Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-08-04
JUDITH VALLEY LOCALS,

Monday afternoon Last the ~th-rm"m-ier
reached loo ia the shade.
Look out lar the Inconvenience al hay
happy.
Pastor Craven took the coach last week
for Anaconda, the meeting place Of the con
terence of the Methodist church.
Henry LapIam recently purchased II
threshins outfit from A. l.. Babeock. II,
expects to make the dust fly ia great -lIap,
this fall.
William Edwards, wife and two daught
ers, recently arrived from Dundee, Scot,
land. Mr.. edwards is ather-in-law To w
=. Corwin.
John X. Burrows, the Helena attorne,
who has been rustieating the last month
at TIBET, took the coach at Philbrook Fri
day evening last for his home.
One hundred head of horses passet
through Philbrook Monday last en- rout,
for Dakota. They are owned by Beareroft
4 Neif, of White Sulphur Springs.
Hay making is now the order of the day
Most every ranchman employs at least on
hired man if he wears boots, for do yoI
know they will not look at a man applying
for work with shoes IN his feet. They SAL
they lose too much time picking seeds out
Of their socks.
Horace Phillips has received from Billings
Minneapolis, San Francisco and elsewher,
his summer and fall stock of goods. Hi,
g.. - -.
tors will surely find something they are il
need of. Horace is making n well deserved
success in the mercantile business.
Among the first buildings erected in Phil
brook was the elevator" and in it's rea
connected Herewith is an old cellar o
used last winter as a saloon. but now al
though the bottles and beer are far away
the sign Dew Drop Inn" still appeals to
passers- bE from over the front door
Sometime within the iast month a wander
ing steer OF the four-iegged variety suited
the action to the plainly written word
walked over the top Of the old cellar and
finding a hole dropped in hide, hoofs, tai
and all. Fortunately for the steer his pre-
/ llt Sohuag a q anu
though being the Lords day, a crowd
gathered and coaxed the emaciated bovine
to climb a stairway of twenty OF mors
steps to freedom, water and grass.
We heard an account OF how Cha riey
Russell electrified northern Montana by
the brilliancy OF his recent incursioon into
the realms of saloon keeping. Charlie has
made d great and lasting success in depict
ing upon canvass the low browed aborigi
nee, the dusEy squaw and the brightly
! record as d puncher of cows. Notwith
standing he yearned within himself foI
something to cap the climax, "A fitting hnsls
within which to leav- iife's range of action
in a bla &c OF glory. He secretly ionged to
he the proprietor vi a saloon and with the
hands of the sole owner pour fiery concoe
tons into the glasses of thirsty cowboys
The yearlings OF promise, however. finally
grew into the fat, four-year-old steer OF al
assured fact and Charlie one day found
himself the mel of n saloon in Chinook
The opening had been duly ehronicled and
the first day the knights of the RATA and
the lound clanking spur fought for places
before his bar. Money flowed in all day
and late at night when Charlie closed III
his till was Overlooking. He locked the
glass doors upon which his name was
brightly painted in gold over an exact
counterpart of "A Judith valley buffalo skull
! and with a light heart he sought his couch