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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1914
Page
3
The Dillon Examiner outlines rates for advertising and reading notices including 20 cents per line for the first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business locals apply 10 cents per line for the first and 8 cents per line thereafter. Church festival notices and sales of fancy articles are charged at 5 cents per line with specific categories mentioned.
A garbled OCR fragment lists multiple train or streetcar directions and times including west bound north bound and east bound routes with times like 2 12 p m and 7 24 p m plus scattered letters and placeholders. The text is unclear but indicates schedule notation for routes No 1 No 3 No 2 and No 4 with directions and times.
Local Dillon scene recalls James McKnight Dell visitor and Colonel Decker Armstead guest. E M Martinell and Mrs. Martinel from Dell in Dillon for business. Henry Marsh and Miss Pearl Jorgenson in town. many residents from Twin Bridges, Armstead, Lima and Sheridan noted in Dillon activities. Also ads for sewing needles, heating stoves, and cars. exams announced for April 20 and May 1 at the court house.
J A MacDougall buys for Stanton and re ceives a couple of hundred from Fred Hirschy while Jakie Jacobs Bob O Connell led for Butte last Saturday with Fred Francis steering. Fritz Wachly purchased Mus sigbrod steers for W M Montgomery Co Anaconda. Walter Hanson of Butte bought 100 head from Carl Huntley and they depart the 10th weighing four per cent shrink at Woodworths. A Kansas City reporter notes no prime stuff and buyers ready to pay 9 265 dollars. Smith brothers Emerson Wilmer rent Trail Creek ditch pasture to Lawrence Shaw and plan to plow and feed much of their stock this summer.
An executive order requires competitive examinations by the Civil Service Commission for fourth class postmasters earning $180+ and not Civil Service appointed. Examinations are on May 16 in Dillon for Argenta Armstead Bannack Jackson Lima Melrose Reichle Wisdom, with applications from within each postoffice territory.
In Hammondsport New York a boarding house called the aviator's roost hosts 15 or 20 airmen and inventors after dinner. They explore ongoing aviation topics including Beachey Pegoud aeroplanes automatic stabilizer dirigibles and the feasibility of launching from a dirigible. Transatlantic flight and midair relay ideas are central.
Montana fed beef and mutton shipments topped the market, matching prior hog market highs. The article notes this stock was not corn fed and highlights the strong demand from Chicago market buyers.
In Salmon City Mining District a quartz sulphide ore body bearing lead silver copper and gold is reported at the Clearwater claim on Pratt creek. The Clearwater claim is bonded to John Sheridan who drives the tunnel and develops the property. The vein also carries lower value rock that could concentrate with sufficient water power noted at 490 to 6500 horsepower. Also reported is Herbert St Clair striking 16 inches of good ore at the Kismit property near the Kentuck mill, once known as the Dugout, belonging to Percy Anderson.
Farm advertisement offers purebred Rhode Island red and buff Leghorn chickens with eggs and stock for sale. Contact C. L. Worth located 5 miles east of Dillon. Classified ad notice from a local newspaper.
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