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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1916
Page
10
Dillon residents and visitors from Butte Wise River Jackson Lima and Helena frequent the city for business and social visits. Notables include Robert Khaney Pat Donohue and James Mauldin plus attorney H B Duff and L L Callaway. Local travel continues with several residents attending to business and shopping in Dillon.
J An son Baxter, manager of Rise Electric, will leave Dillon for the Gray Roadhouse at Mill Point to supervise the contract for installing an electric lighting plant there. Eleven vagrants have been jailed for vagrancy after refusing to work, receiving bread and water as punishment. Sheriff Nate Adams of Jefferson County Idaho visited Dillon, and James Ferrari was sent to the state prison for six months to a year after a Heide-like attempt to blow up a house at Hecla.
A big dance will be held at Dell on Friday evening to raise funds for the Dell baseball team. The Baxter Tonney orchestra of this city will provide the music and many Dillonites are expected to attend.
Miss Clara Plant was called to Canada last Saturday afternoon due to the sudden death of her little nephew. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley J. Selway and their three children left last night for southern California for health reasons. Harry Gimble and family will occupy their residence during their absence.
Sneak thieves entered S. B. Carruthers barn on South Dakota street one night last week and stole horse collars harness and other articles. A prior visit to the same barn weeks earlier saw two saddles taken from Carruthers.
Word arrives from Venice California that a son was born to Mr and Mrs Harry Lane in Dillon area. Lane known for Brook Nook horse breeding at Ruby. Also a baby boy born to Mrs Claude Downing in Dell last week. Mother and child progressing well.
On Sunday July 2 the Baptist Church will present sermons for the anniversary. Morning subject is Freedom by the Truth and evening topic The Hand of God in American History. Sabbath school begins at 10 am. Summer sessions continue with members asked to stand by the work under superintendent Mrs. R. R. Rathbone and assistants Mrs. H. W. Tilden and secretary Mrs. F. E. Foote.
At the Methodist church on Sunday July 2 all ages attend Sunday school at 9 50 a m with graded instruction to adult classes led by superintendent Robt Clark. An 11 o clock sermon by pastor H G Humphrey will precede the Lord s Supper open to all Christians.
At 7 o clock worth league meets and at 8 o clock a song service precedes reports from seven delegates to the Epworth league convention at Great Falls. Dr. L C Ford visits Dillon from Lima this afternoon. Frank Ellel arrives by train from Chicago. Mrs. Henry Schoenborn goes to Butte for a few days. William Rosenbaum arrives from Sheep Creek basin to handle local business. D D Mayfield and family come from Colorado Springs to spend the summer with Dillon relatives. Mayfield is not related to H D and J B Mayfield of Dillon.
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