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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1936
Page
4
An archival column recalls Beaverhead County as a garden spot of Montana with notes on hay crops, housing demand, and mining revival. It highlights Kansas visitors, a large Ermont district mill, and reminiscences from 49 and 40 years ago, including a notable rainstorm and local burglaries.
Miss Genevieve Metlen native of Beaverhead and Dillon teacher died suddenly during a trip to Logan Utah. She was a University of Montana graduate and a leading Dillon High School teacher admired for her kindness cheerfulness and community spirit. Her death was a severe shock to family and friends.
A brief notice outlines plans for a low cost automobile license scheme aimed at reducing taxation and funding education. The proposed policy seeks to ease financial burden on drivers while boosting state education resources.
The 1906 Tribune notes F W Volger's Peerless automobile, a 5 horsepower vehicle costing 4000 dollars. Volger says expanding to a line between Dillon and Redrock is unprofitable. He uses the car for a regular 70 mile Salmon to Redrock trip in about six hours. Local merchants reject Confederate currency and two strangers are arrested after attempts to use obsolete bills. F P Birrer and crew head to Armstead to start the first building in the new town near Bedrock.
The Tribune reports a new mail schedule will cut the trip from Dillon to Jackson from two days to one. Over 2,000 visitors from Butte are expected for the Sons of St. George picnic in Dillon next month. Mrs. Robert Moore of Bannack is acquitted in district court of murder. The Tientsin Traders association forms to move smuggled goods to interior Chinese markets and may provide armed escorts.
In Kansas City a clerk mistook a stranger’s note for a collect request and handed over 42.35 dollars, the entire till. Dr James McMunn of Hampstead England requested burial far from other graves after his death.
The Birch Creek CCC unit 1501 tackled fires Monday at Lost Creek under George Judge and Bryant Fannin led seven men at Willow, with no damage. They travel to Butte to play baseball with Whitehall. forty are invited to the Butte rodeo. Spike camp duty in Virginia City begins July 7 under Bryant Fannin at the Ranger station. Eugene Swanberg is hired as Forestry foreman starting immediately. Six new enrollers join Co 1501, all Montana juniors stationed at Virginia City experiment station for research work.
The piece highlights Congressman Monaghan as a steadfast ally of labor and farmers, citing his role in labor disputes including the Butte miners strike and his advocacy for an old age pension system. Endorsing voices from William Green and Senator Maloney praise his dedication and work in Congress.
Members from Sheridan Melrose and Dillon met with Bond locals at the Country Inn on June 8 for an annual gathering. Speakers included August Nelson on the Frazer Lempke financing act and Gerry Kramekie on cooperation. local candidates and a women's camp selection were noted. A Grazing District hearing was set for Aug 12 in Dillon to establish District No. 5 affecting Beaverhead Madison Silver Bow and Jefferson counties.
Hass H Hanson of Armstead Montana filed notice of intention to make three year proof to establish a homestead claim on parcels in sections 1 18 town 118 range 11 W Montana Meridian before Fred Rife Dillon Montana on July 29 1936 Witnesses include John Peterson Ray Hanson Alf O Petterson and Frank B Rife all of Armbr ed Montana
Marley Giudici seeks Court authority to borrow up to 1000 dollars at 8 percent interest with a chattel mortgage on crops of the estate. The court orders appearances in Dillon on July 20 1936 to show cause. The order will be published in the Dillon Tribune for two weeks.
Dr C E Goddard of Harrow England urges health warning to men and women not to smoke more than ten cigarettes per day. Mrs McComb unsure what to serve for dinner finds two flopping trout in her Santa Fe garden near an irrigation ditch. Hospital scene outside maternity ward shows Robert Andrews swallowing his lit cigarette after doctors inform him he has become a father.
In Fort Wayne Indiana a robber demanded coins with a cry but nine year old Earl Cunningham Jr. pointed a toy pistol and shouted sticks up causing the bandit to flee. Mrs. Lewis Ford of Lima visited the city today.
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