Beaverhead High School Opens with New Principal and Staff
Beaverhead county high school's fall term enrollment reaches about 250 students with 60 in the freshman class. Principal Conrad Orr succeeds the late Joseph Monroe, bringing fifteen years of Montana school experience and leadership roles. New staff includes Miss Helen Dahlberg, Miss Ethel Anderson, and Mr. D. L. Johnson, each with extensive previous teaching service in the state.
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Conrad Orr
Beaverhead County High School
Joseph E. Monroe
Conrad O. Orr
Florence
Carlton
Charlo
Noxon
Hinsdale
Powell County High School
Deer Lodge
Missoula County High School
Missoula
Schggls
Montana
Libby
Dillon
Dahlberg
Butte
Ethel Anderson
Jackson
Beaverhead County
North Dakota
Chinook
State College
Boze
Hazelbaker Named Republican Head at Billings Convention
Frank A. Hazelbaker, GOP gubernatorial candidate, named permanent chairman of Montana Republican platform convention in Billings. He pledges to end excess state spending, eliminate general property taxes, pursue broad tax cuts, support rehabilitation and water conservation, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and reform of the liquor monopoly. He calls for budget discipline and businesslike highway administration, aiding farmers, stockmen, miners, and labor with fair wages and conditions.
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Frank A. Hazelbaker
Republican Platform
Billings
Hazelbaker
Montana
Beaverhead
Highway Commission
Student Speaker at Weekly Rotary Meet
Thomas Luebben Jr., son of Mr and Mrs T E Luebben, spoke at the Dillon Rotary Club meeting at the Andrus Hotel. A Kemper Military School graduate, he worked this summer on an Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico steamship line and shared shipboard experiences. A F Waldorf chaired. no other business was noted.
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Thomas Luebben, Jr
T. E. Luebben
Dillon Rotary Club
Andrus Hotel
Kemper Military School
Atlantic Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Funeral Held for Accident Victim Wilbur T. Stultz
A largely attended service at Brundage chapel honored Wilbur T. Stultz a former city resident who died in California. The burial was at Mountain View cemetery. A Hollister California newspaper reported the August 31 deer hunting trip death after Stultz fell under a passing truck near Newman. The truck driver Fred Case may face arrest for failing to aid.
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Brundage Chapel
Wilbur T. Stultz
California
W. J. Loar
The
Baptist Church
Mountain View
Dillon
Arthur
Stultz
Hollister
Wilbur T
Buster) Stultz
Fred Case
Newman
Calif
Musical Tea Presented by Mrs Baxter’s Pupils
A delightful Wednesday afternoon musical tea at Mrs. Baxter’s home featured a piano program by pupils including Ellen Stroeder, Mary Stroeder, Esther Schmittroth, Martha Stroeder, Louis Schmittroth, Dolores Williams, Betty Stephan, Merle Schmittroth, Martha Gilman, Mary Gilman, Isabelle Watson, Jeanne Covall, Eva Gilman, Ruth Deputy, Mary Warner, and Evelyn Meine, followed by refreshments for their mothers.
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Ellen Josephine Stroeder
Mary Lou Stroeder
Esther Ann Schmittroth
Martha Kay Stroeder
Louis Schmittroth
Dolores Williams
Betty Blythe Stephan
Merle Schmittroth
Martha Gilman
Mary Gilman
Isabelle Watson
Jeanne Covall
Eva Gilman
Ruth Deputy
Mary Dawn Warner
Evelyn Meine
Old Bannack Saloons Gold Dust Found After Fire
Uncovered on the deserted Bannack site, gold dust nuggets and a Masonic watch fob plus emblem pin emerge from floorboard debris after years of neglect. Prospec tor's panning on the burned plot reveals trinkets, buckshot, and pistol fragments from Bannack’s mining era.
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Skinners
Bannack
Landon Extends Lead in Third Week of National Poll
New York reports 360,302 votes tabulated after three weeks of the nation-wide presidential poll by 3,000 newspapers. Landon leads Roosevelt and Lemke in most states as of this week, with gains in Connecticut Michigan Montana and Nebraska. Thirteen states not yet reporting and several with scattered results limit firm predictions. Ballots for Lemke vary around 4.7 percent, while Landon holds a majority in 30 states and Roosevelt in six.
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Landon
London
Roosevelt
Lemke
Thomas
Coven -Oadecssssenens
Browder
Arkansas
Delaware
Idaho
Mississippi
Nevada
Nebraska
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Michigan
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Colo
Conn
Til
Ind
Iowa
Kans
Maine
Mass
Mich
Minn
Mont
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Dak
Ohio
Okla
Ore
Tenn
Wash
W. Va
Wis
Alabama
California
Florida
North Carolin
Texas
Utah
Arizona
Georgia
Louisiana
New Mexico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Wyoming
Union Party
Lemke Ee
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Publishers Autocaster Service Offices
The
American Press
Dana
Landon Wemnenwneeee
Lemke Conanceaceseds
Auxiliary Enrollment Sets New Record
The American Legion auxiliary reports near 420000 members for 1936 as renewals and new enrollments push growth. Enrollments for 1937 already show continued rise with old members renewing and new members joining under chairmen Mrs. W. F. Cashmore and other committee members.
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American Legion Auxiliary
W. F. Cashmore
Beaverhead
Earl Fairbanks
Joe Fuller
John Sanner
George Gosman
Dillon Local Farmers Union Meeting Notice
The Dillon Local Farmers Union will hold a regular meeting Friday evening Sept 11 at the Riverside schoolhouse. Those who attended Georgetown camp should come prepared to report. Refreshments will be served and ladies are asked to bring dough nuts. Mr and Mrs Frank Rife of Medicine Ledge were Dillon visitors Tuesday.
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Dillon Local Farmers Union
Riverside
Georgetown Camp
Frank Rife
Medicine “Ledge
Dillon
Beaverhead Republicans Schedule Sept 26 Meeting
Sam Ditty, Bea verhead county Republican central committee chairman, announces a Saturday Sept 26 meeting at city hall to discuss fall campaign issues. A national committeeman and two state candidates will attend, and all central committee members and interested locals are urged to attend.
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Verhead County Republican Central Committee
Central Committee
Popular Dillon Man Claimed By Cerebral Hemorrhage
Frank B E Wright known as Chick died after a dinner dance at Canyon Resort. He lived in Dillon eight years and worked at Montana Auto Supply. Born December 21 1892 in Cheyenne Wyoming he traveled widely before settling in Dillon. Survived by widow son Eddie mother and several siblings. Funeral services held at Brundage chapel and body shipped to Cheyenne for interment. Wright was active in Odd Fellows Rebekahs and Neighbors of Woodcraft.
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Canyon
Frank BE. Wright
Dillon
Barrett Hospital
Mr. Wright
Chick
Montana Auto Supply Company
Cheyenne
Wyoming
United States
Lodge of
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Brundage Chapel
Eddie
Pocatello
L. A. Campbell
This City
Lila Goucher
Dorothy Wright
Los Angeles
Charles
Arthur
Missoula
Theodore and
Amos
Brundage Family Clinches Golf Honors as Son Ace on New Course
H. M. Brundage won the championship flight this season while his son Lew made a hole in one on the new Brundage course. Lew drove from the No. 3 tee to the eighth hole and the ball dropped into the cup during a Wednesday morning round.
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H. M. Brundage
Lew
Lightning Bolts Strike In City Amid Severe Storm
A powerful electrical storm swept Dillon Friday morning, with bolts landing in four city areas and likely the outskirts. A tree near the Texaco station was blasted, another at Atlantic and Morse was struck, and a transformer near the Tonney home on the West side was disabled. Deputy Pat Flynn felt the shock while driving as heavy rain followed.
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Dillon
Texaco
Pat Flynn
Atlantic and
Morse Streets
Tonney
Weat
Anniversary Observed for Fred Woodside Garage Pioneer
Friday night the Montana Auto Supply anniversary event honored Fred Woodside, Dillon garage pioneer who began with the shop in 1911. The Montana Auto firm, oldest GM agency in the state, grew from a small building to 15 000 square feet under his leadership, with a dinner dance at Canyon Resort for all employees.
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Fred Woodside
Montana Auto Shop
The
Montana Auto
General Motors
Housing unit has new plan for modernization drive
Helena Montana September 4 The Federal Housing Administration will push a Modernization for Winter campaign in September targeting repair and modernization work financed under the Modernization Credit Plan State director Barclay Craighead notes many homes and structures still need improvements He cites interviews with bankers dealers utilities newspapers and manufacturers to broaden the program Banks and lending groups have issued about 2800 modernization loans totaling nearly 1 500 000 in Montana
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Helena
Federal Housing Administration
Housing Administration
Barclay Craighead
Montana
Craighead
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Dillon Tribune
Sam Ditty
Bea
Frank E. Wright
Champ
Hole
Brundage
Montana Auto Sup
Woodside
Dillon Novelty Works
T. K. Julson
Roy Murray
Matt Berry
Stgte
Buick
Cadillac
Hudson
Ford
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