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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1907
Page
4
The Dcal Paper of Beaverhead County publishes weekly with editor B L Poindexter. It notes Dillon Montana mailing history and a $2 annual subscription price in advance. The paper mails to subscribers until orders are received and arrears are paid.
The Dillon Examiner guarantees advertisers the largest bona fide paid circulation in Beaverhead County with open subscription records for inspection. The notice is dated Wednesday September 25, 1907.
Miles City Journal urges eastern Montana farmers to attract settlers, noting land demand increases values. Chambers of Commerce and Custer County Advancement Association push outreach, literature, and letters to homeseekers. Read also calls for exhibits of crop samples and actual yield data from farmers across the region.
The article notes favorable crop prospects with bumper corn and strong wheat returns, while industrial demand falters. It cites a $3,000,000 July drop in United States Steel orders from 1906 levels, due to money tightening and halted manufacturing, causing canceled orders and reduced rail and factory activity.
A dispatch notes that Keystone Telephone Company and Forsythe Times push to drop the word please from conversations to save time. It claims a city uses it about a million times daily, costing half a second each utterance. The piece compares politeness to lubrication in business and mentions AP routines sending please in operator instructions.
Committees in charge and exhibitions will be finer than before. Improvements noted each year as even more knowledge is shared at the fair. Experienced exhibitors will showcase practical attractions next week that should benefit the public.
Anna Steene Richardson argues in October Woman's Home Companion that women entering business have lowered men's wages and dimmed male ambition. The piece contrasts trained male clerks with inexperience in the expanding sales force and notes men must prove value to earn fair pay.
An eastern exchange reports a strategy to harm a town by external buyouts and public denigration. It urges enemies to denounce local merchants, discourage unity, hoard profits, and promote outside newspapers while impairing local civic effort.
Montana fairs this year are described as successful previews to the main week at the state capital. The expos provide a public school for farmers and nonfarmers alike, attracting all county residents to inspect exhibits and learn about farming, stock raising, and arbor culture.
After purchasing the J B McLaren shop the owner offers wagon and carriage work plus a carpenter shop connection. All work promised in a first class manner by J P Campeau.
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