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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1903
Page
3
Reading notices detail per line charges for first and subsequent insertions for business locals church festival notices and sales items with profits. Rates include 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Obituary poetry and card of thanks priced per line with minimums listed.
The readable notes indicate a timetable item dated November 3 1901 for train No 10 southbound and a corresponding northbound service. Details are fragmentary but suggest departure and route labeling for a period schedule.
Local residents R Wells and Cora Preston registered at the Metlen hotel while J J Cusick and J M Dowling visited Dillon for business. The piece lists multiple arrivals, meetings, and ongoing court actions including Alfred Beckman's trial date and a proposed streetcar franchise in Butte.
The Montana case asks whether surveying and borings ahead of actual water diversion meet the 1887 Civil Code requirement to begin work within forty days after posting a notice. The U S attorney and the U S Geological Survey say such preliminary work is within the statute and must be pursued with reasonable diligence. A reference from the Encyclopedia of Law emphasizes the need to begin actual diversion within a reasonable time to hold junior rights. Separately a Montana note offers a $75 reward for stray horses and $500 for information leading to convictions for theft or removal from a range in Sage Creek and Beaverhead County, with a contact for J G Willis, Dillon. The Golden Rule Store advertises W L Douglas shoes at $3.00 and $3.50.
Ten Dollars reward offered for a chestnut sorrel mare eight years old weighing about 1125 pounds that escaped from the Dillon stock yards on the night of November 5. She bears a small heart brand on the left jaw and a few white hairs on the left hip, raised by W. H. Raymond. Return to A. L. Anderson’s atable KE. L. HALL.
Notice of the regular quarterly examination of teachers to be conducted in the office of the county superintendent of schools in Dillon Montana on Friday and Saturday November 27 and 28 1903. ESETUA MAERICH County Superintendent of Schools.
Deer hunting season is at hand. Visit Hughes and McCaleb for a fine line of sporting goods and rifles in all makes at low prices.
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