The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Fer additional locals see pages one, and
and five.
Fresh fruits received every day at Franks
news depot.
The Plunketts know how to please a from
tier audience.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leach left yesterday for the
Barker district.
The popular Overland hotel is full to over
flowing this week.
The town has been overrun with bum
drummers for the past ten days.
Lots in Gold Run are going off like hot
cakes in January.
The bullion shipments of Butte for the
week ending July 18th amounted to $50, Ill.,
81.
The PIunkett constellation at the school
house every evening this week. 60 and see
them.
The pickets and other material for the
school house fence are on their way from
Helena.
California saddles and a choice lot Of side
saddles at Rosencrans', and selling at bed
rock prices.
The new store room and warehouse Of
Messrs. T. Q. Powers s. Co. will soon be
completed.
Seven New England mine claims have
been filed for record in the office of the
county clerk.
There are q good many inquiries going the
1r7nJo - ~ -Lo% ~ Iaa~-,a &c $780, 1,.-J
Spell q leedle, boys.
The receipts of the Alice mine bullion in
New York since Jan. LIST amount to more
than half a million dollars.
Katie Putnam will probably pay.a visit to
Benton in a few weeks. She is to be here
soon after the Plunkett combination.
A steady, industrious boy who wishes to
learn the printers trade can find an opening
at the RIVER PRESS office. Apply at once.
The only place where you can buy the eel
ebrated Buckeye moving and combined ma
chimes is at Murphy, Neel & Co.'s. See add.
The Plunket constellation, thirteen people,
arrived from Shaw by private conveyance on
Monday morning and are stopping at the
Choteau house.
MIR. Chas. B0urassa, wife and child were
thrown from q buggy 81 Friday while en-
joying a drive and Mrs. B. was somewhat
seriously injured.
Mr.. J.. A. Woodson, one of the live men Of
Mes her county, is in town buying heaps Of
goods for his hotel at White Sulphur Springs
and his sheep ranch.
104 degrees in the shade! The weather
clerk must be getting things q little mixed.
Wonder if he has not mistaken Benton for
st. Louis or New Orleans
Mr.. Minar has received a large invoice Of
drugs, patent medicines, and in fact every
thing pertaining to the trade may now be OBJ
tanned at the new drug store.
Billy Allen will soon open q new saloon
in the room adjoining the wholesale liquor
house of II. j. Todd 81 Co. His place of
business is being fitted up in good style.
Ell. J.. Wackerlin & Co. have just received
per steamer Benton a large stock Of iron and
wood rakes, hay-forks, grain cradles, mining
shovels and picks and cheap cook stoves.
Crane s Green's popular store is now call
ed an Art Gallery from the fact that their
rooms are garnished with some really mag
ni1cent pictures. Call and see for yourself.
The comet with its millions of miles Of
tail has gone hence to surprise the inh abb
tants Of other worlds than ours. Il is
now scarcely discernible to the naked
eyer.
It would be well before purchasing else
where to look in at Wetzels and examine his
stock Of cloth mosquito screen which is just
as seryiceabIe as the wire and 10 per cent.
cheaper.
We learn from Mr.. Brinkman, who has
been up the Teton, that the ranch OF MI. J.
ID. WeatherWax is a beautiful one, and that
the gentleman's grain is in an advanced stage
and will sood be ready for the reaper. Good
for j. d.
The enterprising firm of Murphy, Neel s.
Co. will soon erect 0 brick structure 2Ox40
feet in dimensions, in the rear OF their estab-
lishment, the same to be used as tin shop.
They will also construct in connection q
large iron warehouse.