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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1932
Page
5
A parade of residents and guests from Bannack Jackson Win Bridges Dell Helena Armstead Ogden Big Hole and Missoula travel to Dillon and Butte. Notable mentions include Miss Julian Anderson Earl Watts Monty Bunlick Mrs Jack Knight George Proctor Mrs Roy Jackson Walter Paddock Harry Miller and others visiting for business or leisure. The group attends events and checks into Andrus hotel or joins trips to see Crazy Quilt.
When someone says I will call you and you must reply we have no telephone the small daily cost is worthwhile for regular contact with friends and doctors it spares neighbors and saves late night trips to the store or hospital.
A roundup of local visits and happenings includes Herman Meader of Monida on city business, visits from Mr and Mrs Harry Bennetts of Sheridan, Edison Kent's finger injury, and several local get togethers. Wagon and mining fonds, a hospital move for William Reed, and a busy week of visitors from Butte Boston Lima and Missoula are noted alongside a large dance at city hall.
A magazine style note discusses the importance of breakfast and offers a recipe for Baked Apples and Peaches. It details preparation steps with peaches halved on apples, butter in each peach half, syrup made from water and stear, and baking at 375 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. Serves six.
A. H. French of Argenta donates a coffin making saw used in Henry Plummer’s coffin. The tool, once owned by French’s father, aided in the burial following Plummer's hanging during Bannack era vigilante justice.
Mrs Findlay Watson led a Pioneer troop talk on Girl Scout activities at the American Legion auxiliary meeting in city hall. The group voted to give 25 to Barrett hospital improvement funds and 10 to the Legion unemployment program. Child welfare committee then hosted refreshments at Mrs T Lee McCracken's home.
The Baxter Tonney orchestra will perform an Easter Saturday dance at the city hall auditorium this Saturday evening. The public is invited to attend the event.
S. S. Luebben was the high scorer at the Men’s Bridge club gathering on Monday evening while Sam Wilkinson recorded the lowest score of the night.
The spring term opens with registration just under the winter quarter. A sizable number of new students registered for the term at the Montana Normal College.
A marriage license was issued Saturday in Butte to Arnold G Benson and Cora Anderson. The bride is the daughter of Albert and Mrs Anderson, well known residents of the valley.
The annual farmers party organized by the Future Farmers is postponed from Sunday evening to Saturday evening April 2. For sale 150 tons of wild and Timothy hay at Henry Lake 45 miles east of Monida Idaho 7 dollars per ton. Fine feed grounds S M Nixon Pocatello Idaho.
Over the past weekend stokers were installed at both the training school and the primary building. The move aims to improve heating efficiency and safety across the facilities.
Careful mothers prefer Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for frightful night coughs and stuffed noses. It is sedative without opiates and mildly laxative with no chloroform. Mrs N Weigel of Calvary Wisconsin endorses it as best cough medicine for children. Sold by Geo M Gosman.
William Hollingsworth known as Uncle Billy a longtime Centennal valley ranchman arrived in the city from Kansas where he spent the winter. He had been reported dead last fall but is very much alive and active.
Mrs John Collins and Mrs W Js Stephenson wrapped a series of bridge luncheons with a gathering Monday afternoon at Mrs Collins home. Similar affairs were held on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons of last week.
The Daughters of the Nile sewing club gathered Monday afternoon at Mrs George Lovell’s residence on East Court street for a social and craft session with neighbors in attendance.
Copies of reward circulars offering a return reward for the Lindbergh child have reached Sheriff W C Orr. The county official will distribute the notices to aid in locating the infant.
The Baptist Aid society plans a Thursday afternoon gathering on March 24. Hosts are Mrs. Ed Lloyd Mrs. David Meeds and Mrs. Margaret Bryan inviting everyone to attend.
Mrs J B Mulkey entertained the Wednesday Afternoon Bridge club at her home on West Reeder Street with a cordial gathering and cards.
A farmer and his wife hid a hog theft after hanging the freshly killed meat to cool. The couple kept silent while the husband walked to town and later rode home with a neighbor. The neighbor learned of the loss and the trio alone knew the truth.
Reports say the king fell into a coma and needed an immediate blood transfusion. Doctors searched England for a donor with sufficiently rich blood and even traveled to Ireland to find a suitable match as British papers debated whether Irish blood should be used.
Heart trouble is believed to have caused the death on Thursday evening of last week at Lima of Jack Pedrotti well known section worker of the Oregon Short Line railroad division. He had been in failing health several days. The body was brought to Dillon and prepared for burial by Ji M Brundage and shipped to Salt Lake City for interment. Pedrotti was a native of Italy about 45 years old and is survived by brothers Henry of Dillon and another brother in Salt Lake.
Pioneer Troop No. 2 met Monday afternoon with Mrs. Helen Wheat presiding as Mrs. Watson was absent. The troop chose to save a celebration for Girl Scout week and practiced role plays from Mrs. Merrill of the American Legion Auxiliary.
The Land of Sunshine motion picture depicting Colorado scenery will be shown at 8:30 p.m. March 29 in the OL.O. F.F. hall Dillon under Dillon Camp 9511 Modern Woodmen of America. Admission is by invitation only, available from Woodmen members. The event, arranged with national headquarters in Rock Island Illinois, aims to educate and entertain audiences about Colorado’s landscapes.
Mrs. John Blanchard was granted a divorce in Chicago after her husband returned home at 3 o'clock each morning and forced her to wake and cook him ham and eggs.
A London jeweler named Leonard Thom was attacked by two men who slapped a molasses plaster on his face and escaped with a bag containing jewelry valued at 35000 dollars.
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