The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-02-23
IN TOWN AND OUT.

.. m. Rev. j. Camp Sd
IN TOWN AND OUT.
We see the bills again.
Guthrie makes the best Of fruit cakes.
Another church is contemplated in Benton.
The latest style of neckties is the ''anchor
brand"
Go to I. G. Baker s. Co., for ticking. It
is low down.
Baker & Co. have q few sets Of furniture
left, and only a few.
The merry and cheering ring Of the anvil
is once more heard in the land.
]. G. Baker & Co., have a large assortment
of hats, which they are selling out at cost.
The Summit and De Soto are working two
ten.hour shifts and are taking out ore very
rapidly.
Antelope are reported plentiful in the vi
cinity of John Nubert's ranch, four miles
from town.
Breakfast bacon, sweet and fresh at Muir
ply, Neel g Co.'s new building, corner of
Front and Benton streets.
Considerable building is going on in the
mines in the expectation Of a heavy boom
during the coming summer.
We learn that Wilton's carpenter shop will
be refitted and used part as a saloon and part
as barber shop by MIR. Dryer.
Tom Coatsworth, Al. Hutchinson and Tom
Healy are loaded for J. FL. Mcknight & Co.,
Fl. Shaw, from 4. G.. Power 6 Bro,
The Assinniboine driver reports Is lodges
of Piegans moving in from the Marias. They
are probably coming to Benton to trade.
Joe Goverouve and Frank Tromblay are
working q Whip-saW in the Barker camp, and
making about $50 feet Of lumber per day.
Parties consigning freight to the Benton
ssP" line of Steamers, either at Sioux City or
Bismarck, will have the same promptly for
warded.
/. G. Baker s. Go. are loading Smith &
Cashiers teams for the Coal Banks. They
are taking out supplies for the stockmen in
that vicinity.
A few tarrels of Jas. III. O'Donnells Blue
Ribbon O. *. whisky (the only %genuine) at
Murphy, Neel 6 Co.'s, corner Of Front and
Benton streets.
The wood fiends look sad and detected.
The weather is mild and they find it impos-
sible to sell six old rails for enough to fence
an ordinary farm.
The owners Of prairie schooners are be-
coming interested il the weather, and are
having their wagons mended, preparatory to
the advent of the freighting season.
A few boxes of apples still left at Murphy,
Neel 8 CO. 8. They are going rapidly, and
as this is the only stock in town, buyers had
better call soon. No advance ia prices.
The Poor Mans Club is the name Of a new
society recently formed in Benton. The
initiation fee is in the shape of a Y, and the
principal amusement Of the members is whit
thing.
The roads to the Barker are getting better,
requiring but two days and a half to make
the distance, the snow having disappeared
from the road, excepting in spots, where it is
frozen hard.
"E. II. Taylor, Jr,, s. Co.'S and s'Hume'
handmade sour mash Whiskies, the finest and
purest goods made id the United States, at
Murphy, Neel s. Co. s new store, corner OF
Front and Benton streets.
a Losey, 7. G. storer, Q. W. Kelly, and
Chas. Kieffer, left this morning for the
HighWood country On q hunting and fishing
trip. They viii be gone four or five days,
and promise US a mess of trout on their re-
turn.
The Glendale ATLANTIS is dead. The poor
thing was the worst specimen Of Q one-horse
ever issued On this earth, and We
are creditaDly Informed that the good people
Of Glendale are mighty glad that they are r1a
of the weekly nuisance.-Miner.