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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1895
Page
8
Prices paid for wholesale produce at press time include batter per pound 25 to 30 cents, eggs per dot 30 cents, potatoes per cwt 40 to 50 cents, wheat per cwt 6.7 dollars, oats per cwt 65 to 70 cents, timothy baled 9.50 to 10.50, blue joint hay baled 8.00 to 9.00, wild hay baled 6.50 to 7.50, and alfalfa baled 7.00 to 7.50.
Scarce gates and shopping deals dominate the page with promotions for Crowell’s buckwheat and Morton's stoves. The C O D store hires Miss Margaret Merton while a bicycle accident injures H R Merton’s child. Page also notes court actions, street meetings, new lawyers, and a 9 PM start for Dillon social club dances.
Mrs DC W Birchard arrives in town from Twin Bridges as Crowell's advertises citron orange and lemon peels. The Misses Poindexter and Stroup host a Halloween party near town. Gloriana at the opera house earns praise with A Woman of the World coming Saturday. Dr J H McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment touted for rheumatism and inflammation. One Minute Cough Cure praised for immediate relief by N M White, Dillon. A special county board session will address a road petition from Argenta to the Silver Rule mines and other business.
W F Bamaman special agent for W B Catching awards the Divide to Gibbonsville star route to J W Chapman. Service daily except Sunday, contract for two years six months, Chapman to move to Gibbonsville immediately.
Mars L Wurtz from Dillon thanks kind friends who came quick to aid during a great trial and supported through a sad bereavement. He cherishes the memory of their sympathetic acts and extends his sincerest gratitude. Dillon, Oct. 30.
The funeral for Nathan M. White was conducted Sunday afternoon at the M E church with Rev. J W Tait and Rev W H Brooks officiating. Music by a mixed choir including Mrs Thomas and Miss Coffin plus organist Mrs O M Best. Pallbearers were close friends including Q M Best and W B Carter. Burial followed at Mountain View cemetery.
A group of boys camping on Blacktail leaves without salt and returns to report two dead horses in an old cabin and one in another. The horses seem to have starved after sheltering there last winter, prompting caution to keep cabin doors closed or removed hinges.
If so you cannot afford to be without a bottle of Parks' Cough Syrup where it will be handy Unequalled in Croup Whooping Cough and the disagreeable colds to which children are subject.
Reed Featherly’s children were in a carriage when a frightened horse caused it to overturn after hitting dropped harness. The boys escaped with scratches and fright. The item also notes One Minute Cough Cure ads and Montana Wesleyan University entering its sixth year with non sectarian teaching under Methodist patronage.
The clothing sale, deemed highly successful, will continue through Nov 15. Gravel and cement are being moved to the Normal School site for the footing and foundation. About 400 to 500 loads of gravel and 300 barrels of Portland cement will be used at an estimated cost around $600 funded largely by local labor. State architect J C Paulsen reviewed building matters this week.
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