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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1937
Page
4
The National Congress of Parents and Teachers urges parents to ensure children entering school are fit mentally and physically. The Summer Round-Up is the major health project, testing springly for entry, correcting defects in summer, and fall checkups to assess health. Local PTA units will announce the date next week.
The piece notes how foreign buyers from Japan Italy and Great Britain push scrap iron prices from 5 to over 22 dollars a ton as domestic demand grows. It cites annual scrap production of 36 million tons with foreign demand rising from two to three million tons, and argues embargo debates amid high prices.
Wednesday afternoon meeting of Cub Scout Mothers in Mrs Redburns room will discuss the upcoming summer camp. The camp runs July 5 through 9 at Camp Lowlands near Butte for cub scouts.
In Dillon, a building boom draws attention at Savage’s carriage shop as breeders of fine horses visit. Tramps increase in number and Fourth of July plans are seen as likely. An electric light project attracts interest with a national company sending a representative to discuss Dillon’s power needs.
A May 1897 reminiscence recalls the christening of the dredge boat Maggie A Gibson a mile and a quarter below Bannack with hundreds attending. The Bannack city council weighs laying a sidewalk from the business district to the State Normal college to ease mudded student travel.
Cyclists have been forced to forego their usual Sunday and evening rides due to stormy weather and the muddy condition of the roads.
Eighteen seniors including J. T. Ross Celesta Young Ellen Nelson Mildred Elliott Elfreda Williamson Dewey Cashmore May Henneberry Frances Caldwell George McFarlane Gladys Oliver Dorothy Gelhaus Joe Yuen Josephine Jones Bertie Mathews Georgia Paddock Lucy Kluge Mary Ewing and Claudius Davis will receive diplomas at the Tribune June 1, 1917 ceremony. The article notes wool prices may rise above 50 cents per pound in the coming season and reports Bannack Gold Mining Company shipped its first bullion with 1,200 ounces of gold and 2,400 ounces of silver.
Reports of murders linked to witchcraft reveal widespread belief in magic rivaling medieval Europe. The nation hosts an estimated 20 000 professional voodoo priests and priestesses profiting from superstition, with many from wealth and education. Montana State Normal College Art Club votes to affiliate with Kappa Pi. C W Steib, J C Penney manager, returns from Portland managerial convention.
The Chanticleers journalism club at Normal College held a banquet and final quarterly meeting at Guild hall. Guests included President and Mrs. Sheldon K. Davis, Professor Robert Clark, and Miss Lucy H. Carson. Reta Albertson opened with pledges, followed by talks by Davis, Clark, Carson, and others. Several members were elected into Matrix, with Genevieve Albertson named sponsor.
Beaverhead County Mining Notes reports bonanza activity at Blue Moon and other Montana Mining District sites with leasing, ore shipments, and potential expansion plans. A later Notice to Creditors in the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District in Beaverhead County requests claims against Oscar Forman, deceased, to be filed within four months.
Notice is given that Katie has petitioned for probate of a will with seven petitions and aid granted on May 10. The document outlines proceedings for estate administration and related hearings.
George Cottrell of Wisdom Montana filed intent to make final proof to establish his stockraising homestead entry for sections 27 and 28 township 2 south range 16 west M P Meridian before Norman Glice Dillon Montana on June 15 1937. Witnesses: James H Scofield Herbert S Armitage Robert Lloyd Dobbins Victor B Olsen all of Wisdom Montana. Register Thos F Corbally.
Butte Montana May 5 1987 to Paul Girard and Fred Girard or assigns warning that co owners have expended the annual labor sums for quartz claims Anaconda New Anaconda Heckla Luck Jene Mountain View New Anaconda No 2 and New Anaconda Mill Site in Via Pond Creek to July 1 1934 and if within ninety days after publication they do not cover their share totaling 1800 their interest will vest in the co owner who has made the required payments per U A C Title 80 Section 28 DOMINIC BRUNO
Elizabeth Godkin sues Charles R. Godkin in Beaverhead County District Court for divorce on desertion and neglect grounds alleging over a year of abandonment. Defendant to answer within twenty days. default judgment possible. First published May 6 1937. attorney John Collina Dillon Montana.
Sam W. Conklin as administrator seeks court authority to privately sell decedent Fawn Conklin's Dillon Montana real property. Property includes Lots 1 2 8 4 5 Block 12 East Side addition and land along Bannack Street and a 1 4 undivided interest in Fraction G Dillon Original with a 1912 tax deed note. Hearing set June 5 1987 at 10 o'clock.
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