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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1909
Page
7
The Tribune promotes an unfettered Bible study among readers excluding clergy. Members answer weekly questions based on Rev. Dr. Ainscott’s lessons to win prizes while joining Local Clubs and obtaining the back questions from the office.
Contest rules require subscribers to the paper to join the International Newspaper Bible Study Club and the Local Club. Participants must answer 52 weekly questions starting March 14, 1909, with each answer limited to 200 words and including the writer’s name and address. Submissions go to this office, are collated, and sent to headquarters for judging. prizes awarded by the club based on marks.
First Series A gold medals go to the first five contestants, then silver to the next five, a Teacher's Bible to the next five, and a Heart of Christianity book to the next thirty five. Each prize will be engraved with the winner's name and award. All who can write and have ideas are urged to participate regardless of education level as the emphasis is on reasoned ideas.
A religious meditation from April 4 1909 on Acts x 1 48 exploring whether God is pleased with devout people across faiths, the nature of revelations, prayer timing, and Peter’s vision. It poses questions about Romans and Jews, and whether dietary directives in scripture align with New Testament meaning.
Local church notices list weekly worship times for St James Episcopal Holy Communion at 11 a m on first and third Sundays and 7 a m on other Sundays Morning prayer 11 a m Evening prayer 8 p m Sunday school 9 45 a m Presbyterian service 11 a m Sabbath school 12 m Christian Endeavor 7 p m Evening service 8 p m Catholic mass times low mass 8 a m high mass 10 30 a m first and second Sundays monthly masses Dillon first second fourth Sundays Lima and Melrose third Sunday Grace Church services 11 a m preaching 7 30 p m Epworth League 7 30 p m Baptist notices list 10 a m Sabbath school 11 a m worship 12 15 p m evening 8 p m
In a Bohemian Magazine caption two hunters forage through a moving picture. They mistake bear tracks until the lead hunter declares with a start that the marks are the slide man’s dirty thumb prints.
In conversation from Judge's Library, Mr. Snooks admires designs and asks their price. The architect calls one plan a $1.60 bungalow and states its construction cost around $8,000.
A seamen's meeting in South Shields heard a speaker urge the crowd to “take the tide by the flood and grasp it red hot” in a vivid mixed metaphor setting.
J W Stith reports on Beaverhead county's praised poor farm operations near Dillon. The letter compares the Beaverhead plan to others, noting 160 acre farm, two wards, manager and sick ward, pest house near the main building, and lease at 1900 dollars per year with care contracts. It also extols permanent road building with small streams, two notable bridges, graded dirt roads surfaced with local shell and rock, plus a granite high school built from nearby native sandstone.
A sequence of warranty deeds shows transfers in Armstead Wisdom Dillon and other districts with nominal sums. Mining deeds and locations include Snow Storm lode Bloody Dick and Pilgrim Bar placer. A decree of distribution splits Aura Christensen estate among Bea trice Shandy Earl Christensen and Pansy Christensen with parcels near Dillon and Jackson. It ends with a quoted Atchison Globe line about a girl's hardest moment.
The American Mining Congress will set up state level committees to handle complaints about national forest administration. Frank H. Cooney of Montana recommends member names. Chief Pinchot has agreed to personally review the issues, with decisions expected soon after Denver talks.
A Liverpool Mercury quote recounts a boy answering what Moses did with the tabernacle in the wilderness. The boy says he chucked it away, while the verse notes Moses pitched the tabernacle afar off from the camp.
A Boston Transcript quip notes Hicks the hotel man offers Welsh rarebit to guests at night and markets nightmare time as a chargeable use of a horse, a humorous scheme reflecting hotel pricing gimmicks.
A Detroit Free Press quotation contrasts conceit as the belief one would have authored the Bible if born earlier, and explains ApiouloO as meaning true self possession and calm confidence.
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