The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-10-05

FlaVe and Harvey are partners ana Dotn mar
ried men. while Frank ssgoes it alone 10
business-and in single blessedness. Frank
spent last winter in "America" Cor Missouri,
We are not certain which) and some thought
he would bring Mrs. Keene back with him,
but the time has not yet arrived for q chdra-
carl.
Canton contains a boarding house kept by
Mr.. Thos. Howell, q blacksmith shop, w. u.
Tierney g Co.'S store, and several dwellings,.
The store has quite an assortment OF goods
in it, is well patronized by the neighboring
farmers. and the indications are that Messrs.
Tierney and MCCARTHY will soon be well fixed.
At Canton We stopped for dinner, and while
it was being prepared enjoyed a pleasant
hour with our hostess; Mrs. Geo. Perkins,
who was an old friend. After dinner, and
a smoke and chat with George and his part
ner, B. NcCarty, who are this year cultlvat-
ing two ranches, belonging respectively to
Mr. Tierney and Mr. Myersick, we turned
10 the lane lending to Centreville.
From this lane the eye Wanders over con-
tinuous fields Of waving, golden grain, reach
ing down to the river on one side and away
10 to the foot hills Of the Belt range on the
other. Among the ranch men here are Ihos
Shinnick, who has q large and fertile farm
end is one Of the most prosperous, the Leary
Bros, VIM, Pierce, who only a few years
ago worked for wages on the farm he now
$500 -L:.t. L. la.nb+ Cos QSnn ord oor coll
any time be wishes for $4,000, John Hines,
John Lloyd, who has one Of the finest resi-
dences on the valley, Powers s. Bro, who
are a power among the horse men, Patrick
Griffin, P. Mcknight, formerly a resident of
Diamond, Chas. Doggitt, JAS. Manly, once a
miner in Confederate, and a number Of others
whose names we canno 0 recall. The
farms come to an end about a mile from
Centerville, which place we reached abou,
four o'clock.
At Centreville, which makes some preten.
sions to the honor of being called q town
the mercantile business is conducted by Mr..
Jas. Barker, who, after once selling out, has
got back to the old place, where, with the as
s~istance Of the genial Boone Mccormick, he
furnishes the neighborh00d with dry goods,
groceries, etc., (this is not meant for an
ssad.") and peruses the postal cards passing
through the Centreyille post Office. Across
the way j.. E. Mccormick dispenses ''cour-
age" 70 those who think they need il, while
his better-half, near by, looks after the com
ro.4 -E - 49, .4sm~I 5.~l@ -~.rwr re- kHaT@-
mick was just completing . fine new barn,
capable Of holding about thirty horses, q
much needed institution at this point. MT.
Hoover has a blacksmith shop here, and OPP
posife this is the store formerly occupied by
OYeIfeld g Churchill, tue latter now one Of
the nice young men Of our own town, and
ad joining this is the dance hall which we
will always remember as the place where
four couples (of whom We were Which)
outlasted three musicians who relieved each
other, and Waltzed for an hour and ten min
utes after dancing all night, and last, but by
no means least, as the place where another
fellow got away with our girl.
AT this place we paid a visit to Mr.. Nc
Fadden, who has a nice and attractive home,
and here we received a cordial invitation to
stop for the night, which we were quite will
ling to accept, The evening was spent very
pleasantly with Mr.. and Mrs. McFadden,
Miss Ada, and Mesdames Ballard and Van
Vost-married daughters of our hest-Who
were there at the time, In the morning,
after q little fun with our steed, whom the
trip so far had not deprived Of all his wine
gar" we started for Deep creek and Poverty
Flat, and the FIRST place we reached was O.
Barr Smiths, where we met with q very cor
dial reception. Above here are j. e.
Kanouse, the efficient chief clerk of the Ter
ritorial House Of Representatives, whom we
met in his fields, Stuart and Chas. Keaton,
Houston, Nafus, VIM. Norton, Leonhardi,
who WINS some very fine horses the Lippert
Bros, Anthony and jeff Sharpe, 4. j..
Thorpe, and a lot more, all apparently we'll
fixed, with comfortable homes and produc-
tive farms. The Deep creek people have a
nice looking school house, but from the
quietness which reigned as we passed it we
would judge that the folks up there didn't
care whether school kept or not.
Dinner time found Us at Keaton's, where
Charley and his wife made US very welcome,
and after eating enough to have raised fears
Of q famine on Deep creek next winter we
mounted again and returned by the upper
road. As we came back to the Missouri val