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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
5
The readable OCR lists rail service numbers and directions for several train types including no 8 southbound mail and express no 7 northbound mail and express no 10 southbound passenger no 9 northbound passenger no 20 local freight north and no 28 local freight south.
Prices paid for wholesale produce at press time include butter per pound Sas 20 25 Eggs per dozen 26 30 Potatoes per sack 40 50 Wheat per bushel 90 100 Data per bushel 90 1.00 Timothy baled 11.00 11.50 Blue joint baled 9.50 10.00 Wild hay baled 7.50 8.00 Alfalfa 7.25 7.50
Lead price four dollars eighty seven cents per ounce and copper at seventeen dollars for exchange. J W Morton sells barbed wire and other goods. R W Christian from Bannack visited town. Morton's prices for barbed wire advertised. Hitt R W Boyle acted as Masquerade floor manager. Al J Noyey left for Salt Lake City for Live Stock show. Edgar A Brooke of Dillon granted patent for a brake lever. Examination week at the high school with about seventy students. F W Vogler of Redrock Salmon Gibbonsville Stage Co ill at home but improving. Sheridan reports severe grip epidemic. herbal remedy advertised. Tarpuna Medicine Lodge notes stag hounds aiding coyotes depopulation on the Prairie. L J Williams guarantees Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy with money-back offer after two-thirds used. Pricing and medical claims appear in advertisements.
The town lists a local tailor Tremeum Smart offering suits and urging patrons to visit his shop. Morton's carries 40ft buggies and road wagons. Various notices mention residents visiting, social events, church topics, and local trades including furnished houses for rent and store changes.
G H Olmstead moves to the Montana division as superintendent. L Maloy, appointed superintendent January first, resigns due to ill health. In a readjustment on the thirteenth E H Williams becomes train master replacing B S Castle, who becomes chief dispatcher.
Wood and associates report a promising graphite delta twelve miles from Dillon located about a year ago with developing work in recent months. The mineral shows at the grassroots and a grade mineable by carload exists, while purer ore lies in rock and seams widen with depth. Wood and company have orders for a carload of the best grade worth eight cents a pound.
The Dillon orchestra held a large masked ball at Dart's ball last Wednesday evening with about 50 masked couples and over 1000 spectators. The event featured diverse costumes and excellent music by A. B. Coon, R. A. Sullivan, G. W. Urowell, Alf. Cashmore, and Prof. Pasmore. Dancers unmasked at 11 15 and joined in, then supper followed and dancing continued past 3 o'clock.
Young George Lennox suffered a severe hand wound when a 22 caliber gun discharged by Johnny Albers during a muskrat hunting trip near the brewery. The bullet pierced the back of his hand, severing an artery, but a makeshift bandage knot helped limit bleeding until Dr. Bond treated him.
The Dillon Social Club announces a dance called givét on Friday evening January 26 at Darts Hall. The event is organized by the club committee and invites members.
John Penaluna, about 60, died in Lima Monday evening from pneumonia after a short illness begun Saturday. He was a respected engineer with ties to Bannack and Melrose lodges of the IOOF. Survived by brothers Mike Penaluna of Bannack and another near Salt Lake, plus a Banack nephew and a three year old Grasshopper Creek girl who mused on where God lives, hinting Sheridan as his home. Deceased buried Wednesday at Lima under Lima Lodge No. 45 IOOF.
Advertises Krause's Cold Cure capsules that fit into a busy day. Claims a 24 hour cure and a price of 25 cents sold by City Drug store. Also lists horses for sale and a note about broken and unbroken draught horses and a manager Jas. Krgxrataion.
Delegates from across the United States converge on Salt Lake City for the annual livestock and agricultural association convention. Thousands attend with over 4,000 delegates already in town, hearing top speakers and enjoying a Mormon Tabernacle musical program led by the 500-voice choir. The event is organized into departments to suit attendees, with a notable Beaverhead delegation among the large regional contingents.
T. E. Smith and Miss Jessie G. Selway of Dillon Montana were married on Tuesday January 8 in the Berke House parlors with Rev A J Frost officiating. The ceremony drew only the bride and groom’s parents and a few relatives as orange blossoms roses calla lilies and ferns adorned the rooms.
A Chicago hair specialist showed Inter Ocean reporters under a microscope that dandruff germs thrive in vaseline and greasy hair products. He urged using Newbro's Herpicide as the sole remedy to destroy the dandruff germ and prevent hair loss.
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