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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
4
E L Poindexter is recorded in Dillon Montana as a second class matter entry dated September 20 1922 under the 1879 act.
The Dillon Examiner guarantees advertisers the largest bona fide paid circulation in Beaverhead County. Subscription records and mailing lists are open for advertiser inspection.
Encourages community cheer and self help avoiding knocking others. Exhorts residents to stay positive, welcome visitors, and avoid criticizing or belittling peers. Promotes social harmony and mutual support to attract people and prosperity.
President Taft orders restoration of about 65 million acres of forest reserves to agricultural and grazing use in the west. The move is a sharp reversal of Roosevelt Pinchot policy and pockets support from western stockmen and Senator Guggenheim who pushed for the land return. The lands will be surveyed and reallocated to farmers and ranchers, marking a major policy shift.
A stream of visitors includes H H Weber from Great Falls and S A Barbour from Melrose in Dillon. Gladys Tong of Seattle visits sister Mrs Ed Roe of Bedrock, with attorney W B Rodgers in town from Anaconda. Mill Point hotel owner George F Gray visits Dillon as does W C Jones of the Big Hole basin. Burk U Moss of Butte, hides buyers from Pocatello, and L A Pierson of Lima attend a Knights Templar meeting. Local hay fed cattle markets show many two year olds and various Montana lots selling around 5.25 to 6.25, with notes on age and weight influencing market demand.
Miss Blanche Riley of Butte guest of Miss Helen Pendergaat at the dormitory Sunday. Beasie Storey hosted a taffey pull with Gail Beuschlein Berna Schroeder Bessie Hogeland Edna Ketchum Marguerite Noeth Mae Buach present. Prof. Clark spoke on his trip to Washington Oregon Idaho and Normal schools. A Sunday ride to Axe's Canyon with Hogeland Ketchum Measie Clapp Vogel, chaperoned by Miss Bettea and Prof. Mosher.
Charles M. Smith a well known Butte realtor nicknamed for a March day used a glove buttoner to lasso a five carat diamond worn by a visiting Southerner from Montana at the Finlen. The prospective buyer sat in a chair as Smith spoke of a bargain and then dropped the prop and let the man explain later.
The Clay Robinson company livestock report notes a fair string of hay fed cattle from Montana arriving Monday with strong demand and lively trading. Prices reached 6.25 for 1,341-pound steers, 6.10 for 1,306-pound steers, and 5.75 for 1,089-pound feeders, the highest feeder prices here since early January and not seen since May 1908 for a higher top. The top cow price stood at 5.40.
Advices report the interior secretary restored to entry 200000 acres in the Lander and Buffalo districts of Wyoming withdrawn for the Yellowstone Montana reclamation project and 1900 acres in the Kalispell district of Montana drawn for the Swan River irrigation project.
Property transfers listed from the Pearl J. Smith title books show parcels shifted between owners. Deeds record grantor grantee dates and locations reflecting transfers in the county real estate records.
Warranty deeds record transfers among Boone Schultz White Carruthers Owen Gelhaus Bond Marcoe and Wil son, with several parcels in Mauldin Addition Dillon Big Hole basin and Thompesen Addition. A quit claim conveys 160 inches water rights from Wise River. Water rights noted for Willow Creek Horse Prairie Creek and a court decree in the McLain estate.
For sale in Lima Montana a railroad division town property including hotel and lunch counter. Comes with company protection meal tickets. An old stand with $800 investment. Address Box 114 Lima Mont.
Twenty head Shorthorn bulls for sale with contact J. E. Morse. Also laundry service offer for carpet curtain blanket and quilt cleaning at reasonable prices by Leach and Burden Dillon Steam Laundry. Call 43x or stop the driver.
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