The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-12
TIE DupuvER HCHNTHa
August II, 1887
LOCAL LAYOUT.

"P"Jo' iho Satiy Paiu VI Tux
week.
Consign your stock shipments tc
McCausland, Hoag & Turner,
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boone and family
of the Muddy passed through Du-
puyer yesterday, alter a visit ia
relatives on Lees creek, Canada.
MIR. and Mrs. Bob Steele. Mr..
and Mrs. c. E. Trescott, Fred
Gardiner and Bert Prescott at
tended the funeral of J. E. Vans.
ley at Choteau yesterday.
Mrs. George Steele was found
rot guilty of having sold a slaugh-
tered beef without the hide, be
cause of the lack of evidence on
the part of the prosecution.
Joe Brown, Jimmy Gordon and
Fl. c. Kundle wer up Berch creek
Sunday on a fishing trip. They
had a good time, but the ';dog-on"
fish didn't bite well. They caught
about 'steen.
Dick Shields, Abe Mcknight,
Frank Davis, Jim Rutherford, Mrs.
Geo. Magee and several others left
last Tuesday for an outing trip to
Warm Springs, on the North Fork
of Sun river. They will be gone
two or three weeks.
W. r. Crockford and Miss
Ella Maud Davies of Shelby We're
united in marriage at Great Fails
last Monday evening. Rev. Q. W.
Mintzer of the First NJ. e. church
officiated. Mr.. Crockford is a
prominent stockman Of Shelby
and is well-kuown hereaUouts.
His bride is o1e of the most
popular young ladies of Shelby.
If any man wants to make a for
tune, let hin come to Dupuyer and
start a laundry-that is, provided
he can wash winter underwear
without shrinking the same. An
ordinary suit of undcrclothes will
shrink just n size at a wash. and
an extra good II just double thai.
It caused all the men in town a lot
Of troub' last year, but this year
we worked a sche ne that is worthy
of a TaIleyrand. AS Gerrge Tay.
or is the largest man in town, he
wear a suit first; then sends it to
the wash. When it comes back,
he turns it over to San Potter,
who is next in size; Sam, in turn,
sends it to the wash and tulns it
over to James Ryan, who, in his
turn, sends it to Harry Kunkle-
and SO it goes through the village
till it finally gets to little Willie
Miller, the smallest man in town.
After that it is turned over to the
children. There is only two things
wrong with this scheme. One is
that little Willie Miller didn't be.
gin to wear his winter underclothes
until July the other is, that Tay-
Tor had to pay for all of them. But
none Of them are obliged to wear
garments several sizes smaller
than their skins.
Bob Steele, Sidney Eishberg,
Bert Prescott and a Representative
of the Acanthd went on a fishing
excursion to Berch creek last Sun
day. If they were supplied with
more bait and the elements had
been more favorable, they would
have caught more fish. Leaving
here Saturday evening about 8
O'Clock, the party arrived some
where near the mountains about
IL. Here they camped in some
body's hayfleld, but of course got
away early in the morning, and the
owner ther' of was probably none
the wiser. After getting out OF
the aforesaid bayfield,, they made
for the nearest hillock to take OBJ.
servations and try to ascertain
where they "were at" which OF
course was difficult, when we take
lnto consideration the fact that
they had no compass, and that the
only things they had to guide then
out of the difficulty was an abund-
ance of good judgment and the
sun, which vas just then peering
over the distant horizon and she'd
ding its first rays on the rugged
arpStS of tho Pnckiac Fror, L,,