14 Jan 1914
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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1914
Page
3
Reading notices show advertising rates per line for first and subsequent insertions. Business locals also priced per line with first and subsequent insertions. Editorial letters and sales notices incur fees, while listings for church festivals and events include small charges per line.
A fragment lists transport lines with directions such as West Bound No 1 and North Bound 05, plus times 212 p m 31568 and 7 24 p m 2 03 a m 4, suggesting a timetable or signal sequence with garbled OCR text and unclear details.
Dillon residents are listed with visits, business trips, and social events. Notables include K. B. Roe in Bedrock, Spencer Harwood’s funeral in Spencer Idaho, and Clayton Coppin leaving Dillon for Butte. Local sales include 50 head of stock horses and mares, heating stores at Tattersalls, and a flour house ad for gem bard flour.
The article details the planned transformation of the Big Hole road into the Park-to-Park highway, tracing the route past the Big Hole monument, through Gate crossings, deep sands, and the North Fork trout stream, and noting grade changes and new road names amid county budget talks. It also includes verse-like local lore, humorous name suggestions for twins, contests, and a brief funeral notice for Mrs. J. W. Naugle in Butte.
Under Sheriff Otto Gosman attends basin business this week. Dr. Bolton reports the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Strowbridge born January 7. Jim Wishard returns from Bitter Root travels to Wisdom. Bert McCaffery enters Butte public schools living with J. J. McCaffery. Lou Wunderlich back from Pioneer claims noting 16 inches of snow. Mrs. Gasser hosts a surprise party for her 42nd birthday with cards and games Tuesday night.
The article notes Jake J, after considering all angles, declines offers and stays in Montana’s Big Hole valley. His choice earns praise from friends including J. E. Marge and reflects a search for efficiency before moving.
Under Sheriff C C Gosman returned from the Big Hole basin where he inspected the region’s saloons. He noted unusually good road conditions and that he could drive a car all the way. At Polaris he met Will Tash and observed cattle feeding on timothy and clover hay. Gosman cited 216 coyote hides and six wolf hides collected this month with bounties of 3 and 16 dollars respectively.
Denver hosts a new cattle exhibit with pure bred breeding heifers and bulls in carload lots. The cattle are unregistered but western stock men have entered fine bred animals from the range. Expect thousands of heifers and hundreds of bulls, purchased by western farmers seeking store stock in the cattle business. Denver leads in this new feature and the display is poised to be popular.
The Billings land office reported 1913 receipts totaling 429469.90 with 1800 homestead and other applications filed and 880 homesteads granted. Forty nine final proofs were rejected and fourteen protested. About two hundred final proofs were in progress. December saw a spike in filings of 399 linked to Bull Mountains land openings.
J E Morse wins a venue change from Silver Bow to Beaverhead County for the Ellinghouse damage suit. The plaintiff lost a hand while employed by a contractor who was sawing wood on Morse's ranch. J A Louk resumes management of the Ajax ranch, a Morse banner property.
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