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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1909
Page
3
Local capital eyes a large irrigation plan to water 35 square miles of prime beach land between this place and Dillon. The project would secure state land, fund surveys, and prepare prerequisites for outside investment. Two natural reservoir sites at the Ruby canyon mouth could keep water costs low.
An aromatic nasal remedy named Ely's Cream Balm offers rapid relief from nasal catarrh. Applied through the nostrils it cleanses and heals the nasal surface. a 50 cent size is sold and users are urged to continue treatment until relief is achieved.
The Mary Goodwin crew narrates a fog bound near Newfoundland where a bell signals a drifting derelict. They discover a woman’s body and a captain and wife tied to a likely slave voyage in 1854, ending with the derelict sunk by gunpowder and fire as the bell tolls a final requiem.
In a Harper's Weekly vignette Dr. Russell Cool of California suppresses a measles outbreak on vacation in Tahiti. Chief Dreaoh invites him to a banquet, and the pair dine on pig served on leaves. They discuss Robert Louis Stevenson and query about John L. Sullivan amid moonlit Pacific scenes.
The piece notes how cold preservation of flesh was long known, but Bacon’s snow stuffed chicken caused his death, and it wasn t until 1875 that freezing began to preserve meat commercially between America and England, followed by a dry air refrigerator four years later.
A prominent German American society member recounted a tale of a friend who fell gravely ill. After days near death the patient improved and asked for Amburger cheese. The wife stocked cheese in every room to please him, prompting the doctor to ask at the door when the man had died.
The Washington Star quotes Senator Sorghum saying he never tells funny stories in speeches though audiences enjoy them. A long anecdote explains how a tale spreads, ultimately risking voters' view of a speaker who uses humor as undignified.
The passage cites Herbert Spencer on education for complete living, Sydney Smith on happiness aiding learning, and Sir John Lubbock linking knowledge to pleasure and power. It notes Milton's call to seek truth in study as a still art.
The week opens with a fair cattle run and steady overall market. Chicago reports a steady to slightly lower trend. Prices include select steer prices from 6.00 to 6.70 and hog bulk at 6.90 to 7.10, with lambs reaching 8.20 and woolled lambs at 0.25. Quick Delivery Wagon offers freight, kindling, and wood services in Dillon Montana.
The Oregon Short Line will offer on specified dates round trip tickets to Portland San Francisco and Los Angeles. Contact an Agent for dates and rates. A cereal ad notes that after trying new foods, many return to Quaker Oats with reasons listed in another column.
A discussion of instinct versus intelligence in animal behavior cites W. L. Finley. A gull repeatedly dropped a clam from about fifteen feet to crack it open, the shell remaining closed until the fifteenth drop when it opened, revealing the prey inside.
The May 16 1909 Real Estate Transfers list multiple warranty deeds including Charles Perry to Lela Hobson 1 lot in Mauldin addition and Matthew Orr to Geo T Boatman 2 lots in P&O addition with $250.00. Scott & Decker to S B Howell 1 lot in Armstead for $1. Joh Howes to F A Randolph 5 lots in Argenta. Rudolph Peterson to Walter E Lloyd 120 acres near Bannack for $1. Joshua Bennett to Cleopatra Bennett 1 lot in Thomsen. Jacobine Peterson to Ella V Brackett 182x100 feet in Thomsen. John Gelhaus to Otto C Leach 1 lot in Armstead. Quit claim Fidel Huber trustee in bankruptcy to Stephen Cook 1 lot near Lima for $1. Patent to Walter E Lloyd 160 acres near Bannack. Water rights granted on Stone Creek Canyon Creek Moose Creek. mining locations in Elkhorn district. court decrees David Burke estate to B F White 820 acres near Lima and Owen T Ellis estate to W J Tope 2 lots in Wisdom.
Eighth grade examinations are scheduled in Beaverhead County for May and June. May testing gathers at 9 a.m. May 20 and 21 at the Jackson schoolhouse for students from Jackson Bristow Fox and nearby Big Hole regions, with Mr. King conducting at Lima on the same dates. Students choosing June testing must go to Dillon and begin at 9 a.m. on June 10 and 11. Alice Herr County Superintendent Dillon Montana 19-2.
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