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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
4
A roundup of 1891 notes records school board raising high school work and new courses, plans for sheep and elk ventures by locals, Alaska moose dreams, and area business gains plus a small snow-damaged morning in Dillon.
The Tribune reports W J Cush ing candidate for county attorney spoke to the Republican club last Friday night in Dillon. Also notes local infra updates including wagon bridge work over Blacktall creek and Montana street alley lighting, and a cold wave dropping temperatures to 14 degrees.
At the final Freshman week event a Saturday mixer in the gym awarded prizes for the Friday parade. Winners include best men's costume George Clark, best girl's costume Jean Renz, best couple Elaine Roberts and Robert Curry, with Hawaiian and comic groups also recognized. Judges Dr. Charles Henry William Hillstead and Erwin Christensen presented awards.
Dillon trapshooters joined the Lima Gun club merchandise shoot on Sunday. The next shoot is scheduled for Sunday September 29 in Jackson with traps set by John Krause. Herman Peterson, state singles champion, was elected vice president of the Sheridan Trapshooting association.
A wide weekly column blends rhetoric on freedom and vigilance with notes on education, European conflict, Italian exits, Maude Adams, air warfare advances, Bucharest tensions, and pilot training. It links liberty to schooling, laments Nazi risks, and sketches cultural and military topics for readers.
Attendees at the Democratic state convention in Great Falls included J. E H. Kelly Robert Good and J. L. Mayland from Dillon. Kelly serves as the state committeeman from Beaverhead county. Arthur F. Lamey of Havre was named chairman of the state central committee at the Bourbon conclave.
J E Phillips was guest of honor Wednesday at the home of his daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Roy Webster on the Rattlesnake creek where a chicken dinner was served to observe his 90th birthday Also attending were Mr and Mrs HE E Phillips of Los Angeles J A Phillips and son of Anaconda and Mrs Vernie Stanfield of Missoula
Principal Conrad Orr notes the Beaverhead county high school now has 293 students, about 30 more than last year, with yearly totals expected to top 800. Class counts show Freshmen 74, Sophomores 66, Juniors 76, Seniors 72, and Post graduates 5.
Beaverhead district court records show eleven marriage licenses this month as Carl W. Parish 24 of Lakeview and Phoebe Thompson 18 of Lakeview join Ciril Evatt 24 of Butte and Mary Rebich 20 of Dillon in the latest round.
WPA education recreation and art divisions combined to create a model of a safe, low cost, well planned play area. The exhibit is in the former City Shoe Store building on Montana Street and open daily 11 am to 3 pm and 4:30 pm to 9 pm for the public to view.
The U S Department of Agriculture designated a million acres in Montana as the Robert Marshall primitive area. Named for the former forest service recreation chief, the tract unites Pentagon South Fork and Sun River primitive areas within Flathead and Lewis and Clark national forests. Roads end five to ten miles from the boundary, and the area will remain free of habitation except for fire control trails and passage for travelers.
The 45th annual report of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station outlines the organization of agricultural research and current problems under investigation. It details each department’s active projects and objectives, and includes work from Havre Moccasin Corvallis Huntley and Miles City Range Livestock stations.
Montana mobilizes 1,508 national guard officers and men for a one year training period at Fort Lewis Washington beginning September 16. The adjutant general John W Mahan says the waiting list for guard spots will likely offset exemption from service.
Harry Colfer departed this week for Milwaukee to enroll at Marquette University, beginning his college studies and athletic prospects in Wisconsin.
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