Local Notes Include Visits and Obituary in Montana
A Dillon area column reports Joe Herndon of Salmah Idaho visiting relatives including his mother Mrs Millicent Herndon in Dillon. August T Ohrmann prominent Flint Creek rancher died Saturday night in a Butte hospital with funeral at Deer Lodge. Also Mrs W C Orr and Mrs Ruth Kelly plan to attend Portland Oregon flower show sponsored by the F T D A as part of a coast event.
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Joe. Herndon
Salmah
Idaho
Dillon
Millicent Herndon
Anita Moore
T. H. Ohrmann
Flint Creek Valley
Butte
Deer Lodge
W. C. Orr
Ruth .Kelly
Portland
Ore
Pacific Coast
Social event by L D S Relief Society September basket social
The L. D. S. Relief Society plans a September social Thursday at 2 PM at Mrs. H. M. Warner's home. Attendees bring a basket and a gift. lunch served by committee members Mrs. Lavon Evans and Mrs. Lola Walters.
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L. D. ‘Ss. Relief ’ Society
H. M. Warner
Lavon Evans
Lola Walters
DeMolay Club Opens Season with Officer Elections
The first meeting of the DeMolay season was held Wednesday at 7:30 pm in the lodge hall. Officers were elected as the main order of business.
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Order of DeMolay
Lodge
Order of Business
Beaverhead Residents Note Travels and Achievements
Miss Frances J. Huffman arrived in Dillon after summer sessions at Greeley State Teachers College and vacations in Denver and San Francisco. Miss Elizabeth Roe, daughter of Mrs. E. B. Roe, earned a law degree from the University of Washington and was admitted to the Washington bar, the first Beaverhead County woman to do so. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Orr, former Dillon residents, visit en route from Chicago to Santa Barbara where Orr joins the Santa Barbara museum. Guests at the J A Meeke residence include Miss Mamie A. Meeke and Randolph Johnson bound for Billings where she teaches, with Loren Curnutt of Hardin and Mary Lou Meeke also traveling.
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Frances J. Huffman
Dillon
San Francisco
Calif
Greeley State Teachers College
Greeley
Colo
Denver
Elizabeth Roe
E. B. Roe
University of Washington
State of
Washington
Miss Roe
Beaverhead County
Philip Orr
Chicago
Orr
Field Museum
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Museum
J. A. Meeke
Mamie A.meeke
Randolph Johnson
Billings
Miss Meeke
Loren Curnutt
Hardin
Mary Lou Meeke
Mrs Levant Hosts Past Noble Grand Club Event
Mrs Levant of Railroad avenue entertained the Past Noble Grand club on Tuesday at 8 o clock. The gathering was hosted at her home with members from the N G society in attendance.
Ladies Weekly Golf Dinner At Clubhouse
The ladies weekly golf dinner will be served Thursday evening at seven o clock at the clubhouse. Hostesses are Miss Margaret Hollorai and Miss Bernice Metlen.
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Margaret Hollorai
Bernice Metlen
Royal Neighbors Meet Set for September 8 at I C O F Hall
Regular monthly meeting of the Royal Neighbors will be held Thursday September 8 at 8 o clock in the I C O F hall. Refreshments will be served. There will be no juvenile meeting.
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Royal Neighbors
Better Homes Club Plans First Fall Social Meeting
The Better Homes club holds its first fall social on Wednesday September 7 at 2 PM at 325 South Dakota Street home of Mrs Sylvester Meade. Mrs Clifford Barry will be joint hostess. Members are asked to bring needlework.
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Better Homes Club
Sylvester Meade
South Dakota Street
Clifford Barry
Dillon Country Club Hosts Bridge Luncheon
A bridge luncheon was held at the Dillon Country clubhouse on Wednesday at 1 30 PM. Hostesses were Miss Caroline White Mrs T E Gilbert Mrs A T Morse and Mrs W B Willey. The event took place in New Chicago.
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Dillon Country Clubhouse
Caroline White
T. E. Gilbert
A. T. Morse
W. B. Willey
New Chicago
Beaverhead 4 H Livestock Club Meeting Held September First
Members met at the county agent office to review project records. No date was set for the annual 4 H club picnic, expected to occur in September.
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Beaverhead
Birthday gathering for Mayo and Redfield youths
Jean Mayo daughter of Mr and Mrs F G Mayo of Point of Rocky and neighbor Bobbie Redfield son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Redfield were celebrated at the home of Jean’s grandmother Mrs Caroline Smythe on Thursday September 1. About twenty five children and their mothers attended at the Smythe home.
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Caroline Smyth
Alden Telin
Point of Rocks
Jean Mayo
F. G. Mayo
Point of Rocky
Bobbie Redfield
Ralph Redfield
Caroline Smythe
Beaver high school faculty listed for coming year
Beaverhead county high school outlines its new and continuing staff for the upcoming year. Principal Orr remains active in education with multiple Montana committees. New and returning teachers cover English, history, music, art, languages, commerce, and science with added subjects in rotational guidance and vocational instruction.
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H. S
Beaverhead County
National Committee
Orr
Montana Education Association
Montana Society For the Study of Education
Ethel Anderson
Big Hole Basin
University of Idaho
University of Wisconsin
Faye Kirkpatrick
University of Nebraska
State University of Montana
State University
Betty Ann Polleys
University of Montana
County High School
Violet Eastman
Mary Castles
Columbia University
New York
Helen Dahlberg
University of Washington
Ort
Mary Virginia Ballard
University of Southern California
Kathleen Henkel
Evelyn Rimel
Ruby ,Rogness
University of Mexico
D. L. Johnson
Bes‘tinies
Beaver
Harold Babcock
Johnson
State College
Bozeman
W. J. Bierrum
L. A. Gregory
Western State Teachers’ College
Gunnison
Colo
The
Representative wanted for Dillon Montana magazine subscriptions
A local notice seeks a representative in Dillon Montana and nearby to manage magazine subscriptions. The ad promises access to a large fall and winter spend in the area and claims the agency offers very low rates on all periodicals.
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Dillon
Mont
U. Ao Ae
Pioneer describes railroad boom and stock surge
Julius Kessler, Montana pioneer distiller, recounted Henry Villard's plan to boost Northern Pacific stock in the 1880s. A lavish train tour impressed investors from the Midwest, East, and Europe, but fear and excitement grew as prairie vastness appeared. Villard later saw NP stock rise to as high as $1000 a share.
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Great Falls
Mont
U.P
Julius Kessler
Montana
Henry Villiard
Northern Pacific
Villiard
Prairies
Way Station
Kessler
Williard
Northeastern Farmers Protest Crop Report
Montana farmers protest a state press story claiming crop yields in the northeast were high and rust damage light. State Agriculture Commissioner James Sparling notes farmers say such reports harm aid chances and warn several counties may average five bushels per acre or abandon fields.
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Montana
James T. Sparling
Sparling
Montana engineers in South America
Five engineers trained by the Montana State Highway Department are in the jungle of Colombia building roads for the Texas Oil Company. Don A. McKinnon says the firm sought mountain road experience and the men Ben Briscoe Don Cummings E B Martin Irving Keeler and H H Fisher are flown by Pan American Airways to work from Barranquilla, Colombia.
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State Highway Department
South America
Texas Oil Company
Don A. McKinnon
Oil Company
McKinnon
Pan American Airways
Ben Briscoe
Don Cummings
E. B. Martin
Irving Keeler
H. H. Fisher
Barranquilla
Colombia
State debt falls by over a million dollars
Montana's bonded indebtedness on August 1 stood at $9,502,224.25, down from $10,824,177 a year earlier, per State Auditor John J. Holmes. The largest single redemption was the retirement of $718,000 in educational bonds.
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Montana
John J. Holmes
RFC Opens Helena Headquarters for Wheat Loan Deals
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reopens state headquarters in Helena with Stuart A. Bingham, former bureau manager, in charge. Main activity will be expediting wheat loan negotiations for farmers.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Helena
Stuart A. Bingham
Bureau
Anaconda Man Pleads Guilty to Liquor Theft in Wisdom
John McKittrick of Anaconda was sentenced to 30 days in Wisdom justice court after pleading guilty to petit larceny. He allegedly took a quart of whiskey from Givoes store room in Wisdom and was taken into custody by sheriff's officers on Labor Day.
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John McKittrick
Anaconda
Justice Court
Wisdom
McKittrick
Givoge
Sheriff’s
Glacier National Park workers remove fire hazards
Emergency relief teams, under the National Park Service, clear a 1000 acre North Fork Flathead area of snags and debris from the 1929 fire. About 200 ERA men will work seven months, housed in a federal transient camp at Coram with a new 30 by 75 foot mess hall to be built.
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Glacier, Park
Mont
U.P
North Fork
Flathead River
National Park Service
E. T. Scoven
Coram
Whooping Cough Leads Montana Disease Reports
Whooping cough remained the dominant communicable illness in Montana last week as doctors reported 71 new cases across 13 counties to the state board of health. Measles added 18 new cases as the only other detectable disease noted in the state.
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Montana
State Board of Health
Training School To Reopen On Monday In Dillon
The Dillon school system announces the reopening of the training school on Monday. Miss Obenland will join as a new educator with bachelor and master degrees from the University of Minnesota and Bemidji State Teachers College. Grades one and two will be taught by Miss Ruth M. Grotheer, who holds bachelor and master of science degrees from Kansas State Teachers College.
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Dillon
H. D. Black
Melissa Minger
Anne Feley
Ottilie Brauer
O. K. Moe
Margaret Hollensteiner
Bert Shortt
Agnes MacDonald
Florence Hellman
Elizabeth Shotwell
Frances J. Huffman
Eunice Miller
Gladys Forrester
Katherine Kellett
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Fred Nelson
Big Hole
Ralph Peterson
Jim
Campbell of
Armstead
Miss Gaylor Selvidge of
John Selvidge
Ike Rife, Jr
Medicine Lodge
George Metlen
Herman Schwab
Kremlin
W. B. Hresherton
California
John M. Ivar of
Melrose
Mary Morin
Poplar Schools
Jean Ballard
Arnold Miller
Palo Alto, Calif
Carl Mast
Miller
Slater
Mast
Kay Robinson
Bobby Robinson
Evan Burrell
Eleanor Rodman
Ruth Kelly
Polaris
Arthur Graeter
Leonard Schulz
Guy Combes and Sons
Salt Lake City
W. H. Stephan
Lewistown
Adolph Kruljac
Mary Dawn Warner
Barrett Hospital
Jack Brown
Russell
Iola
Kan
Mr. Brown
Frank Lightfoot
Victor Fall
Boulder
Elizabeth Clemon
Louise Buhrer
Minnie Buhrer
Seattle
John Collins
Los Angeles
Baptist Ladies Aid
Baptist Cottage
Robert Frakes
Ted ‘Wright
Helen Bulger
Jimmy Carney
Burlington, Town
Miss Bulger
Ted “Miller
Lakeview
Lucy Brundage
Loren Davis
Missouri
William Boetticher
Ella Boetticher
Dutton
Florence, Daly
Marchesseau Ranch
Missoula
John Sanner, Jr
John L. Sanner
Paris E. Wells
Audrey Wells
William Welborn
Jean Bishop
Synod and Synodical Society
Genevieve Squires
Glenn Squires
Labor Day
Monroe
Lester and
Orrie Nyhart
Twin Bridges
Sage Creek
Betty
T. F. McFadden
Patricia
Spokane
Nana 1D. Watson
Katherine D. Herr
Glenn Ridge, N. J
Anna Patterson
Sam Patterson
Fred Simons, Jr
Plentywood
Paul Bramsman
Paul Simons
Mrs. Dysart Gowen
Lois
Alfred Peterson
Mae Sprinkle
Wallace Ogden
Grace
Fresno
Edward Cushing
D. W. Simmons
Ogden
Utah
Mr. Simmons
Montana Mercantile Company
W. B. Hartwig
Annabelle
Hayes T. Baxter
Billie
Miss Baxter
Clayson
Miss Hartwig
L. DS. Social
N. G. Club
Federal Deposit. Insurance Corporation
Pioneer
Northeastern
RFC
Gilbert Hilde
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
North Pacific
Richard’ McCarthy
East Granite
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Butte, Montana
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