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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
4
Government notice outlines how to prevent water logging on dirt roads. It urges raising the road center to create gentle slopes into broad side ditches, ensuring ditches remain open to let water drain toward streams. Poor drainage causes softened soil and wheel rut damage.
The article explains road drainage fixes such as open ditches, underdrainage trenches, and gravelling with stones to manage ground water. It recommends rebuilding driveways to avoid pipes, raising roads over low ground, and using road drags after rain to keep surfaces smooth. It notes extended essay deadlines and prizes for rural school students.
Farmers of Montana plan early for vegetables grains grasses fruits for display at the September state fair. Beaverhead commercial club may announce extra premiums for prize winners at state or county fairs. Merchants may join with a Farmers Wives Bargain Shopping day featuring special sales to boost business and save money for farmers.
President Lowell argues boys should start college at 17 and marry young. He says men enroll between 18 and 19, four years in college, then pursue law or medicine, gaining real experience before marriage. He asserts early education fosters faster friendship, less harmful indiscretions, and greater maturity for college purposes.
Miss Julia Frenk known as Mother Frank dies at 72 in West Stone Creek. She raised 10 children and attended Memorial Day services for 40 years. For over 50 years a light burned in her window awaiting her Union Army sweetheart who died at Bull Run. The farm goes to an unmarried sister with a stipulation the light remains lit.
W P Czech in Russia asks Montana’s agriculture commissioner about 207 men seeking to settle in the United States. Mr Kennedy replies Montana offers fertile land a favorable climate and strong opportunities with homesteads or land sales.
Colonel Harry L. Bowlby, Oregon highway engineer and noted road expert, will speak at the Kalispell Montana Good Roads congress on July 15 and 16. He will present an illustrated lecture titled The Value of Good Roads to an Undeveloped State with stereopticon views from Maryhill.
A poem fragment contrasts moods of life with self as the sole determinant. It describes happiness and sadness shaped by personal state, noting a world that shifts from hate to beauty depending on one’s outlook. The verse closes on self reflection.
M. M. Sills, Helena pioneer journalist, notes Montana’s steady expansion and thriving towns. He asserts mixed farming yields the best returns and says increasing attention to this agriculture branch reflects a broader rural awakening.
In Dillon, a performer on Main Street tents bites by rattlers. One snake nine feet strikes with blood drawn. The act risks blood poisoning and possible death. The tale links Luther King, Rattlesnake King, to historic bites and a long comatose spell after August episodes in Idaho.
California builds an elevated double track rail line in Oakland to segregate suburban electric trains from main line traffic. The 3844 foot structure elevates after Twentieth street to Sixteenth street depot, with four tracks to separate electric and steam traffic, easing ferry and excursion crowds for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915.
Miles City Montana June 16 Governor Sam V Stewart must officially accept to head the historical pageant of the Miles City Round Up and Frontier Day Celebration or face questions. A local cowboy equipment maker is crafting Angora chaps silver mounted spurs leather cuffs Stetson to fit the governor who is comfortable in the saddle and known as a game sport. The pioneers expect a parade feature never before duplicated.
Bozeman June 16 David R De Muth 28 civil engineer for Montana Reservoir and Irrigation Co drowned while trying to recover oars from a capsized boat on the Madison River. Body not recovered as floodwaters rage. a Montana State College alumnus class of 1909, married last September to Arline Lewis.
Miles City Mont June 16 At a Montana Division Yellowstone Trail meeting the road committee ordered the engineering department to submit an estimate for a new steel bridge over the Little Missouri river near Marmarth North Dakota The bridge would complete the highway from the Twin Cities to Yellowstone Park spanning about 1100 miles The cost will be shared by Montana Minnesota and the two Dakotas
An advertisement claims deafness from inflammation of the Eustachian tube can only be cured constitutionally. It asserts nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers $100 for any deafness due to catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars free from F. J. Caney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Sold by Druggists 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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