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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
2
Washington June 24 officials issued draft board instructions explaining the work or fight order. After July 4 all draft age men must work in productive employment or enter the army. Some nonproductive classifications are clarified including exemptions for store executives managers and chauffeurs under certain conditions.
In Lakeview June reports daily rain and heat with bad roads hindering mail delivery as Leonard Flint nears transfer to B L Forsyth on July first. Community updates include school openings with Katherine Meers and Florence Giles, a June horse sale, new garage construction for Forsyth and Hinckley, a new Buick for mail service, family moves and births, and social gatherings at Picnic Springs with guests for Elmer Forsyth and friends en route to Camp Lewis.
The U S Food Administration in Montana urges residents to reduce sugar to two pounds per person each month for all uses except canning and preserving. Sugar will be sold in five or ten pound lots for home use and ten pounds for country trade, five pounds for city trade. The notice stresses war-time measures and collective effort to prevent winter shortages.
A fragment urges readers to combat rheumatism by improving general health and blood quality. It touts cod liver oil emulsion as Nature's remedy for impure blood and suggests attacks grow more acute if untreated.
Last Saturday at the Apex dance hall a farewell event honored departing boys M J Hegarty Knute Johnson Tom Johnson Fred Grojahn Orlando Connelly with a tobacco fund collection. A thrift rally is set for Friday at 9 p.m. at the schoolhouse with a noted speaker.
Discussion notes unusually large world season and garden strains as rainfall remains uneven. Mentions refreshing rains but not matching Dillon conditions impacting small garden crops and yields.
Lenard Fish’s father, visiting from Washington, returned home this week. Orrin Wilcomb and family and Joe Kennedy visited at the Road ranch Sunday afternoon. The area has enjoyed several heavy showers over the past two weeks, and residents hope they continue.
Richard Maier and family drove to Dillon with John Waters last week. Our station agent Mr. Atkins is transferred to Armstead and his position remains vacant. Karl Beehrer Edwin Nikel visited Dillon. Beehrer also traveled to Butte. Henry Nikel family and a young son went to Dillon in their Ford. Frank Moe Alois Fassler visited Dillon from Melrose by car. Charles Smith James Garrison visited Dillon. Stephen Kambish Sr. attended Dillon feria. Potato bug appears in large numbers.
Joe Kennedy works on a new well while Orrin Wilcomb overhauls his engine for plowing. Fred Rommey on Mc Hesser Creek experiments with burning charcoal, reflecting rural enthusiasm for self made improvements.
A wartime American correspondent recalls a field hospital west of Montdidier where a mustard gas victim lies blinded and burned. The soldier smiles through seared lips and wishes to rejoin his comrades as the war effort continues. Citizens are urged to buy War Savings stamps to support those doing their duty.
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