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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1910
Page
4
The Beaverhead County Tribune outlines advertising rates for events and notices including church festivals fairs dances and sales with charges per line. It also covers card of thanks obituary poetry mail handling and credits the Tribune Publishing Co stating non responsibility for employee debts and urging timely paper delivery.
The Republican state central committee calls a state convention for September 15, 1910 at Missoula opera house to nominate a congressman, a railroad commissioner, and a clerk of the supreme court with delegates from Montana counties and rules for voting and contests. O M Lanstrum chairs, Geo O Freeman secretary.
Notice of Beaverhead County Montana Republican Central Committee calling a county convention at Dillon Court House on September 12 1910 at eleven to select fourteen delegates and fourteen alternates for the State Convention in Missoula September 15 1910 and to nominate two members of the House of Representatives one Sheriff one Treasurer one Clerk and Recorder one County Attorney one Assessor one Surveyor One Superintendent of Schools.
Precinct primaries are called to select delegates and alternates to the Beaverhead County Republican Convention. Representation is based on the last election vote, with one delegate and one alternate per fifteen votes. The county chairmen urge precinct committees to post notices and hold primaries at designated times and places.
At a city council meeting Acting Mayor Leonard Eliel urged replacing sparse arc lights with forty watt tungsten lamps at every street intersection. The editor favors the plan as cost effective, arguing tungsten adoption by Helena and substantial improvements in illumination.
The Beaverhead county fair catalogue will reach residents within three weeks and every citizen should help ensure a successful event. The column stresses the fair as a vital annual enterprise, urging Dillon and rural residents to attend and support, noting this year’s schedule allows farming to pause for county fair activities.
Citizens praise faithful workers who promoted and sustained the fair. They call for a demonstration of support from all, hoping good weather and continued local help will make this the best fair yet, allowing the association to pay debts and have funds in reserve.
Motorists from Butte and Helena met at Boulder to promote a permanent road between the two cities and support convict labor on public highways. The resolutions back the prison board’s policy as humane and economically aiding highway improvements while ensuring honest labor is not displaced. The measure aims to benefit automobilists miners merchants and farmers reliant on county roads.
A man was shot and killed Thursday of last week in Gilmore Lemhi county Idaho during a drunken brawl. The Salmon Herald criticizes prohibition in the county urging regulation of saloons over prohibition to curb bootleg liquor and unsafe drinking establishments.
An eastern paper mocks Rockefeller and editor frugality while Montana topics surface. Virginia City and Madison County politics ripple over Pony’s county seat dispute as headlines rumble about schoolmarms and baseball rivalries.
Last week in Tripune, reports say electricity has been applied to the county jail’s steel windows, a detail noted with local interest and expected to have practical effects on the facility.
A collage of witty quotes from Montana periodicals followed by a social gathering report. Includes jokes about politics and wages, then details a Five Hundred party hosted by Mrs. Matthew Orr at her South Washington Street residence with numerous guests and decorated surroundings.
The county convention will be selected for September 3. Delegates are allotted one per precinct for every 15 votes cast for the Republican congressional candidate in the last general election. Rules were adopted and the full call appears on page four. No endorsement for the U S Senate was discussed by the central committee. Frank Hazelbaker handled telephone business in Grasshopper valley this week.
Frank J. Cheney and F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo promise to pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The sworn statement dated December 6, 1886, notes the remedy is taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents. testimonials available. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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