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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1895
Page
5
The Dillon Examiner lists advertising rates for local notices and editorials. First insertion costs 2 cents per line, subsequent insertions 3 cents per line, with special pricing for multiple insertions. The pricing note applies to content related to editorial sections and local notices.
A string of short items notes visits by A L Stone to Butte and A Q Rose from Pocatello, and appearances by Dr Carl Schulte from Helena and other towns. Local happenings include a social club dance, a funeral service, a baseball-like report, lane repairs, and a cattle stock event. A headstone arrival, a birth, and upcoming wood bids are mentioned along with a fire downed shack in Olkatoon and performances by the Georgia Minstrel troupe and Crescent City Quartette at the Dillon Opera House.
The Botta board of Sendo plans a Caulk Bluff bridge over the Big Hole river with Silver Bow county funding half the cost this season. Other items note public health ads, a scow launch delay at Banhack for Goki Dredging, a police fine for firing a revolver in Dillon, and a Georgia Minstrels engagement at the Opera House in Dillon.
The funeral for Blanche Lamont drew the town’s largest crowd, with hundreds at the depot and outside the Episcopal church. A.M. and Masons honored the deceased with floral tributes and dignitaries including Rev. S. D. Hocker and Rev. Walter Hayes led the services. The procession proceeded to Mountain View Cemetery with about eighty vehicles in attendance.
A garbled column from a Washington DC source catalogs land entries and notices across agricultural topics. It references homestead entries, newspaper publication choices, and disputes over paper selection, with scattered mentions of mineral lands, townsite patents, court notes, and various individuals and locations.
The page details garden seed offerings and related products at Merton’s and Marbon’s with various seed brands and household items shown. It references gardening supplies, equipment, and a forthcoming sale event featuring plant and seed merchandise with multiple vendor names and prices.
The Methodist church of Morb plans a new frame building with heating, doubling seating capacity and to be used for Sunday school and class meetings. The present structure will be re shingled and sided and used in the future. Builder Mr Gibson secured contract for tearing up the brick.
Beaverhead county school board sold normal school bonds at par. Telegram from State Superintendent E. A. Steere of Helena confirms the sale took place that day. Names of bondholders not provided in the message.
L. C. Fybrie and F. L. Graves secure the semi western extension of the Polaris mine from Archie Gibson and Frank Randolph of Barnack. They express strong faith in the newly acquired property and believe it may prove as valuable as the Polaris mine itself, which is now producing some of the richest ore in Montana.
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