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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
3
The executive head of the city, Mayor T. D. Olmsted, is praised as a capable businessman and community leader. An artist captured him auditing bills, a moment that shows his practical approach to governance and readiness to entertain fellow citizens and proposals aimed at Dillon's interests.
Premiums offer a $25 transportation prize to send prizewinning Beaverhead poultry to the State Fair in Helena. The Hazelbaker contest awards travel to the State Fair for top yeast bread lager cake and plain sugar cookies. Secre tary Hazelbaker handles entries while Prof Job arrives to set up scientific equipment for new classes. Miss Condit and Prof Kerr tour to recruit students as Dillon school enrollment nears a record start.
The Western Union company opens a new telegraph office in Dillon in the Telephone block. The move boosts communication with the outside world and is viewed as steady progress for the growing city. Potential for further railroad and electric line development is noted, but not imminent. Welcome to the Western Union.
Beaverhead county girls win art in the Industrial contest at the county fair. Entries must be sent or taken to the needlework department on September 10. Boys in the Potato contest should deliver tubers to the vegetable department the same day. Winners receive medals and a free trip to the State fair in Helena.
Porritt ignores Mrs. Matthew Orr ill at Salt Lake City. J. W. Scott from Armstead. J. B. Poindexter registered in Butte. A. N. Connolly went to Monida on business. Miss Lamont postmaster spent Sunday at Missoula. L. A. Foote on business to Armstead. Mrs. Emma Gilbert back from Missoula visit. Born at Butte August 21 a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Youngken of Grant. Mrs. Jesse Lacklen’s father visiting ten days in Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Olive Hopkins from Butte guest of A. F. Graeter. Mrs. Kate Prondexter back from Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Anderson at Jenkins ranch near Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anderson and Miss Anderson at Hunsaker ranch near Bend. Prof. Grant Finch returns from Iowa institute work. Mrs. Emma Gilbert and Montana Gilbert at Methodist conference, return home. Luther D. Graeter visiting Dillon friends from McKinleyville, California. Ed Kolman family to make home at St Maries Idaho. I was cured of diarrhoea by one dose of Chamberlains Remedy says M E Gebhardt Oriole Pa. For sale by all dealers.
Local notes report visitors from Salt Lake City Bedrock Dillon Helena and Butte. Officials in Centen nial valley Lakeview note good spirits and Beaverhead fair dates September 11 12 and 13. Various local people including teachers and merchants are mentioned along with travel and community news.
The undersigned express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors who offered assistance and sympathy after the passing of Ole Dahlo. Mrs Lou Dahlo, Mr and Mrs Frank Bassett, Mrs Mary Chapman, Elijah, Ira and Thomas Warner are named among those who helped.
Mrs E W Schneider announces a fall millinery opening inviting all to view the latest in fashionable and seasonable hats Friday and Saturday September 6 and 7 at her shop.
F R Merk 80 died Monday at Silver Star residence. Immigrant in the 1860s he mined in Montana and built the Broadway mines fortune. Longtime Silver Star resident and state pioneer, he served as vice president for Madison county in the Montana Society of Pioneers. Survived by wife and two children.
Mrs. George C. Wentz a Salmon district pioneer died suddenly. She married G. C. Wentz in 1869, lived here since 1870, and is survived by her husband and two children Mrs. R. S. Kinsey of Salmon and G. Z. Wentz of Jackson Mont. The Easter Star helped at funeral services with broad local turnout.
Margaret Stocking aged 76 died after a year of illness. She and her late husband W. S. Stocking came to Montana in 1867, lived briefly in Dearborn country, then settled on the Teton river near Fort Benton where they built a long‑standing farm holdings. She is noted as possibly the first white woman in the region.
Lorenzo D Tinsley born Willow Creek 1866 son of 1864 pioneers died August 14 at Deaconess hospital Bozeman after strangulated hernia operation. Survived by widow and two children two brothers in Pony Logan and two sisters in Lewistown and Whitehall. Funeral likely Sunday.
In Arreton Isle of Wight a poor couple faces a trap set by the man's grandfather who offers marriage to the young woman. The lover proposes a ruse marry the old man for his money then the woman becomes his grandmother. After the old man dies she weds her original betrothed.
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