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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1912
Page
3
Rates for reading notices charge cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business rates are 10 cents per line for first insertion and 8 cents per line thereafter. Standing ads rates available on application. Letters to the editorial department or business management should be addressed to THE DILLON EXAMINER.
Public notices list fees for church festivals fairs suppers dances and related events with admission fees and sale of fancy articles charged at five cents per line. Obituary poetry also priced at five cents per line.
Fragmented OCR text lists directions and times: West Bound No1 North Bound No3 East Bound No2 South Bound No4 with scattered codes and 8:30 p.m. and 4:05 a.m. references. The readable items suggest a transit timetable or signal guidance portion from a historical page.
Local items detail residents visiting Dillon from nearby towns, business and schooling updates, and several sales notices. Included are visits from Dell, Grasshopper, Medicine Lodge, Helena, and Kalispell. school enrollments. furniture ads. and multiple real estate offerings in Ruby Valley with strong property and water-right details.
Twenty years ago Ek B Sprinkle sold his Lima meat market to Freeman and Paul and will return to Dillon to reside. The Lima Reservoir and Irrigating Company, capitalized at 100000, aims to reclaim 96000 acres with 300 families from eastern states, backed by Michigan capitalists, signaling a new Beaverhead County era if successful. Public library lacks a home, schools expand, and multiple camping and geyser trips are noted.
Miss Orpha Oneal leaves for Plains Montana after vacation with her parents. Sam Scott suffers a leg injury at the Oreway mine but avoids broken bones and will seek surgical care in Dillon. Ray is recovering well. Rev. W G Rees decides to stay in the Basin and decline church offers. Wisdom stores will close on Sundays starting Sept 15. The Big Hole basin is praised as a premier beef region with abundant hay and cattle, despite late haying and rain delays.
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