Fire Signal Taps and Alarm Call Notation
A short sequence lists ward general alarms with pauses and taps followed by a fire out signal. It also notes department meetings and a practice call with a pattern of taps and pauses.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
5
A short sequence lists ward general alarms with pauses and taps followed by a fire out signal. It also notes department meetings and a practice call with a pattern of taps and pauses.
The R and R millinery store announces a two day opening on Friday and Saturday September 8 and 9. The item mentions local shoppers and preparations for the fall season with hats and fashionable items.
R and R maclinery announce opening at the store on Friday and Saturday September 8th and 9th with new merchandise and specials.
J. F. Thompson and family vanish from the Cornell ranch near the river bridge west of town. Creditors report five suits totaling 511.45 and three attachments filed this week. Thompson sold possessions and boarded east with his wife and two children, leaving oats and alfalfa on the field as assets. He previously served as janitor at the state Normal college and was a former Dillon policeman, raising anxiety over unsettled accounts.
Public interest rises as Newbro’s Herpicide is promoted as a destruction for the herpes parasite said to cause dandruff itching scalp and hair loss. The Detroit company invites samples by mail and lists druggists selling the product.
Silas Dishney and Chauncey Brown visited J. T. Murray to arrange wagon scales this week while Brown returned from the Portland exposition with his wife. Max Lauterbach sold 3 000 wethers and yearlings to C. E. Coyle of Grand Island Nebraska at 3 65 per head for the wethers and 4 per head for the yearlings, to be delivered in Dillon on the 15th. An 8 pm fire alarm in the second ward proved to be an old mistress burned near the jail during renovations, costing the city about 20 to settle with the firemen.
Miss Martha Weeks, badly scalded when she fell into a hot water pool in the park about three weeks ago, died here Monday night.
United States Land Office Helena Montana announces Patrick M Sweeney of Dell Montana has filed intent to prove desert land entry 7204 for 160 unsurveyed acres in Beaverhead county. The witness list includes William Sweeney Earl W Rogers George Whitworth and Henry Dowling all of Dell. Proof to be submitted before A S Johnson on Oct 16 1905 at Dillon Montana.
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