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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1936
Page
4
A Dillon column riffs on Washington weather forecasts, Thanksgiving at home, and local preoccupations. It notes butte fraud votes figure, fire insurance rate cuts, and sheriff-elect Temple's deputies. The piece highlights Beaverhead county prosperity with rising farm prices and affordable turkeys at two bits per pound.
The Children's Bureau reports adoptions of homeless children into comfortable homes rising since 1927 to about 100000 annually while institutional care remains around 160000 each year. The Houston Post applauds the humane trend, urging more doors be opened to childless homes for a happy future.
The Alabama’s Quilt rests in the Alabama Department of Archives and History after a storied Civil War journey. Confederate women made it to fund the warship Alabama, which raided Union ships until sunk off Cherbourg on June 19, 1864 by the Kearsarge.
The passage contrasts Federal losses at sea with the Alabama and Kearsarge wreck history, noting lingering guilt in the former Confederacy. It also profiles Charles Kellogg, Leopold Stokowski, Carl Berg, and Vallianos Kefalinos in brief anecdotes, ending with Kefalinos suing for divorce over financial restraint.
John van Guilder notes that hunters and anglers increasingly use compact high speed cameras to capture wildlife in action. He explains gear choices and technique to avoid blur, urging constant readiness and proper shutter settings for dramatic, lasting photographic trophies.
A Tribune excerpt notes three dangerous stray dogs in Dillon should be shot for terrorizing pedestrians and schoolchildren. It also describes the new opera house hall decorated and illuminated for a Company E military ball with elegant ladies, courteous gentlemen, fresh music, and abundant suppers. The ball is said to be the grandest ever held in Dillon, lasting into daylight.
A 150 foot airship rumor sails through Sacramento as reports spread that the mysterious craft roams at night. The tale grows from sensational journalism, while B N Stevenson, formerly of this city, arrived in town with his whiskers but without his grip.
The Wisdom lodge organized about a year ago will be constituted Monday evening. Fred Dart Del Padley Jay Talent and L K Adams have returned from a ten day hunt up Birch creek reporting ten deer killed and game plentiful.
The coal chutes of the Oregon Short Line railroad in the southern part of the city were burned to the ground Monday morning leaving only charred timbers.
The 1935 average railway wage was 1653 dollars with a 2411 hour year and 68.6 cent hourly earnings. Executives earned 5410 dollars, clerical workers 1795, maintenance crews 1065, and others saw 1473 to 2216 dollars by group. Payroll reached 1.644 billion, up 125 million from 1934 and 240 million from 1933.
A column derides the common claim that steering gear failures cause crashes while noting widespread fatal accidents. It cites 35,000 annual preventable deaths and urges accountability for reckless drivers. Also reports a Idaho Falls couple obtaining a marriage license and other brief notes including an annulment request in Omaha and a man killed after a dentist visit in Clarksburg.
Notice from the U S Land Office Great Falls Montana dated November 16 1938 announces Frederick G Lyon of Dillon Montana intends three year proof on stock raising homestead entry Serial 077474 for lands in section 15 township 115 range 5 W MPM to be witnessed by Roy Lyon Sam Conklin William A Logan John W Lyon all of Dillon. Also I J W Potts Wise River Montana offers to exchange 40 acres SEMSEY section 34 T N R 11 W MPM plus 20 inches water for National Forest lands Lots 1 and 2 NW Section 10 T S R W MPM totaling 113 60 acres with road right of way reserved. Public protest period indicated.
Department of the Interior announces Frank H. Weyerstall of Butte Montana filed intention to prove up a stockraising claim on land described as Lot 1 NEY NW% NWNE Section 31 Township 4 S Range 8 W Principal Montana Meridian before U S Commissioner George W Howard at 628 Phoenix Building Butte Montana on January 2 1937 Witnesses named Edward J Glennon James Mellrath George Reichle and P H Dallas all from Reichle Montana and Phoenix Building Butte Montana.
Ernest Qulay of Jackson Montana filed intent to make three year proof to establish his stockraising land claim in section 35 township 68 range 15 west Montana meridian before F A Hazelbaker US Commissioner in Dillon on December 8 1936. Listed witnesses are John Meyer William Carroll Paul C Watzig and John Richards all of Jackson Montana.
Notice to bidders that the Dillon Tribune in Dillon Montana will host a private sale of Frank E Foot estate items by order of the Fifth Judicial District District Court Beaverhead County. The inventory includes 800 books, office equipment and supplies, printing presses, typewriters, furniture, and a list of accounts receivable. Bids must be submitted before the sale.
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