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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
4
County correspondence notes a Sunday baseball game at Grant with the Bren nex team defeating the home squad. The column also records dances at Polaris schoolhouse, weekend visits, business trips to Dillon, and regional travel. An infant died, drawing community sympathy.
Edgar Rife drove the Rife cattle from the Armstead area to the home ranch on the Lodge at the start of the week. Mr and Mrs Roy Nobles and their little son Lester visited relatives and friends on the Lodge last week.
Miss Margaret Mullen traveled to Butte for several days of shopping and visiting friends. D R Nickerson spent the weekend in Butte. Jack McFarlan, from Butte, is building a new home here with local contractor Fred Jorgensen. Mr and Mrs F A Kennison and son visited Dillon. Albert Hershner of Dillon visited the G F E Butts home.
Miss Jess Hanson from Pocatello visited Apex last week. Enoch Young attended the Smallharn Oil Shale stockholders meeting in Dillon. Emerick Bros. moved cattle to summer range. Rexburg's Mrs. Sanders visited Mrs. Floyd Kennison. Armstead Athletes beat Polaris 20 to 7 in baseball. Town folks traveled to Dillon for various errands and news. Grasshopper control efforts were underway as residents stocked up poison.
Children motored to Dillon. John Mullen and Glenn Decker drove down Monday evening. Col Alf Decker attended business in Dillon on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs R B Herndon and their children move to Dillon to make their home.
Mr and Mrs Enoch Youngs called on Al Crosley Sunday evening in a brief social note from the local page.
Montana cooperative livestock report notes better than average conditions for lambs and range prospects improving with late May rains, but grasshopper damage and drought in some areas press cattle and wool markets. Calf crops improve, wool sales limited by buyer grower deadlock, shearing underway and fleece quality up.
The piece estimates nationwide public school enrollment since September at 22,063,526 with 2,250,526 in high schools and 19,818,458 in elementary schools. It notes 8.2 percent eighth graders totaling 1,624,703, about 80 percent of whom 1,299,762 completed eighth grade. It projects 326,326 in fourth year high school for 1923 and about 228,428 expected high school graduates.
The piece argues that rising education costs and demand for broader high school offerings make small district high schools unsustainable. It cites high per pupil costs in small districts, contrasts with larger city and union high schools, and urges careful economic consolidation to maintain effective programs.
Department of the Interior notices Martin H McMenamev of Armstead Montana intends to prove up a homestead claim through three year proof for lands in sections 21 22 27 township 9 S range 10 W at Dillon before Clerk W E Stephenson on July 17 1923. Witnesses Archie C Henneberry William E Nelson Patrick H McMenamer and Dellar Gordon all of Armstead or Dillon Montana. F A Motz
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