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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1916
Page
6
Sunday school at 9 50 a m with Prof Robert Clark as superintendent. An effort for 100 percent attendance. Mother's Day features include carnations for attending mothers. Pastor preaches at 11 00 a m. Junior league at 3 00 p m. Epworth league activities 7 00 p m with special music talks and program. Everybody come.
Normal auditorium hosts the Chinook Play Her Husband's Wife on May 19. The Normal Seniors have faithfully rehearsed a distinctly American work set in Saratoga during racing season, centering on a hypochondriac woman with too little to do and a vivid imagination.
Services as usual Sunday May 14 with Rev Ford M Burtch of Twin Bridges to preach morning and evening. Burtch, a Dillon Baptist Church member and former Dillon student, will be welcomed by old friends. Sabbath school at 10 o'clock with usual officers in charge. Come early.
A water pipe burst Friday night at the Johnson Bros grocery on Idaho street near Helena street. The pipe, running along the wall above crackers and cereals, flooded the store and largely ruined the stock.
The pastor Rev. Dr. Tilden announced plans to resign soon. Church members doubt acceptance as they are pleased with his leadership and seek to keep him. Also noted were high sales of farm implements, with dealer citing double the machinery sold so far this year and expectations of strong fall trade.
R L Polk & Co issued a new Dillon City directory the first of the week. The 185 page book offers much useful information for business people who rely on city listings. This marks the fifth directory published by Polk & Co.
Speedy skaters race along smooth cement sidewalks in the residence district as local authorities monitor safety and traffic flow amid growing activity on the streets.
Report notes rapid mule pulling among youths aided by a strong wind last Saturday with several teams reaching near 60 mules per hour in certain spots.
Holy Communion at 7 30 a m Sunday school at 9 45 morning prayer and sermon at 11 o clock with a sermon titled The Valley of Decision Evening prayer at 7 30 with a sermon The Saving Tenth of Modern society
Asbury Plummer, 75, longtime Bitter Root valley resident, died in Stevensville on Tuesday after a three week illness. Born May 2, 1841 in Ohio, he came to Montana in 1863 and settled in Bitter Root. He suffered a paralytic condition making him dependent in his final days. His brother John of Drummond and sister-in-law Mrs Tyler Worden of Missoula attended the funeral.
Win C Bay born near Cumberland Ohio September 26 1831 died April 9 1916 at the Arthur Rannels home near Dunlap He married Prudence Longstreet in 1856 at Denver town Ohio and moved to St Louis where his only child was born In 1857 he moved to Bitter Root Valley Montana where he spent most of his life Survived by a daughter Mrs Ef Willinson Elk City Oklahoma four grandsons Albert Chicago Elmer New York Clarence and Lawrence Elk City One brother Joseph Bay Oakland Iowa.
Oldest Butte pioneer and 1862 Alder gulch discoverer Louis Philip Smith died after a month long illness. A Deer Lodge sheriff when Silver Bow formed, he later served as Butte police chief. Born Albion New York 1834 he began westward trek at 13, joining early Montana mining expeditions and recounting the 1862 Florence to Alder gulch journey. He survives grand niece and nephews in Butte and Boston.
The Hollis farm loan bill shaping a rural credit system passed the Senate last week by 58 to 3. It sets up a nonpartisan farm loan board guiding 12 or more land banks and cooperative farm loan associations. Farmers must buy 5 percent stock in the loan association, which gains equal stock in the land bank. loans extend up to 30 years with principal reduced by small payments, limited to first mortgages up to 50 percent of appraised value.
Mrs. D. Houde of Eureka Montana suffered stomach ailments for a long period and credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with a swift recovery. She wrote Geo H Mayr in Chicago praising the remedy and its permanent results for stomach liver and intestinal troubles. The ad urges readers to buy a bottle from Potts in Dillon Montana or other druggists with a money back guarantee.
Washington reports 11,000 additional troops to reinforce border patrol and Pershing’s expeditionary army amid plans to mobilize 8,000 more. Arizona New Mexico and Texas guardsmen join regulars with artillery from Fort Sill and Fort Myer. Coast Artillery totals about 19 000 enlisted.
The S R Kirby of the Northwestern Transportation company broke in two and sank four miles off Eagle Harbor Michigan during a storm. Of the twenty two aboard only two were saved and twenty drowned. The vessel was valued at $100000.
Governor James E. Ferguson of Texas issues a signed statement urging immediate United States intervention in Mexico to restore order, stating the action may take ten or fifty years.
Mrs Helen Moore of St Louis shot and killed her mother Mrs Helen Paul Tuesday after a quarrel. Moore was arrested and said her mother threw a tub at her and struck her with a wash board during the dispute.
Thousands of workers in Chicago walk out in a broad strike. Garment cutters number in thousands and 500 workers leave Chicago Screw Company. International Harvester employees also strike disrupting multiple industries.
Denver voters restore mayoral government electing former mayor Robert W. Speer to the top post. The shift ends a brief commission system in place for under two years.
Three dynamite mixing buildings at the Atlas Powder Company plant in Landing, Lake Hopatcong, N J, were demolished by dynamite explosions killing five workers and injuring fifteen others.
Delegates at the Mississippi valley suffrage conference criticized churches in Minneapolis Minnesota for denying women members a voice in church affairs.
Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill is identified as a leading potential successor to Augustin Birrell as chief secretary for Ireland. The report notes his prominence and speculation about the replacement.
Five workmen died in a plant explosion at the Atlas Powder Company near Lake Hopatcong. The company released the casualty toll in a statement issued late Tuesday, attributed to President W. J. Webster.
Premier Asquith stated that 124 troops and Royal Irish Constabulary men were killed 388 wounded and nine missing in Dublin one hundred twenty four dead three hundred eighty eight wounded and nine missing total five hundred twenty one casualties among his majesty's troops and the Royal Irish Constabulary
Chicago Herald reports from the Land and Industrial Exhibition that Montana land offers rapid farm growth as large ranches are divided into smaller plots. It notes $8,000 to $10,000 buys 320 acres, Montana’s accessibility via transcontinental railways, and the promise of low prices, productive soil, and modern amenities attracting settlers from east and west.
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