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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1901
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR text mentions directions north bound and south, with numbers and vague items. Readable items include hints of traffic or transit terms and a stray name. The readable content is too incomplete to define a clear event or outcome.
A mixed digest from Dillon and vicinity notes illnesses in infants, visitors from Bannack and Butte, shopping at Hughes & McCaleb's, milliner and tailoring updates, and social events. Readers learn about the scarlet fever closure, coroner sidewalk work, club meetings, and plans for bazaars and church activities. Local movements include residents travelling to Helena, Chicago, El Paso, and New Orleans with various errands and gatherings.
Dillon hosts the Farmers Institute with Director Fortier of the Bozeman experimental station driving farmer cooperation. Additional sessions follow in Miles City November 29 30 Red Lodge December 26 Billings December 27 28 Big Timber December 30 Livingston December 31 Our Lodge January 2.
Last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Weenink hosted about twenty four Normal School guests for a crokinole party. Guests paired off by drawing silhouettes, a lively game followed with refreshments, leaving attendees saying it was one of the season’s pleasant evenings.
Mr Elmer Bateman left for Glendales Monday evening hoping to return next week. Miss Holt has been indisposed due to blood tumors on her face. Five visitors toured classes Wednesday afternoon. The new high school paper is nearly ready with monthly issues planned to boost school spirit. Elizabeth Hawley left for Butte Thursday to visit a friend. Typewriters are in heavy use and neatness and accuracy are emphasized in grading.
The Philomathian society held its first meeting last Saturday evening featuring instrumental music recitations and vocal solos. Several students planned to go home for the Thanksgiving holidays and the Normal School daily program was rearranged with recitations beginning at 8 30. Miss Florence Driscoll of Butte visited her sister Miss Nellie during the holidays.
The United States Geological Survey releases several Montana sheets including Marysville, Rosebud and St Xavier quadrangles and a Missouri River reconnaissance map near Great Falls. Contour lines show elevations, mine tunnels, irrigation features, and rugged canyons. Maps cost five cents each with director’s application.
Mr and Mrs Rosert Bammer express gratitude to friends and neighbors for support after their loss and thank everyone for thoughtful condolences and moral offerings during a difficult time.
Colfax resident John N. Fuller reports dandruff cleared by Newbro s Herpicide after long standing trouble. George H. Mc Whirk of Walla Walla also credits the remedy with curing a 30 year dandruff case. Also notice a St James Guild handkerchief sale at Mrs B F White s home December 5 with candy program and refreshments.
One fare round trip offer to all points on the Short Line or B A P within two hundred fifty miles. Tickets on sale December 24 25 and 31 1901 and January 1 1902 with return limited to January 2 1902.
The Ladies Manse Society schedules a sale of taney setcionts tow eke before Ur le, with details obscured by OCR.
At a meeting of the state board of education in Helena last Friday about fifty applications for state and life teachers certificates were reviewed. The committee announced recipients for Lite and State certificates, naming numerous teachers from Missoula Great Falls Butte Townsend Deer Lodge Red Lodge and other towns, with several principals and superintendents among the list.
The Bath hotel at the corner of Piccadilly and Arlington streets, built about 1760, is to be replaced after its passing. Sherry the New York restaurateur has secured the site to erect an American hotel. The landmark housed gentry and travelers including John Adams who stayed there during the post-revolutionary era.
An excerpt notes the English would resist giving up the Greenwich meridian to an international map agreement. It adds that France would defend Paris Observatory's meridian and vows never to renounce it with a reference to Charles VII. and the refrain Jamais jamais en France.
300 tons of Horse Prairie hay with good feed yards. 45-41 W. C. Temfurm, Grant, Mont. Cattle for sale includes 175 head of cows and heifers. For prices apply to Barnett & Reed, Montana. About 100 head cattle with 10 steers aged 3 and 4 years. J. Kire Patri or, Dillon, Mont. 453 tf.
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