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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
3
The Montana and Northern Idaho forests logged eight class A fires for the week ending July 14, all caused by lightning, railroads, or traction engines. No damage or extra costs reported. The weekly and cumulative summaries list fires, manpower, and causes as improvements push toward fire suppression efficiency in district one.
Officials announce parcel post stamps will be interchangeable with regular government stamps. A new insurance rate sets five cents for parcels up to 25 dollars and ten cents for values 25 to 50 dollars. The post office will abolish parcel stamps once current stock runs out. The six months to June 30 show parcel post is self supporting and revenue generating. Regular stamps will be accepted on parcel post shipments.
The Montana State Fair announces September 22 to 27 with a premium total of 28614 dollars an increase of 8000 over 1912. The Helena event shows more entries, three women only divisions, a Boys and Girls Contest, a county display emphasis, and attractions including aviatrix Blanche Scott vaudeville acts and a Wild West show.
Mrs Story recalls King Edward visiting Skibo and meeting Margaret Carnegie's nurses. The child’s day nursery displayed a large portrait of the king and required visitors to bow before speaking. The king complied, then met the girl and her nurses. The note ends with an ad for Foley Kidney Pills from Potts the Druggist.
The Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier born December 17 1807 in Haverhill Massachusetts died September 7 1892 in Hampton Falls New Hampshire. He worked on a farm learned slipper making taught school edited abolitionist weekly papers and faced a sacked and burned office. He served briefly as secretary of an anti slavery society in New York and contributed poems to periodicals including Atlantic Monthly. His poetry enjoyed great vogue with many works later published in books and Snow Bound is among his best known.
In Edwin J. Dingle's Across China on foot a practical note warns that American goods must be thoroughly packed for inland transport. It cites Germans and Japanese as mastering the method while British and American makers show carelessness amid challenging eight inch track roads.
Franklin recalls attending a Whitefield sermon and initially withholding charity before yielding vast donations. He describes his pocket’s contents from copper to gold as Whitefield’s rhetoric moved him. The two men grew close, but Franklin notes Whitefield never saw his conversion.
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