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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
4
From the Tribune November 9 1888 Dillon voters excitedly filled the polls as carriages ferried Republicans and Democrats to the booths. The Dillon brass band marched and early returns favored Republicans who ultimately won every candidate including Benjamin Harrison for President signaling a pro industrial protection stance.
The Tribune notes a pleasant gathering by the Do As You Please club at Forest Home hosted by the Misses Poindexter with a gramophone providing music. A spring wagon runaway injures Henry M. Fitch and his wife, caused by a frightened team near the steam wood saw. Judge H R Jelton plans to bring his family back from Kentucky after a months long visit.
In Dillon a prank using wire across Kentucky avenue injured three women and Benjamin Bond who was thrown to the sidewalk. Other notes include taxidermist Thomas Taylor mounting a deer and a sheep for John Kambitch, Carl Decker healing from a rifle hand wound, and hunters Dart and Heffner returning from Redrock lakes with ducks. The Retina magazine debuted at Beaverhead county high school with Richard Price as editor in chief.
The Tribune reports on the 1917 departure of 14 Dillon volunteers to Fort Lewis for the national army. George Baker from Camp Greene is recovering from diphtheria. A cattle herd over a thousand head is moved from Dillon toward Butte and then to South Dakota if railroad cars are unavailable, led by Justin Brundage Quit Owens Jr Bernard Williams.
Navy Day chairman T. Lee McCracken is pleased with the observance in Dillon. Beav erhead County High School principal Conrad Orr spoke to the Dillon Rotary Club on Monday, the training school on Tuesday, and the high school on Wednesday about Navy Day. Posters were displayed in Potile.
The article reviews fiscal 1938 outlays showing an increased total expenditure, notes relief cuts, and discusses effects on the national debt and public debt. It covers Japanese advances in China, Chinese wartime leaders Chu Teh and Wei Lehuang, and mass sulfanilamide deaths prompting FDA action and a failed Pure Food and Drug bill. It also profiles farming success and a Future Farmers of America star, church attendance concerns, and canning guidance for meat and seafood.
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, signed a contract to broadcast 15 minute Fort Worth news commentaries twice weekly. The programs will avoid politics and focus on news in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen.
The text notes there is no law holding a pharmacist responsible to the Federal Government for selling untested drugs. It states Dr. Massengill faces civil damage suits from relatives of the 41 deceased.
Montana State College assistant chemist Jesse Green and county agent Bernard Williams collect soil and hay samples in the Big Hole basin near Jackson and Wisdom for laboratory analysis to improve hay production. North Fork samples also taken. Later, rural homemakers are advised on meat canning with pressure canners for safety.
The U S Department of the Interior Division of Grazing announces elections in Montana Grazing District No 5 to fill advisory board vacancies. Elections set for November 10 1937 in Dillon and Boulder with ballots from 2 to 5 PM and possibly longer. nominees include incumbents Brenner Tate Jones Schultz and a vacancy from Leslie Smith. R E Morgan Regional Grazier.
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