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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
1
Beaverhead and Madison counties send in a weekly digest of correspondence from Dillon, Lima, Grant and Redrock. Notes include travel between towns, cattle markets, marriage notices, local business trips, and community events with mentions of Eljah Ames and Rosa Sprague marriage cards, copper mining, and schoolhouse lectures.
The correspondence reports unusually fine weather with little sleighing, a crowded Lakeview hotel dance the morning of the 4th, and attendees Mrs S B Burnside and Annie Larson from Monida. It mentions Tom Yost visiting, a discovered skeleton of a man near the mountains linked to a past missing person named George Humphrey, and notes the death of J Tibbles of Craig Neb. in his yard from a paralytic stroke. J A Fischer and wife relocate from Lakeview to their ranch.
M Fisher of Liberty West Virginia repeats global praise for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as a universal cure for coughs and croup. He reports long use with perfect success and claims it has saved children’s lives. Available at City Drug Store in Dillon.
State Senator Norris of Dillon, acting for Governor Smith, says the State Normal School at Dillon expects a visit this week by the state board of education. The board decided at its last meeting to attend the commencement Friday, with several members likely to go, and Senator Norris will confer diplomas on six graduates. The school is described as flourishing. this will be the board’s first visit to the institution.
George D Williams of Manchester Michigan describes the relief his wife found after years of helplessness. He credits two bottles of Electric Bitters with restoring her ability to turn in bed and perform her own work. The story frames Electric Bitters as a supreme remedy for female diseases and general weakness.
The State Normal graduates its first English scientific class of six ladies: Edythe Cashmore, Katie Paxton, Mae Rich, Harrie Waldorf, Alice Chambers, and Mary Lewis. The baccalaureate sermon by Rev. S. D. Hooker was on Mark 9 23, and a record concert followed with large crowds and superb performances under Prof. Pasmore.
Last night at the normal, graduates of 1900 enjoyed a seamless program with Prof. Pasmore guiding an eight-girl ribbon pathway. Miss Katie Paxton spoke, Miss Edith Cashmore excelled as historian, Mae Rich sang The Normal Maid, Waldorf presented Twenty Years Hence, Phebe Comfort welcomed the grads, and Alice Chambers sang I Have Something Sweet to Tell You. The class prophecies and will reading by Mary O. Lewis drew laughs, concluding with an orchestra selection.
The passage discusses humankind’s belief in celestial signs predicting great events from ancient times to modern eras. It recalls eclipses and comets as foretellers of battles and rulers and cites Rome’s fall as emblem of ominous signs. The text then alludes to widespread belief and mentions tremors two years ago in Montana.
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