Short Line to Abandon Monida Route Next Season
The Oregon Short Line plans to extend from St. Anthony toward Yellowstone National Park with survey work under way and a new branch to the park to be built next spring. Monida travelers may shift to the new line as parks travel grows. cities like Bozeman and Great Falls report savings from municipal ownership.
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Butte
Oregon Short Line Railroad
St. Anthony
National Park
Monida
Park
Monida & Yellowstone Transportation Company
Movida
Idaho Falla
Beaver Canyon
Montana towns own waterworks see savings study mentions
L. P. Benedict from the state bureau visited Butte to study municipal ownership of utilities in Montana. Ten cities run their water systems and one city operates both water and electric plants, including Bozeman Miles City Great Falls Fort Benton White Sulphur Springs Lewis town Phillipsburg Chinook and Red Lodge.
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Bozeman
Great Falls
Montana
Benedict
Big Timber
L. P. Benedict
State Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Butte
Miles City
Great Falle
Fort Benton
White Sulphur Springs
Lewistown
Phillipsburg
Chinook
Red Lodge
Montana Weather Months Report by J E Monroe
Voluntary Observer J E Monroe presents last month’s weather in Montana with a mean temperature of 51.1 degrees and a maximum of 81 degrees on the 7th. The minimum was 21 on the 29th, total precipitation 0.22 inches, 14 clear days, 7 cloudy, 9 partly cloudy, frosts on 11 days including killing frosts on six consecutive days. Winds west to southwest. light precipitation and a smoky spell from the 13th to 16th created odd sun moon colors. traces of snow on the 26th and 27th.
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Notoune
J. E. Monroe
Republican Speech Set At Dillon Theatre October 10
The first Republican campaign speech will be at the Dillon Theatre next Friday evening October 10. Hon J M Dixon of Musouili is the Republican nominee for congress and will speak to attendees. Dixon is described as a fine talker expected to engage listeners.
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Dillon Theatre
J. M. Dixon
Mussouli
Congress
Dixon
Rio Grande Lines Promises Delightful Western to Eastern Travel
The Rio Grande Lines invites travelers from the west to the east or south promising superb scenery and an ideal trip. General Agent G W FitzenayD of Butte Montana offers rate information and a Tourist's Hand Book on request.
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Rio Grande
G. W. Fitzaenayd
Butte
Montana
Free labor exchange opened by Wilkes-Barre eccentric
Joachim Peters, a Wilkes-Barre pioneer, opens a "free labor exchange" for employers and employees amid coal strike tensions. He announces plans to mediate disputes and urges miners and operators to resume work by August 12 1902 while defending his eccentric approach. He challenges critics and asks to be judged by actions, not words.
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Joachim Peters
J. Pierpont
Morgan
John Mitchell
Wilkesbarre
Morgan and the Newsboy on a Nassau Street Stop
J P Morgan rode in a hired cab when a newsboy shouted an extra about a coal strike. The boy handed back Morgan’s change, and Morgan gave him fifty cents more and pointed him to a peach cart as he entered his office.
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J. P. Morgan
Nassau Street
New York
Philadelphia Press
Liberty Street
Mr. Morgan
Young Teddy Roosevelt Jr Aims for Rail Career Ambition
Teddy Roosevelt Jr expresses preference for leading a large railroad and a private car over the presidency. He arrives in New York aboard train No. 400, with his entourage and a personal coach. He boasts of shooting game including prairie chickens and a 22 pound muskellunge, proudly displaying three boxes of game.
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United States
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr
New York
Philadelphia Press
Erie
H. R. McCullough
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Oklahoma Farmers Report Historic Prosperity and Surging Yields
A dispatch from Enid Oklahoma to the Kansas City Star says wheat yields in Oklahoma are twice expectations at twenty to thirty five bushels per acre. Corn yields range from thirty to fifty bushels per acre and fruit crops are abundant but largely unsold. Garfield County alone is forecast to produce about three million bushels of wheat, marking what is described as the most prosperous year in state history.
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Oklahoma
Enid
Okla
Kansas City Star
Garfield County
The New Man From Maine As Trust Regulator
Congressman Charles E. Littlefield, dubbed the new man from Maine, emerges as a likely leader of Roosevelt’s plan to regulate trusts in the upcoming Congress. Littlefield first joined Congress three years ago.
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Maine
Charles E. Littlefield
Mr. Roosevelt
Congress
Littlefield
Church Announcements and Service Schedule Update
The churches list Sunday school at 10 a m and morning service at 11 a m at M E Church with class meeting at noon and youth groups in the afternoon, plus midweek prayer at 8 p m. St James Church details include Holy Communion on the first Sunday and a series of morning and evening services and meetings through the week.
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M. E
Epworth
D. Hooker
Viret Baptist Church and Related Sunday Services
Readable items list Viret Baptist Church at Idaho and Sebrec streama with Rev Henry F Gope including Sunday 11:00 Divine worship 12:00 Bible school 8:00 Preaching service. A parsonage adjacent and pastor open to help. Also Presbyterian Church at Pacific and Glendale with Rev A B Martin morning 11 evening 8 Sabbath school 12 noon QU E 7:15 Salvation Army weekly services nightly public and Sunday 3 and 8 p.m.
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Corner
Idaho
Sebrec Streama
Henry F. Gope
O. Ei
Open Tuesday and Saturday Evenings at St James Parish House
In St James Parish House open Tuesday and Saturday evenings from 7 till 9 oclock.
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St. James Parish House
Sales Books Agency Ad by Tribune Publishing Co
The Tribune Publishing Co. holds the agency for Southern Montana for American Sales Book Co. and offers sales books printed or plain on short notice.
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Tribune Publishing Co
Montana
American Sales Book Co
Report of The First National Bank Dillon Sept 15 1902
Report of the condition of The First National Bank at Dillon Montana as of September 15 1902 includes total resources of 968 730 68 with capital stock 50 000 00 surplus 10 000 00 undivided profits 11 204 85 and total deposits 390 082 44. Statement sworn by B F White president with notary J H Ginpert on September 29 1902.
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The
First National Bank
Dillon
Montana
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Tribune
Mitchell
Peters
Morgan and the
Newsboy
Teddy
Big Oklahoma
R. P. Surra
St. James Church
Viret Baptist Church
Presbyterian Church
Pacific and
Glendale Streets
A. B. Martin
Salvation Army
Tueday
Dillon Public Library
Resources
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U. S
Reece Eves
State OF Montana
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County OF
Beaverhead
B. F. White
B. F. Wurtz
J. H. Ginpert
Notary Public
Cornzeer
A. SoLurvay
R. VY. ExBerx
E. A. White
Toortal
Charter Oak
Tattersall’s
Anderson Bros
Dillon, Montana
Av Sale Stable
Dillon Brewery
J. L. Weiser
Prop
Superior
S. S. Patterson
Wholesale Liquors & Cigars
Salt Lake City
Burlington
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
West Second South ST
R. F. Neslen
Dillon, Mont
Morrison's
Mont
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