16 Jun 1893
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
1
Dell and neighboring towns report court news, a serious infant injury from a revolver incident, visitor notes, new births, mining chatter, and local business. Montanan correspondence highlights ranching, shipping cattle, and wear of russet shoes as everyday details color the community.
From Our Regular Correspondent McEvross June 14 Melrose to celebrate Independence Day with a ball in Robbins hall and supper at the hotel Fred and Eat Maddux enter the fruit business making regular wagon trips to nearby camps John Strebb’s brick kiln ready to fire construction on a two story hotel 40 by 60 feet will follow adding a new burg landmark Youth from Glen dale and Melrose gave Fred and Earl Maddux a pleasant surprise at their home with music and singing.
After dancing, guests enjoyed refreshments and lingered into the late hours. They departed with many good wishes for Mr. and Mrs. Maddux and their sons who had hosted a delightful evening.
Sim Estes begins June deliveries on the 26th to supply 100 to 200 head at $60 to $75 each with a second delivery likely in August. Also includes ads for Artistic Dressmaking, Fair and Racing Association meeting notes, a water tank plan for the track, boys injured and jailed robbing the roof, a boy named Ray Wilton who fell from a switchyard car, letter list for post office, and an auction on June 26 at Beaverhead stables Dillon for 40 range horses and 8 bulls from Thorps Livestock Co.
A Friday evening library event drew a good sized audience and ended after 11 o’clock. Net proceeds totaled about 50 dollars, donated to the library treasury for regular expenses. Thanks go to Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Norris, and other helpers.
Local items list visits by Al Marston from Deweys and D Laughlin from Argenta while noting no services at St James church. A Friday band concert is announced with 50 to 75 cent admission and plans for the program. Various residents and businesses are mentioned along with travel updates and medical ads.
Gingham sateen and calico wrappers offered as serviceable garments. Also a desirable residence on Idaho Street offered for sale at a reasonable figure. Inquiries directed to Otho Klemm. Subscribe for Tag TerBusE.
Snippet highlights include Tennyson defend Maud and Guinevere as top works, Millet painting sold in Brussels for 200000, and Paul du Chailly's gorillas and dwarfs stories deemed credible by the American Geographical Society. Also notes Amanda Brewster Sewell’s Adirondack roots and early discovery, Gilbert Parker described as Kipling-like, James Bryce praised as genial yet botanist, and Alexander Doyle at mobile work on a Raphael Semmes statue with a spoiled model.
A collection of brief items noting Rome catacomb deaths totaling about 6,090,000, Dutsburg’s ground history, color blindness research, Battle Creek women taxpayers and tax totals, Kneeland Valentine day decline, New York Good Samaritan dispensary poison closet, and halcyon days around the winter solstice with folklore on kingfisher birds.
The article notes 1850 towns in the United States now have electric lights. It mentions experimental electric leaf drying in Ceylon, a new delicate electrical thermometer in France for clinical use, and plans for two large liners with extensive electric lighting and lamps. It also reports opinions that arc lamps will be replaced by high efficiency incandescents offering more light per watt.
Snapshot items note Miss Een Terry as an avid quattear photographer with many albums. The Brooklyn Academy of Photography plans darkroom upgrades and incandescent lighting. William 73 of New York wins a silver marine photography medal, while C B Moore of Philadelphia earns a similar award for Tickled to Death a Calcutta scene. A Connecticut astronomer incidentally photographs a meteor near Andromeda, possibly a first.
Foreclosures hit 28 railroads as Central New York and Western buys 70 000 standard gauge ties for new track. Chicago and Northwestern ranks fourth with 7 951 miles. Chesapeake and Ohio splits into eastern and western sectors with Huntington as hub. Royal Blue gains gilt edge upgrades in passenger and baggage cars costs. Chicago and Alton perforate annual passes for night visibility. Michigan Central follows. Baltimore and Ohio bars end door ventilator loads with flammable material and rejects such cars from connections.
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