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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1917
Page
4
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Tribune asks subscribers who do not receive papers regularly to notify the office. The paper is published regularly and all subscribers should receive it on time.
The Kentucky governor, Stanley, faced a cloud over his title from a narrow election win but deserves praise for going unescorted to a town where a negro accused of crime faced lynching threats. He overawed the mob and ensured due process, giving the negro his rights and setting an example for southern governors to protect civil rights under law.
The piece notes two Jackson Day celebrations in Indianapolis with contrasting eras. It recalls President Wilson’s 1913 remarks on Mexican affairs and reports the Republican inauguration of a new governor, Goodrich, amid a push for reform after eight years of Democratic rule.
The CIBC head asserts Canadians prefer domestic chartered enterprises using Canadian labor and materials and warns US tariff shifts once favored by Republicans and rejected by Democrats. He notes postwar trade shifts and calls for cautious approaches to foreign competition. He also mentions a Dillon Normal College dormitory funding request of 50 000 to ease housing shortages.
C. E. Tarr of Billings operates a dual coal and ice business and serves customers year round. He handles heat and cold with equal readiness, ensuring supplies come regardless of weather.
The town reports about one in five homes own a phonograph and one in twenty own an automobile. In the nearby countryside around Dillon nearly every farm house has both phonograph and automobile.
Congressman Stone a Democrat from Illinois and ex-Congressman Townsend of New Jersey are labeled lame ducks and slated for posting to Peoria and another postmaster role respectively as part of a Republican wave.
Mr. Lansing describes the Allies reply as plain and unambiguous. Bradstreet lists ninety three Dillon businesses. The advertisement pages conceal the true state of local industry as clamping trends spread.
The State Commission met in Dillon City Hall with Commissioner Boyle presiding and Chief Interrogator Rhodes leading. Witnesses included Mayor J H Gilbert, Water Commissioner Phil Anderegg, Leonard Eliel, and engineer W B Saunders who examined records and the water plant. Saunders found eleven years of operation yielded about 122000 in water charges, 82000 in warrants, 43000 for interest and sinking funds, and 22000 used to retire bonds from external sources. He will prepare a full report and decision later, including a study of the present meter rate.
The commission debated the present bookkeeping and depreciation gaps in the water department. Mr Saunders argued rates are too high and minimum meter charges should vary by meter size. After lengthy talks, the commission adjourned to Helena and will notify the local department of any rate changes.
The article notes a budget provision boosting salaries for 11 messengers and 61 assistants in the Adjutant General division, with 16 more assistants than all other bureaus combined, and bars reassignment to other bureaus. It cites Democratic frustration and Republican pushback over investigations into a leak related to the President’s peace note.
A campaign to set up a United States land office in Ditton aims to manage increasing land business for Beaverhead and Madison counties and possibly extend to Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties.
Readers learn of a cure for catarrh claimed by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad asserts a constitutional remedy taken internally, promises a $100 reward for failures, and urges sending testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio. It ends with a drugstore endorsement and a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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