Backward Look at 1891 Dillon News Highlights
This retrospection recalls Lima fire at E A Baileys store from gasoline stove blast with $10 000 value and no insurance. It notes weddings Pls Burfiend and Sophia Peterson and Myrtle Nelson marrying Gordon Conger. Also mentions Red Rock school opening, May 15 concert by Frances Ingram, and strikes plus Montana National Guard discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bailey
Lima
Christopher Burfiend
Sophia Peterson
Bertha Reininger
Red Rock
United States
New York
Company E
Montana National Guard
Dillon
Montana
Vipond
Leggett
P. G. Nelson
Myrtle
Gordon Conger
Frances Ingram
Training School
Miss Ingram
Thief Steals Guns From Dart Hardware Window
A night thief during the closed season takes a shotgun and three revolvers from the Dart Hardware show window valued at about 80 dollars. No clues yet on the nocturnal visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dart Hardware
Montana Mercantile Company
Center
Montana
Laura E. Howey
Father Palladino
Missoula
State Historical Society
Bannack
Hans Peterson
Cantrell
Salt Lake City
Butte
Finest business block completed in Dillon in 1910
The Telephone Block on the corner of Montana and Glendale streets, built by Governor B. F. White at a cost near $50,000, is described as Dillon’s finest business block to date. Freight for Salmon Lumber Yard arrived in six carloads, Bond and Bond opened a new cash grocery, and J. H. Gilbert left Dillon for a Chicago vacation with Emrys White acting as cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Dillon
Montana
Glendale
Telephone
B. F. White
Salmon
Bond and
Bond
Cash
J. H. Gilbert
First National Bank
Chicago
Emrys White
Harry Graves
Normal College
Mines advance in Old Moss and others new mining claims
Western Mines reports near completion of an extensive improvement program at the Old Moss mine in the Silver Creek area with sinking of a deeper shaft and crosscuttings. owners Hil lier and Kellogg say commercial ore bodies of considerable value have been developed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingman, Ariz
Back to Boyhood and World Affairs Reflections
Austin Conover argues for Boys Week and youth as the nation’s asset. He urges civic interest among youths, notes prospects for boy mayors and leaders, warns of schooling lapses, and urges action to foster patriotism and ambition. The column also surveys pacifism, peacemaking, and the role of writing and unfinished progress in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Bids Opened for Dead Man's Basin Irrigation Project
Bids for the Dead Man's Basin main diversion canal in central Montana are to be opened May 1. The WPA will grant 392000 and the Reconstruction Finance Corp will loan 135000 to the state water conservation board for a total project cost of about a million. The plan, agreed by Gov Roy E Ayers and federal officials, will irrigate 20000 acres in Golden Valley Wheatland and Musselshell counties by storing Musselshell river water in spring and releasing it for summer irrigation. Repayment of the loan will be over several years by water users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dead Man’ S Basin
Montana
Works Progress Administration
State ‘Water Conservation Board
WPA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The
Water Board
Roy E. Ayers
Washington, D.C
Golden Valley
Wheatland
Musselshell Counties
Musselshell River
Driving Safe Rules Amid Highway Dangers
A historical poem warns drivers to slow down and stop at signs to protect families. It cites many lives lost in crashes, urging careful behavior on hills and crowded roads to prevent tragedy and grief for wives and children.
Junior Riflemen post weekly scores at club shoot
Three youths led with 92x100 as L Mallon B Koenig and W McMannis shared top honors. Following ranks show Bradley 89 Brun dage 88 Jones 88 Curry 85 Peterson 81 B Curry 81 Hoyrup 78 Kearns 73 Hand 73 Stanchfield 71 Sinclair 70 Tash 65 and Ross 58.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Mallon
B. Koenig
W. McMannis
8. Bradley
B. Brundage
W. Jones
D. Curry
D. Peterson
B. Curry
D. Hoyrup
J. Kearns
W Hand
B. Stanchfield
J. Sinclair
D., Tash
T. Ross
WPA Funds Approved for Bannack School
Works Projects officials have approved an allotment of $1,369 for constructing a Bannack school building. The project is now eligible for operation at the discretion of Joseph H. Parker, state WPA administrator, per telegraphic information from Senator B. K. Wheeler in Dillon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bannack
Dillon
B. K. Wheeler
Joseph H. Parker
WPA
Westinghouse Contest Begins With Weekly Prizes
Five weekly contests sponsored by Westinghouse are now in progress. Local dealer E. L. Birles announced prizes include valuable refrigerators electric ranges and streamlined irona for weekly winners in the letters contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse
E. L. Birles
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National Advertising Representative
American Press Association
the Tribune
Sielnity
Western Mines
United Press
Wallace
Idaho
E. E. Hanley
Hecla Mining Company
Yakima, Wash
Sunshine Mining Company
Kellogg
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Mina, Nev
L. B. Spencer
Mina Mercury Company
Burbank
Calif
Charles W. de Witt
Oakland
Union Air Terminal
Mexico
Lark
Utah
U. S
Helena
William Eathorne
Last Chance Gulch Mining Association
Mullan
Walla Walla
Carson City
Nev
California Dredging Company
Dayton
Surgt
Lewiston
Mont
Philadelphia
James F. Torrance
Pittsburgh
John D. M.hamilton
Harold W. Mason
Brattleboro
How Goes the World
Austin Conover
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Borneo
South Pacific
U.S
Ernest Dupuy
Us. S
Webster
Standard, Centry
Oxford Dictionaries
Europe
Pen
University of California
Ulrick Brender
Ibsen
Tennyson
Charles F. Kettering
Turner
Holbein
Coulee Dam
Golden Gate Bridge
Vis‘lon
Mian
Great Britain
British Isles
Taok
Scandinavia
Skagerrak
Baltic
Norway
Gee
Northwest Iancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Dead Man’s
Edewaioe
Democratic Committee
Beaverhead County
Legislative Assembly
Dillon Tribune
Kenneth Wheat
Democratic Central Committee
Rachel Foster Skeates
Rachel’ Foster Skeates
J. E. Kelly
Beaverhead
State of
Frank. C. McFadden
Fifth Judicial District
Brittain H. Carter
Beavers Head
R. W
Luella M. Lyon
Norman Giles
Warren Stone
J. L. Mayland
SisTaIee
Bontanas
Rae
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