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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1904
Page
12
A traveling man praises Newbro`s Herpicide as a pleasant duty for scalp cleanliness and hair health. The advertisement claims it cures dandruff stops hair loss and itching and makes hair light and fluffy while appealing to both men and women. It urges readers to buy a gross and ships from Macon Georgia.
A long list of residents and visitors includes Edgar Ferris and F M Andrus of Medicine Lodge, P T McDermott of Butte, David Davies from Freman Canyon saw mill, and J Kennedy for Frye Bruhn Co Seattle. Also notes on a shoe sale, church services, and various local business updates. Lincoln birthday chicken pie supper planned by the G A R relief corps.
Katie Staudaker and John Ward have been ill for two weeks while Miss Julia White visits Miss Cora Taylor. Deputy Game Warden Henry Avare was in town on office matters. Rose Poindexter travelled from Butte for a sister's graduation. Invitations go out for a five oclock afternoon and a euchre party. Dr Poindexter opened an office at Bannack and Idaho with stated hours and a phone number. Bedrock residents attended the high school commencement including Mr and Mrs J W Scott and several locals.
Miss Dennis a woman evangelist who assisted Rev. R P Smith in a two week Dillon revival over a year ago conducts revival services in Mountain View M E church Butte. She preached zealously last Sunday and outdoors meetings have been held on Butte streets with Rev Bo vard and others. She will assist in Montana revival meetings as she travels from the east to the state. She is noted as the only lady to have ever served as pastor of an M E church in the United States.
Tomorrow marks the final day of the Golden Rose sale run by three churches. The Methodist group led this morning with $67 more than the Catholics and Presbyterians, who are pushing hard for the finish. Extra volunteers from each church join the effort, with Missee Rife and Bishop for the Presbyterians, Miss Clara and Nellie Sharkey for Catholics, and Misses Willard and Schuler for Methodists. The contest grows exciting and a big rush is expected tonight. Thos J Mulany of Grasshopper moved 130 head of fine beef steers last week, a mixed lot of twos and threes.
Some of the city’s retail merchants have posted placards announcing they will no longer purchase tickets for balls fairs or similar events from solicitors. Merchants say they are bothered continually by ticket sellers.
Whitefish Montana is described as the newest town in the state and has been made the chief railroad town on the Great Northern line, signaling a key role in regional rail traffic and development.
The Christian Science Reading Room in the Dillon Bank Building opens from 2 to 4 o clock every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday afternoon. All are welcome.
Bob Austin a colored man from Jackson was brought in with a broken leg after a saloon row in Jackson. County Physician Poin Dexter treated him and he was taken to the county poor farm for care.
This afternoon at the Normal in Assembly hall the eighth grade class public schools holds its graduation exercises. Ten students participate: Edith Noyes Alma Heflin Leola Cusick Alma Morse Vivian Streit Lillian Adams Ralph Strebs Fay Irwin Walter Stolle and Dick Price. The program starts at 4 30 p m.
At a Tuesday afternoon meeting of the fire and order committee chaired by Alderman Wolf the council reviewed thirteen fire hose samples. The selected hose bore the "Fonso" trade mark and matched a Dillon merchant J. W. Morton sample. Seven hundred fifty feet with fittings will be ordered immediately. A hose cart and a volunteer fire company will follow.
Mesdames W C Orr and J W Morton hosted a lively Normal commencement week gathering at Mrs Orrs on Wednesday evening. Sixty three was played, coffee ice cream and cake were served, then music and dancing until late. Attending were Misses Harriet Montana and Bernice Myers and their friends. A separate note reports petty thefts in the city Wednesday night including a buggy robe and whip from a church yard and other items.
Frank J Cheney of JF Cheney & Co testifies in Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The sworn statement dated December 1886 notes the product is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces, with sale through druggists at 75 cents and Hall's Family Pills recommended.
O B Morrison a mining man who owned mines in many western states spent a couple of days in Dillon visiting his brother in law John 8 Baker and cousin Al P Morrison. Tuesday M M McKeever Boston capitalist joined Morrison to inspect properties in Wyoming Utah and Idaho en route to Twin Bridges. Michael Hegarty from Birch Creek was in town Wednesday.
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