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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1888
Page
8
The mail schedule notes a daily service except Sundays with certain opening hours. Departures occur at 7 or 7:00 and arrivals at 2 or 2:30 from Lake Deer Lodge and Paint. stops include Oystea and master Ey agateiowh. The letters indicate a change overseen by T. W. Poindexter and Y. M.
Local notice from Hennett Bros details taking notice of harvest season terms. It mentions payment for grain and fiber, season dates, and wage preferences for workers, with emphasis on timely payment and favored conditions for certain laborers. The fragmentary text references various names and roles without complete clarity.
Fragmentary text describes arrivals and items with difficult phrases. It mentions names like Ty and Diba and fleeting references to prices and goods. The garbled lines resemble a disrupted 19th or early 20th century catalog or notice.
A scattered 19th century style listing shows grocers and hardware suppliers offering goods and services in Dillon and Butte. It includes wagon and farm implement arrivals, dress goods and underwear items, cabinet pictures, and a public sale notice with terms. Also mentions photography by Weenink, real estate for sale, and legal clerk duties.
A garbled late 19th or early 20th century market page lists items for sale and local notices. Mentions wax products, hardware, butter, and fresh goods. Descriptions reference a fairground setting with vendors, services, and a weekly sale context.
Fragmented readable details describe local scenes including personalities, a street view on Montasa and Crowell Nuckolls, and mentions of digestion topics and a remedy claim. The text mixes advertising style with scattered names and places from a town notice.
Dillon prepares for Independence Day with a patriotic program and special Utah & Northern train service from Spring Hill Red Rock Horse Prairie and Medicine Lodge. Volunteers from Grace M L Church and First Baptist oversee refreshments while arena grounds near the new Court House Square host sports and festivities.
A concert presented by the blind musician Mrs Heine and Miss Heine was held at Hapthi Church on Monday evening. The program promised a varied range from simple humorous pieces to classic music, with noted violinist Prot deise praised for his pairing on the instrument and duets and songs featured in the program.
A fragmented report describes Shire Marsessata 4 and related horses from Bushnell Ab importing stallions to Stidlians for sale in Deidian Startser Sarapaen. The stallion was sold to Min Van Carpe ot Resetatts, noted as a top Shire horse in Ancerteas Bidwell. Breeders and horse traders are mentioned with limited readable details.
Deputies arrest two men Baxter and Ashley suspected of robbing a Challis to Blackfoot stage at Lone Pine. The haul included Dickens Creek Custer gold silver bullion and valuables worth over 2000. They are held in Dillon awaiting Idaho requisition for transfer and preliminary hearing at Challis.
New Messenger and Frelight Degeots report Supt Resseguie and officials surveyed sites for a passenger depot and a freight depot in Dillon. The passenger depot will adjoin the present old depot to the south, while the freight depot rises on the coal house corner of Montana and Bannack streets. The plan aims to improve facilities for growing business and serve patrons in the region.
Fragmentary notice reports thieves loading ten bars of the base metal from Glendale smelter wagon bound for the railroad at Roth's ranch near Melrose. Details about the bars and safety marks are obscured by garbled OCR text.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a local brief with scattered names and dates. The readable portion hints at a market event and a chess reference but lacks coherent facts.
A roundup of residents and visitors in the region includes George Savage and others traveling to Butte on business, captains and deputies visiting, musical engagements, and social calls. Notables include U S District Attorney Smith in Butte, Miss Susie J. Douglas copying in the County Clerk's office, and youths from St Marys Academy returning home for summer.
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