Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-01-21
JUDITH VALLEY LOCALS.

a weak tlck-furcnaslng on seven nays
time.
Breaches OF trust-the borrowed panta-
looms.
The days are growing ~perceptibly longer.
If you don't believe it consult your alma
nae and be convinced.
S. Hurvitch, the Maginnis merchant
tailor, wal on the Judith last week taking
orders for custom made clothing.
Mrs. Frank Wright, of Lewistown, who
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. j.. ID.
Waite, of Utica, returned home last week.
A man in California has "A way of train
ing t~rotting horses by swimming them in a
large tank. If Montana only had more
snow what a field it would be for training
horses on snow shoes.
1t is given out-and on pretty good
authority-that the wedding bells will soon
ring for an old bachelor with gray hairs
living near Utica. No, you are wrong; il is
not Judge Ferguson. Guess again.
Many of our best people are renewing
their acquaintanceship, and reluctantly
too, with that prince of bad fellows. La
Grippe. If our memory serves us correctly
he stieketh closer than 81 brother, yea, even
more SO than a kitten To a hot brick.
The people OF Pleasant Valley school dis
triet participated in Il special school cleo
ton last week. James Raw and Clarence
Barnes were elected trustees, and Horace
Phillips was appointed clerk. 1t will be
remembered that this new district recently
" uA n
Friday evening last Witnessed a gather
ing Of merry makers that filed completely
the hospitable home OF Mira. Frank Prouett.
The party was given in honor of the host
ess' two daughters, the Misses Alice and
Pearl Oates. Dancing was kept up iuces-
sanity until the peep of dawn.
and Charlie Hess are hustling among the
manageable Iowa lasses in great shape.
II was before they left Philbrook, even
they Individually and collectively
gayito mt that they were confident that
they had IA lead pipe cinch" on the Iowa
matrimonial market.
Sunday last at > O'Clock p. M. at the
hotel in Philhrook, Mr.. Sam Houston was
welded to Miss Ada Hawson, second
daughter of Vim. Hawson, Rev. Craven
officiating. The wedding was a quiet affair,
only the immediate family witnessing the
ceremony. Mr.. IL. will take his bride to
L.ewistown, where they will reside perma-
nently. We extend congratulations.
The ordinary Judith valley hen is moth
ing il not extraordinary. She at times in
the seciusion of the hay-mow lays for
something surprising, and often her fond
est hopes are more than realized. Mrs.
Tirzah Gray, of %Philbrook, is the fortunate
possessor of a speckled biddy whose egg
works are beyond the common, in as much
as she recently laid two eggs at the same
time. One egg was contained within the
other, both having the usual contents, and
with separate and distinct shells.
Miss Tintinger's private school continues
it's moulding process of the minds of a
select few of Fergus county's future states
men. The moulding, however, goes on at
a new place. Last week the desks. charts
and apparatus were moved from the hall
to the Methodist parsonage, where Mr..
Craven kindly rendered the use of a large
well lighted front room. The audible
souehiny of frigid winds and the sitting of
snow through mural crevasses was too
much to contend against by teacher and
pupils, with only one stove to keep the life
blood warm as cerebra gray matter was
being evolved. Hence the change of base.
One evening last week some nirth pro-
yoking parties at Utica came near precipi-
Eating trouble that for direfulness, fea theirs
and fuss the Gillian matter would necessa-
rily have taken second place. Mr. Messner,
the manager of Lehman's store. was noti-
fled that several of his chickens were roost-
ing on a neighbours hay stack. About the
time Messuer was successfully surrounding
the hens with "A dark lantern the lady
owner of the fowls was told that a dis
guised man was making a sneak on her pet
pullets. The lady flew, figuratively speak
ing. to the rescue, and il the miscreants
who perpetratej the Job had not explained
matters so well we would have had an en-
tirely different story to relate.