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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1932
Page
5
Dillon locals report visitors and passers through the city from Jackson Lima Monida and Wisdom and Grant. Notables include Mrs. Dan Turner and Elmer Selway with family, and Dr. George Routledge gaining citizenship in Judge Bennett's court.
The Rev. T. J. Simons of the Presbyterian church officiated Friday evening at the marriage of Ernest F. Stiles and Catherine E. Buchenau, both residents of Pocatello Idaho.
A roundup of residents visiting relatives and traveling, including Dorothy Flemming from Portland visiting grandparents Dr. and Mrs. F. Hi Bimrose, Mrs. L. W. Harris from Ogden, Miss Hazel Sunday, and families from Butte Seattle and Los Angeles. The Woods Livestock case against Tadovich sits under advisement after district court evidence. A divorce decree grants Thora Olsen a split from Chris Olsen. Agnes C Hansen vs Poindexter Orr Town site dismissed as settled. A Saturday afternoon children care notice and a miscellaneous baby shower at the A A Curnutt home are noted, with Judge R Von Toble and Mary Catherine Salyards visiting Rise ranch.
A marriage license was issued Wednesday by Clerk Fred Rife to Arthur Salmondson of Alder and Miss Della May Banning of this city. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lycurgis Banning and a popular local young woman.
Supervisor A A Simpson plans relocating the headquarters equipment to the former Mercantile building this week or next. Mrs Lulu S Mansfield of Jamestown ND visited Dillon and dined with Mr and Mrs Roberts at their ranch. Dan Mooney, from his ranch, expects to finish shearing soon as grass restores stock health after recent rains.
A fragmented OCR shows numerous dollar amounts and place names such as Argenta Melrose Dewey Grant Apex Dillon Wise River Bristow Red Rock Wiedows Bowen West Fox Armstead Medicine Lodge Polaris Dell Jackson Reichle Blacktail East Fox Drummey Bloody Dick Gibbons Nicholia Millpoint Lakeview Jones Doyle Monida Upper Lakeview totaling 14320.71.
The Dillon Furniture store featured a bed arranged by Frank Paul with a large tom cat asleep at center. Onlookers praised the display as stylish and comfortable, while Frank explained the cat wandered in by accident and he tried to shoo it away with a yard stick.
A 13 year old boy at the Montana School of Mines presented a plan to build a rocker after showing a tube of gold dust from a nearby Butte workings. Professors approved blueprints and offered aid as the youth aims to earn funds to continue schooling next year.
Water sports gain attention as canoes become common on local streams. Sunday launches by William Lloyd and William Mitchell from the bridge west of town sent their canoes down the Anderson One crossing with many Dillon enthusiasts joining in.
Beginning July 6 1932 first class mail costs three cents per ounce or fraction. Postal cards remain one cent. All mail becomes eight cents for the first ounce and 18 cents for each additional ounce. Prepay postage to avoid delays. J C Faller Postmaster.
Improved productive farms with irrigation on offer, moderate size and accessible to Dillon schools. Modern values and reasonable terms. Now is the time to buy. Contact C. C. Newman, Dillon.
Ruby Renick of Butte Montana topped 14 000 high school entrants in the 1932 National Meat Story contest sponsored by the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Her essay titled Meat an Important Food secured the state championship.
Dillon business leaders believe the Garner bill to fund a new federal building for Dillon and other Montana communities would spur local trade by creating jobs and circulating funds. Petitions to Montana congressmen have been sent, but adjournment risks the bill’s passage. telegrams are urged to keep the effort moving.
A. L. and Clark Anderson of this city report the death of their brother Craig W. Anderson in Cambridge Ohio on June 16. He was well known locally, had lived here about a year, and visited often, with many old friends learning of his passing with sincere regret.
Dorothy Finsley daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Finsley of the Big Hole basin ranch family married Loren Williamsden Monday evening in a ceremony at the Methodist parsonage performed by Rev J A Meeke. The bride's mother attended.
Hugh Gray owned vehicle was struck on the highway just north of the city Saturday night by a second car driven by Charles Pilgrim. Both vehicles suffered considerable damage and no one was seriously hurt.
S. W. Miller was brought to the city Saturday night to serve a ten day sentence on a misdemeanor charge imposed by Judge Ford of Lima.
Mr and Mrs O A Bergeson left Sunday for Seattle where Bergeson, past president of the Dillon Rotary club, will serve as a delegate at the Rotary International convention.
A Caterpillar tractor of the modern type was unloaded at the freight house Tuesday morning. It was recently purchased by the county for heavier hauling operations on highway projects.
The Baptist Aid society will be entertained Thursday afternoon June 23 at the Baptist Cottage by Mrs. Phil McGovern Mrs. O L Rafferty and Mrs. George Wolfe. A cordial invitation to attend is extended to everyone.
Mr and Mrs Cyril Varcoe and their children with Miss Ida Butts were visitors in the city from Butte on Tuesday.
The forest service cites half a million dollars in damages and costs from last summer due to lighted matches cigars cigarettes and tobacco in Montana North Idaho and eastern Washington. Evan W Kelley regional forester says taxpayers should not bear this cost and predicts continued action by Vigilante Volunteers led by Governors J E Erickson and C Ben Ross who have arrest powers to curb deliberate and careless fires.
B H Norton of the city walks with a cub badger on Friday morning, showing the species can be tamed. The animal trotted beside him as he crossed streets, snuggling under his arm like a frightened puppy. Norton owns two other young badgers from the same litter at home.
Doctors Curry Romersa and Bimrose drove to Butte Thursday evening for the Eighth district dental society dinner. Plans were discussed for the state dental meeting in Borman. Mr Hadley of Eastman Kodak spoke on film manufacture and x-ray work, noting Kodak uses more silver in film production than any other company.
Born near Pittsburgh about a century ago Stephen Collins Foster created some 125 songs many with Southern settings though he lived and died in the North. His best known tunes include Old Black Joe Old Folks at Home Massa in the Cold Cold Ground and Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming. Foster died in New York in 1864 and his melodies remain enduring.
Mr and Mrs G T Paul announce the graduation of their grandson George Paul Nolan from Oak Park High School Oak Park NL He is the son of Mrs Hortense Paul Nolan a local graduate of the high school and State Normal College.
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