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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1929
Page
4
Ambiguous OCR snippet indicates an American press association related line. Reads like a notice about foreign advertising representation and mail transmission through Dillon postoffice as second class matter.
The piece urges readers to think of preachers as hard workers like President Coolidge. It notes Coolidge wrote many speeches in 1928 and drew heavy public attention, using the comparison to highlight the dedication required by clergy across denominations.
The obituary honors Dr Joseph Goldberger of the United States Health Service for fighting epidemics in the south and discovering the cause and prevention of pellagra. It notes his battles with yellow fever and typhus, his death, and his family’s financial needs, urging pension legislation to support them.
The article describes historic wagon routes across Beaverhead County linking with the Frying Pan basin and Deer Lodge. It notes freighting use, toll road development, and improvements by James Kirkpatrick. Early roads varied from rough trails to improved crossings, with beach lands serving as natural roadbeds and road houses at regular intervals.
The 1866 Great Beaverhead Wagon Road opened after six months of construction and charged fees for about 13 years before becoming a public highway. Early routes ran via Simeon Estes at Rattlesnake crossing and Point of Rocks, with 48 pack and saddle trails into Glendale linking mining camps and settlements. Old trails survive mainly in pioneer memory as maps are scarce.
Rev. H. G. Klemme of Bozeman delivered a humorous practical talk to Dillon Rotary members at their Wednesday noon luncheon. He urged closer ties between business and professional people to reduce criticism and fault finding. Klemme spoke after delivering the commencement address at the normal college earlier that day. The Rotary quartet led several songs, with H. M. Brundage presiding as chairman.
From Here and There recounts a perilous glacier mishap where Prof. Wise rides Jumbo the elephant, falls into a crevasse, rescues himself by stopping his watch, and witnesses synchronized clocks as other watches reset. He mocks state legislators for turning back time by 65 days.
The state game commission has decreed a fishing ban from March 15 to May 15. Local anglers recall warm spells and good catches while the Beaverhead Sportsmen's Association notes the stocked streams should show growth this summer as fish mature.
At the March meeting the Dillon Literary club approved a $60 donation to the Dillon Public Library to buy books for children. The committee also proposed an annual gift for children's books, amounts to be decided each year. Alma V. Waldorf chaired the committee with Irene H. Eliel and others.
The U S civil service commission announces a clerk carrier exam to form an eligible register for openings in Dillon Montana. Applications may be filed with the Seattle district secretary by April 5 1929. Substitutes paid 65 cents hourly first year. salary 1700 dollars.
Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St Lawrence in 1603 and in 1604 helped establish Port Royal the first permanent French colony in North America in what is now Annapolis Nova Scotia.
Dr S E Davis and Mrs Ernest Luebben left Tuesday afternoon for Eldorado Missouri after a telegram announced their mother’s death. Mr Davis had just returned the day before from a trip to Cleveland Ohio and other eastern cities where he attended a national meeting of educators and visiting normal training institutions.
Dr. F. M. Poindexter was reappointed for another two years as county health officer at the county commissioners meeting this week. The board heard U. K. Adams discuss ranchers north of the city wanting to connect the county electric light line to the poor farm and will investigate. A road petition from E. B. Roe Maynard Lovell Herb Wheat and Dan Mooney requested a highway from Sage Creek into this valley. Old age pensioners were ordered to report quarterly on their finances. James O. Melton hosted the chicken dinner for the commissioners at the county farm.
The piece notes Belgium’s neutrality as a guaranteed status by a 1839 instrument signed by plenipotentiaries of Austria Belgium France Great Britain Prussia and Russia. It asserts neutrality was imposed without neighbor consultation or consent.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a preacher asking if this is a good world and cites Shakespeare calling it a naughty world with good deeds shining in it, suggesting the idea still fits today.
An ad promises three glasses of water plus Adlerika a glycerin saline compound by G. M. Gosman a druggist. The note says one hour before breakfast maximizes results and that Adlerika acts on both upper and lower bowels removing old waste and stopping gas in ten minutes with relief in two hours.
The motto Se et pluribus unum emerged from a poem Moretum and means one from many. A Continental Congress committee of Franklin Adams and Jefferson sought a seal device in 1776 and consulted Eugene Pierre Du Simitere a Philadelphia artist.
The passage credits Charles A. Beard for arguing that America would not be possible without Columbus yet emphasizes that the nation rests on the labor of tens of thousands of common people. It highlights peasants artisans merchants sailors and adventurers who faced danger crossed oceans cleared land built towns defended borders and expanded peaceful homesteads to the Pacific.
The blue ensign bears the Union Jack in the canton and a seven pointed Commonwealth star near the center, with five white stars forming the Southern Cross in the fly. A red flag with the same markings is used by Australian merchant shipping.
Commemorative inscriptions on the Peace Arch at Blaine Washington mark 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada. The American side reads Children of a Common Mother, while the Canadian side proclaims Children Dwelling Together in Unity.
The article notes that poppies blooming on battlefields are seen as the blood of slain soldiers. It cites Roman belief linking the flower to death and the god Somnus. It adds a peculiar trait where poppies placed with other flowers cause them to wilt or droop and die.
The Cullinan, the largest diamond ever found, was discovered in January 1905 at the New Premier mine near Pretoria, South Africa. It weighed over 3,025 carats or 1.37 pounds with a greatest length around four inches and height near 24% inches.
Archaeologists in Alaska explore a fossil apple found beside a mastodon tusk in the Tanana valley. They humorously claim the apple hints at the origin of humanity and even propose it as the original Eve’s apple.
The notice requests contact from the owner about a Montana farm for sale and asks for price and description to be sent to F. E. J. Box 408 Olney Tl. Other items include purebred Rhode Island Red Wyandotte eggs for setting from C. M Hanson and an Adv. cow listing in St. Wyandotte.
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