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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
4
Looking Backward item recalls mail service changes and social visits in our valley. Notes include Mr. Smith starting twice weekly mail trips, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett visiting Mrs. Brenner, and her mother’s long Alaska tour. Also reports progress on the Selway bridge, weather hints, residents leaving for school or travel, and local job changes.
Invitations announce the forthcoming marriage of Miss Mary Noyes to Leonard Pendleton at the Ajax ranch in the Big Hole basin on September 27. Also notes Euphemia Innes travels to Brooklyn for Pratt Institute dressmaking, Hilgert and Olson debut The Merchant's Court cigar, Charles Watson visits from Argenta, and Carrie White with brother George head to Berkeley for schooling.
The 1910 Tribune reports Maude Hill and Fred Viel wedding news, Drs Orr and Ackly travel to Big Hole in a storm, Orr misjudges road near Ralston, discovering Anaconda lights, Frank Smith shot by duck hunter but not seriously harmed, mail delivery in Dillon postponed, James McKnight Sr. attends Republican convention. plus 1920 census population note for Dillon and Lima.
Bozeman Montana August 27 Wibaux county 4-H membership reaches 210 rural boys and girls equal to ten percent of the county population. The county lists 20 regular 4-H clubs plus a Builders club with 23 members. An active leaders council supports the entire program.
State Water Conservation Board completed plans for an 81725 rebuilding project on Big Dry creek near Jordan in Garfield County. J L McLaughlin Co of Great Falls won the bid to reconstruct the earthfill dam damaged by a cloudburst, storing irrigation water for about 2000 acres and finishing this fall for next summer. The flood washed out dwellings in Jordan, and the project forms part of a state program with Public Works Administration financing.
The United States Civil Service Commission lists vacancies and exams for several positions. Included are assistant marketing specialist in fruits and vegetables and canned or frozen products, specialist in conference planning, physical director at the Veterans Administration, physiotherapy aide, junior worker, senior scientific aide in taxidermy, mimeograph operator in Washington D C. Full requirements and applications available from Dillon.
A retrospective set piece surveys Africa under Italian rule with brutal labor and population losses, links to global imperial crimes, and notes Britain France and America preparing for potential total war. It ponders London landmarks, philosophy, and the Mississippi downstream, highlighting old river tales and new industrial hopefuls.
Summer weather makes soured dairy a resource as Montana experts explain uses for sour cream in baked fish and veal dishes. Governor Ayers approves a new half mile truck highway at Billings stockyards with 38 national firms seeking space in the $280,000 complex.
Deputy Game Warden Frank Star Ina reports beavers digging into a rancher’s sugar beets along the Little Big Horn near Hardin. Beavers cut a quarter acre of beets near a river bend while others were active in a nearby lodge.
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