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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1903
Page
3
Reading notices in local column cost 20 cents per line for the first insertion and 15 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Business locals are 10 cents per line for the first insertion and 8 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Standing ad rates available on request. All editorial and business correspondence should be addressed to The Dillon Examiner.
Notices cover admission and sales charges for church fairs, dances, suppers and stalls. Card of thanks and obituary notices also incur per line fees.
Partial OCR notes show a timetable with south bound No 10 leaving at 4 40 a m and north bound Q9 at 4 03 p m plus references to times around 6a and 7 ot ok. The date noted is November 3 1001 and a departure at 54 p m appears.
Dillon column summarizes county visitors from Lima Dell Twin Bridges and Bedrock, local business trips and a steel rail delivery, a for sale cattle listing, shoe store ads and a library schedule. It notes the military ball success, a postal runaway near the post office, and ongoing placer mining optimism with a gold bullion tally from Ajax mine.
Andrew Nelson fell from a hay wagon near the band stand on Montana street and was paralyzed after a night at a lodging house. He died Friday morning at about six o clock despite medical efforts. Nelson, a longtime resident and former butcher, died penniless with friends funding his burial.
A Missoula dispatch reports the land office sustained Jennie Peterson in her 320 acre entry near Wisdom Beaverhead County. She entered April 26 1899 and later married Ingrid Nielson. Contender Hannah Morrison argued fraud and noncompliance but the office found the entry made in good faith with fencing costs between 1500 and 1700 dollars. Jacob Hainds visited Bedrock country this Sunday.
Lee Lewis has been in the basin for ten days tending Montgomery and Co. beef operations in Anaconda area. Basin residents support extending the Fox to Wisdom mail route and plan petitions. Supt. W B Stanchfield departed for Dillon and delivered a 714 pound brick from a 14 day salt bath at the Ajax worth about 1800 dollars.
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