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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1904
Page
3
Reading notices in local column set at 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business locals priced 10 cents per line for first insertion and 8 cents per line thereafter. Standing ads rates available on application. Card of thanks 5 cents per line obituary poetry 4 cents per line.
A transit timetable note lists December 1 603 as in effect with South Bound No 8 and North Bound No 6 trains. It shows Bem 717 as route reference with a 280 pm time marker.
Dillon diary notes visits and travel by residents to Butte Great Falls and Lima. Local business ads promote W L Douglas shoes and LaAzora cigars at George Kunzman. Public notices include church meetings and civic events, with updates on residents, offices, and area commerce.
In Bannack on February 23 James Jaggera visits from Baker Idaho and George Tash arrives from Swamp Creek. Glen O Neal comes from the D L ranch and Charles Retallack returns from Dillon. Mason Simins arrives from the Big Hole basin after a snow slide injury. Archie Gray and Thos Thompson Jr host guests from Jackson. A leaz year dance at C M hall and a grand banquet at the Meade Hotel feature decorated rooms and gracious entertainment with dancing lasting late.
Megara Tash and Lenkersdorffer secure a five year lease with the Masonic lodge for a remodeled store in the Masonic block formerly Morton's hardware. Will bring up to date fixtures including a large refrigerator and will operate under Lenkerndorffer and Tash overseeing management and buying. The firm owns a 3500 acre Grasshopper Creek ranch to supply cattle.
Wm Herman demonstrates value of breeding draft horses with a sale to T F Brunk of Springfield Missouri. A 7 year old iron gray mare weighing 1540 pounds from the pasture sold for 200 dollars and Brunk says it was the best horse he bought in the neighborhood. The horse will be used by the St Louis Transfer Co. Herman says several more horses are just as good.
Notice to stockmen offering 800 acre pasture for lease at 200 dollars price. Open water in four locations a large shed good shelter and 250 tons of hay available. Sheep preferred. Contact A Bessette Bannack Montana by call or write.
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