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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
3
Local items report visits, registrations, sales and real estate changes in Dillon Montana including residents from Virginia City Lima Butte and Wisdom. Notables include Newell C. Knight promoter of Lima dam, Dr Rathbone dental exam in Helena, and Frank Cox visiting from Butte. Beaverhead Block additions and O S L road work cited.
Washington July 9 The Postmaster General announced a $4 000 000 raise for about 40 000 rural free delivery carriers this year increasing standard route pay by 100 to 900 annually The move aligns with plans for a parcels post program and aims to sustain rural delivery costs which total roughly 40 million this year prior salary base was 200 per carrier in the early days and now numbers exceed 41 652 with total salaries near 35 733 000.
J T Armitage rode to Great Falls Tuesday and returned Wednesday with a Brush runa bout. BE Jones and daughter and Mrs Jennie Johnson left for Spokane. Mr Jones will stay for hay harvest. A L Rumbaugh and Sophia Doolittle wed in Butte and returned as Mr and Mrs Rumbaugh. Mrs Fred Nelson recovering from surgery plans a few weeks in Anaconda. J K Morse arrived with Albert Featherly driving. Morse predicts aviation soon. Forest Patterson brought harvest hands in a Winton six, then another car. Big Hole haydiggers are described as stylish.
Stock Inspector Jack Collins arrested two young men in town on horse stealing charges. The suspects named John West and Adolph Svilkovish allegedly hired a horse from Montana stables and did not return it. Deputies recovered details as proprietors filed a complaint and a search began.
Helena July 10 Montana ship pers will save thousands as express rate classifications are reduced effective August first. The changes follow a government investigation and unify pricing so packages moving between multiple lines incur a single graduated charge for the full distance rather than separate charges by each carrier.
Court summons John W. Sroufe versus Elizabeth A. Sroufe in the Fifth Judicial District Beaverhead County Montana. Plaintiff seeks a decree dissolving marriage due to desertion for over a year. Defendant must answer within twenty days. failure leads to judgment by default. Filed June 17, 1911. Deputy Clerk C W Conger. Attorney Edmund J Callaway. Dillon Montana.
Dillon Montana July 8 1911 notice calls stockholders meeting to decide raising capital from 50000 to 100000 dollars. Directors JT Olmsted Bordwine Nelsons Murray Smith Stevenson allocate August 19 1911 8 pm at Dillon office for vote. First publication July 5 1911 AGW.
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