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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1904
Page
8
A weeks long Dillon society run includes multiple tea events and card parties led by Mrs. B F White and Governor B E White. Guests include numerous local families and visiting ladies, with highlights such as a military euchre at EB J Panmore residence and patriotic decorations.
A social with red carnations and white pinks featured couples fighting mock fortresses, flag trophies, and prizes. Fort Pickens won twenty flags while Mrs Sebree and Dr Bagley claimed the ladies and gentlemen prizes respectively. A Valentine affair at T W Poindexter’s hosted about fifteen young girls with games, hidden treats, and a valentine hunt led by Miss Jessie Poindexter.
The Needle club hosted a Leap Year Valentine dinner at the J E Morse residence with guests including husbands and Albert Stamm. Ladies escorted their designated gentlemen amid red and white decor, hand painted heart menus, and toasts by Mrs. Clara Chapman.
Market reports show subdued live stock trading this week as ongoing hostilities influence supply and demand. Analysts anticipate the Russian Japanese conflict will lift demand for meat and related products amid wartime disruptions.
The issue notes a deceased Dillon resident, Lucy Bacon Dearborn, a likely Montana’s oldest woman at 99, born in 1805 in Canada and long ago from Manchester New Hampshire. It also reports cavalry horse trade interest in Northern Montana with Japanese buyers scouting stock, and local stock movements including fifty four spayed cows sold to Montgomery Ward, and other livestock transfers.
Dr. Ryburn visits Polaris and provides dental care for Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Milton Haya during return trips. Mrs. D. Pearson mourns a died driving horse Friday. Will Saltmer family plans to move to Boulder to run a boarding and lodging house. Ice is delivered this week by Pearson Abrams Judge and Mulany from Grasshopper near the post office. Tuesday morning records a low of 2 degrees. Jas Abrams visits Dillon. M. Pyle remains on the sick list.
Friday evening was merrily spent by Norman maiders as groups of about ten girls, seated at the same dining tables, enjoyed a jolly evening. Fancy costumes caused much sport with one group dressed as school children. The apera da in various rooms formed an important part of the follifica tion.
S. S. Patterson offers a five dollar reward for the return of a sway-backed sorrel gelding branded lazy D on the left shoulder. The horse strayed from Patterson's pasture around January 31.
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