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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1931
Page
4
The Association approved subscription rates of one year six months and three months for mailing through the Dillon Postoffice. Entrants are reminded of second class mail status and ongoing transmission duties.
A belated rancher driving a two horse team and wagon returns home near Lauterbach farm when a hit and run truck with no lights rushes by on the dark road. The near miss forces the team to swerve and avert a double wreck, highlighting dangerous roadhogs and evasion of law on the slick highway.
Senator Fess of Ohio warns the nation has assets but lacks confidence. The text contrasts past reckless optimism before 1929 with current excessive suspicion, noting people moved from risky stock schemes to wary, overly cautious investments, chasing 100 to 1 odds.
An editorial notes radio programs often decline in quality with music favored for entertainment. Separate dispatches report Montana Red Cross relief, led by Governor Erickson, aiding 10 000 drought victims with over 100000 dollars spent across 16 counties. A Montana committee supports drought relief, with headquarters in Helena. Other brief items include a Chicago judge denying pennies for a fine and a milkman extinguishing a fire with milk.
A brief note discusses how long suffering residents may react to perceived hardships and the challenge of building goodwill through such measures.
The rhune notes riders limping and complaining from the fair amid rough horse breaking. Fashionable fall gowns appear as textile trends rise. Two more wood saws join existing mills. Dillon anticipates cold winds this winter as their buzz fills the day from dawn to dark.
The Dillon high school opened last week with 36 pupils enrolled and four teachers on the rolls. A quarry accident at Stone Creek Mining 10 miles east of Dillon left W. S. Mills paugh fatally injured by a boulder hurled by John Blomberg. Dillon is lively with several roundups and riders in town for celebrations, but Chief Stone says arrests have been limited to not more than 40 during the month.
George Edinger captured the Elliott loving cup for the top ten sheaves of oats at the state fair. Beaverhead county's exhibit placed third. Tom E Gilbert left Saturday for Ann Arbor Michigan to continue his law studies.
The American Legion national rehabilitation committee asks the U S civil service commission to interpret the April 24 1938 executive order which adds ten points to earned ratings for veterans with service connected disabilities. It asks whether the disability must be compensable at ten percent or more, noting many veterans have ratings under that threshold. The ruling could affect thousands applying for civil service posts.
Washington officials rule that a World War veteran may receive disability compensation under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act alongside the World War Veterans act amendment. Another decision allows civil service retirement pay and disability allowance if military service is not counted in retirement computation. A widow entitled to death compensation may also receive disability allowance for her own World War service.
A 1930 poem by Phyllis Mae Morrison extols the Constitution and its guiding role for citizens and government. The item also notes two short 19th/20th century public notices: Mrs Victoria Gugowski of Buffalo sentences her husband to six months in prison for drinking tied trouble, and Mrs John Earl of Newburyport Massachusetts complains about her husband after a disorderly conduct arrest.
W D Tovey of Standard Accident Insurance argues the 1930 to 1931 low mood did not curb driving carelessness. He cites 2,500 deaths and 962,826 injuries from careless driving, and notes drivers are more reckless than before. A C Murdock of Atlanta makes a long hospital visit for appendix removal.
In the District Court of Beaverhead County Montana a hearing is set for October 10 1931 at 10 00 AM to prove the will of Henry Thompson deceased and to hear the petition of Anna Thompson and Pearl I Smith for letters testamentary. Any interested person may appear and contest. Clerk Fred Rife issues the notice with the court seal September 12 1931.
Pearl I Smith files in Beaverhead County District Court to admit Burt Adams Tower last will and testament to probate and appoint administrator with will annexed. Court action seeks court supervision of the probate process and related duties for the deceased.
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