The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-09-12
Some Personal Observations OF Dis.
tinguished Characters
Among Whom, as Usual, Morgan
town Man Takes the Cake.
A Soft Snap for a Dressmaker and a
Chance for the Bald Heads to Cruise
Round and Wait for the
Cruise Heiress.

caiieu the MonJana agricultural,
Mechanical and Mining Association"
but is in reality nothing more nor
less than racing meeting.
The races are the feature of the &C.
casion. All the large premiums are
for horse owners, and there are often
$4,000 in the pool box put up on
single race.
There is little side show to keep
the ladies quiet, with some small
premiums attached but the exhibits
are limited in extent though very
beautiful in quality.
Their bread, cakes, jellies, drawn
work, Kensington embroidery, paper
flowers and China painting are all ex-
quisite and compare favorably with
the best specimens seen elsewhere.
The fair grounds are less than 2
miles from the city, the Montana
Central charges $1.30 for transpor-
ting single passenger there and
back.
Eastern horses cannot run well
here. They get "short winded" ow-
ing to the lightness of the air
Montana horses have great capa-
city for sustained effort owing to an
unusually large lung surface and in
or mile race are formidable
competitors but IN the mile races |
saw, the best time made was only 2:24
GOLD TIMERS BANQUET"
Wednesday night the "Old Timers"
banquet took place l was invited
to be present but as l had risin at 6 |
A. NJ. driven IL miles across country
then rode AZ miles in close crowd |
ed car and attended the Fair all the
afternoon l was unable to be present,
much to my regret as l hear a splen-
did time was had
The "Old Timers are to Montana
what the Mayfower Pilgrims are to
Massachusetts. 1t is the insignia
of aristocracy and to possess it you
must be able to prove that you ar
rived prior to the year 1864
After that the deluge-Nobody
counts who came in '65 or later.
There is a good deal of jealousy, and
outsiders swear they mean to get up
a "New Timers" society and exclude
all the Old ones. There are less than
300 members now living and the num-
Der gets smaller every year.
Fifteen or twenty years hence the
gathering will have more of sadness
than gladness as Old Time 'gets the
call" on the "Old Timers" and the
throng thins out and the few totter-
ing survivors creep together each
year more and more slowly and fee
bly,.
There is always an element of sad
ness in the final outlook in all such
limited corporations. A few years
ago the last of the Old Defenders of
Baltimore in the war of 1912 sat
down to the annual dinner utterly
alone, not comrade left to greet him
How painful must have been his re-
Elections and how the food must have
choked him as he thought of the alb
sent and looked around at their va
cant chairs.
OF THE MONTANA PRESS Asso.
CITATION
The Montana Press Association
meets at Butte next week and the
Union Pacific Railway management
will give them an excursion to Salt
Lake City. am invited to attend :
but have not yet decided to accept.
THE CHINESE MUST GO.
The citizens of Missoala near here, /
held an enthusiastic meeting and de- i
termlned upon a rigid boycott system.
L hey pledge themselves not to pa
tronize or employ the Chinese and to
have no business dealings with any
one who does.
THERE is STILL HOPE FOR HELENA.
The silver tongued temperance or !
ator Francis Murphy was here the I
greater part of August laboring +
against liquor and more than three {
thousand persons signed the pledge. !
He is reformed drunkard himself, q
and was converted, while in Jail for /
being an habitual drunkard. $
Montana has appropriated $50, 900 |
'or the Worlds Fair The ladies ]
headed by Mrs. Gov. Toole \
have asked for ten per cent slice of Il
t, to help their side out at the fair, |
but the managers at their meeting '
couple of weeks ago invited them to .
10 as the ladies do in the M. Z. /
up subscription. l
MAJOR BROOKE CALLS TO SEE OUR \
BRIGHT CORRESPONDENT \
Major E. G. Brooke, former resi- F
lent of Morgantown, but now of |
White Hall, Jefferson county, Mon : :
ana, called the present week, but as q
was attending the fair l missed u
lin. much to my regret
The day | was escorted through
he rooms of the board of trade, the
secretary, Major Walker, showed me
! sheaf Of beautiful wheat grown on
Mr.. Brooke's ranch. The remarka- d
'le part of the matter is that it was {,
owed April 1889 and harvested Au r
rust 1891, remaining in the ground T
wo years before it sprouted on ac- t
cunt of the drought of the two past y
nmmers. The dryness of the air !, n
md the antiseptic qualities of the g
oil preserving it till conditions were t.
avorable. The late SHOWS and rains p
# the past spring brought it out in "
inc shape. g
Another sheaf was shown grown
N the ranch of DIR Blake, of Edmon-
on's Ferry. ON the Missouri river,
his state, which yielded 70 bushels C
o the acre and so grains to the head. II
I is the White Australian variety r.
4 winter wheat. W
PAINTINGS AND PICTURES.
On the walls Of the Board room h