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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1897
Page
4
Dillon residents witness school board reelecting public school teachers and discuss Fourth of July preparations. The piece urges waterworks, well analysis, and warns on Greece Turkey war, fair association revival, and a Paris fire tragedy with poor exits.
The state book commission completed its selections for the next four years. Bradbury's Mental Arithmetic from Thompson Brown & Co of Boston is chosen with prices at 30 cents retail, 24 cents net wholesale, and 18 cents exchange. Walch's Primary and Grammar Arithmetics from D. C. Heath & Co of Chicago have exchange prices for two grades at 23 and 50 cents, net wholesale 20 and 40 cents, and retail 30 and 65 cents. Reed Kellog's eight series of language and grammars are included with four inverses each priced across exchange and other terms.
The catalog lists adopted titles including Rand McNally geographies American Book Co. history and Sheldon speller with prices and discounts. It cites Stephen Bonsal’s Cuban war reporting and a May Review of Reviews piece urging readers to learn the Cuban struggle and Armenian parallels.
Special Correspondence notes unusually warm weather for this season in the Big Hole. The range is green and stock thriving. Miss Julia Rasmasser closes teaching, plans to return to Anaconda. Big Hole bridge near completion easing supplies from Dewey. Local residents note dairy expansion and fence projects.
Editor H Sutherlin calls Montana farmers to contribute samples of wheat barley rye oats hay and potatoes for a Montana resources exhibit at the trans Mississsippi International Exposition in Omaha in 1898. Entries require planting dates acreages irrigation harvests yields and weights with samples shown in straw and hay bales. Transportation paid by state and aim is to attract investors and boost regional development. A separate veterinary ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure is included with endorsements from Toledo druggists.
The MacGahan statue appeal gains momentum as a national effort to honor Januarius Aloysius MacGahan. The famed correspondent inspired Balkan relief, shaped European events, and died of typhus while nursing a comrade in a Russian hospital. Ohio born, his burial crowned by Ohio and Montana connections.
Wm Hayward Mrs Paul Walsh Little Maud Del Padley and others acquire new bicycles as more locals swap skirts for cycling attire. A Bannack Sunday bike trip by Wm Hayward Richard Wella and Wm Simmons ends unscathed. Oregon Short Line to sell 1000 mile book tickets at 30 dollars good across several western states.
Winter dull for tent trade in this latitude, mainly stock up for summer. Some tents go to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies and sold year round. Laborers and gypsies buy secondhand tents in winter for use next season. rarely tents are treated or steam heated for special occasions.
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