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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1928
Page
4
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J W Graybur of Omaha handled basin business this week. J B Morse spent the weekend in Jackson on business before returning to Dillon. Fred Nelson shipped a fine steer lot to Wisconsin for feeding. Rebecka Lodge Sincerity met with large attendance and guests from Wisdom. Mrs Allan Danzie returned to Jackson from Dillon. Jake Neidt, George and Mark Clemon, and others visited Dillon or Wisdom for business or cattle trading. Jackson residents reported road work over the Big Hole Divide with snowfall, but passage now possible. The Jackson Womans Club meets Thursday at Mrs Camas Nelson home hosted by Mrs Dan Pendergast.
Mrs E A Marchesseau and son Dewey traveled to Dillon on Saturday and planned weekend visits with Mr and Mrs J J Brown at Armstead. Mr and Mrs George Pyle were in Dillon last Friday. Johnny Knoll and Jake Beese left Monday for a short visit with friends in Butte. Jim Harrison was in Dillon for business last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Carl Knoll and Elmer Hays were visiting in Dillon.
The Rainbow Girls initiated a class of five in Twin Bridges last Friday evening. Mrs. J. M. Maddison Mrs. Harry Howe Mrs. Walter Ellinghouse Mrs. Alma Downing and Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan joined the group on the trip. The reception was cordial. Lambing season nears end with light losses despite cold weather. Grass growth slowed by cold. feed scarce. Bridge luncheon in Virginia City honored Mrs. O. H. Junod ahead of her Spokane move as Federal Land Bank treasurer. School board elected W. H. Foster president and set the 1928 29 teaching staff with two vacancies noted.
Saturday reports place Ernest Harris and Roy Ford from Big Hole visiting Dillon. Harris drove a new Star sedan from the Pyle ranch with a road opened for travel. D. Y. Kannegaard visited Dillon while George Gray stayed at the D. L. Ranch. Wilbur Tash freighted salt to the D. L. Ranch. George Pyle and Bill Banknecht visited Dillon. Stanley Starr, foreman at the Wilman mine, said things look fine. Frank Kellum demonstrated a Durant six in the valley. Local families, including the Harris and Harrison households, were seen shopping or dining in Dillon and nearby Mill Point.
Mrs. Fred Sparks and Mr. Olson from Butte with families relocated to Argenta to work the Gold Finch claim, living in the McDonald house above town. Roads to the springs are good after repairs by Mr. Smack. A schoolhouse dance drew many Dillon visitors and townsfolk. Two state surveyors arrived Monday to survey Argenta Mining Co. claims for patent. The smallpox quarantine at the Tritt home was raised after a complaint.
Mr Rogit ter and family paused during their journey from California to their eastern home in Vermont. Principal Brim traveled to Bozeman last week accompanied by Donald Duncan and the Misses Eleanore Dyer Mary Walter Mahel Rhodes and Amaretta Junod who were entered in the contest.
John F. Ryan, porter at the Park Central Hotel in New York, learns he and his siblings have inherited a million dollar estate in Ross Valley California from late Martin Ryan, following the Los Angeles dam break.
The churches society invites the public to Sunday services held every week at 11 o'clock on Sebree Street. Attendees are welcome to join.
At 7:00 the Epworth League convenes followed by 8:00 evening services. The topic asks Will the Democrats Nominate Al Smith.
The group will convene at the home of Mrs Carl Taylor on Thursday afternoon May 10 for their meeting.
A London Royal Institution lecture refutes the idea that Watt invented the steam engine from steam observations. It credits Watt with refining an existing Newcomen model into a more efficient engine via condenser vacuum. The piece notes similar myths about Stephenson vs Davy on the miner's lamp and Bell versus Fulton on ship invention.
Pastor F X Leschner conducts Sunday masses at 8 and 10 30 am with an 7 30 pm evening service. Weekday mass is at 8 am. Confessions occur Saturday afternoon from 8 to 5 and from 7 to 9 pm. Mass on the first Friday of each month is at 6 30 pm.
Next Sunday at First Presbyterian Church there will be a morning sermon aimed at youth with the topic Preparing for a Calling. The program includes a youth invitation, a choir musical feature, and a Sunday School session at ten o clock, described as a real spiritual education time. The Ellen May guild party last Friday night was a grand success with refreshments as a recreation.
R O Shannon pastor leads at 10:00 Sunday School and 11:00 Morning Worship at First Baptist Church.
II. B. Ricketts, minister, conducts a Sunday service with 9:45 Sunday School and 11:00 morning worship. Sermon topic: I Believe In God.
A light verse notes the fusser who fusses constantly then faces exams. He crams and finds it too late, the day slipping by as deadlines loom.
Nature Magazine reports Horseshoe Falls is receding about five feet annually while American Falls moves only inches each year. Geologists debate how long the cataract has eroded to its current position with estimates ranging from seven thousand to seventy thousand years.
Beaverhead County Democrats convene at the Andrus Hotel Dillon on May 8 1928 at 4 pm to choose two delegates and two alternates for the State Convention in Helena on May 15 1928. Roy B Herndon is the committee chairman.
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