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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1937
Page
5
Local items list ranch visits and travel notes from Harry Gilbert Henry Seifken and other residents plus social events May Fete teachers guests St James Guild and Women’s groups. Remodelling at Walter Stamm house completion and picnic planning noted with several visits and upcoming commencements and meetings.
Fort Harrison sent creped paper poppies to the American Legion Auxiliary for Poppy Day May 29. The flowers, made by disabled World War veterans, will be distributed city wide. Poppy chairman Mrs. Fred Critz notes the blooms resemble the red flowers seen in France and Flanders. The project provides employment and occupational therapy for many veterans.
American Legion Auxiliary units presented yellow birch plaques to posts including Beaverhead Post Commander T. L. McCracken this Wednesday. The plaques recall Argonne Memorial Forest in Wisconsin and were crafted by CCC boys at Mountain Craft camp and supplied by the U S Forest Service. The inscriptions affirm conservation of natural resources as national defense.
Elena Sliepcevich of Anaconda was crowned queen of the State Normal college May Fete in a Friday night ceremony attended by about fifteen hundred. She was chosen by students from five candidates and is a prominent second year student president of the Women’s Athletic association and general chairman of May Fete. The show Toyland featured 300 participants and 23 dances with music by the Little Symphony and the Glee Club. Also noted were funeral services for Charles Powell and Harvey Eggan Lasley being named section guide at the San Diego Naval Training Station.
Excerpts from a Colfer letter from Germany describe bicycle travel up the Rhine from Remagen to Amsterdam via Elten and Düsseldorf. He notes May Day events, a youth hostel meet, a German friend from Neuss, a tram trip to Cologne, and visits to mass at the cathedral.
At the opening of commencement week the annual concert by instrumental musicians of the high school will be held Monday evening May 24 at the high school gym. Band orchestra and soloists perform old and new tunes with post graduates and visiting musicians assisting. The program starts at 8 15 pm and the public is invited.
Mr and Mrs Watson and daughter Dorothy travel from Drummond to attend the May Fete and visit their daughter enrolled at the normal school.
Resplendent in new uniforms the Elks drum corps made its first public appearance on Dillon streets Saturday night. The parade led to the Elka eighth anniversary dance at Dart's hall and commended the corps for its fine performance under director Kenneth Wheat. A series of dances will raise funds to send the corps to the state convention in Red Lodge on July 22 with Melrose hosting the next event. The roster lists Leone Cashmore as drum majoress, Harold Murray and Emery Smith among snare drums, George Christensen on bass, Kenneth Wheat as cymbals, and a full bugle section led by William Mitchell Jr with Don Wilcox and others.
Mr. Hirschman a past master of Dillon lodge No 16 A F and A M. Arrangements for tonight's party are Matt Kay Tom Dubois and Paul H Temple. Refreshments will be served. Mrs Lucetta Jardine returned from California Tuesday evening and stays with Mrs Elizabeth Clemow.
County home demonstration clubs convened for the annual spring meeting in Room 200 of the Federal building. Miss Nell Mc Knight of Dell presided as president, with talks by Bernard Williams and Miss Lillian Stone plus planning for 1937-38 led by Miss Frances Smith.
John Shields a 28 year old Butte miner died Saturday after a brief illness. He was the brother of Mrs J C Fuller and Mrs Harold Murray of Dillon. Funeral services were held at St Ann church Butte Tuesday morning with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. He is survived by his mother Mrs Ellen Shields and four brothers William Pat Hugh Andrew and their spouses all of Butte and Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Fickes stay with Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Patterson. Mrs. Fickes, Dolly Lacey of Dillon, will be remembered. They head to New Jersey where Mr. Fickes, a United States Naval official, will be stationed.
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