Arbor Day Observed by Dillon Community
Local residents closed shops on Arbor Day and enjoyed picnics in the mountains. Many spent the day cleaning yards and planting trees and shrubs as Dillon marked the holiday.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
5
Local residents closed shops on Arbor Day and enjoyed picnics in the mountains. Many spent the day cleaning yards and planting trees and shrubs as Dillon marked the holiday.
Dillon items record visits from John and Mrs. Sweeney of Sheep Creek, Doctor Morton Egbert and Mrs Beehrer, and Alf Decker from Armstead. The Tribune Store advertises encyclopedia bargains, new postcards, and local views. Also noted are a strayed black colt, a two story house project by Fidel Huber, and a Beaverhead ranch for sale. Dr. M. A. Walker's MT delegation to an International Congress on Tuberculosis is announced.
A crowded Dillon page lists dentists Dr Rathbone and Dr Dawes and H F Best with offices on Main Street, plus numerous residents like Walter Crowell of Sheep Creek, Mrs Hart, Sophia Guyaz visiting Lora Lewis, Otto Schulz and family, and Rev S D Hooker with a church teeter board. Also notices on coal by E T Brock, wallpapered spring suits by Let Stone Grady, guards for scarlet fever quarantine, and a $10 reward for a missing Herford bull.
The Troune force spent Arbor Day in Van Camp's canyon. Hans Christiansen and Chris Hanson of Gibbon Montana visited Dillon on Wednesday and Thursday. Blatz beer and Munchener on tap at Charles Perry's saloon on Bannack street. Housekeeper wanted call Tribune Office for particulars.
A digressive note blends Bulgarian folk tale humor about a village pope who loses Master Day with English Easter weather lore. The piece links “papas” to priestly title origins, recounts a pope’s pebble calendar gone wrong, and threads in references to Easter weather proverbs and local notices amid a Dillon Montana newspaper page.
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