Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-05-19

BORN To Mr.. and Mrs. III. w.
Chase, Tuesday afternoon. May 18th,
a girl.
] W. A. Davis, for some time assayer
at the Gilt Edge mill, died Satur-
day morning. He was u competent
| mechanic and an accommodating and
| pleasant gentleman, whose popular
ity i'm the community was evidenced
by the large number who attended
| the last sad rites, h remains being
laid to rest i'm Gilt Edge.
John Clements, of TOwner. n. d..
is buying stock horses in the Basin.
Last week he purchased p. Il. Els
tons herd at 80 n head, including
colts. The stock will he driven to
North Dakota for sale. $. b. Flow
ers will start some time next month
with about 40 head for the same
region and place them on the mar
ket this fall.
The finance committee appointed
to solicit subscriptions to defray the
expenses of a fourth of July celebra-
ton i'm LewistOwn, visited many of
the business houses Friday last and
in about an hour secured over 5000.
This amount will he increased to
800 If possible. The committee on
arrangements has now under consid-
GRAFTON plans for the proper Obser-
vance of the day.
p. F. Levy. state agent of the
Union Central Life Insurance Co.,
accompanied by Chas. E. Hall,
special agent of the same company
spent several days in Lewistown the
past week, leaving for White Sulphur
Springs Tuesday. Mr.. Hall is an
old newspaper man of Montana, for
many years owning and editing a
paper at Glasgow. His present
home il Helena.
II. l.. Halbert Jr. of Halbert, was
i'm town first of the week. He reports
that the Garvin cattle herd was
split in two at his place, the strong
stock being sen On ahead. The
lead hero has crossed the Yellow
stone, while the trail herd is about
Lavina. Dave DeatOn and Perry
McHugh are I'm charge of the former,
while Frank Morrison and an as
sistant are driving the latter.
w. ID. Deaton was badly bruised
on the leg last week by a horse kick
ing him. Mr.. Deaton was driving
out of his corral near his house when
the neck yoke strap became loose,
frightening the horse, which demol-
and this impeachment being removed,
kicked it's driver. The blow was not
serious. DR.. Lindsey is attending
him.
Cattle, sheep and bats are up but
no shopkeeper in Lewistown has
been instrumental i'm their advance.
Some things that have gone down:
County drug contracts, county phys
icians' prescriptions, and all drugs
and chemicals that have no stated
price. c.. III. Williams. it il admitted
by everyone, WAS II cause of their
going down. His increase i'm trade
is good proof of the above. Read
his advertisement on this page.
Saturday afternoon q. w. Cook
and G. NJ. Kelly tested a plan of the
latter to dislocatc the school flag
which has been caught at the top Of
the flag staff for some time past. A
kite was flown with graphing hooks
attached to the string and after much
effort the hooks were caught in the
flag, but when it was attempted to
haul down the flag, the kite string
broke. The device is u good one and
another effort will be made with a
stronger cord.
+. w. Handel was I'm from Mussel-
shell Friday and reports that the
Handel Bros. have just completed a
two-story stone store at h cross
ing, 2Sx60, at a cost of about $4,000.
Business at that point is good and
the building of the new bridge across
the river will be a great benefit to
h settlers of that section. Mrs.
Stock well, mother of Mrs. Handel
and Mrs. Perkins. who has been
visiting the latter for some time
past, returned to Musselshell with
the gentleman.
j. +. Mccain Tuesday evening re-
ceived a telephone message from Belt
announcing the death of Dan Hames,
brother of Mrs. Mccain. Deceased
had been sick but a few days, but. AZ
il so often the case. the attack O
pneumonia was fatal. Mr.. Hamef
was a resident of Lewistown or sew
eral years., was an estimable gentle
man and leaves many friends to
mourn his untimely death. His
brother. Henry, was with him, boil
having been i'm business i'm Belt fol
three years past.
In response to the request of Presi
dent Hilger of the fair association
the ARGUS and Democrat last Frida.
submitted bids for the privilege O
publishing the official program ant
premium list of the association TO
the coming fair, h ARGUS ~securin,
the contract. The pamphlet will ID
much larger than heretofore, con
tain the association matter and nd
vertisements of the leading business
houses of Lewistown and Othe
Basin points. One thousand copie
will be furnished for distribution b,
July LIST.
The reports from the railroad tina
the attempt to orner the oat maj
ket was a failure, is erroneous. NJ
b. barrow, who engineered the deaI
reports that nj attempt was mad