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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
4
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By order of Beaverhead County Republican Central Committee a county convention is set for Dillon court house May 9 at 1 pm to elect 14 delegates and 14 alternates to the state convention in Butte May 14 and 6 delegates plus 6 alternates to the national convention in Chicago June 16. All Republican residents of the county are invited to participate.
The Miles City Journal ridicules the silver service gifted to Montana’s new cruiser Montana. It faults the verse on the punch bowl calling it sophomoric and punky while missing the sentiment of the ballad about national honor and land.
The Tribune lauds a historic engraved silver service as the best in the state, with Chief Justice Theodore Brantly sending a verse to Huber Bros. It also reports Beaverhead county high school will install a thoroughly equipped domestic science department with a steel range and sewing machines, aiming to train girls for cooking and housekeeping as their lifelong work.
Dillon residents confront mine discharge into Rattlesnake Creek with black foul water and odor. City plans to move the intake above Argenta to improve health. The note also marks the resignation of Otto Schoenfeld from the Montana Bureau and praises Twin Bridges Monitor editor Frank Yerkes for sugar beet advocacy and local enterprise.
The farmers of the county vote a four dollar monthly pension increase for Civil War widows and pass a bill to pension Texas volunteers. The measure may affect the number of merry widows, sparking debate on whether it will increase or decrease marriages.
The Easter edition of the Anaconda Standard featured a talk by Rev. S. D. Hooker, pastor of St. James Episcopal Church in Dillon, on The Resurrection and Its Witnesses. The piece included a picture showing the interior of the church.
The Sheridan Enterprise offers no lesson from the recent killing at Sheridan. The silence suggests an opportunity to comment on hastiness with firearms or saloon brawls, or related issues, is being overlooked.
Easter spectacle ended with hats and toys drawing praise and satire. Critics lampoon the merry widow style as extravagant and the fashion craze shifts to the looming monthly bill to the man of the house as the first of the month arrives.
Dillon residents are reminded of three upcoming red-letter days as the Beaverhead county fair unfolds on Wednesday September 9th, Thursday September 10th, and Friday September 11th.
Frank Ripley arrives in Dillon to join the town's independent ball squad as the season opens, with local observers noting his possible impact on the club's lineup and prospects.
The people of this section show stronger interest in making sugar beet the Beaverhead county plant than in choosing a state tree.
The text touts Dillon as having the purest water with a new reservoir, suggests a sugar beet factory would trigger local land conversion to beet farming, and notes widespread calls for enforcing a curfew ordinance amid various misprints and stray phrases.
A collage of brief notes from Montana papers shows comments on Bryan and the stock exchange, methods to lift boycotts at a Baltimore conference, pride in local communities, and reflections from local editors. The items mention Easter costumes, dancing debates, idle rich critiques, doctors licensed in Montana, and baseball batting in sunny stands.
In Rome Easter Sunday is marked by grand rites at St Peter's Basilica. Fire from Castel Sant’Angelo signals the day as carriages approach the basilica and the pope leads mass with gold vestments and a tiara. He is carried in and out amid music and benediction, a peak of the season’s ceremonies.
A mixed brief on Easter folklore the moon and the rabbit and a long obsolete medical ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo Ohio. The text compiles an old legend about the rabbit and a legal notice style oath claiming a reward for catarrh cures with testimonial and product pitches.
Teachers examination will be held Friday and Saturday April 21 and 25, as announced by Avice Herr, Co. Supt. 17-11
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