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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
3
Reading notices in local column list 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Business locals priced at 10 cents per line for first and 8 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Standing ad rates available on application. All editorial and business inquiries directed to the Ditton Examiner.
Amateur events like church festivals fairs sociables dancing parties and suppers will pay ad rates of five cents per line for missionary fees profits from selling fancy articles and other listings as printed in the notice.
Fragmentary OCR listing shows No 1 3 2 4 rail lines with times 2 12 p m 6 00 p m 8 30 p m and 10 15 a m. Mentions No 90 No 91 No 68. Likely timetable notes for directions and arrivals.
Local notes report W E Purdum and Dwight Bushnell visiting Dillon and nearby towns last week. Various residents from Grant, Lima, Dell, Brenner, Wisdom and Melrose were in Dillon for business, social, or hotel stays while others shopped, traded or attended events. Also mentions shoe arrivals, a dental society election, a Dillon Moka fight viewing, and local sales and ads.
A $10 reward is offered for the return of a light bay horse that strayed or was stolen in Dillon on May 13. The horse bears a Y brand on the right stifle with a curved stem and a bar above, a white forehead stripe, two white hind feet, collar marks, was unshod and wearing a halter, and is of chunky build. Contact Guy Stratton at Dillon via phone 34.
Bruce Risley C E Miller Shuey and Donlan Warren Flager Emil Zorn W T Benning Otto Gasser T B Taylor J P Losal Cloyd Wampler C H Strowbridge guaranteed the payment to place a modern fire fighting machine in Wisdom. A collection committee of Risley Shuey Strowbridge will oversee assessments proportional to risk and benefit of the apparatus.
George Woodworth, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Woodworth, returned from Lyndon Lyndon Kentucky military institute as a lieutenant and second in his class with honors in drills and oratory. Mrs. O J Woodworth, formerly Miss Bessie Douglass, came home from Ohio. Also noted are Mrs McFarlin and a guest visiting Wisdom, the Dillon carge sale promoter George Ditty seeking horseflesh bargains, and Professor Bruner taking his family to Missoula for a university course.
Advertised letters listed include Tom Allen Bechtel Beulah Buckhart Retta Daniels Carl Jensen Bertha Johnson Thos J Kane Eleanor Keiser May Lick D Mallett Tennes Martin Geo I Martin N McDonald Grace McDonald A N Miller Lydia Morris Oscar Murphy M J O Neill Nellie Olson Nora Simpson Mrs J Thomas Levicy Thompson Lloyd KK L Poalndexter Postmaster. The agricultural experiment station at Pullman Washington plans an arboretum to grow timber trees of the temperate zone.
Cornell University recently dedicated a forestry building associated with the State College of Agriculture. The event marks a formal recognition of collaboration between the university and the state agricultural institution.
An editorial argues that high living costs come from personal choices and imprudent spending. It cites idle land in Wisconsin, effective due to labor shortages, and urges youths to take wage work in farming or house duties, stressing health and effort over despair.
F A Sellers running a Dillon messenger service from the Lobby pool hall was arrested Saturday night after an inmate in the restricted district accused him of threatening the women and using vile language. He was tried in police court before Judge Phillips and found guilty, fined 100 dollars or 50 days in the county jail.
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