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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1914
Page
3
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Fragmentary OCR shows directional labels West Bound No 1 North Bound 6 C esessseees 2 12 PM No 3 North Bound East Bound No 2 South Bound No 4 South Bound with unreadable bits reflecting timetable style. Content appears to be rail directions rather than a full report.
Local ads note cigar and tamales. Willis resident Oscar Creasey visits Dillon with various business items. Dozens of residents including teachers, merchants, and farmers travel, shop, or conduct matters in Dillon.Announcements include sales, job ads, and community notices from January listings and local businesses.
A rewritten rhyme from the Home Guard Monitor warns against worry and aging, urging youthfulness by action and memory. It notes a road agent’s firearm on display in Tribune store windows and recalls Montana vigilante history with Plummer. The piece blends satirical verse with local lore and a historic firearm relic.
Last night a group transported 150 head of cattle to Anaconda for Hansen Packing company of Butte. Henry Peterson supervised the sale and shipment.
North Portland Oregon reports weekly receipts of cattle 781 calves 2 hogs 2787 sheep 8712. Demand for beef weak on poor stock but best steers 7.75 8.10 with most around 7.80 7.90. Hogs rise to around 8.00 with bulk near 7.90. Cows 6.80, heifers 7.00, bulls 5.50 5.75, calves 7.50 9.00. Lambs 6.85, mutton dull due to light sales. Overall market steady to start the new year.
Directory lists Dillon churches with addresses and pastors including Presbyterian Rev E V Ostrander St James Episcopal Rev W S Watson Methodist Rev A W Hamilton Baptist Rev A R Hardy and Rev D Foley. It covers service times Sunday school masses and evening devotions across the four main congregations in Dillon.
Inquiries surround Mr. and Mrs. A A H McVay who are wintering in Salem Oregon and plan to spend part of the season in California. The former is much improved in health and they will return home in the spring. John Lawrence is ill with bronchitis under Dr Bolton care. Charles Bell wife and Perry Kline had dinner at the Montgomery home ranch last Sunday for Will Montgomery. Joe Courcey and Hank Simmons start new leaves for the new year. Jack Paddock from Ennis Montana visiting Dillon. George Woodworth and wife visiting Dillon with F A Hazelbaker.
Assistant Postmaster Woodworth reports the Wisdom office has notified discontinuance of the Bristow and Wise River offices after January 31, a move seen as a hardship for local residents but argued as needed with rising parcel post power. Fritz Wachli lists a sale for W M Montgomery Co Anaconda of 250 fat cows from Hans Wachli Jorgen Jorgenson and C E Miller. Jorgen Jorgenson ships the season’s first steer batch.
Sam Wall, formerly with Pearl J. Smith, spent part of last week in Dillon and has started a real estate office in Virginia City named the Madison Realty Company.
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