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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
5
Multiple Dillon merchants advertise heavy discount sales on lamps curtains cigars and general merchandise. Eastman’s offers cost prices on dozens of items while Bee Hive sells rock bottom stock and L C Fyhrie & Co solicits cash buyers. Additional notices include job openings for The New York Life Insurance and room rentals with details on locations and contact points.
Local items report a mask ball at Argenta tonight and a news depot sale of song books and dishes at the Bee Hive. Notes announce a public meeting for a fair association ground, new photograph backgrounds, and Eastman store selling stock at cost. Mentions births, church notices, tax list names paying taxes, and plans for hotels, crossings, revival services, and local commerce updates.
Montana ranchers voice a broadside against mining wage policies and shifted markets. They argue miners earn high pay while ranch workers receive low wages, urging fair protection for all industry classes and warning tariffs or price distortions threaten regional livelihoods.
Special notice requests all persons owing money to Papiey to call and settle and invites anyone who is owed money to call and collect. The books must be balanced up to January 1 1890 in Dillon Montana dated January 17 1890.
Notice of a March 1890 special election for School District No. 10 Beaverhead County Montana at High School Hall to vote a 2500 dollar tax for March April and May salaries and expenses and interest on 1809 bonded debt. Polls open 2 to 6 PM. By Order of the Board R J Moore Dist Clerk February 14 1890.
Sealed proposals will be received at the Dillon Montana County Clerk office until March 3 1890 for furnishing medical attendance and medicines to the sick poor and infirm of Beaverhead County and to county jail inmates for the year after March 3 1890. W A Jonts County Clerk.
On Thursday February 6 1890 Sim Estes J P Duncan Adams of Medicine Lodge wed Miss Emma E Ball of Red Rock in a formal ceremony.
The Independent Order of Good Templars held a public installation in Melrose on a Saturday evening. Lodge Deputy Roth installed officers including P C T Charles Gustafson Co T J Pair V T Mrs Orphie Maddux Secy J North Jones A S George Owens Treas Mrs Thompson F S Miss Swen Anderson Chap Miss Maud Morgan Mar O J Thursted D M Mrs Carpenter G Robert Duvall Sen John Maddux. An essay 1790 and 1890 and dialogue by Mrs R Reynolds and Miss Maude Morgan followed. A supper and dance concluded a successful event with about 60 members in attendance noted for moral influence. Feb. 6, 1890.
PERSONALS list residents and visitors including C S Jackman of Helena spending the Sabbath in this city Fidel Huber and Milt Davidson traveling East J E Morse planning an East trip soon A Short Sew machine agent visiting Anaconda Judge Hunt of Butte presiding in court this week Chas A Wilson taking bookkeeping at Montana Business College Helena H A Woods writing criminal testimony in shorthand Rev E G Prout passing through en route to Deer Lodge Dr A L Davison now in Mt Pleasant Utah welcomed. Feb 4 birth of a son to Davison family Nathaniel Axe returns from East with extensive stay in Missouri and Nebraska noting deeper snow east of the range
Montana report notes a new Catholic church planned for Walkerville with a project cost of 25000 dollars. Also listed: James Nelson sentenced to five years for highway robbery at Livingston. Pony Madison County builds a 26 by 50 foot schoolhouse for go pupils. Richard McGuire dies in Deer Lodge county jail after drinking and 30 days’ detention. Mayor Grant of New York appoints secretary T C Crain as city chamberlain salary 25000 dollars annually. Indian Philip facing potential commutation from death to life imprisonment. New evidence may affect the case.
The Tatsune notes letters express correspondents views and that the column serves as a public forum where statements are unobjectionable and worthy of attention.
A February 9 1890 letter from a laborer denounces using taxpayer dollars for what he calls noble luxuries in school governance. He questions whether school trustees serve the people or bosses, urges limiting special taxes, and calls for changes in management, citing hardship for working families in Nob Hill.
A reader voices concern over city school finances and borrowing practices. He questions notes and interest, demands accounting for salaries and curtailment of spending, and critiques curtains and bells costs as excessive for a debt-laden district. He urges following lawful tax limits and paying bills promptly.
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