Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05

Jim Shelton is i'm Salt Lake City.

Jim Shelton is in Salt Lake City.
Mike Rooney returned last week from a
flying visit to Chicago. He brought with
hira his twelvs-year-old daughter. She was
placed in school at st. Peters mission.
There is a young lady living not far from
Philbrook who is a great devotee OF the art
terpsichorean. The boys call her white
wings" because she never grows weary"
Breathitt Gray will commence the srec-
ton at once of a building in Utica, to be
used by him as a saloon. He has already
purchased the Sellers residence, which,
after ~remodeling, he will open as a hotel.
Competition promises te be brisk in Utica.
The Methodist revival that was hsraldea
to m last week in Philbreok has
been indefinitely postponed. As a conss-
quence that ungodly young savage, Young
man-not-afraid of-his-God, and many 9TH
ers Of like kidney are still off the ressrva-
ton and strongly intrenched in the breaks
OF the bad lands of sin.
John Sellers has withdraw from the
management OF Chas. Lehman K Co. 'sstore
at Utica. Mr.. Sellers has been with that
firm over eight years, four of which were
spent at Utica. johnny" was universally
liked by the people OF the Judith, and in
him the management has lost a that
will be felt when they sum up the word sue
cess. Mr.. Sellers has moved his family to
his ranch on Mcdonald creek, where he will
engage in sheep raising.
The event recently in social circles was
the party at the residence of Jesse Ingersoll
Phelps. 1t tool place Friday evening, Jan.
90. The evening was delightfully."- spent in
card playing. music and dancing. The
charming hostess was in her usual good
spirits, and all were entertained in a royal
manner that was Observation-Disclosures
own. Supper was served at midnight.
The following is a list OF those invited to
attend: Mrs. j. C. Walker, Miss Maggie
Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Babcack, Mr..
and Mrs. Will Powell. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sellers, Mr.. and Mrs. c.. NJ. Belden. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Ackley, Mr.. and Mrs. C. N.
Goodell, Mrs. Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Gray,
DIR. and Mrs. Long. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Moran,
E. F. Hersey. George Stone, s.. 5. Hobson,
Mrs. E. H. Train, Will Gray, Theodore
Gray, Frank Plunkett, c. NJ. Russell, Jas,
Weaver. George Duffield, John Peterson,
Frank Mowery, Mote Easley, John Duf
field.
The reign Of King Winter is rapidly com
ing to a close. The sunshiny days OF De
cember, followed in quick succession by the
thirty-one days Of January, all SO regularly
balmy and even Of tenor, would cause one
to imagine his royal highness laying aside
his white mantle Of purity and establishing
an interreguum whilst he d~illy-dallied by
the roadside and furnished the lustre OF his
crown eli icicles by basking in the last years
smiles OF the dethroned queen OF summer
1t might be said, and with truth, that the
king OF winter has been effsctually caugh,
lolling in the lap OF summer and in either
ways doing the delictu business on a grand
scale. During this time the raisers OF tn.
/, much-producing sheep went about witt
countsnances bisected with a smile that, i
not all wool. was at least a yard wide. anc
the God-fearing cowman engaged. undis
turbed by snow or cold, in the varisul
means of grace. But Feb. ] saw "A chang,
in all this. The hy%perberean king awok'
from his lethargy, SHE'D his castor into thu
ring, and in a very few rounds knocked thu
mercury down to 81 below zero. He hal
been down a good share of the time since
At this writing at the call OF time he Gomez
up ''groggy."