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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1927
Page
4
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Duck hunters crowded the early morning fields before sunup and found birds flying high to avoid fire. Reports ranged from good luck to failure with many returning empty. Cold spring winds blamed for fewer ducks. chickens and grouse were seen but protected this year.
At Chicago Thursday evening a famed boxing debate with gloves drew about 180000 spectators in the stadium. W B Hartwig of Dillon was among the crowd with his father W J Hartwig of Helena awaiting news of the bout and a personal account from Dillon fans.
An Atchison woman lived with her husband fourteen years before discovering he was bald headed. The quiet domestic detail underscores how long hiding a simple fact can continue.
More than two thousand Crow and Sioux members and as many pinto ponies appear in scenes of The Red Raiders at the Hartwig theater Saturday. Ken Maynard stars in the First National release.
The two Lekenberg brothers recently from Germany visited George Main in Dillon on Thursday and Friday. One plans a trip to Los Angeles to see Archie Main then return to Buffalo New York. The other will ride to New York to catch a train back to Germany.
Jeanne Covalt aged about a year old daughter of Mrs. Ethel Covalt suffered a broken bone in her arm just above the wrist when she fell from a ladder on the training school grounds last Friday afternoon. She attends the local school and is staying with her aunts Misses Millie and Clara Adams.
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The Normal College announces autumn quarter try-outs for the Glee club with members from across the state including Thelma Holliday and Dorothy Collins. Gargoyle dramatics try-outs and a big W A A mixer at the dormitory are scheduled, plus a nurse led health exam for training school children and the annual Go picnic at Dillmont Park.
Tuesday assembly commemorated Constitution week with Prof. R. E. Albright outlining the constitution’s role in stability and progress. Next week students take the hour for forming class organizations. Y W C A opens its year with a meeting in the old library room Thursday led by Miss Sands. Marion Benedict of Great Falls presiding.
A. L. Stone president of the State Bank and Trust company reports Beaverhead grain output this year at about 300 000 bushels after a late spring and three hail storms plus early frosts. This aligns with the three year average. The potato crop is expected to be excellent due to favorable weather and frost timing.
Bobbie Brew, the young son of Mr and Mrs Daniel Brew, is fully recovered from accidental lysol poisoning last Tuesday. Mr and Mrs William Rosenbaum spent the weekend in Butte where Mr Rosenbaum consulted a physician.
Mr and Mrs Tom D Caverly and family visited the R J Bowers home Sunday. P H Peterson moved his family to the G W Patterson ranch on Sheep creek and will make their home there.
In the vicinity the sheepmen are actively shipping and preparing to ship lambs, indicating a busy season for the local wool and meat trade.
Rain and cold damp weather slow down alfalfa and grain harvests across Sheridan. Tilton Bros and Ed Blom finished threshing seed peas while F D McGregor shipped a carload to Detroit. Mrs G W Rightenour hosted Miss Gert rude Foster and a social afternoon with prize winners Louise Steiner and Joone Rossiter, plus a large guest list.
The Misses Gertrude Foster and Boone Rossiter depart Sunday for Missoula where Foster will begin as a freshman and Rossiter as a sophomore. Loren Thomas will also move to Missoula for a freshman year in chemistry. Tom Tolson will attend Montana State College in Bozeman. Miss Gertrude Spahler attends Normal College in Dillon. The local school opened with full grades and a strong freshman class. Curtis Holland leads the fifth and sixth grades. Nellie Cecil and Frances Wylie join the high school staff in their respective grades and department. O. A. Schulz and son, who showed a carload of Rambouillet rams at the state fair, won second prize, and Schulz claimed the state fair trapshooting trophy.
Harry Andrus returned from Blackfoot where he has been attending the Idaho circuit races. His mate Baby Lou has secured one first, three seconds and a third, with entries planned for Logan, Salt Lake City, and Boise races.
From the Tribune dated Sept 24 1886 the school assigns 150 pupils among teachers Mrs Taylor first and second 60 Miss Williamson third and fourth 80 Miss Carter fifth and sixth 32 Prof Knapp seventh and eighth 28 Justin E Morse of Dillon Implement travels north on an extended business trip Grapes sell for 25 cents per basket Dillon raises funds to aid Charleston flood victims
A group of top girl riders practiced quarter mile sprints at the race track during the fair. S. Patterson toured Madison county on business. A bicycle party hosted by Misses Stella Cornel and Millie Coffin rode to Mrs. P. H. Poindexter’s home for an evening ride under bright moonlight. A wreck at Rocket involved two trains with 28 injuries but no serious harm.
The Butte Argenta Mining company is investing between forty thousand and eighty thousand dollars on its Argenta property. A separate deal saw Birchdale ranch north of Dillon sold by J I Morse to Foster Ranch company for eight hundred thousand dollars. Judge Hirschman received a jail letter from a prisoner requesting release to avoid further trouble with his wife.
For lease two thousand acres of closed grazing with twelve eighty outside leased. Miles of free grassed range, springs, shelter, ample alfalfa nearby. Contact James Kirkpatrick Dillon Montana. Adg 36 39.
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