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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
4
The Dillon Tribune provides credit rates for subscriptions including six years at 2.00 and one year at 1. es Monthe and three months options noted with varying prices.
Notices for church festivals fairs dances and concerts with admission or sales of goods will be charged five cents per line Card of thanks obituary poetry and other notices follow the same rate All brainest notices and printing orders should go to the Tribune Publishing Co The paper is mailed as second class and subscribers must receive it regularly
The piece notes rapid socialist gains in Germany and a rising push for the Panama route as the feasible oceanic canal. It mentions a Centennial valley correspondent trekking twelve miles by Toboggan to gather news, highlighting a female reporter’s enterprise. Governor Taft’s Philippines report is described as straightforward, with cautious optimism about pacification and gradual improvement. It also suggests Dillon’s population center near the public school and hints at library location planning near the state normal school.
A Dillon theatre basketball game pits Butte High School against Dillon High in the first-ever meeting. Dillon players listed are Mamie McIntosh center Eliza Selway Mamye Adams guards Florence Carter Edith Grater with substitutes Bessie Tyree and Fern Scott. An informal reception will follow at Mrs George Metlen's home for players and their escorts.
At a special city council meeting last Saturday evening the election returns showed 11 in favor of the bonds. Aldermen Selway Best and Deputy were appointed a committee to locate a suitable site for the public library, take options on offered sites, and report at the next meeting. The council adjourned after no further business.
Dr. M A Miller and Mr. Orr plan a major upgrade to the electric light and power plant. They have ordered a 150 kilowatt dynamo for about 5000 dollars to be installed after a deal closes. A new stone building will be erected to house all machinery except boilers, 65 by 43 feet with two foot thick walls and a concrete floor for cleanliness.
Work will begin as weather permits with about 800 cubic yards of earth excavated for the foundation. The dynamos will be aligned with the water wheel and steam engine, allowing flexible operation. A new arc light system with 98 percent efficiency will be installed, and the plant will supply power to all users.
J E Morse and A J Noyes return from the Big Hole basin noting eight feet of snow around Ajax mine making access difficult. Lead ore appears fine with ore being mined 25 feet wide and a spring mill planned for reduction. Beef cattle numbers rise with 8,000 head of steers and 10,000 to 15,000 stock cattle fed. Weather described as the coldest in years with water holes frozen.
In Justice Hirschman s court Wm Piper pleaded guilty to carrying concealed weapons and was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail after a Monday arrest for drunken threatening conduct. J Fleming a colored man pleaded guilty to stealing hides from Padley Mudd s slaughter house and was fined or jailed after a morning hearing.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Gibbonaville Mercantile Company will be held at the company offices in Gibbonaville on March 10, 1902, at 10 o’clock a.m. to elect a Board of Trustees and officers and to transact any other business. By order of the President. Secretary.
The Dillon Woodmen held their annual St Valentine dance at the Dillon Theatre last Friday with music by the Dillon Orchestra. Despite a thirty minute power outage, dancers enjoyed a first class evening ending with a banquet prepared by Mr Kuntze featuring roast turkey and cranberries. The event showcased the group's hospitality both in entertaining and in their community presence.
The two week revival at the M E church led by evangelist Miss Mary Dennis of Indiana closed Monday evening. Large crowds attended and several conversions occurred with many new members joining. Miss Dennis departed Monday for Butte to assist Rev Tait in further revival meetings.
The advertisement claims Hall’s Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. It states the medicine is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces and offers One Hundred Dollars for any case it cannot cure.
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