The Dillon tribune., 1884-01-19
IN TOWN AND OUT.

| Prime winter weather Is prove "HS'
High winds and Billiards prevail not.
The Dillon school district has two hund
red and eighty scholars.
The best quality Of fire wood is selling a
So. 90 per cord ON our streets
A kicking cayuse caused considerable
excitement on Montana street on Wednes
day.
Fair sleighing continues, much to the 10!
Of ljverymen and young ladies who hav'
beaux.
Ii Dillon has no professional astrono
mer> it can boast at least of enthusiastic
star-gazers.
George Savage is running the shingl'
machine at Green s. Walters planning mill
near the lumber yard.
The ladies of the Guild will meet a
St. lanes Church next Wednesday after
! noon to make the church carpet.
The TRIBUNE job department has turned
out number of finely printed calendars
for different business houses of Dillon.
Whist is the all-prevailing social game
this winter, as it was last Dillon has
number of expert players, OF both sexes.
1t is as difficult to run country newspa
per without money as for the lephant um'
DO to steal ride on "blind" baggage car
| Selah.
Conner & Davidson have rented he
building formerly occupied by E. w. Butts
as a furniture store, and will occupy it as a
carpenter shop.
1t is stated py the Caldwell Odaho) 7r,1-
uue that the Howard Sebree company are
erecting large furniture warehouse in that
lively young town.
The photographers tent still flops III the
wind. Brown, come down and look after
your pl operty before some greasy BannacN
>quaw appropriates the tent tor legglngs
for her best buck.
The temporary stringency in money mat
ter> has a depressing tendency in curtailing
trade. Customers are not buying very
freely at present, but still the trade of Dill
lon is good considering the season.
The new beifry of Grace NJ. E. Church
is completed, as far as the woodwork is con-
cerned. All it now lacks is a coat or two
of paint, and a weather-vane placed ON top
to give it the appearance OF greater height.
On the day of its adjournment the Su-
preme Court, at Helena, made the follow
ing order OF the times OF holding District
Court in this county: "Beaverhead Coun-
+, at Dillon, the second Monday of May,
and the second Monday of October"
Sam Langhorne, the ambitious editor of
the Bozeman Chronicle, got lett in the race
tor President Of the Constitutional Conven-
ton. Sam wanted to be President, but the
towering conspicuositv oflhe auburn haired
Butte banker was too much for. poor Sam.
1t is ever thus-the poor patriots invariably
get left.
The w. c. T. u. is very much in earnes:
in proposing to hold National Temper
ance camp meeting somewhere in the Ma
tional Park about the middle of August
Several prominent Christian and temper
ance workers in the East have signified
their willingness to be present and aid in
making the meeting interesting and profit.
able to all who may attend.
The following changes have occurred in
the management Of the freight department
of the Union Pacific Railway: E. P. Vim
ing, freight traffic manager, has resigned
and P. P. Shelby, general freight agent sue
ceeds Mr.. Vining, and J. A. Munroe, gen.
eral freight agent, succeeds Mr.. Shelby. 1t
is understood Mr.. Vining resigned to &C.
cept the position Of pool commissioner.
Green & Walters have their large shingle
mill in place, and are running it as fast
as it can BE- driven by their large portable
engine. The capacity of the machine is
10000 shingles per day, (ten hours though
from lack of sufficient power, the number
now being turned out falls considerably be-
low that. Messrs. G. Il w. expect to run
their machine here until spring when they
will move it to the timber near Axes can
yon for summer work.
Money is scarce and hard to get in this
vicinity. 1t is partly caused BY the failure
Of ranchmen to dispose OF their crops last
fall, there being little or no demand for
grain, ETC., at fair prices, and partly from
The general stagnation Of business common
to this season of the year. 1t follows as
matte: Of course, that if money is tight
With majority Of the people, it is quite apt
% effect the printer in much the same way
And that's what we are driving ut. De-
inquent subscribers are invited to call, paw
ip and make ye printer glad.
The reduction in the size of the Butte
lailies, the Inter Mountain and Miner, from
'apers Of blanket-size proportions to d.
ninutive dailies, has taken place. In ex-
it is stated that lack of live,
aging advertisements is the cause. The
ut down has not diminished the amount of
'ewsy reading matter in either of the dali
les, and from this the public will conclude
hat it is lar better policy to publish red
'ot little newspaper than il is to propel a
is, insipid sheet in which there is no money
nd no significant amount Of empty glor;.
The Livingston Tribune copies an item.
rom recent issue Of this paper, Which
tated that O. E. Morse had located in Dill
On, and adds the following: 1--WE noticed
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