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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1897
Page
8
The ad offers a $1000 prize plus $150 each to the two people who send the most yellow tickets in one envelope. The contest runs from June 15 through August 31 with a note to cut out and mail. Address listed as Schilling's Best Tea San Francisco.
Local items report visits by Sheriff Padley and W. A. Clark, tavern beer at Brainard Williams, hay moving machines, new paint at Cox and Pyle, and a rush of summer normal students. Oregon Short Line ticket sale offers 1000 mile books at 30 dollars. Also notes missing Albert Schmidt, a marriage license in Wisdom Montana, and various health and business notices.
The Oregon Short Line expands to three divisions Utah Idaho and Montana due to business growth. C A Boies is named Montana division superintendent with headquarters at Pocatello Idaho. D A Boies named Montana division superintendent and E C Manson chief dispatcher with Shufflebarger roadmaster and M D Rice roadmaster for sections. Boies born Wisconsin 1876 began at Union Pacific in 1876 serving in various railroad roles.
A dialogue sketches a maid heading to the drug store for a package of Tea. The exchange hints at the maid’s nightly use of the product and ends with a noting that Parks Tra is sold at N M White Drug Store.
Presbyterian church invites parents to present children for baptism Sunday morning. evening program features general theme with organ violin and choir accompanied by Miss Blanche Miller. Pioneers Semi Centennial Jubilee Salt Lake July 20 24 U S L offers $12 75 round trip Dillon to Salt Lake tickets on sale July 18 28 inclusive return by July 26.
Mrs E G Cattermole offers portrait drawing classes with crayon and sepia using improved methods. Anyone can learn. For terms and details apply at the Methodist parsonage before July 30.
Do You Keep Houe If so you cannot afford to be without a bottle of Parks' Cough Syrup where it will be handy. Unequalled in Croup Whooping Cough and the disagreeable colds to which children are subject.
In the Clerk and Recorder’s Office R Martin and H F Jackson filed water locations. Tilda Peterson and Clara Dixon filed water locations, and O K Paul and colleagues filed a quartz location.
Local note urges stopping quail killings along the river until numbers rise, quoting Phil Lovell as asking readers to heed the restraint. Montana State Normal College in Dillon announces fall sessions starting September 6 with a summer normal July 26 to August 20, low tuition under $20 and rail fare at one fifth of the price. Special low round trip rates to Butte and Anaconda races run June 26 to July 12 and July 27 to August 28 with OSL tickets offered on Wednesdays and Fridays, final return limits set.
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