Two States Join in Dedication Sunday
A Beaverhead county dedication Sunday honored Camp Fortunate at Sacajawea Park with more than 600 attendees from Montana and Idaho. The ceremony featured Laura Tolman Scott and Grace Raymond Hebard lauded by Miss Jean Bishop of the Beaverhead DAR, with remarks from Lt. Governor Hugh Adair and mining leaders marking this historic site.
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Montana
Idaho
Sacajawea Park
Journal of Lewis and Clark
Beaverhead County
Laura Tolman Scott
Grace Raymond Hebard
Jean Bishop
Carl J. Trauerman
Butte
State Mining Association
Phillip Rand
Lemhi Mining Association
Jefferson River
Horse Prairie
Joe Metlen
Farmers Union Eyes State Meet in Lewistown October
Farmers Union locals across the county and Southwestern Montana plan meetings within two weeks to select delegates and prepare programs for the state convention in Lewistown in October. An invitation invites all farmers to attend the Bond Local meeting at Nelson school on September 22 with reports, legislative talks, and a district meeting in Butte on September 29 for state convention prep.
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Farmers Union
Montana
Lewistown
Bond
Nelson School
Butte
JAS
Students Leave for Many Colleges From Dillon Area
Dillon youths head to colleges around the nation in the coming days. Notable departures include Tom Brenner for Colby College in Maine, George Kennedy for Harvard, and Jane Waldorf returning to Stevens College in Missouri. Other students enroll at Duke, Stanford, Carleton, Chicago, Utah, Washington, and several Montana institutions. Mrs. Merle K. Smith plans to relocate to Portland to pursue beauty work.
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Tom Brenner
Colby College
Waterville
Maine
Coronet
American
George Kennedy
Harvard
Pete Tragutt
Roy
University of Chicago
Mary Dawn Warner
Utah Agricultural College
Logan
Joe Brown
University of Washington
State University At
Missoula
Annabelle
Tom Hartwig
Tom
Betty Roe
Helen Hoerning
Duke Gilbert
Don Gilbert
Suzanne Gilbert
Lew Brundage
Francis
Tonney
Normal College
Montana State College
Don Mulkey
Helen G. Anderson
Paul Decker
Mauree Hiison
Valera Fairbanks
Patricia Gilbert
Lucille Kelly
Jane Stallings
Marjorie Wetmore
Beaverhead County High School
Cora Baggarley
Hileen Gibbons
Butte Business College
Lida Shaffner
Fern Stahl
Butte
Desmond Barrett
Carrol College
Helena
Catherine Brundage
Johnson Business College
Great Falls
Jimmie Hier
Pharmacy
Idaho
Billie Ann Rife
Kinman Business College
Spokane
Merle K. Smith
Portland
Crop of lambs start for market in Beaverhead county
Beaverhead county's lamb crop moves to market with fat lambs headed for sale and leaner stock sent to feed lots. Top prices reportedly reached 8.30 per head for 97 percent 'Tb' lambs from the Big Hole basin, with Harry D. Lapham of Jackson credited. Lloyd-Lewis bought a 125 head lot, shipped to St Paul this week.
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Beaverhead County
Big Hole
Harry D. Lapham
Jackson
Lapham
Lloyd-Lewis
St.Paul
Montana artists review mural for new post office lobby
A Montana committee of artists and critics met at St James guild hall to select a muralist for the new post office lobby. Fifteen artists submitted 23 western scene sketches, sent to Washington for final approval, with Ed Rowan as superintendent.
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Montana
St. James Guild Hall
Treasure State
Washington, D. C
Washington
Ed Rowan
Olga Ross Hannon
Montana State College
Bozeman
Branson G. Stevenson
Great Falls
H. G. Merriam
State University
Missoula
Edith Alport
F. D. Willis
Dillon
W. H. Stephan
New Union Pacific Agent Takes Over Dillon Duties
A. D. Sargent, veteran Union Pacific railwayman, became Dillon station agent succeeding H. B. Baumberger. Sargent, with 33 years in railroading, previously served at Armstead and worked in Salt Lake offices. He arrives with his wife and children at 533 South Washington and invites patrons to meet him.
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Union Pacific
A. D. Sargent
Armstead
Dillon
H. B. Baumberger
Henry Coulam
Butte
Mr. Sargent
Soda Springs
Idaho
the Road
Salt Lake
Montana
Utah
DuBois
Shelley
Tremonton
Sugar Bill Passed With Veto of Provisions
Washington asserts the Sugar Bill moves to seal cane and beet grower quotas with a half cent per pound tax while limiting refined sugar imports from Hawaii Puerto Rico and Cuba. The President signs the bill but objects to the refined sugar restriction and warns of a cane beet growers alliance. He calls the measure improved by a gentleman's agreement ending that alliance.
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Washington
Congress
Hawaii
Puerto’ Rico
Cuba
Seaboard
Constitution Day Observed Across Schools and Lodges Framing Civic Spirit
The Dillon Business and Professional Women Club resumes meetings after summer with a dinner at Andrus cafe. Committees organize for 1937-38 while Constitution Day events unfold September 17 with programs by Dillon Mason Lodge and local leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Reardon
Dillon- Masonic Lodge
Harris Opp
J. A. Meeke
Methodist Church
Ralph McFadden
R. D. Curry
W H. Stephan
Tom Gilbert
S. EB. Davis
Meeke
Roy E. Ayers
Miss Wilma Brandon Leaves Ann Arbor for Home
Miss Wilma Brandon of Ann Arbor Michigan leaves for home Wednesday with William Bates who will study medicine at Ann Arbor. Brandon has been visiting at the home of Mrs Hugh Bates. They were driven to Butte by Mrs Bates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilma Brandon
Ann Arbor
Michigan
William Bates
Miss Brandon
Hugh Bates
Butte
Bates
Beaverhead Cattle Sale Sets Montana Record
Wolf Langman Livestock of Great Falls bought about 4000 cattle from Poindexter and Orr of Beaverhead for around 250000 dollars. The sale marks Montana’s largest in recent years, beating the prior peak since 1928 by nearly 100000. The cattle will be resold to eastern markets.
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Great Falls
Wolf-Langman Livestock Commission Company
City
Poindexter and Orr Company
Montana
Woman Arrested on Smuggling Charge
Mrs Grace Arnold Leslie 45 and her two children Chester 16 and Dorothy 20 were arrested this morning on smuggling charges. Sheriff Paul Temple Deputy D R Gordon and Highway Patrolman Clarence Thibadeau detained them after a wire from P R McLaughlin Havre headquarters. An immigration officer from Helena arrives to investigate.
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Grace Arnold Leslie
Chester
Dorothy
Paul Temple
D. R. Gordon
Clarence Thibadeau
P. R. McLaughlin
Havre
Helena
Lakes Road Progress To Connect Brown's Lake And Lakes
Beaverhead National Forest supervisor W. B. Willey notes progress on a new high grade circuit road from the Butte-Dillon highway up Rock creek to Brown's lake then to Lake Agnes and toward Birch creek and Willow creek roads. CCC crews build the line linking scenic Brown, Agnes and Rainbow lakes, with completion expected next year. Another CCC project clears 10 acres around the Birch creek old dinner station to expand picnic space as surveying and landscaping begin.
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Brown's Lake
Lake Agnes
Birch Creek
Willow Creek
W. B. Willey
Beaverhead National Forest
Beaverhead County
Butte-Dillon
Rock Creek
Brown’s Lake
CCC
Gems of
Brown
Agnes
Rainbow
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Dillon and
Beaverhead
Budge
William J. Clothier
Philadelphia
Don Budge
Bobby Riggs
Giant
Newport
Post
Chris Mauer
Los Angeles
H. E. Morse
H. B Baumberger
U. P
W.H. Mitchell
Albert Baker
Time U
Bi&p.w
The
Andrus Cafe
Elizabeth Winn
Fern Schuyler
Cherry Forsyth
Pauline Wilson
Cemetery
P. and O. Livestock Company
Dora Smith
Mayme Allen
Berthana Koontz
Lillian Store
St T of Montana
Nell Doyle
Lillian Stone
Nellie Poole
Esther Schmittroth
Celina Mares
Myr! Hale
Helga Anderson
Frances Sewell
Alma Pyeatt
Hayes Baxter
Theresa Giles
Luanna Robinson
Mildred Schuyler
Vera Smith
Claudia Faust
Dr. Hall
Harriet Bills
Lakes Road
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