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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1912
Page
3
Local column lists pricing for notices in the Dillon Examiner dated July 31 1912. Rates include 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents for subsequent insertions. business notices 10 cents then 8 cents per line. Ads for church fairs dances suppers with admission or sale profits priced at 5 cents per line. obituary poetry also 5 cents per line.
Readable sections show numbered trains and times for north and south bound routes. Times listed include 2:22 p m 4:05 a m 8:30 p m and 4:05 a m with unclear destinations.
Local notices report social visits business trips births weddings and travel across Dillon Lima Dell Armstead Butte Missoula Deer Lodge and Billings. Residents include Henry Gleed Arthur Graeter Lottie Wimmell Bruce Allen and Miss Leone Barton visiting from nearby towns with multiple brief social and professional updates.
J E Morse visited Butte on business as district court prepares to sit until August 13. A Dillon couple Alexander Williamson and Katherine Ball were issued a marriage license while Presbyterians rush church progress to be ready by September 1. A party plans Yellowstone trip. city considers ditch cleaning and a smallpox threat prompts health actions. The town hosts Dillon’s first church wedding, Miss Gwendoline Rees and Barrett Sibley wed with Rev. Rees officiating.
Under Sheriff Erwin and his father visited Wisdom to inspect saloon licenses. Miss Josephine Price returns to Butte from Basin visits. Jr. Campbell, a Stevensville horseman, has business in Wisdom after buying cavalry horses for Uncle Sam in Oregon. Margaret Ross and Selah Graves visit summer schools and ranches. Golden Link lodge installs officers for six months. A local rancher hints at an upcoming electric light plant for Wisdom to replace lamps, boosting regional industry and growth prospects. Managers like Hazelbaker may influence future development.
Call up 7004 for pure Jersey milk and cream from Valley View Dairy. 49-3 J B. Smith, prop.
An open pledge claims the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company is an honest corporation not needing laws to assure fairness. It asserts fair service with low rates, no watered stock, and profits balanced to provide a fair return on invested capital. It notes $1.15 invested for every $1.00 of capital on which it pays interest.
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