Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-08-27
JUDITH VALLEY LOCALS.
Distressingly healthy

Distressingly healthy,
Men To work in the hay fields are very
scarce this season on the Judith.
Mrs. e. G. David and Mrs. Con Wight. Of
Utica, have returned home from recent
visits with relatives in the east.
Friday last Miss Kane closed her school
on the lower Judith. We understand the
lady will resume her position in the Lewis
town school.
Water, as well as whisky, makes bad feel.
ings, causes law suits and rolls up attor-
ney's fees, the temperance crank To the
contrary, Notwithstanding.
Binks says confidentially that he is pos.
sessed of an extraordinarily active mind
There is hardly fifteen minutes in the day
that he is not thinking of something.
Thomas Waddell returned last week with
his family to the Judith. Tom has been
conducting a blacksmith shop at Robinson
but dull times compelled him to shut down
Last week Oscar Stephens purchased
about four hundred head of beef steers OF
L. ID. Smith and Fred Lehman of Ross
Fork. Mr.. Smith received SIS and Mr..
Lehman SIT per head.
Phillips Brooks. the new E~piscopalian
Bishop of Massachusetts, was once de-
scribed by an ardent admirer as, "a nice,
gentlemanly man OF the E~piscopalian
church with a leaning toward nifty.
o. c. Bundy, who has been visiting
friends on the Judith, returned last week
to his home in Helena. Mr.. Bundy, besides
being an old timer, was one of the first to
establish a photographers gallery in the
capital city.
Fisherman True when at home in the
east always attends the Unitarian church
twice on Sundays. He thinks the Uuiver-
salists have outstripped all other denomi-
nations, because "they do not NEEDLE with
either politics or religion"
Saturday last a fisherman made a re-
markable catch of trout on the uppe Jul
dith. The sum total was only 119, but
the remarkable thing about it was the
! catching of the last thirty-one fish in thirty
minutes by the watch of a disintSrested
party. This is a True fish story.
John Brooks and wife OF Philbrook, have
taken charge Of the Geyser stage station.
This stopping place has long been 'excep-
~tionally and deservedly" unpopular with
all classes of the travelling public, and if
Mr.. Brooks makes a success of his under
taking it will be another case OF Lazarus,
come forth"
The Burlington & Missouri have at last,
after much work, located the survey across
the Judith near Mr.. Hobson's residence
about hall way between Utica and Phi
( brook. The c~ompany's road bed is now
graded to within one hundred miles OF Bill
lings, and il is not too much 20 expect that
within eighteen months time iron horses
will be cavorting and snorting across the
Judith country.
Philbrook has been for the past week a
veritable hotbed of DRINKS. The report
was circulated early Monday morning last
that Schaal had sold his saloon, but on
running the rumor to ground by your cor
4, respondent we fonnd that it was merely
5 his "stock in trade" that had been disposed
of. Sunday night a poor inebriated sheep
herder was initiated into the mysteries OF a
! local society Of highbinders, and the next
4 morning, owing to the quantities of red
5 paint and turkey feathers used in the exer-
: cises, the once meek and inoffensive shep-
e herd resembled a cigar-store Indian who
had failed to hold down his job.
John Duffield, the well known horse man,
is, and has been for time past, in a guam.
Diary, and "by Ned he doesn't know what
to do. About three years ago Mr.. Dufiield
decided to build at once a new residence
d for himself. After a years time he had sue
ceeded SO far as to complete the digging oI
a cellar to his taste. The year following he
hauled the lumber. and now a twelve
q month after. just as he was ready to put
the carpenters to work, along comes 6
railroad survey that passes within a few
rods OF his building site. At last account.
John had not Figured it out, but we sup
s pose he will have to wait about a yea
longer to see whether or not they intend tt
u build that railroad.