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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1911
Page
3
Reading notices in the local column list cents per line for the first insertion and 15 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Business notices charge 10 cents per line for the first insertion and 5 cents per line for each further insertion. Standing ads rates furnished on application. Garden of thanks and obituary poetry priced at 5 cents per line.
Movements listed for West Bound No 1 North Bound No 3 and East Bound No 2 South Bound No 4 at times 4:05 a m and 8:45 p m. The text shows fragmented railway directions with unclear patrol notes and incomplete station references.
Local notes recount ranch activity and town visits from Armstead to Lima. Dillon locals discuss auctions, construction, and new business openings while social events include picnics and a Baptist supper. The death of Mrs. Edgar Tucker prompts family travel to Anaconda for the funeral.
Beginning Thursday evening for three nights Dillon audiences will see vaudeville and motion pictures at the Scenic Theatre. The program features two Pantages acts Beck and Henney and Alexander Canaris and Co with Illusion. The bill includes up to date pictures and illustrated songs with a Change of program on alternate nights and a Saturday night three shows.
Stock Inspector John Collins visited the stockyards on the Butte Anaconda and Pacific line at Mill Creek to inspect cattle bound west. He noted 17 000 head already inspected from the Big Hole basin with 8 000 more expected, averaging 72 50 per head. If maintained, total near 1 550 000.
The Grand Theatre in Dillon opened last Saturday night to full houses, replacing the old Star on North Idaho Street. William Lloyd of Butte launches the enterprise and promises the best 10 cent show Dillon has ever seen with the latest motion picture apparatus and nightly program changes. A children’s matinee costs 5 cents at 8:30 each afternoon, and adults pay 10 cents.
Mrs. Clara Chapman offers a reward for the return of a sword shaped stick pin with a diamond center and surrounding pearls. The article notes the loss and the reward.
An alarm at the Hotel Sullivan kitchen in Leadore was caused by a jet of flame from a clogged chimney flue. No damage or smoke exposure occurred. Mr. J. K. Robinson and his daughter Goldie arrived from Armstead to take charge of the Leadore store office, then departed for Gilmore.
The latest addition to Idaho’s forest reserve covers about 142 square miles along the Idaho side of the Rockies from the Lemhi Indian Reservation south line to a point east of Frozzel ranch. A landslide near Grant Mont blocks mail transfer for days as a steam shovel clears debris. timber wolves threaten Eight Mile creek ranches, with cattle losses reported by John Warren and others in the Lemhi range.
Mrs KK Sweet left for Paradise Montana to join her husband who located there. George Clevidence returns from Washington DC en route to Salmon City. W A Jones brings a new five passenger Ford touring car to the Big Hole. J J Morse of Dillon buys the Voorhies ranch on Swamp Creek, 400 to 500 acres. Corwin of Ohio visits his sons at a Bowen ranch. Arbor Day program by Wisdom elementary pupils. Alice H Ralston sails to Coeur d Alene to supervise a nurse training school. Dillon saloons versus automobiles pose prosperity question. Mrs Plummer to teach Meadow Creek school. W H Utley family moves to Oregon with friends sending best wishes. F A Hazelbaker tours in his Moon automobile. 824 head of steers bought for Portland. price $6.75. Wisdom baseball club organized. Warren Flager elected manager. Spring weather delays location, but water supply and favorable conditions promise a productive season for hay and reduced fire risk.
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