Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-05-11
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offered for 2-year-olds last week.
w. G. Norman left for the Falls first OF
the week to meet his father. who il en- route
from Evans Cross Roads, North Carolina.
to spend the simmer with his sons.
DIR. Stone Was called to the Nelson ranch
last week to attend Mrs. Sherard, the wife
of the superintendent OF the Gilt Edge min
ing Co.. who WAS takenill with the measles.
W. j.. Sweeney, of Helena, who has large
interests in this county, and is manager OF
the Cruise Cattle Co., visited Lewistown
last week in with John Edwards,
OF Grass Range.
Gustavius Moraci. of Halbert. came to
Lewistown last Sunday to consult Drs.
Hanson & Stone GU account OF the dislo-
cation OF the right shoulder, sustained four
weeks ago. The old dislocation was sue
c~essfully reduced by DIR. Stone with the as
sisstauce OF Drs. Hanson and Lindsey.
W. W. Dewitt has commenced the cree
ton of a two-story structure nearly op-
posite his present residence OH the Boule-
ward Mr.. Dewitt is constantly building
and feels confident OF a heavy advance in
real estate property within a few years
Sheriff Deaton received a telephone mes
sage from the Meagher county sheriff Tues
day telling him to he on the k for
two parties who had that day murdered
William RAIDER, ex-sherif OF Meagher
county, Mt Castle. No particulars have
been a~scertained. RAIDER was well known
in this locality.
Do the ranchmen, stockmen and mer-
chants of this section know that the ARGUS
job department can furnish them with a
neat line OF stationery and envelopes with
their card printed thereon, almost as cheap
as they can buy the plain, poor article
Try us and see. Large assortment of all
classes OF stationery and the best line OF
job type in central Montana.
A large number Of young people, mostly
teatotalers Of the l. o. G. T. order, at
tended a necktie social given by the Beaver
creek abstainers last Saturday evening.
The question Of n pretty girl with an empty
basket or An old maid and IA full larder
was drawn to by the matching OF neekties
and resulted in IA net receipt by the lodge
Of about S35. This will be used to buy an
organ. A good time is reported by Lewis
town participants.
An enterprising traveller with u phono-
graph stationed himself in I. r. Carson's
saloon Sunday and raked in a liberal mum
Der Of quarters in exchange for tunes. 1t
was IA fineinstrument, being la the superior
oil any seen in Lewistown before. The gen.
tleman's name is c. p. Fillebrown and he
represents the Fremont Phonograph Co.,
of Lander, Wyo. He will be stationed in
Hammond Il Roberts jewelry store today
for the accommodation of ladies.
Most editors are acquainted with the
man who takes more papers than he car
read" consequently he has no time for thu
local papers. He usually takes a paper
that contains the latest news about thu
"Smuggler's Cruise. or the Adventurers o
Big Moses, the Bandit King" and while h,
is storing his mind with such elevating in
formation his wife is reading almanaes anc
wondering why her neighbours know Sc
much more about what is going on in thu
world around them.-Ex.
The Newspaper Man says: Don't forge
the editor when you have an item. III you
wife whips you let us know and we will Sc
you right before the public. Ii you hav
company, tell US If you are not ashame'
| of your visitors. If a youngster arrives a
/ your house and demands food and ra
, ment, buy a quarters worth OF cigars an
come around, and il you are a cash sui
scriber we will furnish Al mann for him O
3 her as circumstances warrant. If yo
: have n social gathering OF n few friend
t bring around a big cake, six or seven pie
r and II ham-not necessarily To eat, but
guarantee of good faith. You needn
. bother to invite us, as it may be a lit
too cool for our wardrobe. We mentio
: these things because we want the news.
The sale of property belonging to Il
a John Toumbs estate tool place Saturda.
j Edward Brassey acting as auctionee
t The total indebtedness against esta'
o amounted to about $4,000 and it was I
iquidute this that the sale was made.
n section OF desert land on the bench sou'
of town was first sold and brought So
5 going to II. z. Brooks This land had bee
o willed to Mrs. Blackburn and was covert
e by a mortgage of about 5000. so it will
e seen that Mrs. Blackburn gets little
nothing. The Lewistown Hotel was thu
n sold to WIN. Hawson, of Cottonwood, fo
4 So 800. This liquidates all debts al
leaves VIM. Hortop nearly $4,000. NJ
Hawson left for Helena Monday, returnil
soon to open the hotel. The sale must
a approved by Judge DuBose, but no anxiet
is felt by the buyers as to his sanction.
e. A New York daily paper, taking up {
idea conveyed in Flammarion's exciti
o novel, omega: The Last Days of t
o World" has interviewed a number OF t
,e leading men in all professions as to VIII
K they would do if science were to predict t
re morrow that the end of the world won
arrive within the next thirty days. T
answers are various and curious, al
heighten the interest which is felt in t
m second part of Flammarion's great nov
which appears in the May ~Cosmopolita
= 1t is a question which everyone will fiji
interesting to ask of himself: What won
you do if within six weeks the end of t
world were certain? Probably no no'
which has ever appeared in an Americ
magazine has been more deliberately ill
!, trated by more distinguished arts
Laurens, Saunier, Vogel, Meaulle, Rocl
" crosse, Geradin and Chovin all contrib
to the explanation of the text. A Gle,
story of another kind is that OF the n
English novelist, Gilbert Parker, in t
same number. american Society
~ Paris" is al article Of another kind, b
st one which will interest all who have Ia
ne occasion to make even a short residence
a the French capital. The Cosmopolit
es scores a success in producing in it's NJ
of number, almost simultaneously with
a daily papers, an elaborate description
ut Professor Gray's marvellous ~inventiC