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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1916
Page
4
Rates list for notices in local column with 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents for subsequent insertions. Business locals 10 cents per line first insertion and 8 cents for subsequent. Station schedules show southbound No 2 at 7:53 p.m and No 10 at 9:40 a.m, northbound No 9 at 3:45 p.m and No 1 at 1:58 p.m.
Dillon records show numerous visitors from Bannack, Grant, Lemhi, Butte and Helena stopping at the Metlen and Medon hotels. Local business: Hazelbaker and Featherly motor trip. F A Hazelbaker and George Featherly to Twin Bridges, Butte and Helena. weekly county commission meeting. wheat market commentary notes high prices driven by European war developments.
The funeral for Mrs. Rebecca Shauver was held from the Rueben Tritt home with burial at Mountain View cemetery. She died Wednesday at nearly 63 after a weeklong illness born in Missouri and later moved to Montana with her husband Shal ver, leaving a son Ernest Shauver a daughter Nora Wilson of Idaho four brothers and three sisters surviving, plus an aged mother.
Miss Marian Fergus elected to succeed Miss Rebecca Lawrence as secretary to President J. E. Monroe and registrar of the Normal college. Fergus was deputy auditor at Helena and a former University of Montana student in journalism and commerce. Lawrence resigns after several years in the role and plans to move to Spokane with her parents.
Joseph Kirschwing of Great Falls who failed to win the GOP nomination for congress issues a statement backing President Wilson Senator Myers and the Montana congressional ticket. He was once named as a potential U S senator before later seeking congress.
Federal Agent John H. Rich reports Montana will produce about forty million bushels of wheat this season. The grain is expected to be of good quality and the yield satisfactory given seasonal conditions. Rich notes Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana will drive nationwide production while other regions underperform. Barley and oats have started to move to market.
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