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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1888
Page
8
Fragmented page items announce sales and price cuts for apples and goods in Hilo. Dentists and stores advertise services and extended closing-out sales. Various names and dates indicate local merchants and upcoming offers in Montana and nearby towns.
Local notice states Magnolia Restaurant promises the best board in town with weekly or monthly seating. Mrs M Bray is mentioned in the fragment as a contributor or advertiser for the establishment.
The Dillon area reports cattle killed by Utah and Northern locomotives near Glen Station. Easter and All Fools Day warn readers to beware pranks. The Big Hole Lumber Co denies damming fish passage. Ladies invite Grace M E church tea on April 3. Insane woman committed to Warm Springs. Bail posted for cattle case defendants. District Court short term with new judge rumors. Grand Jury praises jail hospital offices and urges beef brand reporting and a new Dillon Court House proposal.
A special meeting of the Pioneers Society of Beaverhead County was held at the Court House to arrange the first annual gathering to be held in Dillon on Thursday May 24 1888. Joe A Browne was named president and Robt Wing as pro tem recording secretary. Honorary memberships were proposed for several out of county pioneers.
Two funerals were held Monday in Dillon including Mrs Margarette Wickiam aged about and the seven year old Lilly May Talent. Mrs Wickiam died of pneumonia after a short illness and Rev Bostwick led the Baptist Church service. Lilly May Talent suffered two weeks with meningitis and was laid to rest near Phil Poindexter’s cemetery.
Sheriff Jones and City Marshal Mulaney transfer Joseph Jaggers Reuben Pendrojf and Gus J Sheibbut to Butte for confinement in Silver Bow county jail until the next District Court term at Dillon unless bail is posted. Witnesses Austin Williams Howell Harris Samuel Eckjersley remain in custody with $1500 bail each. Brea Jones convicted of grand larceny for stealing a horse and sent to Territorial Penitentiary at Deer Lodge for a one year term.
The Bennett Brothers Co lists four columns and notes houses at South Butte Deer Lodge and Townsend. Lee Goetschius Co are Dillon agents with the firm holding a large stock of buggies carriages wagons and agricultural implements from top manufacturers. They state readiness to take farm products in exchange for their goods and offer the Tri ment subscription for 3.00.
Evins Bros presents a sales notice praising a wide selection of dress goods including colored silks, motley weaves, and changeable moire silks. The firm claims the stock is the most complete ever shown in the city and invites inspection.
WRGG notes Dillon will see substantial residence and business property development this summer. The piece highlights a push to attract builders, a skyline of modern homes, and a thriving furniture trade featuring Smyrna rugs, tapestries, cretonnes, and carpets from Eliots.
Mayor White is Red Rocking today. Prof John Gannon travels from Anaconda by today's train. Manager Rockwood of Tuscarora Co at Argenta visits Butte. Rev A K Baird Montana Presbyterians head to city. J M Goodwin Salt Lake Torbene rep spends day here. Hamilton upper Norse Prairie cattleman arrives from California. James McNab Salmon City visitor from the East. Lon Pickett from Glendale fails to land on Tom Jones. Tom B Warren former postmaster general vies for Spokane Falls city marshal. Judge Thomas Glendale in city and looks set for long tenure. Miss Mamie Roe home from College of Montana Deer Lodge. College on two weeks vacation. Judge McConnell to Helena for Supreme Court session tomorrow. Geo W Beehrer Willis post office address, a model newspaper subscriber. subscription paid nearly two years ahead.
The notice lists preaching at Court House by AL Baird on Sabbath April 5 with morning and evening services, Holy Communion dates at St. James and First Baptist Church on next Sunday, and Methodist Grace Church services with Rev We Inger soll. Sunday School times and midweek prayer meetings are noted with lay music by local performers.
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