Farinacci faced Ovra charges for betraying official secrets, shocking the fascist press in a fortnightly report from Rome.
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Merchants cite lean waists as signal of recovery
Fred W Meyenberg president of the Merchant Tailors Society notes a potential upturn as businessmen are in better physical shape to handle more trade, citing a smaller average waist measurement than in 1929. Eleanor Roosevelt discusses a nose clip for swimming but questions its practicality and breathing.
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Fred W. Meyenberg
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City of New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Scripps-Howard
Montana County Commissioners back state sales tax for schools
At Kalis pell the Montana Association of County Commissioners urged enactment of a state sales tax to fund schools and reduce ad valorem taxes. E B Winters Miles City was elected president Frank Holmes Harlowton vice president and B H McCarty Hardin secretary. A three year state residency and one year county residency requirement for relief was approved. The group also backed county attorneys quieting title to tax title lands.
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E. B.’ Winters
Miles City
Frank Holmes
Harlowton
B. H. McCarty
Hardin
Examiners Asked to Permit More Relief
State board of examiners received petitions from the Montana Council of Public Welfare asking the welfare board to declare an emergency and exceed the regular appropriation to fund larger relief grants. Attorney General H. J. Freebourn and Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell, at the meeting, did not take an oath and adjourned the session until July 10.
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State Public Welfare Board
H. J. Freebourn
Sam W. Mitchell
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Welfare Board
Board of Examiners
Sandstone Trial Aims to Cut Highway Costs
The state highway department tests sandstone as a gravel substitute on a three mile Mosby to Jordan section. If successful, construction costs could drop about one third in areas with sandstone availability. Engineer Don McKinnon notes prior small tests were satisfactory and justify a longer experiment.
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Don McKinnon
Mosby
Jordan
Highway Department
Wheat Exports and Purchases by Federal Agencies 1938 39
United States wheat exports from July 1, 1938 to May 31, 1939 totaled about 112.5 million bushels with roughly 108.3 million shipped, per the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. During the period the agency bought about 6.474 million bushels in wheat products for unemployed distribution nationwide.
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United States
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Federal
Water rights and property description in Beaverhead County case
Legal notice describing 15814 acres with 144 acres of exceptions and 160 inches of Red Rock River water rights decreed to Charles Flynn by Beaverhead District Court on August 21, 1899. Includes all appurtenances, water and drainage rights, irrigation ditches, and conveyance properties. Dated June 28, 1989, Paul H. Temple Sheriff, John Troupe Undersheriff.
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Charles Flynn
Beaverhead
County
Montana
James W. Patterson
Maggie Patterson
Paul H. Temple
John Troupe
Order to Show Cause in Montana Estate Sale
Public administrator Frank McFadden seeks court permission to sell real property of Jennie Watters estate in Beaverhead County. The hearing in Dillon is set for July 7, 1989 at 10:00 A M. Published in Dillon Tribune for two weeks.
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