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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1904
Page
3
The notice text lists pricing per line for first and subsequent insertions and notes that letters to the editorial and business departments go to the examiner. It mentions charges for church festival notices and events with admissions, plus a 5 cent per line rate for thanks and obituary poetry.
Fragmentary schedule notes show December 1903 times for trains on the Oregon Short Line. Southbound service listed around 5 p.m. and northbound at 2:30 p.m with references to line numbers and daily runs.
Local residents and visitors fill Dillon's week with business and social calls. Notables include M E Stacy from Rochester and missives about Butte guests, Armchair stories, and a note on non Chinese labor at the Dillon Steam Laundry. The Dillon Steam Laundry advertises silk and woolen washing.
Dillon bulletin lists visiting dignitaries and locals including Bank cashier A. L. Stone returning from the East after a family death, Dr. W. V. Kingsbury moving offices, and several trips to Butte, Salt Lake, and Port Huron. Also notes church meetings, political event plans, and local business moves such as George W. Dart’s family departure and L. D. McMunn buying county horses.
Col L J Price chairman of the Republican county central committee has issued a call for the county convention to meet in Dillon on Saturday September 3. The gathering will select sixteen delegates to the state convention and name a full legislative and county ticket.
Professors C J Fenner and W W Simpson completed a 120 mile long distance bike trip Sunday. They left Dillon at 5 30 AM riding via Twin Bridges and Sheridan to Virginia City arriving around noon then spent about ninety minutes sightseeing before returning home at 10 30 PM.
Last week several hundred old Dillon advertising booklets, printed about ten years ago and left at a freight depot with freight charges unpaid, were found and scattered. Last Sunday two boys retrieved them and sold views of Dillon at five cents each to residents at Selway park.
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