Fourth Celebrated by Dances in Lakeview and Lake
Special correspondence from Lakeview reports quiet Fourth with two late-night dances. Ed Stanley hosted a barn dance near the hayloft drawing about 100 from the valley. Saturday night about 50 joined at the same place for music until midnight. Local residents and visitors attended, and fencing activity and homestead updates filled the rest of the week amid variable rain and blossoming hay fields.
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The
Tribune
Lakeview
Lake
Ed Stanley
H. Wetmore
Goldie Wetmore
J. Cale
Sutherland
Cecil Wetmore
Mathew
Herman Reis
H. Cale
Company
Hay
Tom Sherman
Mr. Fruin
Tom O’connors
Butte
John Shambow
Monida
J. Hanson
J.galahan
Ella Hammond
Fagen
Lima
Picnic Springs
Joe
Frank Jones
Ben Hart
Alaska
T. Metgel
E. H. Sherman
Madison Valley
Baker
Johnny Jones
F. I. Hansen
Price
Dillon
Granger
Rochester Fourth Celebrated With Games And Drills
Rochester July 8 The Fourth celebration drew the largest crowd yet with morning baseball between Rochester and Twin Bridges, a Watseca vs Butte fall game, races, tugs of war and a drilling contest won by Sheridan. A grand ball closed the day with Sheridan band and Corbett's orchestra providing music. Local couples Joe Brower and Ann Vann married last Friday in Butte and will soon move to Hauling.
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Tribune
Rochester
Twin Bridges
Watsecas
Buttes
Sheridan Boys
Sheridan Band
Corbett
Watseca Boys
Butte
Joe Brower
Anns Vann
Butta
Butte Visitors Enjoy Fourth on Birch Creek and Local Creeks
Special correspondence notes many Butte residents spending the Fourth on Birch Creek and nearby creeks, mountains, and river. Dillon men McKinney and Kennedy visited Lost Creek saw mill, while Jacob Tomlanovach returned from Grasshopper. Families picnic and readied lumber trips to Dillon. Sugarloaf mountain whitened with snow.
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Tribune
Wits
J. B. McKinney
Dan Kennedy
Dillon
Lost Creek
Jacob Tomlanovach
Grasshopper
Butte
August Fitchen
Julius Hartwig
Wm. Lovell
Zeigler Springs
Math Polich
M. Tomlanovach
Jackson Fourth Celebrants Enjoyed the Holiday
Vince reports from July 7 that the Big Hole Basin correspondence notes the Fourth of July celebration at Jackson, with participants enjoying the event to a remarkable degree and plans to continue coverage on page nine.
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Trisuar
Vince
Jackson
Trisa
Apsley House to be sold amid London talk
Report mentions Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner with Wellington ties and a plan to sell the property amid debate over the great name legacy. It notes the house’s famed picture gallery and china room, the banquets after Waterloo, and the likelihood that a financier may soon occupy the residence.
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Apsley House
Duke of Wellington
Marquis of Wellesley
Prince of Finance
London
Piccadilly
Hyde Park Corner
Salmon River Country Rooming News and Local Rail Talks
Stage traffic to Salmon City grows with rail prospects boosting Salmon River country. Dell thrives as Lima hosts Fourth celebrations and hotel owner Truax plans improvements. Japs leave Oregon Short Line crews for Colorado while Greeks replace some workers. wages and work conditions affect reliability. A Lima fire alarm incident at Oregon Short Line dining house draws attention.
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Salmon River
Salmon City
Bedrock
Salmon
Dell
Lima
Dillon
Peat Hotel
C. S. Truax
L. C. Ford
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Roosevelt
Northwest
B. F. Chooney
Oregon
Montana
Colorado
United States
Oregon Short Line
Julia Grant
Dillon Girls Lose Outdoor Basketball Game at Twin Bridges
The Dillon girls lost 5 to 10 to Twin Bridges on the Fourth in an outdoor game. Twin Bridges hired taller players from Butte and Lulu Sinzel. Dillon's team faced rough play, but enjoyed the day with rooters and a dance afterward. Miss Holt chaperoned the party with notable tact.
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Twin Bridges
Dillon
Brill
Lulu Sinzel
Butte
Miss Holt
A Good Citizen Gone Pioneer Christopher Burfeind Dies
Christopher Burfeind a Dillon pioneer died Wednesday after a brief illness of stomach catarrh. Born December 24 1835 in Hanover Germany he came to the United States in 1861 and later settled near Dillon engaging in ranching and commerce. He built the Montana Mercantile block with his brother J H Burfeind and led firms in Deweys and Gibbonsville. He married Sophia Peterson about eleven years ago and was notable for his energetic civic leadership and honest business conduct. Funeral Friday at his home with Rev S D Hooker officiating. interment Mountain View cemetery.
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Dillon
Christopher Burfeind
Mr. Burfeind
Hanover
Germany
J. H. Burfeind
California
Montana
Montana Mercantile Company
L. C. Fyhrie & Co
Eliel-Burfeind Company
Deweys
Gibbonsville Mercantile Company
Gibbonsville
Burfound Brothers
J. L. Weiser
Sophia Peterson
Burfeind
Lutheran Church
S. D. Hooker
Mountain View Cemetery
Beets, Crime Rise as Idaho Falls Man Dies
Deputy Sheriff Ingersoll arrives from Idaho Falls pursuing a man who fatally stabbed a victim who later identified his assailant. The Falls reports constant crime, a new $800,000 beet sugar plant employing about 400, with day wages high. A girl of fourteen earns $2.60 daily amid labor shortages and migrant child workers from Utah.
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Ingersoll
Idaho Falls
North
Ing
Utah
Indian Founds Horse Belonging to Rancher Then Is Arrested
An Bannack tribe member who found a lost horse in town sought the chief’s approval to reclaim it. Perry later detained the Indian, alleging ownership, while the horse had previously been with Perry for three years and used by him without notice. The case remains unsettled.
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Bannack
Perry
Butte
Jail Contract Let in Madison County
A special county commissioners session canvassed bids for a new Madison County jail. Bids from Phil Anderegg and Frank Birrer were received. Anderegg won at 8 176 for plan compliant work, 8 134 with existing floor, plus 3 per perch rock foundation. Heating contract awarded to Dart Hardware for 800 despite Wentworth bid of 700. Beaverhead prisoners to be confined in the Madison jail during construction.
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Phil Anderegg
Frank Birrer
Dart Hardware Company
Wentworth & Co
Great Falls
Parker
Madison’ County
Beaverhead County
Fruit Inspectors Meet at Butte
State fruit inspectors assembled in Butte for a two day session led by the state board of horticulture under E N Brasdigee with reviews and directives for quality standards and inspection procedures.
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Butte
State Board of Horticulture
E. N. Brasdigee
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