Dillon’s Fourth of July Celebrations in the City
The town marked Independence Day with sunrise cannon salutes and a large parade led by the Dillon Brass Band and Co. E M N G. Miss Madie Rife rode in the Liberty Car among forty four girls, and Judge Galbraith delivered an energetic patriotic oration. Baseball Argenta vs Dillon followed, then cow pony and broncho events, races, wrestling, and a grand fireworks display. The evening featured Co E M N Gs ball at the opera house with 75 couples, decorated hall, and skilled music and prompts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welkin Ring
Major McClusky
Upman
Argenta
Montana
Opera House
Dillon Brass Band
R. A. Sullivan
T. J. Murray
Co. E. M.N.G
David Lamont
Madie Rife
Goddess of Liberty
Dillon
Sebree
Idaho
Orr
Washington
Washinton
Helena
Bannack
Galbraith
America
Thor
Argenta Vs. Dillon
T.J. Murray
Guy Fishburn
Jake Fishburn
Argenta Battery
St. John’s
Masons
Messrs. Sullivan
Leipserger
Withers
Hawsworth
Professor Couture
Butte
DILLON AND VICINITY Dashes and notices from the Tribune
In Dillon the issue lists bound magazines for binding, local real estate on Atlantic street and house sales, a Sunday Baptist sermon by Rev. Prichard, a Idaho couple marrying, brick work on a new block, hay crop queries, and machinery sales. It notes Anna Hart moving to Odd Fellows Building and upcoming millinery arrivals. A boxing result in which Sullivan defeats Stroader, promotion for Golden Leafstore, a pen knife stabbing in Gibbonsville, and upcoming trials for gambling without a license and an assault with a deadly weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saux
Olear
Atlantic Street
John Brunpace
Mr. Prichard
The
Baptist Church
Ella Sperry
W. T. Edwards
Gibbonsville
Idaho
J. R. Holden
Frank Alllen
Florence Hunt
M. L. Davidson
Idaho Recorder
Killed by Lightning at Dillon Ranch
William Tracey a young man employed by William Mauldin on his Dillon ranch was struck by lightning while irrigating in an open field about 5 p m Monday. He died instantly. a companion cried out then pulled him from fire in his clothes. Tracey, from Fort Lupton Colorado, aged about 20, had lived in Dillon six weeks and worked here two. His body was shipped to Fort Lupton after an inquest. The Beaverhead county coroner’s inquest returned a verdict that Tracey died from lightning strike while at work on the ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ora Rafferty
Easly
Williams
Rafferty
Arthur Wills
Josh Galbraith
Cliff Bliven
Joe Williams
Tom Taylor
John Hirschman
Progres
Campbell
Sullivan
William Tracy
William Tracey
William T. Mauldin
Tracey
William Mauldin
George J. Tracey
Fort Lupton
Colorado
Dover
Dillon
State of
Montana
Beaverhead
Holden
I. Cashmore
Andrew Armstrong
Red Rock
No 5
Armstrong
Mountain View Cemetery
Town notes from Dillon residents and visitors in daily life
A collage of names and movements shows Allan Wheeler in Helena and Mrs. Stancil in Salt Lake City while many others travel or visit Dillon. Mentions include Mrs. J P Wenrich in Ban nack, Mrs. Halliday returning from Butte, Theodore McKinney in the City of Smoke, and Matilda Galbraith heading to Butte. Several officials, merchants, and families from Dillon mingle with figures from Butte, Anaconda, Sheridan, Philadelphia, and Paris Idaho, with court, railroad, and business notes woven through a busy week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Wheeler
Helena
Mrs. Stancil
Salt Lake City
J. P. Wenrich
Bannack
H. R. Pierson
Dewey
T. B. Craver
Red Rock
Dillon
Charles Bliven
Polaris
E. H. Brundage
Sheridan
Anna Conehay
Minneapolis
W. A. Jones
J.J. Cusick
Wilhelm Bernstine
M. Berger, Jr
Lima
Townsend Ewards
Gibbonsville
E. V. Maze
Butte
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Sidney D. Hooker
Bozeman
Thomas Fox
Anna Mueller
Argenta
Nan
Sadie L. Galbraith
Philadelphia
Judge Galbraith
Nat Davis
Malad
Idaho
Enterprise
Caleb Davis
William Lane
Lynberg
Paris
Stephen Doring
Herman
Henry Shough
St. Joseph
Missouri
William Herman
Adolph Elel
N. G. M. L. Davidson
Davidson
Gibbonsville Mercantile Company
J A
Arthur
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Cushing &Sons
Montana Street
Mont
Freed & Timer
Fishburn Shesser
J. Fishburn
BGK
Sivesee
Frank Landon
James Selway
Henry Williams
Grand Stand
Dillon and Vicinity
the Tribune
E. I
Richard Nelson
Marshal McIntosh
Nelson Brothers
Axsert R. Crawtorp
Henry Brows
B. E. Henprick
Pam Torre
Cuarvey E. Cox
G. R. Fratherny
Cal
Elphonso Youngs, Jr
Washington, D. C
Youngs
Pearson
Sim Estes
Carter
Kent
Estes
Weazle
R. C. Halliday
Walter Noyes
Hammer & Moore
Dillon Implement Co
Temple Hotel
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