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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
5
Local items note Mrs Eunice Selway visiting Whitehall and Uncle Billy Blair from Horse Prairie. The Deering binder is praised for cutting and elevating grain. Various residents travel, visit, and conduct business. local offices and merchants are listed along with social events and arrivals.
A letter to the Metlen hotel from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Metlen now in Rochester Minnesota reports Mr Metlen not recovering satisfactorily after a five week old surgical operation. Their planned return to Dillon this week was postponed as his condition grew weaker and the family waited.
Prof W E Matlack of Butte will give another organ recital at St James church next Thursday evening August 2 at 8 30. Admission is free but a 25 cent offering is encouraged.
Fred Conger, well known in our City, opens a plumbing and tin shop at the old Dillon Heating & Plumbing Co stand. With a first class workman, he warrants all work for satisfaction in quality and prices and expects to open immediately.
An article extols nature sparing the rose from sorrow and notes hair loss in young women linked to a germ in hair follicles. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a germ-killing remedy, claiming it allows natural hair growth and offering samples for 10 cents through The Herpikids Co. Detroit and City Drug Store as agents.
Bert Paul hosted a large wedding celebration ball in Monida at the M Y building. More than a hundred guests from Dillon, Lima, Centennial valley and Idaho attended. William's orchestra provided music and dancing ran past daylight with elaborate evergreen and lantern decorations.
The Beaver Head County High School board elected Prof. D. C. Fist of Adel Iowa as science and agriculture teacher replacing Prof. Westergaard. A levy of one and a half mills for school support and a quarter mill for interest and sinking was approved, marking a reduction from two years ago while salaries rose and another teacher was added. The board notes that other state high schools have increased levies this year.
Extensive development begins Wednesday on bonded claims in the Elkhorn area under Dillon Mine Syndicate led by A B Clements with backing from eastern investors. The Park claim shows two ore ledges and grades 4 percent lead 5 percent copper and 40 ounces silver per ton as a three hundred foot shaft is sunk with three shifts.
Dayton of Pocatello a 30 year old brakeman on the Oregon Short Line was killed Wednesday in Lima yards while switching. He fell from the train and both a arm and a leg were severed by the wheels. He died shortly after. He bid his wife farewell in his last moments. His wife and two children reside in Pocatello. Dayton was highly respected by railroad men.
A cloudburst last Sunday caused major damage along Beaverhead River washing out the railroad track for miles and destroying the wagon bridge and county road. A freight train stalled by washouts delayed traffic about ten hours though repairs were underway. A second cloudburst at Horse Prairie reportedly ruined alfalfa on Dave Metlen's ranch as gravel and dirt covered pasture.
The death of Mrs. Charles W. Majors near Jackson was reported to Dillon last night. She had been in delicate health since moving to Beaverhead county seven years ago and died sooner than expected. Aged about 45, she lived with her husband on a ranch one mile from Jackson and left a grown son.
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