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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
3
Eight newspaper pages promote the presidential ticket of William H. Taft for President and James S. Sherman for Vice President. The material outlines their candidacy and party affiliation.
Presidential Electors A W Mills Livingston T A Cummings Fort Benton C E Prescott Boulder J Davidson Deer Lodge United States Senator Justice H C Smith Helena Congress Charles N Pray Fort Benton W F Meyer Red Lodge Governor H L Wilson Billings Lieutenant Governor J C Kinney Wibaux Treasurer William Enright Billings Auditor C C McCoy Butte Secretary of State Frank A Hazel baker Dillon Attorney General W J Paul Deer Lodge Associate Justice Judge Lew L Calloway Virginia City Superintendent Public Instruction Lewis Terwilliger Livingston Railroad Commissioner Leo H Faust Libby
State Senator E. O. Selway leads the slate with Representative Frank Eliel and Treasurer Arthur Badcon. Other candidates include County Clerk Jay Baker, District Clerk Charles W. Conger, Sheriff D. V. Erwin, Surveyor W. T. George, County Attorney R. S. Stephenson, Coroner Dr. L. C. Ford, Public Administrator William T. Scully, Assessor N. E. Holden, Superintendent of Schools Miss Margaret Ross, and County Commissioner Chauncey R. Brown.
In a Saturday night city speech T. J. Walsh attacked the public record of Senator Selway of Beaverhead. Republicans welcomed the challenge as a chance to expose issues and defend the senator’s position amid a tense political moment.
The piece discusses Senator Selway and Mr. Walsh on direct primaries and political bills, noting Selway’s voting on Senate Bill No. 2 and related measures. It also reports the death of Mrs. Hedges, a pioneer Montanan, detailing her family, public roles, and life events.
Investors News reports accidental discovery of copper rich rails. New Haven engineers inspected six miles of aged track laid with Glasgow rails containing 114 percent copper. If rails shift to copper content in production, copper demand could exceed 100 million pounds annually.
Mrs Edna Layette Hedges wife of the late Judge Hedges died at her home on Broadway Helena from ailments of advanced age. She had lived in Helena nearly 50 years and had been in good health until a few months ago when indoors confinement began. Her decline was rapid in the last week and the news shocked many friends.
The wife of Judge J C Kerley died recently in Republic Washington. Florence Austin, formerly of Townsend, taught school there and was highly regarded. Judge Kerley, an early Montana publisher and editor, owned interests in the Helena Independent and later ran papers in Townsend Marysville and Republic before turning to real estate and serving as a justice of the peace. The Montana newspaper world offers condolences to him.
John M. Williams known as Uncle John died Thursday at his nephew Charles Williams's home in the upper Ruby valley. A Pennsylvania native aged 74, he came to Montana in 1863 and never married. Rheumatism afflicted him for 20 years. Funeral was held Saturday at 2 PM at the house, conducted by Rev. T. H. Barker, Sheridan Methodist pastor, with large attendance showing neighborly esteem.
A Boston Transcript note recalls an 1887 diary entry in which two siblings, each seeing the other's sister off at a railroad station, end up embracing the other's sister in the crowd. The incident highlights the quirky vagaries of railway travel in that era.
A humorous exchange shows a museum official insisting visitors leave umbrellas at the door. A gent claims he has none, prompting the official to order him to return for an umbrella. The scene highlights bureaucratic red tape and strict entry rules.
A teacher expresses disappointment over a boy lacking intuition while the boy explains he arrived only recently and did not know what he had to get. The exchange appears in the Loulaville Times as a brief, character driven moment.
A dialogue fragment presents a questioning of authorship in a poem allegedly signed by Oedipus. The exchange notes accusations by a woman and a man’s defense, attributed to Filegende Blatter.
A collage of brief items reports a 100000 franc fraud claim involving a priest, warm October forecasts by Rev. Ricard, Eskimo discovery near Victoria Land, a 13 million bushel grain intake in Minneapolis, Bernetta Adams earning an aviator license, rising annual expenditures on goods, Chicago saloon lawsuits, new US wireless towers near Arlington, and altitude records by Le Gagneux in France.
E. L. Dwyer once ran a Chicago street cleaning gang and became a millionaire many times through speculation. He reportedly shot himself in Janesville after giving his last coins to a tramp. He earlier married a duke’s widow who left him the bulk of seven million dollars. Legislative notes show Helena assay office salaries totaling 10,400 and Montana surveyor general pay and clerks totaling 23,000, plus incidental office expenses.
J. W. Copeland of Dayton Ohio reports buying a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a boy with a cold and claims the boy recovered before the bottle finished. Is that not better than paying a five dollar doctor’s bill. For sale by all dealers. (Advt.) im
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