The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

Gloster, 1870; Belmont, 70, and the Legal
Tender, 81.
Attention is called to the ad. of W. Fl.
Todd, real estate and collecting agent. Mr..
Todd has opened an Office on upper Front
street where he will always be glad to meet
his friends. If you want to buy or sell any
thing he can fit you out to a dot.
Two loads of bullion from the Clendenin
Mining & Smelling Company will arrive to-
day. A letter from Mr.. Emery to one of our
citizens states that the smelter is doing its
usual good work. and that everything is run
ming along as smoothly as could be.
The soldier who feloniously and with mis-
chievous intent entered the house of an Of
fcer at Fort Assinaboin last fall, an account
Of which was given in the RIVER PRESS at
the time, has been sentenced to three years
confinement in the government prison.
We want to rise to remark that the neatest
and handsomest saddlery es' adjustment in
Montana is that Of Davidson & Mufitt, this
city. But, lot content with their present fa-
%cilitiea, they will put up an addition of
twenty or thirty feet to their already commo-
dious building this season.
| The citizens of Barker have petitioned the
| Superintendent of Schools Of Meagher coun-
ty for a school district, and the wherewithal
to conduct a school. Supt. McClintock will
present the matter to the Commissioners at
their first meeting with a recommendation
that the petition be granted.
The Rock Creek station on the Helena road
has been removed to Wolf Creek, four miles
further up the road. The new station is one
Of the most convenient and comfortable on
the line, and is in charge of Mr.. Carter, whu
sets q meal before the weary wayfarer that
is as tempting IS needs be.
The Frontier club, composed as it is of
honorable gentlemen, will not we think in
dorse dishonorable dealing on the part of
one of its officers. We van to go on record
as believing that not q single member of the
club except the youth who writes himself
Secretary would try to beat the printer.
An I'D. or card in next weeks RlvEE
Press, which will go into the hands of every
tax payer in the c. untry tributary to Benton,
a radius of $50 miles, would be equivalent to
q circular letter and not cost one fifth as
much. Il is the best opportunity for effec-
tive advertising ever offered the people OF
Chote: i county.
The h1vEK Press has ordered'a complete
new dress of BREWER and nonpareil type, and
in addition more than 5000 worth of new job
type of the latest designs. When this ma
terial arrives we win be prepared to issue as
neat q paper as any in Montana, and the ad-
dition TO our job department will make it
complete in every respect.
A change of I'D. for Messrs. Hirshberg Il
Nathan was handed in this week, but too late
to secure insertion. They announce that for
80 days they will sell goods at actual cost to
make room for the new stock that is coming.
To convince anybody that they will do as
they say-sell at cost ~price-they only ask a
trial. Look out for their announcement next
week.
The school trustees have purchased six
lots of Charley Rowe and Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith, adjoining the school house property,
and upon which the new school building
will be erected. They have also made ar
rangements for brick and other material
and will begin the new structure as soon as
complete arrangements to that end can be
made.
Messrs. F. G. Roosevelt s. Co. have re-
modelled and refitted the second story of
their building and have made connection
with the lower room by an inside stairway.
a large portion of their stock of furniture
has been moved upstairs where it is displayed
to good advantage. They now have a model
furniture establishment.
The first genuine blizzard of the year was
experienced last week. Wednesday morning
WAS warm and pleasant, but the wind veered
around until it came directly from the north
pole, and before the sun went down the van
guard of the blizzard had put in an appear
ance. At 6 q m. of the following days the
thermometer registered as follows: Thurs.
day, 80 deg. below zero Friday. the same
Saturday, % below Sunday, IS below, and
Monday, 81 below. Monday afternoon the
mild-mannered chinook arrived, and since
then February has been as pleasant as May.
The appearance of the Benton s'P" Line
ad. in this issue is a harbinger of the near
approach Of spring. This is one of the most
.I;.hIo Hoes = - tho Miaonr1ri riuar on6 thio