New and Up to Date Goods Arriving Daily Prices
Daily arrivals showcase current merchandise with clear price points. Call to view the goods and compare offers as new stock lands, inviting buyers to inspect items in store.
28 Apr 1899
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1899
Page
1
Daily arrivals showcase current merchandise with clear price points. Call to view the goods and compare offers as new stock lands, inviting buyers to inspect items in store.
Lima reports include visits by Wm Garland and family, engineering relatives, and social events such as the I O C F anniversary ball with Dillon orchestra. Notes cover property moves, new cottages from moved houses, arrivals from Butte and Dillon, farm and business activity, a large oyster supper, and local travel to Lake View and Wyoming.
C. M. Grimes bought Massingill Bros. beef steers and other cattle from Hollinsworth and Haydens for Monida delivery. Prices ranged 45 for steers and 35 for cows. Freeman Marble sold cows with calves for 40 per head. Local residents report visitors and family movements among Fitch Nye Kent Missen families and others in the Mayo Valley area.
Mathew Johnson of Medicine Lodge made a business trip to the county seat. The Sullivan mining party passed through the canyon en route to Bloody Dick country. Wm. Blair of Horse Prairie was in Dillon last week. Stockmen from Big Hole sought cows and calves locally. D. Mooney of Grasshopper was in Dillon on the 20th. Mr. Craver, Dillon, returned from the southern part of the county Monday. Hon. D. E. Metlen visited his ranch on Horse Prairie this week.
Hon Henry Knippenberg of Hecla Consolidated Mining Co. returns from Indianapolis. G G Earle back from Corning California. Rev Henry F Cope leads services. De Cellea and Kennedy lease A G Clarke building and open butcher shop. A double wedding at Melrose with Prof John Olson Miss Mabel McCauley Dr Earle Johnson Rose McCauley. Ceremony by Rev Dr Groeneveld. Chamberlains remedy praised for diarrhoea cures. City Drug Store offers it. Morsels on harness care slip in.
Nathaniel Axe, a long time Dillon resident and pioneer born in Wayne County Ohio on November 7 1830 died Tuesday morning after a brief illness paralysis from a brain clot. Funeral services were held at the family home with many in attendance. He came west with miners and guides later helping build Dillon locating here in 1866. Survived by his wife and three of five children, he was known for cheerfulness and mercy to the needy and his abstinence from liquor and tobacco despite a hard frontier life. He made friends with Kit Carson and aided U S forces at Salt Lake City. He was a devout Methodist who loved sermons and kept a strong memory for texts and thoughts even without professing religion. May he rest with God.
A Tuesday evening recital by Elmore Rice with Prof. Pasmore and Misses Conger and Reinhardt drew an appreciative audience. notices mention Sadie Rodgers leaving for Kansas, Edna Squires taking charge, and various visitors and talks. An advertisement extols Electric Bitters for health and beauty, and Shilohs Cure is offered for coughs and consumption by Central Pharmacy.
A fragment from a period notice shows the Hotel Meade renewing its appeal to travelers in Bannack and asserting readiness to serve patrons with complete satisfaction.
A Dillon resident claims knowledge of the Burlington railroad reaching Dillon within eighteen months. Surveyors are reportedly near Sheridan in Madison County. The Burlington furthers a coastal Oregon route via the Seven Devils, despite local resistance in places.
An advertisement claims Muddy complexions and nauseating breath stem from chronic constipation and promotes Karl’s Clover Root Tea as an absolute cure sold for 50 years. The Central Pharmacy and L. J Williams Prop advertise it at 25 and 50 cents.
A gold watch charm bearing tiger claws and two initials V and Sept 25 1898 has been found. Finder will be rewarded by returning it to this office.
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