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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1933
Page
4
The Dillon Tribune announces publication details and credits. It notes it is an official paper of Beaverhead County and lists subscription rates and mail status. The entry identifies E. Foote as publisher and the Dillon Montana location with contact via telephone.
L. K. Adams returned from a trip to his old Wisconsin home with John Collins and Charley Wilson. After stopping in Rochester Minnesota they came back via Minnesota, with Charley Wilson continuing to Forsythe where Mrs. Wilson greeted them. Adams notes regions hurt by last summer's heat and recalls an Sleepy Eye Minnesota optimist who said locals would miss wheat but always harvest corn.
The water users association secured a long term federal loan at five percent to repair and enlarge the Lima dam and increase storage. Farmers and stockmen in Red Rock and Beaverhead valleys express universal gratitude as the new capacity will provide emergency water during dry periods, aiding hay and grain crops. Special credit goes to Frank Hazelbaker for handling the Washington connection, Emery Keller for on site work, and engineer T. W. Thatcher for the plans.
Daily shoot hours begin 30 minutes before sunrise and end at sunset. The season ends at sunset October 380 with a sunrise sunset guide listing Oct dates from Oct 19 to Oct 30. Daily bag limit is 12 migratory waterfowl and possession limit 24. a 10 day possession limit is in effect and moving fowl after November 10 is unlawful.
Frank Esterwald tracks a bear threat after two cattle losses on his Idaho ranch. He rifles a carcass, shoots a cub, and then battles multiple bears as they converge near Upper Horse Prairie valley, near Bloody Dick creek, with Grandma the dairy cow at the center of the raid.
Walter Miller of the Chicago Americans overcomes a damaged ankle a hurt pitching arm and a cracked spine to be regarded as one of the game’s best slab artists at age 84. The piece notes his long road through 1926 injuries and return to form despite hard luck.
Tribune notes from October 27 1883 comment on Helena a bold capital city of Montana and its criticized sidewalks. It mentions few timepieces in the county assessor report and jokes about timekeeping. High school seats arrive ahead of Monday opening and a bell hung in the belfry signals school. Dillon’s population around 1000 with about 800 votes cast in the last election.
Chicago Major A Heath Onthank, head of the NRA code control division, told a Direct Mail Advertising Association convention that stricter cost accounting will reduce price as the dominant factor. He said quality, service, and salesmanship will regain influence and ads will expand in both appeal and method to reach new markets.
Forty years ago in the Tribune on October 27, 1898 the famous mobile store visited the area. The elaborate Milwaukee beer wagon was unloaded yesterday and despite hard times the locals clearly bought beer, with the owner noting considerable business.
A blaze at T. M. Selway’s ranch stable two miles south of town on Sunday night killed twelve horses. Elsewhere Emma Bertha Farlin married Martin C. Jackson in a city ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. Youths enjoyed a horseless carriage ride on Idaho street Tuesday night, with the vehicle occasionally accelerating.
Twenty years ago President Wilson pressed a dynamite button in Washington to clear the way for the Panama Canal. In a separate incident J C Walgamott, who shot a friend with a rifle placed in the friend’s mouth, will not be tried for murder locally. The accident occurred in a cabin on a ranch near Dell.
In a Sunday morning post at the White Cafe a man recounts a disturbance from a late night charivari party. He observes a talkative stranger claiming life in Butte and a railing over cigarette brands made by scab labor, with tension rising as others taunt him.
A question and answer discussion clarifies that Bona fide employers may not be limited by town size to hours worked, except one man barber shops may work 52 hours weekly. In towns under 2,500, wage increases of 20 percent apply, PRA rules otherwise apply if town exceeds 2,600 or two or more employees. Pending permanent code, Blue Eagle stores must follow PRA with retail substitutions until signed. Dillon Montana. 40-48
Beaverhead DeMolay held its regular meeting at Ma sonic hall on Wednesday night with the installation of yearly officers. Elected officers include Master Councilor Harry Schuler Senior Councilor John Christensen Junior Councilor Harrison Kellum Scribe Frank Tyre Treasurer Edwin Kellner Senior Deacon Bill Jennings Junior Deacon Alvin Bay Senior Steward Bill Welborn Junior Steward Harry Anderson Standard Bearer Jud Best Chaplain Roscoe Gordon Marshal Francis Dean Sentinel Ray Megquier Alderman Chester Gilbert Orator James Kurtz Preceptors Ray Lewis Phillip Ligg et t Russel Underwood Clarence Bickford Amos Elliott Arthur Bay Clyde Brown.
Miss Dora Nelson entertained the Salt and Pepper club on East Glendale Tuesday evening. Miss Martha Roth had the high score and Mrs Irving Orr received the consolation prize. Miss Berthana Kuntz earned a guest prize. Delicious refreshments followed the games.
Riverside club gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Jack Shaffner residence on Thomson Avenue and enjoyed a 1 o'clock dinner.
The State of Montana to Ralph Goforth You are summoned to appear before Justice of the Peace George Opp in Dillon Township Beaverhead County at his office on the specified date in 1988 to answer the plaintiff Margarett Carter in this action.
Public notice lists land description and three year proof filed by Patrick Desmond in Grant Montana with witnesses. Also opens an alias summons in a Beaverhead County case where Frank H Johnson state examiner sues W J Paul and heirs for foreclosure on a 4200 dollar loan with 5 to 6 percent interest and asks for sale of mortgaged property detailing sections and quarters in multiple townships.
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