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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1891
Page
12
A compendium of lodge meetings and church notices for numerous groups including E N G M and various IOOF, I C F, A O U W, G A R, and Masons in Dillon and Glendale. Details list meeting times, halls, attendance invites, and officers. Also includes library hours and medical services listings with local church services across faiths and denominations.
A historical piece extols boxing gloves as a portable gym, detailing how gloves develop arms, back, chest and lungs, and arguing they are affordable and accessible. It notes glove materials, comfort, ventilation, and proper padding, with anecdotes of a New York amateur boxer handling a thief without injury and guidance for beginners on tempered, point-focused sparring.
A boastful young man challenges an unknown to boxing. The rival proves a professional with notable prowess, leaving the youth bruised. Flora Walsh, wife of playwright Charlie Hoyt, is described among actresses who lean toward baseball.
The Splendid New Odd Fellows Hall at San Francisco is described as a comfortable, commodious home for the order. Since 1858 the group acquired sites at Bush and Kearny, then Montgomery and Summer, with the current lot bought in 1879 for 425000 dollars. The cornerstone was laid May 14 1884. liabilities total 180116.38 dollars with net assets 573223.63. Regular tenant receipts last year were 41281.70 dollars. The hall houses fifty four organizations including twenty four subordinate lodges five kah lodges six encampments one canton P M two degree lodges O F L and S club three parlors N S G W two lodges A O O W two courts A O F of A one council O C F and others.
A Workman writer urges a side degree for the sons and daughters of brethren similar to the order for war widows. An October assessment is not needed due to a six figure surplus and sufficient beneficiary funds. Michigan dues for ten months ending Oct 1891 were $13, Maryland New Jersey Delaware and Virginia issue a first class prospectus. The Helena Workmen plan to host the supreme lodge next January. The A O U W pays $16,000 weekly to widows and orphans. A 6 ft 4 in, 325 lb receiver from Madisonville, Ky stands noted. Detroit lodge near 2,000 members may be the largest fraternal lodge globally.
The Knights of Pythias in Utah seek a dedicated home for widows orphans sick and afflicted members with a grand lodge board of control guiding plans. Notable figures A McDaniel L H Farnsworth R W Crops F W Hayt T C Armstrong named as officers. Public notice also reports a Toledo fire destroying B F Wade printing plates delaying Ohio journal publication. Several temples and lodges in California Roma and Iowa anticipate growth with 300 and 250 members respectively.
Practical steps cover cleaning harness parts with soap and cod liver oil to deter rodents, crafting a dainty letter opener from celluloid, preserving fish with sugar, cleaning jewelry, removing kerosene odors from vessels, bleaching beeswax, restoring shells, arranging peacock feathers, testing honey purity, curing chapped hands, removing old wallpaper, making chewing gum, and quick kindling from corncobs.
The Ontario agricultural experiment station published results from twenty three Canadian and American winter wheat varieties tested under identical conditions. White wheats outyield red, bald outyield bearded, with Garfield Surprise Canadian Velvet Chaff Bonnell leading white, American Bronze Early Red Clawson Red Velvet Chaff and Jones Winter Fyfe leading red. Four days separate ripening among varieties. Early Red Clawson is the earliest. Winter Fyfe claims hardiness and good yield. American Bronze is a desirable hard winter wheat. The Ohio tests found minimal yield differences between white and red and between bearded and smooth wheats. The report notes practical implications for farmers in Ontario and nearby states.
Reports indicate new Red Men councils will be formed in Oregon and Vermont amid ongoing Great Council activity. Nearly 10 000 members attended Red Men's Day at Elmira fair. new tribes planned in Mill Grove Indiana and several Massachusetts towns. A California sachem visits tribes there as eight tribal formations are eyed soon. An old instruction notes meat pickle to achieve a red color with sugar enhancing flavor.
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