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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
5
A stream of visitors and residents are noted in Dillon this week from Butte Redrock Bannack and Virginia City. Transactions and business across town include millinery price cuts and mining interests. A Baptist Aid meeting shifts date August 23. Park and National Park trips are recorded along with several funeral attendance notes.
Dillon area items report Joe A. Brown recovering after surgery in Rochester Minnesota. Sheridan and Dillon clash for southern Montana basketball championship next Sunday with 50 cent admission. N S Woods party toured the National Park and church social activities plus a picnic at Axe’s canyon. Hotel trades expand as T Murray buys Staley Hotel at Wisdom and will take possession Monday. Haining considers Kent Washington move after selling Birch Creek ranch. Calumet & Montana Mining files incorporation with 300000 capital owning Dark Horse mines. Gelhaue and Johnson open Oak saloon run by Sapp. new businessmen promise success. W A Jones relocates to Los Angeles to pursue lithography. Dusky Maiden mine near Polaris reports tunnel progress and a promising gold assay. Chaplain G H JonesPrepares to preach last Dillon sermon as Methodist conference in Billings decides future pulpits. Jones plans return to Helena army post next week. daughter Della Jones remains with Mrs Linea.
A Dillon Examiners item covers J A Réunda furniture ads and a ButteBozeman visit by a Mrs. and Mr. Maxemner escorted by H Rounds. It also reports Prof L R Foote and A S Beardsley returning from the Big Hole trip and school plans for winter. County Clerk Baker cites Oregon Short Line assessment totaling $1 336 450 with city and district taxes pushing anticipated treasury receipts to about $20 000.
Don Shaw returns after a three year absence in South Dakota. Jim Thompson reports a Friday rainstorm halting haying. A Sunday thunderstorm halts work Monday as hayfield activity resumes. Montgomery Butchering buyer Billy Ostermyer visits with calves from George Woodworth. Grant Woods ferrying telephone supplies to Jackson for ranch lines. Frank Allerton advances the Big Hole Commercial warehouse project. Mrs. Parker improves from rheumatism. Local cattle efforts move toward season end. Scarlet fever quarantine at the Taylor home ends and Theone recovers.
A $15.00 reward is offered for the return of a dappled brown horse branded O. L. on the left shoulder. The horse is eight years old, foretop clipped, and well broken to harness or saddle.
A $20 reward is offered for the return of two horses that strayed from CS Patterson's ranch in Dillon Montana. The first is a sway back sorrel gelding about 1200 pounds branded lazy D on the right shoulder. The second is a bay mare about 1100 pounds branded CS on the left thigh. Patterson signs as S.S. Patterson Dillon Montana.
A. G. Williams and Misses Maidie Rite and Jean Bishop of Dillon visit Salmon City this week. F. W. Hamnan heads to Dillon to meet a hardware buyer, away most of the week. Bedrock mail arrivals shift to 1 pm from 10 am. A trip from Midway 35 miles proves long by 11 o’clock. Van Stratt family returns from Dillon after visiting friends. young Van Stratt recalls life in the valley. Z. B. Yeaman of Dillon and John Yearian of Sunfield visit, noting Yearian’s remarkable longevity. Yeaman plans a winter in South Carolina with 600 a year in business.
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