Half a Million Dollars for Advertising Glamor in Montana
A Dillon column discusses the impact of a half million dollars in ads from the Saturday Evening Post on Beaverhead and Madison counties, highlighting Dillon’s central role and urging local tourism linkage. It notes the value of ads and a local poem about Dillon, inviting reader interest and future cooperation.
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Saturday Evening Post
Yworth
Montana
Beaverhead
Madison
Bannack
Virginia City
Dillon
Beaverdhead High Seniors Begin Week of Commencement
Beaverhead High School prepares for one of its largest senior classes to graduate next Thursday at the auditorium. They will host dances at Dillmont Park, a tea at Normal College, and baccalaureate services at the Presbyterian church.
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Beaverhead High School
Dillmont Park
Normal College
Presbyterian Church
T. J. Simons
Glee Club
Lenore Thompson
L. A. Gregory
High School
Jane Herndon
Barbara Tower
S. E. Davis
the Normal College
Mary Helen Barkenbus
Herbert Alton Berry
Mabel Tilizabeth Boetticher
Anna Lee Briggs
Betty Mae Calkins
Holger Bernhart Carlson
Marjorie Troise Carroll
George Wallace Clark
Wiliam Francis
Clark
Alice Viola Crowley
Clifford Cullen
Loren P. Carnutt
Ethel Jean Davis
Dorothy Mabel Evans
Evelyn
Elizabeth Fairbank
Fannie Belle Fairbank
Robert Doyle Gordon
Susan Edith Hand
George John Heikkin
Jane D. Herndon
Vera Ruby ‘Hopkins
Garry E. Johnson
Ruth Johnson
George Martin Judge
Kenneth R. Kenison
Frank Anthony Little
Anna Katherine Mautz
George A. McDonald
Harold S. Price
Boyd Quick
John C. Reiber
Ashley C. Roberts
Roberta Jane Roberts
Helen Lorain Rodgers
Mildred Margaret Schuler
Silwin D. Schmitt
Ivan Dudley Shaw
Mary Elizabeth Simons
E. Kenneth. Smith
Ralph
Willard Spencer
Inez Maxine Stinson
Barbara Levey Tower
Mildred Beatrice ,Underwood
Joyce Monica Williams
Ruth Elyne Wolfe
O Connor Wins Dillon to Butte Road Gravel Contract
J C OConnor of this city was yesterday awarded by the Montana highway commission a contract to gravel 7 851 miles of the Dillon Butte road in Beaverhead Madison and Silver Bow counties south from Melrose on a bid of 25 634 70 The commission also awarded contracts for 14 federal aid road and bridge projects totaling 467 000
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J.C. O'Connor
Montana Highway Commission
Dillon- Butte
Beaverhead
Madison
Silver Bow
Melrose
Goodbye to Dillon Forever
A speaker bids farewell to Dillon asserting permanent departure to escape oppression and loss of freedom. The text contrasts the narrator with other travelers and hints at a plan to avoid returning, claiming to possess brains and independence.
Dillon Fifty Years Old in 1930
A retrospective recounts Dillon’s early boom years from 1881 when Bannack lost the county seat to the new town. It notes arrivals of Kleinschmidt and T C Power of Helena, the Continental Oil Co, cheap real estate, a November blaze in the Butte restaurant, and later growth through ranching, a $14,000 brick school completed in fall, and the 1885-86 circus visit by John Robinson.
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Bannack
Consid
Kleinschmidt
T.C. Power
Helena
Continental’ Oil Company
Butte
Dillon
Idaho Falls
Pocatello
Blackfoot
William H. Reif
Bozeman
John ‘Claxton
Archie McTaggart
Butte Lodge
John Claxton
Butte Elk
W. M. Stone
George M. Gosman
James C. Melton
Leonard Innes
Dell A. Lloyd
Theodore IF. McFadden
John T. Orr
Emerson W. Slack
S. Edwin Whitworth
Francis J. Gelhaus
Carl F. Guidici
Paul B. Bramsman
George D. Rice
Ralph A. Harding
Si Whitney Garman
Thomas FE. Gilbert
J. William Nelson
Carl H. Hartwig
William Thomas Pinkerton
Fred G. Lyons
J. E. Shaw
J. Warren Shaw
Jimery K. Smith
Joseph H. Duff
Frank Hirel
Homer Faust
Eugene Free
BE. L. Poindexter
H. A. Price
J. B. Holtz
Charles Burden
Francis H. Bimrose
Frank B. Rife
Jess Gray
Frank G. Paul
James N. Mansfield
W. H. Paddock
D. W. Paddock
Byron Orr
Allan S. Dansie
Harold C. Murray
Ike Rife
Edgar Rife
E. Lowell Smith
Chester A. Barrett
John F. Shaff
Justin Brundage
C. E. Blinn
B. J. Gunderson
Charles Woodburn
Dale FE. Metlen
R. J. Dansie
Walter S. Jones
E. L. Wheat
Tom Sillers
W. C. Orr
J.C. Jeppson
Montana Baptists Hold Twenty-First State Convention in Dillon
The twenty first annual Northern Baptists of Montana convention opened in Dillon at the training school auditorium with about seventy delegates. President Hedden outlined six resolutions on self support, building programs, evangelism, full time religious education and leadership, plus giving plans. Reverends Owen Howard and John Howard spoke on mission work in Bengal and youth, while officers were reelected and a layman’s place in the church discussed. The Dillon hosts were praised for hospitality and services.
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The
Northern Baptists of Montana
Dillon
Training School
Montana
H. T. Hedden
Billings
Frank A. Hazelbaker
Hazelbaker
Hedden
John W. Elliott
H. W.arthur
Jesse Bunch
Methodist
Tom J. Davis
Butte
George MacDougall
Corvallis
Philadelphia
American Baptist Publication Society
H. R. Best
R. O. Shannon
H. R. Norwood
FE. B. Pease
E. L. Fairbanks
Board of Managers
Pioneer Beaverhead Man Dies in Butte
E. M. Connolley a Beaverhead area pioneer died in a Butte hospital after a short illness. Born in Missouri 68 years ago he had lived in Montana 43 years, worked in mining, retired to Dillon four years ago. Survived by widow three sons Orlando Anthony Martin and a daughter Norah Connolley.
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E. M. Connolley
Beaverhead
Butte
Mr. Connolley
Missouri
Dillon
Orlando
Anthony
Martin
Norah Connolley
Beaverhead County
Dillon Girls Organize Four Girl Scout Patrols
Thirty two Dillon girls met at St. James Guild hall organizing four patrols under Mrs. Lambert Eliel with Miss Bertie Mathews and Miss Annabelle Desmond assisting. Temporary leaders named Ethel Herndon Elizabeth Ballard Virginia Backus and Leone Cashmore. next meeting set for next Saturday night.
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Dillon
St. James Guild Hall
Lambert Eliel
Bertie Mathews
Annabelle Desmond
Ethel Herndon
Elizabeth Ballard
Virginia Backus
Leone Cashmore
Guild Hall
Ranch visitors Parke T. Scott and Bert McMenomy arrive in Armstead
Parke T. Scott and Bert McMenomy, ranch residents near Armstead, were visitors in the city on Sunday.
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Parke T. Scott
Bert McMenomey
Armstead
Funeral services held for H. M. Brundage in Dillon
Undertaker H. M. Brundage brought the body to Dillon Saturday morning by motor. The funeral was held Tuesday from the family home on Thomson avenue with Rev. Father F. X. Leschner of the St. Rose Catholic church conducting the services, and interment was made in Mountain View cemetery.
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H. M. . Brundage
Dillon
Thomson Avenue
F. X. Leschner
St. Rose Catholic Church
Mountain View Cemetery
Pioneer Stockman Dies After Sinking Spell in Butte
George Ditty a renowned livestock merchant from Dillon dies two weeks after surgery in a Butte hospital. Born December 24, 1879 in Appleton City Missouri, he built the Dillon Horse Sales Co and led Montana stock dealings. Survived by widow, mother in Missouri, two sisters A L Atkinson and Lora Ditty, and five brothers in Dillon, Echo Lake, Kansas City, Los Angeles. funeral at Presbyterian Church with interment Mountain View.
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Butte
George Ditty
Livestock Commission
Sam
Dillon
Appleton City
Mr. Ditty
Mont and
Miles City Horse Sales Company
Dillon Horse Sales Company
Missouri
A. L. Atkinson
Dilson
Lora Ditty
Jesse
Edgar
Echo Lake
Dre. Louis
Kansas City
Clarence
Los Angeles
Floyd
Presbyterian Church
T. J. Simons
Mountain View Cemetery
Charles Burden
James Dodd
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