Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-01-02
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE ROCKY
MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN.
a Token Of High Personal Regard-Reward of
Merit-Kind Wishes Etc. from Our
Friends-A Grand Surprise.

we were SllllnS III our Dig arm chair IN
our sanctum, yesterday morning, cogitating
upon the trials and tribulations of the past
and the uncertainties of the future, when
our worthy County Clerk and Probate
Judge, L. L. Collins, assisted by our ex-
pressman, David Marks made his appear
ance "arme to the teeth with a complete
set, Sixteen volumes, of Appleton's Cyclic
padia, and thus addressed us:
MIR. K. N. S~UTHERLIN-S,r.
In behalf of a number of our most prom
inent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of all sections OF
our county, am deputed, on this the first
day of the new year, to present to you these
books-Appleten's Cyclop@dia complete,
sixteen finely bcund yolumes-as a slight
testimonial of the regard of the donors for
you personally; as also. to testify by this
gift, the appreciation of the people of all
sections of the county of your unrcn,itting
services and constant labor as editor of the
Rocky MOUNTAIN HusBANDMAN. in advanc-
ing the vital interests of all sections of the
territory, and particularly for your constant
and successful efforts for the welfare and
prosperity of Meagher county.
We appreciate the fact that to the HUs-
BASDMAN is due i'll a great measure, the
rapid settlement of our broad and most ter
tile valleys, by making known to the world
their resources and extent.
We recognize in the HUsBANDMAN a we'll
edited, live, independent newspaper, whose
influence and standing is second to none in
the territory.
We are pleased to hear Of its prosperity,
influence and standing, and wish you and
your paper %unbounded prosperity.
We hope you will receive this small testi-
monial OF our appreciation Of your labors
rs an editor, and that this token of esteem
from the people amongst whom you reside
will d renewed zeal and energy to your
labors.
We hope, at no distant day, to see the
HusBANDMAN enlarged to double its present
size, its thousands of copies printed by steam
and ten-fold added to it's usefulness.
MEssRs. T. E.. COLLINS, T.. RoTwIr, AND
OTHERs-GentIemen
Overwhelmed with surprise at this mani
hesitation of the appreciation ON the part of
yourselves and the good people of Meagher
county OF our past labors, language fails to
express our gratitude and heartfelt tn anks.
We have labored hard in the interest of the
territory and county, and furnished the best
paper our limited means would ad NIT, and
we assure you it gives us pleasure to know
thab our efforts are appreciated-that there
are those in oar midst who join hands with
us and wish us we'll. The work is a library
within itself, a never-faillng source Of infor-
nation without which no editorial sanctum
is complete. We prize it many times Its
intrinsic value, coming as it does from warm
personal friends, and those who are cogni-
zant, and therefore capable judges, of the
extent of our usefulness, and who have seen
in our labors something worthy OF COM
mendation and encouragement. We are
grateful for this assurance that we are not
toillng in vain; and tor the God-speed which
it brings to us, giving us courage on enter
ing upon the duties of the new year, and
strength to persevere.
Again thanking you, gentlemen, for your
kind wishes and earnest manifestation of
approval OF our course, We assure you that
the H~UsBANDMAN shall continue to improve
as rapidly as our means win permit, until it
shall become an institution of which you
may be justly proud-ever laboring for the
prosperity OF the people, for justice and the
right.
E-
THE District school at Chestnut has
closed, and the accomplished teacher, Miss