The river press., 1886-12-15
tt is chance to get even' on good
many wears subscription.

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many years subscription.
The treasurer's report which will be
submitted to the board soon viii show that
the tax collections to date exceed So, 900,
which is within 81 900 Of the sum received
in the same time last year.
A. B. Keeler left this morning for the
Judith. country in the interest of the
RIVER Press. He is prepared to take
orders for all classes of work, to receipt
for subscriptions and issue certificates in
the Grand Distribution.
We have sent statements of accounts to
all, or nearly all, Of the subscribers Of the
RIVER PRESS who live at distance. This
week we will complete the work and every
subscriber, far and near, will have received
a statement. Please observe that this state
ment includes subscription for the year
| 1887, to 1st of January 1888, and that pay
ments of the same entities the subscriber
to a chance in the Grand Distribution as
well as the paper to the date mentioned.
| Miss J. Y. Cullen, who has been in
charge of T. @. Power g Bro. millinery
and manufacturing department for several
months, took her departure for Chicago
this morning BY the Billings coach to
spend the holidays at home and enjoy
short vacation after long period of hard
and faithful work. She will return in
March, or perhaps earlier. Miss Cullen
is an artist in her line and made the man
ufacturing department. of /. c. Power &
Bro. an exceedingly popular institution.
Neihart that the Improvement company's
concentrator is running in full blast, and
is doing beautiful work. In fact samples
Of the concentrator's ore are now on exhi-
place, which shows conclusively that it
does its work we'll. But as a financial
proposition to it's stockholders we can't
say SO much The machinery is kept run
ming at az expense of$16 per day and is on
" crushing 215 tons of ore per day. Now
! if we are correctly informed in this matter
it is not much of job for the>stockholders
to figure how long it will take to bankrupt
the company. The truth Of the matter is
| that the machinery is good enough as far
as it goes, but without a rock-breaker can
accomplish but le.-Husbamdman.
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How the River Press Drawing Will be Con-
Quoted.
The question has often been asked us,
how will the RIVER PRESS Distribution Or
drawing be conducted? We answer in
general way that it will be held in pub
lie room and conducted by the subscribers
themselves. They will select chairman,
two judges ane two secretaries. Two
large baskets will be provided in one of
which will be placed envelopes containing
the numbers issued. SO that there will be
as many envelopes as there are numbers or
certificates issued; in the other basket will
be like number of envelopes, containing
blank or prize tickets lin the latter case
the particular prize is nameD. AS one
Judge takes an envelope from basket No.
/ /, the other selects one from basket No. 2.
| Whatever comes out with a number is
what that number draws. TO illustrate: ::
Suppose the envelope containing the num-
Der 900 is taken from the first basket and
the corresponding envelope contains the
/ ticket on which is written ''Schuttler
/ wagon, = then No. | 900 draws the Schultz
Ter wagon; if the ticket should be simply
/ a blank, then No. 1000 draws nothing.
This in a nut she'll is the explanation Of the
plan 10 be followed in distributing the
premiums, and its absolute fairness must
be patent to all.