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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
4
Local paper lists church festival notices and ad rates while printing a jumble of rural insights. Items include duck hunting remarks, Icelandic prosperity quotes, play reviews, and civic musings, reflecting small town concerns and humor.
Beaverhead high School under Prof. L R Foote starts its most ambitious year with over 78 students enrolled in the first week. The faculty remains the same with new Latin and German teachers Prof W E Phillips and Miss Edith McDowell. Public school enrollment reaches 318 with strong beginner classes and a full teaching roster.
The Tribune notes a copy of the Montana book by the state bureau of agriculture labor industry and publicity under Commissioner J H Hall. It lauds the publication as the finest ever issued to showcase the state’s varied industries through words and pictures and urges readers to secure copies for friends and neighbors in other states.
80 000 acres Carey Act lands to be opened for settlement at Arco Idaho on September 14 with reduced rates via Oregon Short Line. Tickets on sale September 11 to 14 inclusive with time limit September 18.
The Montana Independent Telephone Company has purchased the Anaconda and Big Hole telephone line, bidding higher than Bell interests. After directors met, the deal was completed last night. Improvements will be made at once, with direct long distance service for subscribers. The line will be rebuilt to Wisdom and extend 15 miles further south.
The 38 000 acre Carey Act tract near Milner Idaho is opened for settlement on September 20 with reduced fares on the Oregon Short Line. Tickets from points between Pocatello and Butte will be sold September 17 to 20. A later item notes a court witness in a separate case, a Black woman from Portions whose candor unsettled the defense.
Advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure from J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Testimonials claim Cheney's honesty and financial reliability. Wholesale druggists Warbine Kinnan and Marie advertise price and delivery.
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