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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1912
Page
1
Beaverhead County commissioners meet across three days March 4 5 and 7 1912 auditing warrants and payrolls approving road changes saloon licenses and school and fair appointments. They tighten food claim rules burn waste and set road and bridge plans along with budget appropriations.
Local Examiner notes spring training flair in a prominent minstrel group led by Miss Graeter. The polished chorus and clean local jokes earn early praise as season’s hit, with tickets available now for Friday and Saturday shows March 22 and 28 in Dillon.
Historical program lists opening chorus and selections from a minstrel show. It notes a ten minute intermission between parts, features names such as Lee, Tarpley, Smith, Ashlock, Duff, and Wiksdal, and ends with a finale by END MEN COMPANY Bones and others.
The Gilmore & Pittsburgh firm paid 8,701.30 to settle the Poindexter & Orr Livestock condemnation suit, with 8,228 principal, 53.80 interest, and 365.50 costs. Many expect construction into Dillon this year, with speculation of a transcontinental line under Northwestern or Harriman influence. The Cornell case payment is due later this week, and traffic agreements support an eventual G P operation as a Dillon division on a new transcontinental route.
Martin Barrett reports letters from Abraham Graeter who journeys south and to Panama with his daughter Sadie and niece Cora Taylor. Graeter visits Temple Texas and New Orleans, praising southern hospitality, cotton trade and port congestion as he plans a Panama voyage. He may return via Key West Palm Beach and Galveston to Dillon.
The Scenic theatre hosts a seven man amateur minstrel show with six end men and an interlocutor on Friday night, plus a moving picture bill. Last week Cinderella starring Mabel Tallefero played strongly, and Arrah-Na-Pogue will debut Sunday. Thursday features a film showing the birth of Arizona and reels include President Taft with White House notables at inauguration.
Charles J. Thurston, 65, proprietor of Charleys Cafe, shot himself in the head with a .38 revolver in Dillon after a period of heavy drinking. He had planned to move his cafe to a new location and recently married Goldie Berger in Breckenridge, Missouri. Coroner L C Ford will conduct an inquest. funeral plans uncertain, with possible Eastward shipment for interment.
The 28th Montana Department Grand Army of the Republic encampment will be held in Anaconda May 9 10 and 11 1912 with headquarters at the Montana and a hall to be designated by Geo G Meade Post No 16. Woman's Relief Corps Ladies of the G A R and Spanish American War veterans join three days of reunions.
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