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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
5
Numerous visitors from Butte Helena and Dillon locals were noted across Dillon week. Ranching, mining, and business news include layoffs possible in Bannack trades and a pending Dillon Lumber transfer. A diphtheria illness and a critical recovery case appeared, with court term updates and a preliminary assault hearing in Willis County.
A sad notice chronicles the early death of a beloved young matron Miss Morse wife of Thaddeus Avery. She served as a post office assistant in 1902 then moved to San Francisco, where she married in 1904. Her passing griefs the immediate family including her mother Mrs Maggie Morse sister Mrs A F Waldorf and uncle J K Moree. The community offers sympathy and vows to honor her memory.
The notice details rate cuts for multiple freight classes from one to five and A to E, with specific new and old rates for Chicago and St Louis common points. It notes Montana local applications, outlines old distance-based rates per hundred miles, and says new rates follow similar reductions for greater distances.
The college reopens September four with noted instructors in Chicago and staff spending vacations from Montana to New York. The curriculum emphasizes thorough review of common branches for upper classes and longer continuous practice teaching in fewer grades. Dillon public schools remain model labs under normal faculty supervision, boosting practical work and local school standing. Cut prices on all summer hats at the R and T millinery parlors.
Dr and Mrs H W Tilden leave Dillon for Plains to visit old friend I D Blaisdale a Sanders county attorney for about two weeks. In Pierre he spoke on Camping in the Yellowstone and the Pierre Dakotan praised his lecture noting a large audience and vivid storytelling. An informal reception followed with lemonade and nabisco wafers served by Baptist church ladies.
A $20 reward offered for the return of two horses that strayed from Smi Ranch. A sorrel gelding about 1200 pounds with Lazy D brand on the right shoulder and a bay mare about 1100 pounds branded CS on the left thigh. Contact S. S. Patterson Dillon Montana.
The X V N needle club ladies drove to Ar genta on Tuesday for a day at Mrs. A E Graeter’s home a former club member. A tent and picnic table on the lawn welcomed them as they arrived and a substantial feast demonstrated their culinary skill aided by Grace Graeter recently home from the east.
A short note lists misses canvas shoes available in sizes 12 through 2 with a value tag of one dollar and twenty five cents. The line ends with a catalog-style entry number 756.
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