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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1914
Page
3
The column lists prices for notices and advertisements including 20 cents per line for first insertions and 3 cents for subsequent insertions, business notices at 0 cents first line and 8 cents per line later, and various event notices with 5 to 20 cent line rates, directing readers to address editorial matters appropriately.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe multiple freeway lanes and directions including northbound and southbound travel. A timestamp shows 2 03 a.m and a 32860 code, but details on incident location or cause are unreadable.
A parade of visitors and locals fills Dillon last week with business calls and extended stays. Names include K C Mann, J K Shaw, Dr Champer, Harry Davis, R J Anderson, Thomas Morrow, Robert Dwight, Carl Hartwig, Charles Retallack, W A Shambow, Dr R H W Ryburn, Alec Williamson, Herbert Selway, J Sanford, C W Francis, and others. The Beaverhead county fair, April 23 24, is announced with ad notices from local merchants.
Sheriff Scully reports the death of William Neveil a 60 year old prospector who drowned Monday night at the Hot Springs bath house in Jackson Neveil had recently been drinking heavily and his death was discovered in the morning The town notes an automobile trip to Butte by J H K Shaw and a visit by G W Tenney state rural school inspector to Wisdom with a reception planned at the church Tenney a former president of Montana Wesleyan University is praised for lifelong service to education and youth
Montana boys ages twelve to eighteen contest corn ears for trips to Helena and to the state fair, while girls enter corset covers for state trip prizes. County winners receive railroad funds, state fair provides lodging and meals, and Governor Stewart will medal the state champions.
George H Cook born on Bitter Root valley farm twenty seven years ago finished a two year agricultural course in Bozeman in 1906 and won the hundred dollar trophy cup at the state fair the fall before. He graduated in 1912 as honor man from Montana Agricultural College and gained a college scholarship through a top preparatory class. He worked to pay expenses in a creamery and greenhouses and earned a state third class engineer license for stationary oilers. He managed an eighty five thousand acre stock and grain farm at Gregson Hot Springs until it was sold this spring. He has training and a reputation for high scholarship with wide farming experience including irrigation dry farming livestock judging and fruit growing. He is described as a Christian gentleman with a pleasing address and great capacity for work. His wife was a farmer's daughter and a fine musician. They will be a valuable ad-
April C L F I Cooley director of Extension Service announces a new crop specialist position at the agricultural college expanding research and guidance for local farming communities.
The State Grain laboratory at the Experiment Station Bozeman Montana offers free party and germination tests for seed samples sent in by farmers and dealers. It provides results on germination vitality and presence of noxious weed seeds to help buyers and growers know what they plant or sell. Send small seed samples to the Calin Laboratory Experiment Station Bozeman Montana for rapid information.
Buick representative Gi Bonis and Ford rep W A Polen visited Dillon with Montana Auto Supply, praising Beaverhead as a strong market. Bonis brought a Buick to showcase, while Sunday the trio toured Madison county and sold a Buick to Bert Paige in Twin Bridges and a Ford to J W Scott of Armstead and another to M A Tennebery in town.
KF B Sparrow of Monida Montana enjoyed a market run selling three ear-loads of 5 year old bay fed steers weighing about 1150 pounds at 7.50 per hundred. The cattle traveled via Green River Wyoming and North Platte Nebraska with two feeds before sale. Gage of Maine had bought them three years earlier near Texas and plans more cattle shipments to Montana this week.
Notice to ranchmen. Jewell offers heavy derrick irons at a fair price with a good one costing no more than a poor one. Call early and get your derrick ready. G. KE Jewell.
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