Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-07-09
JUDITH VALLEY LOCALS.

brook.
1t is stated by those present that the
ball at Utica the evening of the Bird inst.
was a great success
alfalfa crop and the residence of J.. &.
Walker had % panes of window glass
broken on the exposed side.
The parting injunction of see that
my graves kept green is o being
carried out to the letter by nature.
These are the days when the insect
world takes to the wing. The mos
quito crop especially promises big re-
suits.
viii Lehman of Ross Fork is quite
sick at the hotel in Philbrook. He was
brought in from his ranch Sunday
morning last.
Jesse Ingersoll Phelps and wife, late
of the Judith, are now settled in their
handsome new residence, recently pur-
chased in Helena.
A wandering sheep herder incurred
| the everlasting d~ispleasure of this COM
munity last week by turning his horse
into the cemetery.
Friday evening last, owing to the
darkness, the stage going owards Great
Falls tipped over into a ditch near
Utica. The only passenger, n lady 60
| ing to Stanford, escaped unframed.
Nelson True the fisherman, takes ex-
ceptions to the report circulated by the
editor of the ARGUS that he caught a
| thousand trout during his late crusade
on Spring creek. MIR. True wishes us
| to state that such are not the facts but
| that he has the documentary evidence
| to show hat for his seven and a half
days fishing he only captured eight hun
dred and sixty-four.
A little hasty pudding hail storm is
| served up for some of our ranchmen
| almost every day by the clerk of the
weather as a side dish to the general
meteorological menu. An insurance
company making a speciality of this
assurance would doubtless do well in
our midst. Wednesday last n storm Of
this description did considerable dam
age on the lower Judith. Calbreath
Fergus county's popular young den
fist, DIR. Daily, paid Philbrook a profess
sional visit of several days duration
last week. The Dr.'s molar business is
always good in this community for he
draws as surely as does three rings and
an elevated stage. The Doc. while here
wooed the fnny rot with rod and
line, but his wooing was not successful.
The trout evidently have well preserved
teeth for they positively declined to
open their mouths for the dental gaze.
Even ministers of the gospel are not
exempt from the many petty dlsap-
pointments that habitually wait upon
the laity. We nave time and lime again
seen the path tn heaven via the pulpit
strewn with everything but primroses.
As another instance we mark the sad
disappointment of nh2r. Edwards, who
recently performed me marriage cere-
mony and received in payment there
for a receipt for so. We trust that ere
this the temporarily discounted bride
groom has recovered sufficiently TO
write out n genuine check for IL like
amount.
When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary to speak of the de-
parted it always brings up memories,
though they he gloomy and melan-
choly. We have on sundry occasions
referred, and always in feeling terms,
to those circumstances that have
wrought the sad changes to Philbrook's
flag pole. The remorseless tooth of
time and the mutations of a few fleet
ing years have made history of this,
once thing of beauty and of liberty.
For a decade it stood towering over our
housetops, as agigantic and visible guar
dian spirit ever watchful of the liberties
of the community and of the nation.
| Many have been the occasions, holi-
days or the celebration of some event,
local or general, when its lofty and sim
uous body bent TO the caressing breeze,
as the silken banner of the union f1oated
proudly from the top. Their was one
occasion among the many that we dis
| tinctly remember. Philbrook was at
that time enjoying what might properly
be called the New England regime.
The graciousness of Boston and Bangor
hung as a halo about the place and the
hired men received their socks by mail
from Maine. Philbrook subsequently,
passed into the tertiary state which we
| will call the "mizzory'' period. The
occasion We speak of was when the
news came that Harrison was elected
president. My how the flag shot up
ward TO the accompaniment of cheers
and the booming of anvils! At that
time Gardenland shook hands with Phil
brook across a bloody chasm of several
years growth. 1t was the occasion also
when Sawyer, the silver.tongued,
mounted upon a whe elbarrow, got off
that story about the pups that changed
their politics after they were nine days
old. We will not repeat it for it is
known to everybody. AT least there is
u standing reward for the person who
never heard it and it still remains un-
claimed. But To return to III subject.
This flag staff, emblem of the liberty of
the people, after lying prone in the dust
for a half year, is now doing duty As
part and parcel Of a fence on The Mort