Remains of John W. Hesser Honored in Sheridan
The body of John W. Hesser, who died September 10 in Butte, arrived in Sheridan for a large Episcopal service led by Rev. Skinner. Hesser, born May 25, 1888 in Bement Illinois, served as railroad agent in Medora and Sheridan, enlisted as an aviation corps officer in WWI, taught at Kelly Field, and died leaving a wife Beatrice Walker and two young sons.
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Sheridan
John W. Hesser
Murray Hospital
Butte
Undertaker White
Episcopal Church
Skinner
Hesser
Bor
Bement
Ilinois
Io Medora
N. D
Montana
Whitehall
Aviation Corps
Billings
Kelly Field
Bellvile
Illinois
Gosport
Brooksville
Seattle
Beatrice Walker
M. P. Alexander
Butte National Airport
Lieutenant Hesser
Harold Oates
Sheridan Lodge No. 20
A. F
A. M
Harry
Harris
Mary O’brin
Centennial Valley notes shepherds hunters and guests
A Montana valley column recounts light winter reminders as snow covers ground. It lists visitors from Lima Dillon and Butte, game wardens C R Price and L E Pilling, and locals like James Blair now in Ohio. School closed Sept 12 with teacher Catherine McNabb leaving for Dillon.
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Lakeview
Mont
Centennial Club
Frank .Conley
Deer Lodge
Mr. Miller
Butte
Beaverhead County
Picnic Springs
Gosman
Lima
A. Potts
Dillon
C. R. Price
Denton Oliver
J.E. Morse
L. E. Pilling
J. C. Harrigan
Mildred Forsythe
Minneapolis
Riley Buck
Monida
Scottie Donley
Twin Bridges
Fred Hanson
Fred Han
Medicine Lodge News Highlights Local Travel and Visits
Sept 24 notes show Mrs. Ike Rife visiting Armstead to assist her mother in law Mrs. O Brien with care. Ike Rife and Bob Hildreth travel to Dillon. Craver family visits Armstead to meet relatives while baby daughter arrives from Butte. Several Lodge residents and relatives visit Rife ranch and nearby towns.
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Medicine Lodge
Ike Rife
Armstead
Edgar
O’brien
Edgar Rife
Bob Hildreth
Mr. Olsen
Dillon
Tom Craver
Butte
Dick Freeman
Skaggs
Wells
Rife Ranch
Rife
Will Orr
Pete Westergard
Armstead社ili News Highlights Local Socials and Travel
Activities fill the week with visitors from Dillon Leadore Sheep Creek and Butte. Honeymoon couple Roy Stockey hosts a Stocker ranch gathering with dancing and refreshments. Local residents pursue dental work trips and fishing adventures while Montana Life Insurance and B M U members meet for sewing and cards.
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Stocker Ranch
Chaiivari
Roy Stockey
F. A. Kennison
Sheep Creek Basin
Lyons
Dillon
Walter Lyons
Leadore
Clarence Koenig
William O’neill
Butte
Fred Jorgenson
Mr. Jorgenson
William Hale
Wyoming
J. A. Golubick
Wm. Hale
Carl Hansen
P. M. Sullivan
Montana Life Insurance Company
Elmer Gordon
Sophia Guyaz
George Grant
Leonard Drake
Bedrock
Margaret Mullen
John Mullen
Postmen of Northwestern Alaska Move Mail by Reindeer
In Northwestern Alaska postmen commonly haul loads of mail using reindeer for transport. The practice reflects remote region logistics where traditional sleigh routes and wildlife assist in delivering correspondence across rugged terrain.
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Alaska
New Pastor Appointed for Dillon Methodist Church
Rev. Carl Knudson is appointed to Dillon Methodist Church by Bishop C.E. Lake at the Great Falls Conference. Former pastor Edward Smith will lead services Sunday Oct. 4 and the church invites all to attend. Sunday school at 10 a.m. public service at 11 a.m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.m. Knudson is described as highly educated and well prepared for duties, with strong support expected from the congregation.
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Carl’ Knudson
Dillon
Methodist
C.E. Lake
Great’ Falls
Edward Smith
Epworth
Knudson
First Baptist Church Announces Fall Services and Times
The First Baptist Church resumes activities with Bible school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The evening program starts at 7:30 p.m. with a 6:30 p.m. Young People's hour. The message titled All Things Are Yours. A welcoming greeting is planned for attendees next Sunday.
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the Baptist Church
Consecration Service At St James Episcopal Church
A memorial consecration service will be held at St James Episcopal Church on Sunday September 27. The program includes psalms scripture lessons prayers hymns and a sermon by The Rt Rev William Frederic Faber. Memorials include the altar and reredos to Mary Perkins Hooker the ciborium to Everett H Brundage and Eucharistic lights to Dorothy Mae Brundage.
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St. James’ Episcopal Church
Ashford
William Frederic
Faber
D. D
Shelley
Mary Perkins Hooker
Everett H. Brundage
Dorothy Mae Brundage
Rover Bros to Erect Milling Plant Here
Rover Bros Seed Company of Idaho Falls and Chicago plans to build a milling plant locally to handle the pea crop. Manager Mr. Poulter says the soil and climate suit peas well and expects next year’s pea acreage to nearly double due to good farmer returns.
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Rover Bros. Seed Company
Idaho Falls
Chicago
Poulter
Dillonites Greet Rural Folks at Picnic Parade
Dillon residents invite rural visitors to a Big Hole basin picnic five miles from Wisdom on the river. Attendees are asked to bring only a lunch while hot coffee is provided. Drivers should stay 100 feet apart and keep even speed in the cavalcade entering the basin. The event welcomes all county residents and promises an enjoyable time.
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Page One
Wisdom
Big Hole River
Big Hole Basin
Mrs Agnetta Bolstad Dies After Short Illness
Mrs Agnetta Bolstad died at her son Oscar Bolstad's home early Wednesday morning after living in the county about 40 years. Funeral services were conducted at Brundage chapel with Rev Ernest Loft of the Presbyterian church officiating. Interment followed in Mountain View cemetery. She was a native of Norway, 74, and survived by a daughter Mrs S E Wilsie of North Dakota and a brother John Diesen of Minnesota, in addition to her son.
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Brundage Chapel
Ernest Loft
Presbyterian Church
Agnetta Bolstad
Oscar Bolstad
Mountain View
North Dakota
John Diesen
Minnesota
Wenger's Lamb Crop and Local Sheep Farmer
Jules Wenger of Jackson, a longtime cattleman, has expanded into sheep. He runs about 100 ewes with no herders and relies on pasture and hay for feed. Wenger says this year’s lambs are fat and strong but not as good as last year, weighing around 112 pounds previously, and he notes a Madison county shipment at 16.65 per hundred pounds could influence his earnings per head.
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Jules Wenger
Jackson
Dillon
Jules
Tribune
Madison County
Salmon Child Buried Here
Word reached Dillon on Wednesday of the death at Salmon Idaho of Constance Ferris five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Enos Ferris. The body was brought to Dillon Thursday afternoon and the funeral held at the Barrett home with Reverend Edward Smith of the Methodist church officiating. Interment followed in Mountain View cemetery. The Ferris family is well known in the area.
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Dillon
Salmon, Ida
Constance Ferris
Enos Ferris
Robert Barrett
Edward Smith
Methodist Church
Mountain View Cemetery
Daniel Boone to Be Honored in Missouri Hall of Fame Bust
The Missouri Hall of Fame will honor Daniel Boone with a bust by Albin Polasek to stand beside Mark Twain. Boone, a hunter who explored wilderness and fought Indians, was born in Pennsylvania and lived in North Carolina and Missouri, with Kentucky hosting the most active life.
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Kentucky
Powers That Be
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Missouri
Mills
Albin Polasek
Chicago
Mark Twain
Kansas City Journal Post
Football Training Begins at State Normal College
Coach Bruce Hollister and athletics director John B. Cluley oversee fall football practice at State Normal College. About 75 men are enrolled as improved athletic facilities open new prospects. The first game is set for October 3 against the Butte School of Mines, with a practice game vs the Dillon Home Guards planned tomorrow.
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Bruce Hollister
John B. Cluley
Butte School of Mines
Dillon Home Guards
Athletic Field
Tribune Seeks Grain Reports From Beav erhead Farmers
Bea verhead county threshing crews report large yields of grain and peas across sections. The Tribune invites farmers to submit results for publication to foster friendly rivalry and a regional drive for farm excellence.
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Beaverhead County
The
Tribune
Peas Pan Out Well on Beaverhead Ranch
William Deputy finished threshing 20 acres of seed peas south of town. They yielded 61 bushels per acre and paid 8 percent cents per pound. An ordinance by Alderman Donald S. McKinley of Chicago requires bicycles and saddle horses to carry a red light visible in the rear.
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William Deputy
Gallatin Valley
Beaverhead
Donald S. McKinley
Nineteenth
Chicago
Rains Bring Crop Benefits Amid State Hardship
A report notes abundant rainfall aids crop yields despite ongoing state difficulties. Farmers welcome moisture that bolsters harvest prospects while officials assess economic strain.
Apes Outgrow Tails Compared To Humans In Evolution
The text discusses how certain ape species have evolved with shorter tails than humans, illustrating divergence in tail length as part of evolutionary change. It presents a general remark on natural selection shaping physical traits across species.
Lane sells 9000 sheep to fifty farmers for small farm culture
Ronan M L Lane, a sheepowner, transfers nine thousand sheep to fifty farmers to support small farm operations. The deal anchors regional livestock trade and diversifies pasture management opportunities.
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Ronan
M .L. Lane
Crow Flocks Roost Near City as Hunters Open Fire
Noted numbers of crows gather at Willow Grove near the Kent addition for their nocturnal rest. The birds, usually wary, no longer heed the gunfire and roost by sundown, though many fall to hunters in view of approaching crowds.
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Willow Grove
Kent
Alfalfa seed crops and oil well activity noted
Simms reports a strong alfalfa seed crop this year while Troy-Liberty notes an air compressor installation for heavy field development. Since January 1 Kev in Sunburst field totals 120 new producing wells with 89 completed between July 21 and August 21. German farmers use electricity to sweeten beet silage. Over a thousand fossil insect species found near Pike's Peak with no house fly trace. Vitamin C isolated from cabbage juice as a scurvy preventive.
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Kevin-Sunburst Field
Foley Honey and Tar sample offer in Chicago ad
An old advertisement invites readers to mail a cutout and ten cents to Foley & Co in Chicago for a free sample bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, claiming the remedies aid coughs colds hoarseness and digestion.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Waugh Mourns Loss Of Daughter In Utah Accident
Robert A. Waugh returned Wednesday from Salt Lake City after his daughter Gladys aged 18 was killed when struck by a truck near St. Ann's orphanage where she lived. She died soon after with funeral held in Salt Lake City. Waugh long worked in Beaverhead and Madison counties and is met with sympathy from many friends.
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Robert A. Waugh
Salt Lake City
Gladys
St. Ann’s Orphanage
Waugh
Beaverhead
Madison
Local couples wed as September leads in licenses
The eleventh marriage license of the month was issued last Tuesday to Francis Baldwin and Belle Henderson of this city. The ceremony took place that evening at the Baptist parsonage. September tops the year’s licenses with five days left, June next with nine, and July the fewest with five. Also on Tuesday afternoon Valentine J. Jacobs and Ena Patterson of Dell were married by Rev. Hurley and will live on the groom’s Sheep Creek ranch. The bride, a local high school graduate, attended Normal College and has many Dillon friends wishing her happiness. A local note adds no one has seen a daytime star from a mine shaft or well.
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Francis Baldwin
Belle Henderson
Baptist Parsonage
BE. L. Hurley
Valentine J. Jacobs
Sheep Creek
Ena Patterson
Dell
Hurley
Dillon
Rare twin pairs found on Pacific Coast in 1923 summer
The Mullusea case is noted as rare, but three pairs of so called twins were discovered along the Pacific Coast during the summer of 1923.
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Pacific
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Sheridan News
Frank Parish
Granger
Centennial Valley
Medicine Lodge News
Armstead News
Bond Grocery Co
Dillon Methodist
First Baptist Church
E. L. Hurley
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Continental Divide
State Normal College
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Troy
Liberty
Pike’s Peak
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Fay Lamphier
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