Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-04-21
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J ARcUS & lESlIE'S WEEKLY. Sa.75
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

GOV. Smith has proclaimed May
18th as Arbor day.
Blue birds, robbins and meadow
larks have made their appearance.
w. II. Peck and family have been
visiting at the home of q. w. COOK
for several days.
Rev. Pfaus returned Thursday
from Great Falls. He will leave ior
the east about the first of May.
O.. w. Frields was in from the
Horseshoe Bar ranch Saturday.
He reports his family safely domi-
ciled i'm their Benton home.
Mr.. william Roberts wishes to
that he il sole proprietor
of the Labor Exchange at Tibet and
solicits "A share of the public patron
age.
week from Helena, where she spent
the winter and will teach a term OF
school on Deer creek. Her sister,
Miss Julia, is now teaching in Da-
kota.
Mrs. n. NJ. Erickson and family
and Miss Shipman were registered Mt
the Hotel Metropole, Avalon, Santa
Catalina Island, California, on the
1Ith inst. They are expected home
next week.
p. /. Moule's Mckinley lamb tag
is being universally adopted by sheep
owner in this section. They are a
great convenience in lambins time
and meet with favor wherever in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
George q. Waite of Sycamore, ILL.,,
buyer for j. ID. Long, and III. w.
Leaning OF Great Falls, have been i'm
the Basin for IA week past looking
for mutton sheep and lambs. No
purchases have been reported.
Sunday afternoon an informal
shoot was held ON the grounds of the
Gun club, Mt which the following
scores were made: II. C. Jolly, ID;
ID. j. Kane, ID; Sam Weaver, IA; Ed
Wright, IL; John Kearney, 13; T. II.
Carson, ..
Broker w. j. Stratton purchased
5000 head of = and 3-year-old wethers
this week for l.. p. SOuthworth OF
Nebraska OF Weydert Bros. of Lewis
town, the price paid being $2.75 per
head delivered after shearing.-Bil-
lings Gazette.
Thursday and Friday last many
freighting teams arrived from the
railroad, heavily loaded with goods
for to wn merchants. The condition
of Main street was SO bad that one
team was stuck fast I'm the mud and
had to be shoveled out.
VIM. Rea Of Trevor, Wis.,, has pur-
chased 10, ZOO head Of wethers during
the past few days from C. NJ. Bairi
Bert Shorey, the Lake Basin Sheep
company and the Yellowstone Ma.
tional bank. all to he delivered after
shearing. The top price paid WA
$3 per head.-Billings Gazette.
Since the publication i'm these col
umns of the receipts and disburse
ments of the school board two par
ents have reported having paid
tuition for their children some weeks
as having bee turned into the dis
trict treasury.
Oscar ohnston reports that Benton
citizens are considering the building
of a telephone line between the ..heao
of navigation" and the judith
metropolis. With the excellent ser
vice afforded by the Falls line. /
would hardly seem profitable I,
practically parallel it.
Oscar Johnston came in from Ben
ton Monday on n special coach, Dan
Toby, driver, and is arranging TO
the summer service to be put On tn
line about the LIST ult. The coache-
have been re-painted and thorough.
overhauled, new horses are bein,
strung out on the line and prepare
tions made for IA busy season, thi
line being very popular, especial.
for passenger traffic, owing to it
making the run in from twelve t,
fourteen hours, thereby saving tn
night ride.
Supt. Parent held teachers ex
animation last week and issued tn
following certificates: Professions
grade-Mrs. NJ. j.. Garrett, Miss l.
+. DeBord, III. A. MOulton, Mis-
Annie Clancy, Miss Nellie CLANCY
LIST grade-Miss Alice Kelley. Mis-
Bertha Miller, Miss Maggie Thomas
End grade-Mrs. Mary Callahan; 3r
grad-Mrs. Elite Hopkins, Mis-
Lena Nash, Miss Emma Shea, Mis-
M~eagher.
The following teachers have bee
engaged to teach or have alread
commenced summer terms in the dii
tricts named: Philbrook, l.. Z HUI
ton; Utica, Miss Lenore Sippl,
Lower Wolf creek. Mrs. L. G. Dav
kins; Beaver creek, Dist. 8, Mr.
Robert Morrison; Beaver creek. Dis
81. Miss Alice Kelley; Trout creek, /
+. Gordon; Rock creek, Miss Magg
Sipple; Stanford, Miss Elizabet
PEBBLES; Deerfield. Miss Nellie Glanc,
Ffndon, Mrs. Berrigan; PleasaI
Valley, Miss Lena Nash; Deer cree
Miss Grace Harris; Alpine, H. 4
MoultOn.