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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1923
Page
9
Bud Galt of Beaverhead Motors notes rising demand for Fordson tractors in agriculture and industry. Farmers use Fordsons for power farming while contractors and road builders adapt them for movable or stationary power. Production is at capacity with 27,087 units sold in the first quarter, up from 8,340 a year ago.
Minneopa and Est er lakes report ample snow across the Rattlesnake Creek watershed. Snow now grainy and ready to “do business” once the weather clerk acts. Tom Ross named water commissioner and John Banks to oversee reservoirs in Helena. Montana Highway Commission plans 2 500 000 dollars for roads this year.
Hall of fame actor Henry B Walthall returns to the screen in Warner Bros Parted Curtains to be shown at the Hartwig theater on Tuesday May 15. The ex convict tale follows a former financial secretary whose friend betrays him as he rises from derelicts to success. Walthall’s famed screen career includes Birth of a Nation and titles Great Love False Faces And a Still Small Voice.
The film presents Marion Davies in a landmark screen role in When Knighthood Was In Flower a Cosmopolitan Production for Paramount. It debuted in New York on September 14 1922 and features Robert G Vignola Joseph Urban and Luther Reed with lavish photography costumes and historic accuracy.
A dandy little stock ranch of about 700 acres on the Grasshopper. Well fenced with house barn water timber meadow grass and open range. Suitable for a band of cattle. Price ten dollars per acre terms nineteen.
An ad extols Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and indigestion with a testimonial from Mildred Keene of Bangor Maine. It warns against gripe pain or nauseation and advises refusing substitutes while naming Potts the druggist. Also promotes Sunset Magazine Gift Catalogue offering rewards for postcard requests in San Francisco.
Tomorrow three teams from the home science department will compete at the public library in a table setting contest. Each team includes a senior and a junior, prizes of silver will be awarded by Huber Bros jewelers for Hope chests, with judging at 3 pm.
Hundreds of Dillon area youths gathered at Dillmont Park for the Rotary Club supervised Boys Week closeout. R A Reeser led activities as the day featured a mix of performances and a baseball game in which the Boy Scouts narrowly lost to the Training School team 7 to 8. Short talks urged citizenship and patriotism as the event was hailed a success by organizers and participants.
Poppy Day to be observed on May 26 the Saturday before Memorial Day. The Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion will sell red poppies to honor war dead and fund decorations for graves in France, working with the local American Legion post.
A trainload of 47 cattle cars departed Armstead on Wednesday bound for Portland and Seattle. The beef cattle mostly hail from the Big Hole region and the long freight train presented a notable scene as it began the journey with its valuable cargo.
George Bitt, superintendent of the Mountain View cemetery, informs the Tribune that water has formed in the cemetery ditches and is now available to every lot owner. There is plenty of water for everybody.
Colonel Armstead, a former Polaris mine promoter and builder of a reduction works, was advanced to colonel in the engineer reserve corps. He funded highway improvements and a tractor line between Armstead and the Polaris mine, later abandoned with remaining equipment near Badger Pass. Mid-Northern Oil to drill Howlingwell No. 3 in Kevin Sunburst field.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and for sympathy at the death and funeral of our wife and mother Mrs. G E Butt. Special thanks to G P railroad officials and those sending floral offerings. Signed G E Butt and Children Armstead Montana 1911.
I thank all who kindly assisted in the burial of my husband George L. Cole especially the Loyal Legion and I. C. O. F. and the many friends who sent flowers. 19- Mrs. Geo L. Cole.
Experts forecast commercial production at the Flatwillow structure in Fergus County. The predicted well depth is 2200 feet with potential oil or gas results anticipated from the formation.
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