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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1904
Page
3
B C Kress Frank T Conway B L Poindexter are listed as editor proprietor and local editor solicitor and collector for a Dillon Montana publication. The paper entered September 20 1902 as second class matter under the 1879 act. Subscription price is 2 dollars per year in advance.
To advertisers the Dillon Examiner asserts it has the largest bona fide paid circulation in Beaverhead County. It states subscription records and mailing lists are open for advertiser inspection.
The Examiner vote contest wraps up after weeks of effort with a third prize and a new fourth prize added. Judges from leading candidates confirm final tallies, while the paper touts its large circulation and commitment to fair play in Montana.
In a Philadelphia estate closing the other day, 400 shares with a peak value over $3,000 sold for thirty five cents. Over 700 shares once valued at about $2,100 brought $1.10. The piece notes the vast number of people affected in the year just ended remains unknown.
The text notes regret over England's refusal to bury him in Westminster Abbey, recalling his early ideas seen as anarchic yet stating he recanted and died in faith in Democracy, lamenting the tarnish to England by denying the sepulture.
Dr. Alexander Dowie known as Elijah III travels via New Orleans and San Francisco en route to Australia. He states Zion is a straight Republican city and in his final sermon praised President Roosevelt while praying Goa would thwart enemies and stop their mischievous plans.
The Albers home hosted a surprise party for John Albers and his sister Dora with music games and refreshments. At J M Bishop home twenty young ladies from the Normal College gathered for a playful evening, with guests Leland Kocken and Lamont. The Young People's Dancing club joined the Married People's club for a grand New Year ball featuring colorful gowns and leap year prerogatives, described as the season’s most brilliant event.
The German party at Mies Thor myers on Christmas Eve entertained German students and most faculty members. Guests found a Christmas tree with keepsakes, then sang German songs. Miss Paxton and Miss Birch performed two duets and Mrs. Allen sang a solo.
Miss Anderson and Miss Buck arrived early as Northern Pacific delays kept several students from reaching Dillon. Misses Coleman Carter Hurley visited Laurin with Father Pudden. Bessie Elliott from Highfield and Pickett from Helena joined this week. Dormitories were cleaned and repairs finished. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Utica spent a week visiting their children. Mrs. Wafford of Stockett spent Christmas with her daughter Miss Mabel Wafford. Miss Bessie Tyree returned to Dillon for college studies. Misa Mott also came back from a coast trip.
December in this section showed a mean temperature of 27.4 degrees with a high of 53 on the 1st and a low of 4 on the 12th. Precipitation totalled 1.01 inches and 10.1 inches of snow fell. Seventeen days clear, eleven partly cloudy, three cloudy. Southwest wind prevailed. Solar halo and parhelia observed on the 3rd and 4th, and a chinook wind appeared on the 20th.
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