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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1922
Page
9
Tribune subscribers are urged to report missed deliveries and to expect timely regular issues. Notices for paid events or fundraisers will be charged five cents per line, as with Card of Thanks and Obituary Poetry.
The Dillon basketball team did not win the championship at Bozeman but played a splendid game amid top state competition. The piece salutes the players for the keen contest against strong rivals and notes big towns like Great Falls Helena Billings as examples of formidable foes.
The Idaho Supreme Court recently ruled Fred Viel owner of a cash and carry store was elected Lemhi County commissioner in 1920. Opponent Harry Summers, a Salmon country stockman, had been certified after canvass amid ballot irregularities. The final decision favored Viel.
D. E. Sanders, first president of Montana State Normal College, now works in mining in British Columbia, was in Dillon Monday visiting old friends. His home is listed as Spokane.
A Kansas City Stir writer argues against anti Christmas tree groups, noting forests provide trees through careful use and replanting. He explains that many trees are by products of managed woodlots and nurseries will increasingly supply nursery trees to children, with trees aged five to ten years.
A science note explains how female snakes form a ventral pouch to shield newborns. When danger is sensed a neck muscle shifts scales vertical and opens a slit under the jaw, loosening skin to create a pouch for young snakes to escape into. Removing the poison gland can shrink the neck skin and block the pouch.
A stray tabby in Chicago seeks shelter on a curbside limousine during cold rain. It examines the left running board, hood, and windshield before settling on a warm engine area. The car’s owner arrives to reclaim the vehicle.
The passage muses on weeds thriving against wind and sun, praising their stubborn vitality as a symbol of nature’s secrets and resilience. It compares weeds to moral vices overrunning society, suggesting a paradox between beauty, utility, and danger in Hawthorne's frame of reference.
Mrs Worrylotte laments a missing object as her spouse scolds and urges her to retrace steps. The exchange reveals domestic tension and a common search for a misplaced item in a cheerful, old fashioned dialogue.
A garbled excerpt recalls a family dinner scene with a child named Bobby and references to long necks and unclear dialogue. The fragment offers little coherent context or identifiable events or figures.
A compact profile of notable humorists including Edgar Nye creator of Bill Nye and editor at the Laramie Boomerang, Oliver Optic author William T Adams, Artemus Ward Charles F Browne, Melville D Landon, Henry W Shaw aka Josh Billings, and Kil Perkins. It notes Nye’s fame, Ward’s phonetic spelling innovation, and Josh Billings’ death in Monterey California.
A critic argues that rope knot instructions lack clarity and warns that detailed prose cannot reliably save someone in danger. He cites a clove hitch as an example and contends lucid expression is essential, praising lucidity over technical jargon.
A Oxford second hand find of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria included Wordsworth notes on a blank page. The buyer later sold the book for £12 after discovering Wordsworth had written in it, illustrating autograph value. A Dobell's London purchase of a Gray volume with his signature now fetches £4.10.
A nearsighted inland judge in Ianols misreads subpoenas after a fly lands in his inkwell. The constable, amused by the prank, points out the fly tracks and asks the judge to read the name. The judge finally admits the writing may be his own but cannot decipher the name.
A local Age-Herald editorial notes the greatest hardship of public life for Senator Snortworthy. It claims campaigning isolates him from his hometown and old friends, suggesting the season brings appearances and political rhetoric that distance him from familiar ties.
The piece argues that an off year prompts factional strains and open contests for the U S Senate. It cites Cordell Hull’s Montana visit, a possible State Republican League, and quotes Senator Edwards challenging the Dixon Machine. It notes Attorney General Rankin and Rev Pope speeches in Glasgow and Carl Riddick weighing a senate bid.
Auction notice lists 20 grade Hampshire yearlings for sale, 10 registered Hampshire stock, and 2 year olds with papers available. price details to be provided.
Glorious spring arrives with warm days and lengthening hours. Farmers face planning questions on planting and sowing as hens crow and birds return. Irrigation water will be plentiful as snow in the mountains melts. Prices improve and prospects brighten as communities look forward to better days.
A reader from Jackson Tuesday sent in a puzzling note about a toad, with fragmented phrases including a stray name and unclear origin. The item lacks a clear event or outcome.
The Montana Cooperative Crop Reporting Service notes farmers sold most of the 1921 wheat crop by March 1 with 17 percent or 4.788 million bushels left on farms. Oats show 42 percent or 4.53 million bushels on hand, barley 37 percent or 544 thousand bushels, reflecting tighter farm stocks and financial pressures.
A jagged line suggests a commentary where demand exceeds supply and people nearby pursue small gains, with implied tension over unfair appropriation. The fragment hints at a market pressure and a distrustful tone toward those who profit from scarcity.
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