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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1908
Page
3
Reading notices in focal column: 20 cents per line for first insertion, 1 cent per line for each subsequent insertion. Business notices: 10 cents per line first insertion, 8 cents per line each subsequent. Standing ads rates on application. Church festival notices with admission profits charged 5 cents a line. Obituary poetry 5 cents a line.
In effect Dec 5 1907 page shows North Bound trains No 7 at 2 50am and No 9 at 9 05pm. South Bound No 8 around 7 37pm and No 10 at 4 33am. Text is fragmentary with illegible letters.
A busy Dillon week features a dance with a large crowd, social gatherings, and visits from residents and visitors across the region. Notables include Miss Egan, Jimmy Dodd, J H Wear, Miss Harkness, and Rev F E Jodds, with community notices on theater, gospel events, and local commerce.
J A Best visited Dillon on Monday while W J Crowell stopped in Lima en route to Dillon. Henry Gleed spent days in Dillon on business. K W Rogers traveled from Big Sheep Basin on business. Bedrock orchestra advertises a December 11 dance at the opera house. Mrs Victor Smith visits Lima. Gleed and Kemp head to Caman Creek Idaho to hunt big game. Lima Lodge No 45 I O O F members host Christmas party. Post office hours shift due to train changes on Sundays. Mrs M A Burger returns to Butte after visiting near Lima. John Foley Short Line engineer spends days in Lima on company business. Bower of Dillon in Lima with mining party en route to Chicago. Delta Lodge No 15 K P dance honors C S Truax family. Letter to Mrs J L Lewis notes Goldfield Nevada election count took 51 hours. Mrs John Burt hospitalized in Ogden after suspected paralytic stroke. son James Burt with her. Fred L Whitney, ex Short Line agent, visits Lima. son of W A Whitney, ex dispatch chief for Short Line at Pocatello, now U P supervisor between Ogden and Rawlins.
Walter Grieder sold his 320 acre ranch in the Gibbons neighborhood to Sam Culbertson who has worked the C. H. Strawbridge ranch this past year. Schroeder of Gibbons claimed a seven coyote hides bounty certificate. Claude notes a valuable mare worth $120 at his ro ranch. Moose Horn’s Harry Neal borrowed C. E. Miller’s hay baler to bale 25 to 30 tons of high altitude hay for his ranch. Howard Smith and family visited from Bristow, caring for 85 head of cattle. The former saboon building on Chalk Bluffs burned last week, likely from campers who left it alight. Ana Willey’s team hitched to C. E. Miller’s wagon knocked down a fence and scattered. The local M W A lodge elected officers at the Masonic hall with Grove Albertson as V C and other posts filled.
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