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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1904
Page
5
Local notices report social events and visits in Dillon Montana. Updates include property moves, church sermons, hunting trips to Rattle Snake Lakes, school moves, and business ads. A diamond brooch lost, harvest social details, and daily commuting notes appear among community items.
An article extols dandruff as the cause of hair loss and baldness. It explains a parasite burrows into the scalp and introduces the germ that creates scales. It promotes Wewdbro’s Herpicide as a laboratory remedy to kill the germ and stop shedding, with sample requests by mail.
The tale recounts a Highland robber chief MacDonald who plundered a widow and had her forced to wear no shoes. A ban dit vows revenge and shoes the woman, then MacDonald and twelve followers are shod with iron shoes and executed after three days public display.
A matter of fact man mocks grand language recounting a visitor who asked for a diminutive argenteous truncated cone thimble. He notes the term is needlessly fancy and prefers simple words. The anecdote uses a household scene to illustrate pretentious phrasing.
Stevenson recalls George Meredith reading him chapters of The Egoist in manuscript. As the hero evolved, Stevenson grew uneasy and interrupted to claim Sir Willoughby resembled him. Meredith laughed and said the character is all of us, tapping his chest.
The Manee society hosts a Harvest Home Social on the manse lawn next Wednesday evening September 14. A New England lunch of cold meats baked beans apple sauce bread and butter will be served to raise funds for church debt clearance with public invitation extended.
An advertisement notes Moki Tea as a remedy for indigestion and constipation with a money back guarantee. It promotes a skin clearing claim and lists prices 25 and 50 cents from Riley's Drug Store. Also mentions W L Brownlee presenting a French Coach Stallion in Dillon for exhibition at Anderson's stable.
Real estate deeds and mining locations recorded in Beaverhead County list transfers from F A Hazelbaker to Mabel Taylor and others with payments, water rights granted from Dry Gulch, and mineral claims in Bannack and Utopia districts. Notable entries include Walter C Jones 320 acres near Wisdom, Maude Morton from Jennie Melrose Morton, and various lode and placer claims including Violet Star and North Star in Steel Creek.
Special correspondence reports the river camp emptying as campers leave along the Big Hole. Visitors from Butte such as Mrs. Barbour and Mr. and Mrs. Adder return, while residents travel to Twin Bridges and Butte. Large quantities of fish and bait are said to be transported to Butte with claims of several thousand fish caught by one family.
Sept 1 1904 N S Wood announces purchase of the drag express and quick delivery business from Mr Smith. He will operate on the street in his familiar manner to handle calls deliver goods packages and baggage. He will sell stove wood and dry kindling and all baggage calls at the central office reach him promptly.
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