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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1896
Page
5
A garbled item from the Dillon Examiner hints at editorial or department warnings. The readable text references advertising stands and tax related jargon, suggesting impending notices or classifications amid unclear details.
The April 5 1696 issue lists trains schedule upgrades for Passa and Butte with local north and south freight times. It urges delinquent subscribers to settle accounts and promotes new products and ads from Cushing Sons Hub Scearce and others while detailing fair preparations, local visits, store promos, and community notices ahead of the upcoming county fair.
The morning notes an invitation to Baptist church youths for a Sunday evening event with the Ep worth league. It criticizes noisy gallery behavior at the opera house and mentions two Dillon women bicycling to Virginia and Sheridan, as the first to make the trip in this area.
The third entertainment from Mrs. W. H. Cochran’s elocution class sold out the opera house. Performers acquitted themselves well and received frequent applause. The minstrel segment was especially enjoyed, with local celebrities targeted in good natured satire and no lasting harm to reputations.
The Asian Pacific plans a round trip rocket fare to Salt Lake on October 3 priced at 15.00 dollars with return by an unspecified October date.
Final citizenship issued to William Curdy Samuel Davies Gustav Nelson Anton Ehrhardt and A Guidiel with Davies filing a homestead near Wisdom. Additional entries list Irish English and German petitioners and civil actions including withdrawals defaults and a case where a default was set aside upon payment of attorney fees.
A Union Pacific section man named William McGee died in a near Lima after his horse threw him into a ditch. Coroner Cashmore from Pillow will hold an inquest at 9 o clock and McGee’s body will be taken to his sister Mrs Dowling in Dell Montana for funeral services and burial in the Lima cemetery Wednesday afternoon. He left a wife and three children.
County commissioners completed the road petition hearing by Phil He Potudestes and others and ordered the old Ashhauph road reopened due to high opening costs. The Change of road petition by Townsend was set for Oct 2. The new Ar genta portoll was declared a public county road and opened for travel on Oct 15. The Bannack road petition by W R Gilbert was denied though Smith may get a 20 rod extension if fridges and water work are completed by December Island. The board adjourned to meet Oct 12 in special session.
Miss Annie OLeary opens a laundry in Mrs Bourret's building on Montana street beside the opera house. All kinds of washing done in first class style at reasonable prices.
FYHRIE GROCERY CO advertises a large shipment labeled as a carload of syrups including Pure Canada Sap Vermont Maple Pure Sugar Syrup Mixed Sugar Syrup New Orleans Black Molasses and Missouri Sorghum at bottom prices. Call for details.
The New York World Thrice-a-Week Edition grows to six pages per issue with eight columns and 156 papers a year for one dollar. The paper promises daily-like news speed and weekly features. Club option combines with Dillon Examiner for $2.50 annually.
Stands at the head of remedies for coughs and colds. A leading druggist in Louisiana and a merchant in Arizona vouch for its efficacy in curing consumption and related illnesses. A quarter century of use and a free trial at the local dray store.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season but especially spring when languor and liver sluggishness occur. It is promoted to counteract malarial poison, relieve headache indigestion and constipation, with a tonic effect. Sold for fifty cents at R T Scearce's drug store.
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