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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1916
Page
12
Rates list for notices reading 20 cents per line first insertion 15 cents thereafter. Business locals 10 cents first line 8 cents later. Standing ads by application. Church festival notices 10 cents per line. Card of Thanks 1 cent per word. Train times for North and Southbound lines included with times.
Dillon residents and visitors from Lima Idaho Lead ore Idaho and Wisdom Montana appear in a bustling daybook of exchanges. The notes record shopping trips licenses births travel weathered by daily business and social calls from Butte to Helena. A marriage license for Doris Bartlett and Delbert James Robert is noted.
G P Spencer and wife arrived from Jackson ranch in the Big Hole basin. John Brundage of Centennial valley spends a few days at the county seat. Rev E J Groeneveld, guest at C R Blake’s, returns to Butte. Ira Sanders, Charles Burden, B L Clegg, and Sigurd Auguson travel to Sheridan on business. Mrs Dan Shively of Butte visits her mother Mrs Anna Hart. Sanders returns to the Grasshopper ranch after a week in Dillon. Miss Strom departs for Butte after three weeks with Mrs Margaret Roe. Howard Morse and Fred Chapman depart for college. Morse to Ann Arbor Law School, Mich., Chapman to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
B Abrams from the Anaconda Standard spent several days in Dillon to handle his paper. Isaac Rife, Medicine Lodge flockmaster, went to Rochester Minnesota to consult the Mayo Brothers accompanied by his son Ike Jr.
Roy Murray and Fred Woodside owners of the Montana Auto Supply company demonstrated a Ford motor truck built on Montana Auto Supply chassis. They loaded the truck with a ton of stock salt and climbed Cemetery Hill to test the vehicle, which handled the heavy load in good style.
Ned Burke will start Dillon's first automobile transfer next week using Ford motor car trucks for quick citywide deliveries. He will handle all freight express and merchandise with a general transfer business from an office with EB Brundage.
Lorain Spencer owner of the Reynolds ranch had a narrow escape last Wednesday evening when his car overturned while approaching Cornell hill. He was driving at a high speed before the mishap.
The Montana Auto Supply company continues selling cars with eight sales noted this week. Owners include Oscar Williams and Harley Linder with a Buick seven passenger touring car. McKown & Crook buy a four cylinder Buick. Roscoe Cornell purchases a Buick roadster. Jack Noonan buys a Ford for road use as a Western Wholesale Grocery salesman. Eugene Miller M A Henneberry and Walter Pitcher own new Dodge cars.
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