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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1899
Page
3
Prices paid for produce at the sale are listed, with figures including 1.50 1.75 .90 and 9.50 10.50 per unit. The column shows varied amounts such as 5.50 6.00 and 7.00 for different items.
Miss Lillian Axe of Butte is visiting. E L Tarr promotes wood alcohol for burning at Patterson's. The Baptist women's monthly reception is Friday. Mr Brown began building a 28 by 26 cottage on Kentucky Avenue. Ford and Floyd Burtch visit Dillon and plan to enter the Normal next week. Rainbow trout stock expected. hunting trips planned. painting contracts offered. Wood Live Stock Co and Max Auterbach buy 18,000 sheep. Louis Anderson takes a vacation from Horse Prairie ranch. Various local residents travel, visit, or attend events. Dr. Jos Weyerhorst of Butte touts 122 abdominal operations in his hospital without a death. The State Normal reception to friends is praised for its decor and refreshments.
A mix of small ads and briefs includes Cascarets promotion by a local druggist, Hurley the bookkeeper visiting from Montana Hardware, and E L Tarr buying a paint shop. Reports mention Dr H A Bond returning from St Anthony Idaho on land office business and progress on the Short Line from Idaho Falls near St Anthony. Wheat prospects in the valley are cautiously described.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic advertised as a gentle medical remedy for kidneys liver and bowels with claims of curing ailments and stimulating overall health. Notices report Nellie and Stella Morse leaving for Effingham Illinois for a year of schooling and Richard V. Kirkham returning to Dillon to reside after managing a Butte nursery branch. A telegram announced the death of E L Beery of Stanbury Missouri at age 67 to his daughter E L Kline.
An old newspaper ad touts Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment as a radical cure for all piles types, claiming surgery can be avoided. It markets bottles at 50 cents and 15 cents in smaller sizes, with L. J. Williams as the seller. Nearby notes mention Sheep Creek basin resident Johnson selling sheep and copper mine manager Kelso visiting town for Copper Queen business.
A letter from Professor Tyrée outlines promotion rules for public schools. It stresses attendance with legitimate excuses, describes a five percent daily penalty for unexcused absences, and frames school as a place of business. Promotion depends on a 75 percent general average and no single subject below 68.5 percent, with graduates in the eleventh grade.
The principal may promote pupils when qualified. There are two semi annual exams each term for all attending pupils. Absence over half the term or late enrollment excludes exam eligibility unless teachers and principal consent. Parents may excuse a pupil from an exam with no guarantee of next exam. Pupils with term averages of 90 percent in any branch may be excused from that exam and those with 90 percent in all branches are promoted.
The Salt Palace at Salt Lake City built from Great Salt Lake brine crystals dazzles visitors with a crystal palace main structure. A Midway Plaisance links Hagenback’s Wild Animal Show and the Fastest Bicycle Track in the World. The Rio Grande Western operates through Salt Lake City offering stopovers, Pullman sleeping cars, free reclining chairs, dining car service, and route information from W O McBride in Butte.
An all vegetable vermifuge named Cream Vermitage is advertised as certain to expel worms and aid child growth. It is sold by L. J. Williams with 25 cent bottles. Dr. M. A. Miller has installed a dynamo to power his electric surgical equipment enabling in office charging of storage batteries and electric lighting for throat and ear examinations.
An optimistic appeal for educated youth highlights Grand Island Business and Normal College as a leading institution for fourteen years. It boasts high demand for graduates in western states, affordable expenses, low board, and flexible tuition options with a free college record and catalog on request.
Notice warns all persons to keep off the private property at Bianteeth tof ne and states trespass will be prosecuted. signed by Jona HE Hallidan.
An advertisement touts Cascareta as a permanent cure for constipation with a money back guarantee if it fails. W. F. Armstrong and his wife of Bloomington Illinois visit Mr. and Mrs. Grant Haynes, longtime cousins they have not seen for years. The couple plans trips to Bannack gold dredges and mines at Butte before heading back east, noting the scenic mountains contrast with their prairie homeland.
Over a million Wirt fountain pens have been gold and are in practical, satisfactory daily use. Is your pen a Wirt? For sale by Tribune Pub. Co., Dillon.
A fragment notes that a sluggish liver may influence the function of other organs and mentions buffering the body from related issues.
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