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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1899
Page
3
A brief local note lists produce price ranges and aid figures as of going to press. Figures include small totals such as 25 0.80 and 30 0.35 along with larger amounts like 100 1.05 and 9.50 10.50, indicating a compiled aid briefing.
Trade has been good in most lines for the past two weeks. The Tribune store showcases the most beautiful playing cards. Ray S. Conger left Monday on a collecting tour for the Tribune. Rev. Henry S. Cope preached at Melrose Monday night. Misses Earle of Glendale, daughters of Geo G. Earle of the Hecla Co, spent Sunday in Dillon and called at the Tribune store to see engraved and embossed correspondence stationery.
A vintage ad promises permanent relief from constipation using Cascarets Candy Cathartic. It lists price options of 100 for 25 cents and offers a money back guarantee if C C O fails to cure.
D. J. Lindsay traveling agent for the Chicago and North-Western railway based in Salt Lake City visited Dillon on Tuesday to attend to railroad interests. Amede Bassette, noted Bannack mining figure, also stopped in Dillon the same day. He reports the roads in an execrable condition.
It states children should grow normally after worms are treated with White's Cream Vermifuge. Signs include pale face dull eyes restless sleep and poor appetite. The ad promises all worms will be destroyed and normal development will follow. Sold by L. J. Williams for 25 cents.
Local notes report Miss Percy Beard visiting in Dillon, teaching plans by Miss Nellie Black, and Meisner taking charge of Page Ville school for the winter. Reports cover travels of Mrs. Jake Miller, Henry Gray, and Edith Retallack, along with Dillon merchants gearing up for holiday trade and travel updates on stage schedules. Notables include Benjamin Bond’s Yellowstone work, Graeter’s dredge project, and K B Boyd’s long printing career. Widespread community news spans births, health improvements, and civic reflections on Dillon’s reception of volunteers.
An ad claims Cascar ets Candy Cathartio cures constipation and liver sluggishness with a money back guarantee. It promotes the product as a reliable tonic and urges readers to try a box, sample, and booklet for free. Local notes mention Hugh King from Puller Springs and James King from Rolla Missouri visiting the area, with a historical tie to Point of Rocks and Col Ogden’s forces.
A colonial advertisement touts Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment as a radical fix for hemorrhoids including protruding piles. It claims the buckeye remedy cures all forms of piles and markets bottles at 50 cents and tubes at 75 cents, sold by L. J. Williams.
The atlas is large and tailored for school purposes. Each geography teacher and business office should have it. It can be mailed postpaid for fifteen cents in stamps or coin to Joan Sebastian G P A Chicago Ill.
Advert says Snow Liniment cures lameness rheumatism neuralgia and muscle pains and is effective for animals. A Galveston salesman testifies two bottles cured rheumatism. Price 50 cents sold by L J Williams. Also notes new train service serving Pony Norris with conductors Richmond and Elliott and a Pony line run on usual days with hill work in Zephyr.
The ad claims a sluggish liver causes constipation biliousness jaundice headaches indigestion back pain chills and loss of energy. It touts HERBINE as a harmless vegetable remedy that quickly regulates the liver purifies the blood and renews energy with a 75 cent price and free trial bottles at L. J. Williams.
The Chicago Great Western Railway prints four 6x8 inch Indian chiefs pictures by Rinehart in a 1900 calendar. The images Wolf Robe Louison Hollow Horn Bear and Hattie Tom are offered in a small edition for 25 cents to cover royalty and mailing. Send to F. H. Lord 113 Adams St Chicago for delivery while supply lasts.
Notice declares the Williams and Innes livery business in Dillon Montana dissolved by mutual consent with Mr Innes retiring. Mr Williams assumes all debts and will collect all bills. Dillon Montana November 8 1899.
Sunday and midweek worship times listed for First Baptist Church in Butte Idaho and Sebree streets. Pastor Rev Henry F Cope leads morning services Bible school and evening preaching with midweek lecture and extended daylight hours May through October. Also St James Church rector Rev E D Hooker provides Holy Communion and morning prayer services with youth meetings and saints days observances.
Rev M B Loughlen preaches on Home Missions in the morning and Romans in the evening with The Heart Made Righteous Through Faith and The Living Bread as topics The meeting of Co E U S V dedicates a war shell in the M M O window to be mounted with a plate and presented to Dillon later Focal details include Miss Katie Rife directing a meeting and the hours for church and Sunday school plus the organization of the Montana volunteers and custody of the city banner and keys by M A Fyhrie
The wedding of Charles L. Fisher and Miss Henrietta M. Zeigler took place Tuesday evening at the Catholic church with Rev Father VanDenbroeck officiating. Only a few witnesses attended. Zeigler is daughter of Chas Zeigler proprietor of Zeigler springs. The groom is a mining man from Rochester. The couple has many friends in Madison county who wish them a pleasant life together. Bannack was a visitor earlier in the week.
Dillon, county seat of Beaverhead County Montana, is described as a conservative, prosperous city of 2000 with strong schools, churches, and social clubs. The piece highlights mining districts nearby, farming lands, a state normal school, water works plans, an electric plant, robust commerce, and Dillon as a gateway to Yellowstone Park with plentiful hunting and fishing opportunities.
At the last regular council meeting the city library received about 160 new volumes covering fiction histories and reference works. The mayor noted the librarian has worked gratis so far, but with a library levy expected to bring in around 700, the city may hire a paid librarian to manage the collection and ensure returns. Aldermen supported the plan, likely to be enacted when funds permit.
An advertisement promises a permanent constipation cure titled Cascareta Candy Catharthe with a 10a 254 code. It states if the remedy fails to cure, druggists refund the money, noting a return policy for unsatisfied customers.
Fidel Huber of Dillon visited last week and reported his Virginia City establishment thriving. Huber attended library activities in St James Parish during Tuesday and Saturday evenings from seven to nine. He mentioned travel to Dillon and his brother Fred accompanying him.
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