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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
4
The notice records E. L. Poindexter entering the periodical on September 20, 19 62 at Dillon Montana as second class matter under the 1879 act. Subscriptions cost $2 per year in advance and will be mailed to subscribers until a definite order to discontinue is received and all arrears paid.
The Dillon Examiner notes that Senator Guggenheim has introduced a bill to sell public grazing lands in Montana and other states at $1 per acre with no bidding, risking loss of homesteads and state support for schools. Editorialists urge counteraction to protect settlers and institutions.
The Helena Independent notes Boston forming an anti chewing gum society and reports on several anti marriage movements. It mentions slogans like No babies from a New York group of married people and references propaganda against vegetarian diets with claims about lettuce and celery.
A new organization named The Optimistic Club of America aims to disperse cheerful philosophy across the United States. C. A. Quigg of Studebaker Bros. is elected president with Roosevelt and state governors invited as honorary members.
A new Postmaster General order suspends mailing for daily papers with ninety day overdue subscriptions, weeklies with over twelve months arrears, and monthlies with more than four months unpaid after January but extended to March. Publishers fear major shifts in policy for small towns as arrears risk losing subscribers and business.
Senator Thomas H. Carter announces bronze medals for officers and enlisted men of the First Montana Volunteer Infantry who served beyond their term to suppress the Philippine insurrection. He notes 11,500 medals are cast and will be distributed to eligible applicants in order of filing, with applications sent to the Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.
The Madison valley will gain a new railroad named the Denver Laramie and Northwestern. It will run from Denver through Wyoming into Idaho following the Yellowstone area, then into Montana. The line aims to connect Helena Missoula Norris Butte and Anaconda with through trains at both Missoula and Norris.
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