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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
4
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Beaverhead ranchers show discouragement toward the sugar beet proposition amid labor fears. The Tribune urges education on beet growing, citing Colorado and Montana examples of rising acreage, factory promotion, and steady demand. It notes Clark’s election aftermath and urges local focus on a Dillon sugar factory.
A local editorial argues beet production offers double the income of current crops with less labor. It cites Payette Idaho figures of 200000 dollars paid to beet growers this season and notes upcoming payments. The piece also questions editor attitudes on bank deposit guarantees and predicts railroad growth with the Armstead Gilmore line.
The contracting couple A G Williams and Miss Margaret Christman married on Wednesday at the Orr residence on South Washington Street. The ceremony was performed by Dr A B Martin of the Presbyterian church at 4 o clock with close relatives present. The bride, from Hespeler Ontario, Canada, has many friends in the city. Williams, longtime Dillon grocery manager, plans brief visits to Denver and Chicago before returning to make Dillon home.
Last Saturday Leo Thyberg reported a confrontation with Tony Garcia a Mexican sheepshearer at the Froman lodging house. Garcia was found guilty in police court and fined twenty dollars for a knife related threat. He faced a district court indictment for gambling and pleaded guilty with a hundred dollar fine.
The Ladies of the Methodist Aid will be entertained next Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Henry Burfiend. The Shakespeare club plans a Leap Year dance on Thanksgiving evening at the Dillon opera house. Mrs. F. A. Hazelbaker visits her parents in the Big Hole basin. Henry Hildreth of the upper Medicine Lodge country bought bucks from Beaverhead Ranch and left Dillon with his sheep. Soldiers en route to Yellowstone park passed through Dillon last Saturday replacing posted patrols. Delegates from Jackson attend reorganization of the Improved Order of Redmen in Dillon, including A Gravell Fred Holmes Henry Peterson J L Merriott Bert Cozad D E Goggan C W Brown Charles Major.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes most cases to catarrh inflaming the Eustachian tube and offers a $100 reward for any deafness case from catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
President Roosevelt forms the Commission for the Study of Country Life led by Dean L. H. Bailey with Henry Wallace Gifford Pinchot Kenyon Butterfield and Walter H. Page. The panel will hold hearings from Washington to California to gather data on rural life and organization for farmers. Aiming to boost home making rural education buying and selling telecommunication roads and labor through organized farmer units. Mayor B F White of Dillon invites a hearing in the city.
Dillon, situated in a thriving agricultural district with many progressive farmers, is seen as an ideal site for a commission hearing. Arranging a meeting may be difficult, but a large turnout is urged for a topic of significant interest.
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