Dinner to Our Fathers Promoted by Arrowhead Debating Club
Beaverhead County High School hosted a Friday banquet titled a dinner to our fathers. The Arrowhead Debating club funded a 35 cent meal to showcase domestic science work by the schoolgirls taught by Miss McDowell. The event featured a four course menu, student menus, and a program with toasts to Our State Our School and Our Girls among others.
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Dillon
Beaverhead County High School
Arrowhead
Beaverhead County
James Paxton Dies at Home After Long Illness in Dillon
James Paxton, a retired rancher and longtime Dillon resident since 1886, died Wednesday night at his Pacific and Reeder streets home after a year with diabetes. Funeral held at Masonic hall this afternoon with burial at Mountain View cemetery. pallbearers listed. Paxton, born April 7 1850 in Blainsdale Scotland, leaves wife and daughter Katherine, and was a Shriners and past Masonic master.
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James Paxton
Pacific and
Reeder Streets
Mr. Paxton
Masonic Hall
D. Hooker
Episcopal Church
Mountain View Cemetery
Thomas Scott
Julius Rounds
Adolph Eliel
G. T. Paul
Geo. W. Dart
Fidel Huber
Blainsdale
Scotland
England
America
Dillon
Katherine
Masonic Lodge
St. James Episcopal Church
Toasts mark pleasant gathering at Dillon event
The report praises a gathering where toasts were well received and guests including Prof. L. R. Foote Judge Lew. L. Callaway A. L. Badcon George Featherly and Richard Price spoke briefly. J. E. Carver of Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone spent several days in Dillon attending to company interests.
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Lew. L. Callaway
A. L. Badcon
George Featherly
Richard Price
J. E. Carver
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Dillon
Dillon to Open Palace Store Branch of Bruning Sons
Dillon will host a first class gents furnishing store named The Palace Store in January. The Bruning & Sons firm from Butte will run the Dillon branch with Wm Brining as manager. Extensive preparations include modern fixtures, heavy advertising, and a citywide canvass to attract shoppers from surrounding counties.
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Dillon
Tribune
TriBunl
Wm. Brit
Butte
Bertie Banks
Iowa
Perry Cottage
Railroad Avenue
Brinig & Sons Plan Permanent Dillon Store Branch
A Brinig family firm progresses from a temporary outlet to a permanent Dillon store. After a $12 000 stock import last October the business shows a strong local opening. A lease from B F White of the Telephone Block is secured and C M Robinson joins Brinig & Sons as head of advertising and furnishing goods.
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Brinig
Dillon
B. F. White
Bond Complainants Win Order For Bend Station
The Montana railroad commission grants the Prayer of Bond Complainants and orders the Oregon Short Line to establish an agency and station facilities at Bend Montana, about six miles by rail and eight and one half miles by wagon road north of Dillon, to be complied with by February 1. Continued on Page Eight.
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H. G. Rodgers
Dillon
Montana Railroad Commission
Bend
Montana
Oregon Short Line
Bond
Public Sale of Lusher's Store at Dillon
J W Lusher announces a public sale opening Friday December 16 and running through December 31 to liquidate the entire stock in Dillon. The store was closed for tagging and a large staff of salespeople will assist crowds during the event.
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J. W. Lusher
Dillon
Montana
Palmer and Shaver Sentenced in Forgery Case
In a district court trial last Saturday A M Shaver was found guilty of forging Richard C MacTavish s name on a ten dollar check cashed at a saloon by J C Palmer. Palmer pleaded guilty and received a two year term while Shaver got three years Palmer 25 of Portland born with Idaho ties and Shaver 34 a telegraph operator were characterized by Judge Callaway as capable but prone to drink links to prior forged checks and a lenient stance for Palmer due to his plea.
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A. M. Shaver
Richard C. MacTavish
J. C. Palmer
Palmer
Shaver
MacTavish
Portland
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Callaway
Local Firm Builds 600 Miles of Telephone Lines
Frank A. Hazelbaker leads the Southern Montana Telephone Co a locally financed firm formed in 1905 to connect Bannack Wisdom and Dillon. The company now operates about 600 miles of toll lines linking Dillon Argenta Bannack Grant Saw Mill Point Polaris Ames Tash Lenkersdorfer ranch Jackson Wisdom and Divide with a Butte connection.
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Frank A. Hazelbaker
Southern Montana Telephone Company
the Tribune
Hazelbaker
Bannack
Wisdom
Big Hole
Dillon
Jackson
Big Hole Basin
Treasury
Saw Mill Point
Grant
Grasshopper Valley
Divide
Butte
Bell Company
Ralston
Wisdom Exchange
Argenta
Ten Mile House
Polaris
Ames
Tash & Lenkersdorfer Ranch
Fox
Bristow
Bowen
Fishtrap
Dewey
Leonard Eliel
A. L. Stone
F. A. Hazelbaker
B. F. White
W. A. Jones
Fidel Huber
T. D. Olmsted
John F. Bishop
C. H. Strowbridge
F. A.hazelbaker
Sheep Creek Live Stock suit ends with Crowell verdict
In district court last Saturday the Sheep Creek Live Stock company sued Walter J. Crowell for damages alleging rams ran at large on the range. The court rendered a verdict in favor of Crowell.
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Sheep Creek Live Stock Company
Walter J. Crowell
Mr. Crowell
G. and P. stockholders meeting reports cautious optimism
John R. Wheeler and T. H. Bacon returned from Pittsburg where they attended a G. and P. stockholders meeting. They note loosening money and slow improvement in the East, remain silent on future moves, yet seem optimistic about Leadore’s prospects.
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John R. Wheeler
T. H. Bacon
Pittsburg
Leadore i Standard
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A. F. Culver
Guy Gray
R. G. Carr
Martyn Fitch
George Gosman
Anson Baxter
Walter Conway
Adolph Stewart
Max Wilcomb
Our Fathers
Howard Morse
Watson
Paxton
Awa
James Mauldin
Dillon Implement Company
J. E. Morse
Thorpe
James Edie
Edie
Ao Ranch
Mason
Brnnig & Sons
Bozeman
Wm. Brinig
C. M. Robison
USL
R. R. Commission
Lusher’s—Store
State Penitentiary
The
Dillon Tribune
Boosters
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