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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1891
Page
6
The grand lodge of Michigan Freemasons held a dedication ceremony for the Michigan Masonic home in Grand Rapids on January 27. The cornerstone was laid May 21, 1889, and the completed wing sits on a 33 acre farm facing Reed's Lake. Funds totaled about $68,000 with items from many orders.
The Michigan Masonic Home near Grand Rapids grew from a 1885 petition by Nelson Haskins to a self funded project by the Michigan Masonic Home Association formed November 5 1885. The home features a stone foundation white brick walls a 120 by 10 foot basement hall and multi floor rooms including a hospital and twenty bedrooms on the third floor. The project progressed after initial grand lodge hesitation with local brethren funding and land purchase near Grand Rapids.
A special committee reported progress on erecting necessary buildings for a home project, with favorable action by the grand lodge in 1889 and a $3,000 donation toward completion. The report was adopted with minor amendments, and future efforts by individual members are noted as successful.
The New Hampshire senator elect Dr. J H Gallinger is a longtime Knights of Honor member including terms as supreme vice dictator in 1877. The Courier reports J W Cowgill re elected mayor of Hickman Kentucky by a large majority. Supreme Secretary Harvey notes November gains and projected totals for the supreme lodge. The Knights of Honor, Atlanta based, reports 68 519 current members with Georgia lodge 127 paying sick benefits, while Gate City does not.
At the upcoming New Jersey Great Council session the group will decide a permanent meeting site with Trenton among the supporters. Other items include a Greenfield Indiana tribe start, revival plans for The Wampum Bet, and new passwords for Pocahontas councils and Chieftains leagues. Thomas K. Donnelly, noted for incoherence in the Great Council, has returned from travel.
A sermon on mud argues that men must improve roads to end domestic mess and hardship. The piece contends better infrastructure eases farming life, boosts social ties, and reduces family strife, asserting the Lord is not responsible for mud.
In Hoard's Dairyman, a discussion argues laws should define legal cheese by fat content and quality rather than milk composition. It urges buyers’ recourse to samples, comparing to English practice of testing fat before acceptance, to ensure consumers get what they pay for.
Henry Morse of Delaware County New York reports eight years of using cottonseed meal in cow rations. He fed three quarts in the morning and two at night with six quarts of skimmed milk, plus two quarts during pasture. He claims 25 percent more cows and 20 percent more butter per cow, with richer manure that doubles hay yields and raises pasture value.
The article suggests frozen fodder as the likely cause of butter remaining hard in cold weather. It proposes farm readers test by feeding cows a week without fodder to see if butter softness improves, noting some claim dried fodder in any form causes the issue.
The Massachusetts Plowman notes towns without creameries attract buyers away from farming homes. It cites Ohio Creek cheese factory in GunSon county Colorado producing 40 000 pounds of cheese and 125 pounds of butter weekly, plus hog fattening from leftovers. It calls for widespread testing of milk for butter and cheese and demands ongoing dairy experiments at the Columbus fair in 1893. The East Otto cheese factory is praised for producing a 4000 pound cheese, the largest in the U S, five feet across.
An 19th century advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and liver tonic. It claims to cure indigestion biliousness skin diseases and early lung consumption without alcohol or sugar and guarantees money back if no benefit. Also notes advertising rates for brands and marks.
Public notices from Beaverhead county Montana include Mining Applications Nos. 2763 and 2772 with claims by Canin Dewms Ain Mining Company and Mountain Company, detailing tract sizes, coordinates, and adjoining lodes. also probate notice for Daniel R. Clapim and final proof notice for John K. Brown in Wisdom, with witnesses named.
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