The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-09-28
IN TOWN AND OUT.

The County Jail is empty.
The White sewing machine is the best.
Lumber is continually arriving for the new
hotel. @5..a..
M. a. Flanagan has Just received a large
lot Of new goods.
The merchants report business as active
for.this season of the year.
The Hasenwinkle company are playing IN
Helena during Fair week.
Another invoice of lumber and lime arrived
for the new hotel yesterday.
ed. Lewis train arrived from Claggett last
night loaded for I. G. Baker & Co.
Our Territorial cotems. are trying TO see
which can raise the biggest potatoes.
81 should remick' Is the fastest slang
phrase INDUCED IN by the Bentonites.
The Benton brass band will soon give an
other open air concert. Come soon, boys.
A herd of about fifty head Of buffalo have
been reported in the vicinity of Pen d'Oreille
coolie.
The advertisement of bids for the purchase
of the present court house and Jail Will ap-
pear next week.
The Ayaat Courier Of last week is indebt-
ed to the R1vER FREss for about one-third OF
its local matter.
The Barker coach is running % regular
time now that Al. Olden has taken the road
again. Al. whoops EN- up.
The irrepressible ]. Al. Sawtelle is still in
the field and will bring a theatrical company
TO Miles City ina short time.
It is stated that NJ Elhaney, the silent man
of Benton, got lost on his way out to
Barker and was out two nights and days.
TIL brick work on Davidson y Motifs
building is about finished and the building
will be completed and ready for occupancy
in about three weeks.
Frielda s. Neehoff's train arrived from
Clagett on Friday, loaded with goods for [.
G. Power g Bro. and 7. G. Baker u Co.
We notice quite an improvement in Cork
block, In the the shape Of nice picket fences
along the whole front. A good improvement.
Sheriff Healy and Deputy Tom Finigan
left for Deer Lodge this morning with the
two prisoners sentenced at the late term of
court.
Judge Tattan is having a very neat and
attractive fence built around his residence.
Architect Trombley is experimenting the
work.
The 'smasher" is abroad in the land. He
neat, and oh, so sweet, but at times he will
get beat. Look out for him, he's a bad
bad man.
The cold, chilly, disagreeable weather of
the past few days would almost lead one to
believe that the clerk of the weather ''stood
in" with our clothing merchants.
One of the hell-holes that have SO long in
tested Main street has been closed and the
building turned into q neat and attractive
restaurant. Similar changes are desirable.
up the Missouri. He is threshing at jeff
Devereaux's to-day, and will continue up the
river until all the grain is threshed in that
section.
G. III. Lanning has removed his stock Of
merchandise into the handsome store recent
ly erected. His place now presents a decid-
eddy tasteful appearance and reminds one Of
an eastern jeWelry house.
Flanagan's store will soon look quite nice.
He received last week three handsome glass
show cases and 8 prescription desk, which
are set up, and the show cases are to be filed
with fine toilet articles, ETC., which will give
the store quite q citified appearance.
A base ball tournament for the champion
ship of the territory will be held in Helena
the week after Fair week. Among the con
testing mines will be the Buttes, the Excel
siors OF Fort shaw, a nine from Assinaboin,
and the strong nine Of the Helena club. The
games will doubtless be very interesting.
Work on the new hotel, which had been
temporarily suspended pending the arrival OF
lumber, was recommended yesterday. Lum-
DER is now on the ground, and the brick
work, under the superintendent OF Mr..
FRANK Coombs, will be pushed forward rap
idly, and, weather permitting, will be COM
pleted il about six weeks.