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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1896
Page
3
Rates for local and business advertisements outlined in the Dillon Examiner column. First line costs 2 cents, each additional line 15 cents. Fire notices 10 cents per line, with 8 cents for subsequent insertions. Standing ad rates available on request.
A mixed local page lists the April 1806 timetable for passenger and freight trains with north and south bounds, plus prices for copper, lead, and time freight. It also includes short community notices about ads, visitors, products, sermons, and a wedding attendance by Senator Alex Metzel of Madison County, with various local names and businesses mentioned.
The article reports crowding issues as city council lacks a quorum and lists Republican county ticket nominees with canvassing plans. It notes registration deadlines, a GOP speaker event at the Epicera House, and staff movements including Frank Napton and Mas. Paxton. It mentions the Dillon Fair & Racing association meeting and a stroke affecting WOR Gilbert, with recovery outlook cautiously optimistic.
The period of registration expires next Tuesday October 27. Voters must register now or lose the right to vote. A number of Republican county candidates began an outreach tour through the big Hole basin with a Helena speaker joining. Delegates and other candidates from the Democratic and Populist ticket also traveled the northern and western county, attending meetings in Dewey’s Choche and Thecla. The Butte Miner notes warlord machinery shipments to New Zealand. The best potatoes can be found at Cheyenne Grocery Co, selling fast.
The registration deadline expires next Tuesday October 27. Five bricklayers at the normal school building strike over pay, demanding four dollars daily for nine hours. contractors offer the union scale of sixty cents per hour after the discharge of a worker for incompetence. Col. Wrep urged support for George M. Brown’s State Senate re election. Senator Brown was praised by the speaker while opponent John P. Bishop attended the meeting. Thomas Hamilton the Horse Prairie stockman is hospitalized in Dillon after a scratch led to blood poisoning. he is improving after treatment by Dillon and Butte physicians.
Notice is hereby given that Charles Solty has filed notice of intention to take final proof before the district court clerk in Dillon Montana on Thursday, November 26, 1896, for timber culture application No. Raa for the southwest quarter of section 10 in township Not south range No 8 west. Witnesses named Miastusi Sprinkle John Doton Thomas Pigin Matthew Grralbert Dillon Montana. First publication Oct 21.
Readable fragments list Republican candidates for president and vice president and for state and county offices. Names include Hlesry Koippenberg, Joseph H. Vivian, Frank J. Nash, OP Goddard, Alexander Botkin, Peter Ko Dolman, Louis Kotwitt, Samuel Murray, Charles Webster, Albert Liave, John Jendricks, George Grubb, George Drews, Freck Elie, Robert Moore, A J Andersen, C B Green, EL McGee, E H Mayers, L J Price, John G Wills, Thomas McIarey, George F Gray, Henry Cushing, L B Maxwell.
A fragmented roster lists Democratic electors for president and vice president along with candidates for state offices including Attorney General State Treasurer and County positions. Names and titles appear with many OCR errors, rendering some entries unclear.
Fragmentary text presents names and titles for various political candidates and offices such as governor attorney general state auditor and superintendent of public instruction. The garbled lines offer no clear events or outcomes.
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