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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1905
Page
3
Advertisements list John Shively as a blacksmith and wagon maker offering horseshoeing for 3.00 and urging reliable work at honest prices. Mentions of Dr. Rathbone and various local residents fill a page of small notices and business notes from Dillon and nearby towns.
An old advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as a remedy for scrawny babies, claiming fat babies are healthier and happier. It describes fat buffering nerves and cushioning, urges matching a label on every bottle, and offers free samples from Scott & Bowne Chemists in New York with prices 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Rev Dr Martin officiated at the home of E B and Mrs Haining on Thompson Avenue. Miss Marion Haining and Clyde Bennington married in Dillon with a wedding dinner following. Bennington, long a Dillon resident and Oregon Short Line freight agent, plans a brief honeymoon before returning to Dillon. The note also records the Eighth grade graduation at Dillon Public School with fourteen graduates set to continue to Beaverhead County High School.
The Shakespeare club hosted a book shower at the Bishop home last Friday with about one hundred attendees. Miss Pearl Riley provided music while coffee, sandwiches, and pickles were served. About three hundred volumes were donated by Dillon residents to create six fifty-volume libraries to be distributed to towns statewide under the State federation of Women's clubs.
Jack McLaren has bought George Jewell's interest in Jewell and McLaren and reports a sharp rise in business. He has added a Diamond rubber tire setting machine, the only one in the region, and contracted with L C Edwards to service 11 rigs. He specializes in hay derricks with orders for 75 at 25 dollars each. Zell Morris, a skilled blacksmith, makes the derricks.
Dillon received a new hook and ladder truck with 106 feet of ladders four lanterns and a full set of fire tools. The iron framed unit arrived Monday and was added to the Orr livery stable fleet improving readiness for city fires. Also note Al McDonald’s death by self harm at Righty Idaho, known former Dillon resident and local blacksmith and bartender.
Advertises testimonials and a free illustrated book on Consumption Bold at 50c and 81.00 a bottle. If not satisfied, return the bottle to your druggist and get your money back. W. H. Hocker & Co. Proprietors, Buffalo.
The county clerk and recorder’s office at the courthouse underwent a thorough renovation last week. Bert Dunbar carried out the work and Clerk Baker asserts his office will be kept superior to any other recorder’s office, with strict rules against hammering nails or tacks during his term.
Acker's Blood Elixir is advertised as a cure for scrofulous and syphilitic poisons and other blood diseases. The ad claims positive results and offers a bottle sold with a positive guarantee by Riley's Drug Store.
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