County Board Holds May Meeting and Appoints Gopher Exterminator
County commissioners met at noon Tuesday with full attendance to approve minutes and act on requests. They appointed O W Smith to exterminate gophers along the railroad right of way for 160 dollars plus poison costs and instructed enforcement actions on gate obstructions and road openings. The board declined a county fair this year, directed road and pension matters, and set six month continuations for certain clerk and official positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Short Line R. R. Company
O. W. Smith
Wm. Herman
Charles G. McGahan
Mike Sweiich
Murray Sheep Camp
Sweich
C. W. Robinson
J. C. Ferguson
Willow Creek
Chapman
George B. Conway
Hecla Mining Company
Hecla
Anderson
Beaverhead
American Legion
Hiram Brundage
J. B. Sommers
Bannack-Argenta
Examiner Printing Co
T. D. Moran
C.B. Bonnifield
George W. Lovell
Caruthers
County Fair Board
W. F Cashmore
Pearl I. Smith
Dell visitor notes heavy snows aid grass growth
E. M. Martinell of Dell said grass is coming along better than last year due to heavy snowfalls that provided needed moisture during a Monday visit to Dillon.
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E. M. Martinell
Dell
Dillon
Martinelli
Birds and varmints hunted in Anglers club drive
In a feathery event the Anglers club held its second predatory drive. Ted Magnus led with 1040 points and 48 gophers 21 magpies 5 crows 2 gresh hawks and 1 owl. Thornton’s team totaled 248 gophers 115 magpies 48 crows 11 hawks 10 owls 6 kingfishers. Brundage’s men captured 183 gophers 62 magpies 12 crows 7 hawks 9 owls 2 kingfishers. Coyotes proved elusive. A 20 cent per dozen bounty on magpie and crow eggs produced 3600 eggs before the fund exhausted. The bounty is discontinued for this year.
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Thornton
Brundage Hunters
Anglers’ Club
Ted Magnus
Brundage
Merry Men
Jennings Back Home Returns From Chicago Eye Consultation
W C Jennings of the First National Bank has returned from Chicago where he consulted eye specialists. He is greatly improved and visited his old home in Centralia Missouri. He was accompanied back to Dillon by his sister in law Martha Jane Truett who is visiting at the Jennings home.
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Jennings
W. C. Jennings
First National Bank
Chicago
Centralia
Missouri
Dillon
Martha Jane Truett
Fourth of July Free Admission Promises Biggest Beaverhead Celebration
Fire Chief announces the town’s Fourth of July events will be entirely free from entry fees or spectator charges. The program includes a monster street parade, downtown sports, a free barbecue, horse and auto races, Wild West stunts, and a Beaverhead vs Madison inter county ball game with four figure purses, all funded to emphasize a no charge celebration. A fireworks display approved by committees will be set off east of town on the foothills, visible across Beaverhead valley and free from city fire hazards.
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Joe Newnes
Dillmont Park
Beaverhead Valley
Shale as a Profitable Eastern Oil Source
The article argues shale oil is a profitable present investment, not a distant future. It cites Kentucky Ohio Indiana Devonian shale with a Kentucky deposit, open-cut mining, favorable climate, water, and labor, claiming 21 gallons per ton and 100 million tons on 400 acres, cost around $20,000 raw material.
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Earth
Thomas
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Lexington
U.S
Beaverhead Residents Flock to California Oil Boom
Beaverhead county residents travel to Long Beach California with Bond Grocery party driving 2200 miles via Portland Spokane Missoula and Dillon. They note oil activity in Long Beach fuels feverish speculation and many derricks producing up to thousands of barrels daily with crude oil at about one dollar per barrel.
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Beaverhead County
Long Beach
Calif
Eugene W. Bond
Bond Grocery Company
Charles Phillips
California
Pacific Highway
Portland
Spokane
Missoula
Dillon
Lake Pend Oriello
Sand Point
Idaho
Bond
Beaverhead
Emerys White
Dillon and
Vicinity
Caliornia
Tong Beach
Telegraph Hill
Butte Market Week Preparations Fire Up for Big Visitor Week
Butte readies for a ten day market week expected to draw about 170000 people. A Thursday parade signals opening night with floats bands and clowns. Hotels race to accommodate visitors while merchants promise the largest bargain sales in the city’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin Cities
Butte
Veteran’s burial honors laid for World War I soldier
The remains of George L. Cole, a World War I veteran, were laid to rest in Mountain View cemetery after a funeral at the Methodist church. A firing squad, pallbearers, and ex servicemen escorted the hearse, followed by a graveside service led by Rev. Philip May. Cole died at a Hot Springs sanitarium after contracting tuberculosis at Camp Lewis in 1918, two days after his marriage anniversary and shortly before turning 31.
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Gordon Cole
George L. Cole
Mountain View
Brundage
Foward Smith
Noble Grand Richmond Hobson
Philip May
Beaverhead
Cole
Hot Springs
South Dakota
Camp Lewis
75Th Infantry
Government Hospital
Helena
Esther Stoller
Dillon
Mary Elliatt
East Helena Street
Clubhouse plans and Memorial Day events discussed
Beaverhead Post members debated site options for a new American Legion clubhouse and formed a committee to select a favorable location and raise funds. They also scheduled Memorial Day ceremonies and planned a social evening with Auxiliary members as guests, while Taft earmarks 20,000 dollars to complete the Yellowstone trail segment between Randolph Creek and Borax and Great Falls reports a 100 percent rise in spring building activity.
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American Legion
Beaverhead
Taft
Randolph Creek
Borax
Boosting in California Spreads Ideas and Pride
A passage praises California prosperity tied to vast natural resources and climate. It notes widespread boosting in a locality, with crowds joining in a chorus of optimistic talk, and highlights cooperative boosting to a high degree as a contributor to the state’s development.
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California
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Board of County Commissioners
Shale
S. E. Barnwell
C. E
Denver
Colorado
Somerset
G. L. Cole
Great Falls
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