The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-05-26

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r. c. Perry went to the Falls on Tues
days train.
Mrs. Lindsay has gone to Great Falls
and Belt on a visit.
Father Dolls, of Great Falls, was here
Monday and Tuesday.
Judge Bennett attended to legal bust
ness in Great Falls Monday.
Fred Sprague is visiting Great Falls
and the lively coal camp of Belt.
Wm. Mueller as happy and hearty as
ever has got back from the Mid Winter.
Mrs. David Sweeney visited her aunt
Mrs. Copeland of Great Falls during the
past week.
G. T. Curtis, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Great Falls. was here this
week on business.
Bill Brown went to the Falls last Sat
urday. He said he wanted to get away
from the snow for a while.
Dry goods cheaper than hay next
week. Watch for the announcement.
F. Fl. MEYER.
j.. F. Gully, of Great Falls, was killed
at that place this week by attempting to
turn on the incandescent light during a
storm.
Joe Wagner, IL enterprising towns
man, went to Belt on Thursdays train.
He is thinking some of going into bust
ness there.
George F. Wilson, brother of John A.,
of National hotel fame, is here from
Minneapolis on a visit. He is one of
the A. R. [. people.
Word has been received here that all
the wagon bridges on the road between
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to Barker have been washed away.
Anyone knowing of the whereabouts
of Henry H. Glen, formerly of Townsend,
Mont, will confer a favor by notifying
the editor of the Townsend Messenger.
MI. and Mrs. Burchard have removed
to Great Falls where Charles has secured
employment with the Boston clothing
store. We are all sorry to lose the citi-
zenship of such people but wish them
every success in their new field.
R%oadmaster McCurdy and the crew of
railroad boys, who have been repairing
the road bed and creek here for the last
two weeks, finished their work here
Thursday and departed for lower Belt
creek, where there is some repairing to
be done.
The life of the business manager Of
the San Francisco Chronicle was saved
by a silver dollar one day last week. In
trying to clean out the Office a local
tough was roughly handled when he
fired q shot at the b. M, hitting the de-
spised coin. This is another argument
in favor of the free coinage of silver. A
gold dollar is too small to shield ones
~person-and they are devilish hard to
get these times, especially by newspaper
men.
Mr.. McCurdy, road master of this
branch of the Great Northern, says the
strike among the repairing gang, under
him, was caused by the schedule of
wages not having been received. The
men wanted to know what wages they
were receiving and he could not tell
them until the schedule arrived. The
strikers places were filled with new
men from Great Falls and under the
able management of Mr.. McCurdy they
are now riprapping and fixing the road
bed where it has long been needed.
AT the last county commissioners
meeting, May 16, a special session, the
whole board was present. The bonds of
j. P. Fister for constable at Ncihart and
d. F. Smith for Justice of the peace and
Louis knisell for constable of Barker.
That portion of the road from a point
or Boulder street, in the town of Mel
hart, desi grated as Station No. 1 to Sta
ton No. 25, near the old blacksmith
shop, near the Broadwater mine, was ac-
cepted and the same declared a county
road as per road report of viewers and
county surveyor filed Nov. 0, 1894.
Mr.. Madison, IA rancher from Sheep
creek, was in town Monday with a load
of butter. He has his regular customers
here who take all the butter he makes.
Mr.. Madison says he had a hard time
coming over the range. He came by
wagon to the upper dam. There on
account of the deep snow he could get