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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1904
Page
8
An interesting Monida letter notes plans for a newer larger smelter next summer. It describes Farlin school starting February first and a five month term, a busy hay and grain market, and a growing mining camp with local residents returning from Butte. The piece mentions social events, improvements, and local business activity in January 1904.
The Theta Club held its second annual ball in Dart Hall on a leap year Friday evening. The women's committee directed the entertainment with games, dances, and formal escorting of gentlemen. Miss Mamie McIntosh and others ran the punch table, while decoration and reception crews managed the hall and guests.
A brief correspondent note from Movida dated January 10 presents weekly observations and reflections in a concise Examiner style. The fragment highlights a reader’s viewpoint and local color without extended analysis.
A Dillon reader reports T. H. Hamilton staying at the Broadway Central in New York awaiting his wife. They plan an extensive voyage to China Japan India Europe and possibly a full world tour before returning home to Beaverhead. He says he loves New York and enjoys all kinds of amusement.
Maurice Eanson Day 29, a Dillon bricklayer and Iowa native, died Monday night at his home from pulmonary troubles. He married, lived in Dillon six months, moved here last summer for health, and a funeral was held this afternoon with burial in Mountain View cemetery. His brother serves as janitor at Dillon schools.
Civil engineers H J Harris L G Young and Wagner Stothous of Pocatello surveyed Dillon for a new 100 by 100 foot wood warehouse on the site of the section and bunk houses. A 12-car loading track will run from the main to the warehouse to avoid yard switching. The facility aims to store Beaverhead wool and attract buyers, easing current yard delays.
The Examiner receives word from a close friend detailing the life of George W. Emerick born April 3, 1827 in New York. He moved to Wisconsin as a youth, worked in the lumber trade, then mined across Colorado and Idaho before settling in Bannack and Virginia City during the mining era.
Under Sheriff Dart and Deputy Staudaker raided the Grannis saloon Monday after word of gambling. Lights went out, no game found, but chips were seized from a table drawer. Mr Grannis was arrested next morning for conducting a gambling game and arraigned before Justice Vermillion with a $200 bond set for January 28.
A pretty advertising souvenir from First National Bank of Dillon Montana features a picture of a girl in red on a matt with the bank name. The image, titled the crimson beauty, is praised for its printing quality and has generated many requests for copies among bank patrons.
The Montana Society of Engineers held its seventeenth annual meeting in Helena starting Friday. Following the Chicago Iroquois Theatre fire, several Montana schools will start free rifle drills to guard against panics in the state.
H. J. Allen longtime Anaconda resident who once managed Senator Clark's copper mines in Jerome Arizona killed himself Friday in front of visitors. He was married and his financial affairs were reportedly in order.
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