The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-20
Neihart Herald.
Saturday, March 20, 1897.
CAMP NOTES.

Chas. 2. McGibbon delivers wood cut
to order.
L. G. Swingly and family moved to
Great Falls Sunday.
The charity ball of last Wednesday
evening was well attended.
B. o. Kempfer represent ed the HER
AID at Great Falls this week.
Fitzsimmons adopts the spot cash low
price system April 1st. Make note of
this.
Tom McDonald's home was frightened
last Monday by the arrival of a new girl
baby.
The Neihart Meat Company carries
the best and largest line of meats to be
found in the town.
Rev. Hooking is holding a revival
service at Monarch this week and his
success is reported good.
Low CUT PRICES is a strong card and
should win friends. Spot cash brings
the prices at Fitzsimmons.
The leasers on the Flagstaff, Pierse
and Neihart, shipped one. car of ore
Tuesday to the Great Falls smelter.
4 un1 70 RI " nyln will
adopt our spot cash system and buy
your supplies from Fitzsimmons.
j. G. E. Barker of Great Falls, was an
arrival on Wednesdays train from that
place, feeling in his usually good spirit.
Hon. e. j. Sanford and wife are visit
ing relatives in the Kibbey district,
guests of Van Henderlider and w. G.
Lee.
Thos. Westgard helped to rick the type
for this issue, proving his old-time celer-
ity in the art of the Cations and the
Gutenbergs.
Mrs. William Tierney and daughter
Stella returned Friday from Arnprior,
Ontario, where they were visiting rela-
tives the past two months.
Andrew Lindrud, while handling
freight last week, smashed two of his
fingers quite badly. He went to the
Falls to have the injured hand treated.
Joe Schwerdt and w. D. Graham are
filling a contract of framing fir timbers
for the Broadwater mining company. 1t
is said they have 500 tunnel sets to
frame.
The question of free text books being
agitated at this time, when the people of
this school district are already tax-ridden
beyond the point of easy endurance is
untimely and unwise.
Services in the M. E. church at II a.
m. and 1880 p. m. Sabbath school at
IL IN. Epworth League 7 p. m. Pray
er meetings Thursday evenings at 1880
D. m. All invited. $. J. Hooking, pas
tor.
The renewed n~otarial commission OF
Richard Bennett and E. X. Abbott, ren-
dered invalid by the movement of this
district to Cascade county, were received
this week, with seals to match. Bust.
ness in that line goes on at the old
stand.
A copy of the Johannesburg Standard
and Diggers' News, through the kindness
of Chas. Mclean, has reached this office.
1t is illustrative of that celebrated min.
ing camp, and descriptive of its various
leading mines. Altogether it is IN in.
teresting number.
Last Saturday afternoon the unusua
sound of the fire alarm was heard anC
the volunteer fire department responded
promptly to the call. The supposed
fire was in the Finnegan house, but the
fire boys did not get action on the cast
before the danger was passed.
Mrs. F. A. Preston and son Raymond
started east Thursday morning to visi
her former home in New Jersey. Mrs
Preston lately received intelligence tina
her father, her only living parent, i
quite sick, and her purpose is to be will
him during his sickness. Mr.. Preston
accompanied them as far as Great Falls
returning yesterday.
West Toliver was in camp from Bel
park this week, and he reports prospects
very bright in that locality for the crops
of '97. Range cattle are in prime condi
ton, and the winters snow is sufficient,
removed that live stock can rustic quit
easily. He expects to put in a larg
crop of grain this year, principally bar
ley, and the early end of the season TO
him will be quite busy.
Chas. Proctor, the affable sheriff O
Cascade county, was in Neihart Monday
summoning witnesses to the trial o
Pete Welcome, which is now going on a