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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
4
The Glasgow Courier argues Montana students and families should choose education wisely. Not all should attend college or university. many benefit from trade schools or practical programs. Emphasis on individual fit, early work plans, and parental effort in enabling access.
Governor Ayers designates Safety Week to promote life and limb safety in homes streets and highways from October 17 to 23. Montana Safety Council leads a broad crusade with major city sponsors and service clubs planning community checks and safety actions. The Montana Highway Patrol backs the effort and will coordinate public cooperation during the week to reduce accidents and losses.
Excerpts from the Oct 19 1888 Tribune note torchlight bands parade stock growers meet at the courthouse two new butcher shops rumored meat prices may drop squashes weighing 66 pounds raised at high altitude Dillon grows sober birds shot by crack shots. Four decades ago the sheriff’s auctions and Dillon’s building boom fill pages with notices and urban growth chatter.
A serious stage coach crash on the Berrock Salmon route last Tuesday endangered several lives. The big coach, traveling between Berrock and Salmon, Idaho, nearly resulted in multiple fatalities. No further details available in this excerpt.
A coach rolled after losing a wheel on a rocky incline injuring three women with broken shoulders and a broken leg while two other passengers suffered bruises. Also note Governor Stewart set a Montana legal holiday for bond sales next Wednesday.
Celina Mares will be the honor guest at a Business and Professional Women's club dinner meeting, held Wednesday at 6 45 pm at the Andrus hotel. The event kicks off the national program Our Town's Business with an acquaintance format and a costume party. Elizabeth Winn presides and special entertainment is planned by the program committee. Mrs Ora Connor and daughter Monica of Melrose were shopping in Dillon Thursday.
London Lloyds and all British underwriters stopped writing war risk policies for China Spain and anywhere on earth. In a joint manifesto they say this move will push property owners to work for peace. They cite aircraft range and incendiaries as expanding destruction and call policies on land a pure gamble based on averages.
New York University Hobart College and Wesleyan University each offered classes with war themes. NYU’s General Educational Division used maps and films to illustrate “The Next War.” Hobart showed World War films in “War and Peace.” Wesleyan’s “The Problem of War” promised practical guidance on conflict. Patricia Maguire dies after long illness in Chicago. Northwestern pathologists performed autopsy to study encephalitis lethargica.
Notes from several colleges describe new programs and shifts in student life. Bryn Mawr plans English‑only rules in some housing, Columbia Teachers College hosts weather discussion sessions, Boston University lists a course on Private Life of the Greeks, Norwich pledges a $250,000 endowment for air traffic and transportation study, and Manhattan’s School of Social Research promotes Compensating Gymnastics for Sedentaries.
Columbia Missouri University students Albert Waters and Jack Kilpatrick debated theology last week. Waters stated he felt an urge to commune with his Maker, then Waters shot himself in the head with a public safety item Kilpatrick handed him.
In Harrow Ontario during the annual Dominion of Canada egg laying contest George A Winton’s hen stopped laying, grew wattles and a comb and became a rooster before the event ended.
Sealed bids for furnishing all materials labor tools and appliances to complete work in City Hall Dillon Montana are invited for October 21 1987. Bids will be opened and examined by the City Council in regular session at City Hall.
The city invites sealed bids for work around City Hall. Bids must include a ten percent certified check payable to the City of Dillon and prove licensing under Montana law. The City Council may reject any or all bids as permitted by law. Dated October 11 1937 Theod F McFadden City Attorney and Ex Officio City Clerk Dillon Montana.
City of Dillon Montana approves Ordinance 236 amending Section 18 of Ordinance 226 to establish passenger and freight loading zones on Idaho Glendale and Helena streets with time limits for loading and unloading. The measure takes effect upon publication in the Dillon Tribune after a formal council vote on October 6 1937.
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