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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1896
Page
1
Kupfer's Jewelry thanks patrons for past year support and wishes health wealth and happiness. They express hope for a prosperous New Year and reaffirm their aim to please and offer the best goods at low prices in 1896.
Beaverhead Lima and Dillon writers report social events, school clerk issues, and county happenings. Notes include dances, Maccabees, and local politics, plus mines at Bannack and new year reflections amid snowbound country.
Dec. 30 dispatch reports persistent bluster and fog with no sun for weeks. A Courtney of Lake hires Lawyer Barbour to defend his brother Jim in a Mammoth Springs buffalo case. Others attend the trial slated for the 26th while a Madison basin hunter named Johnson is arrested in Butte for selling game. Lake fishing halted due to market glut and low prices as Eastasley and Garner drive forty head of horses over.
The passage describes a dance at Tom Clark's hosted by Robert Boatman with 35 valley attendees, a late-night celebration ending after breakfast, and hopes for continued sociability. It notes Paterson of Monida returning from Missouri with a wife, new housekeeping, various travels, and health updates including Mr. Fisher’s operation. Christmas was quiet, with neighborly gatherings and magazine gifts. French Tansy Tablets advertised for menstrual relief.
The column lists multiple brief items: Miss Mario Mewitt leads the College Glee Club, Mrs. Cleveland and children will stay in Woodley until Christmas, Miss May Stone chosen as secretary for Michigan university medicos, the wife of a famed planter died at Naples aged four, Rachel Elam died in Chicago after 60 years there, Mrs. Addis aiding Oakland police, several women pros, Miss Edith Morton founded Rhinecliff free library, Mrs. Levi P. Morton opened Ellerslie, Mrs. Lillie Pardee plans Utah state senate run, Eugenie’s feet noted, Frances Willard on women’s issues and skycycles, Annie Besant’s early life and shift to theosophy, and delightful notes on Miss Maurie Meredith Read’s marriage to Count Max De Fords alongside her father General Meredith Read.
Gayly colored hats and velvet sleeve gowns dominate this season's fashion report. Fabrics include Fiurettes boucle Scotch hectner mixed cheviots and English tweeds with elegant capes and flowered satin trimmings. Travel cloaks in dark green waterproof cloth feature detachable capes while feather tips and clipped plumage in black elevate bat trims.
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