Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31

Miss Minnie Kitchen arrived Thurs
day from Minneapolis and is the guest
of Mrs. Chas. Lehman.
w. f. Gilmore, formerly employed
by Chas. Lehman & Co., Is now i'm the
dry goods department of the Power
Mercantile Co.
Mrs. Will w. White left for Boze-
man Friday OF last week to- join her
husband. She has been visiting with
her parents since early in June.
T~hecounty commissioners will meet
in regular quarterly session Monday
next. Among the duties at this SEES.
sion will be the appointment of
judges of election and the fixing of
polling places.
f. A. Barnes, who was appointed
registry agent at Gilt Edge. has been
forced to resign his position by rea-
son of his being n notary public. The
vacancy will be filed at the Septem-
Der meeting OF the board.
Eugene T. Wilson and A. j. Van
Houten, receiver and attorney for
the First National bank OF Helena,
were in Lewistown Sunday. The
gentlemen were looking after First
National property in this section and
incidentally enjoying an outing,
though the fearful dust made travel
ing unpleasant. They were seen to
have a gun and cartridges, but there
was abundant room in the carriage
for game. Mr.. Van Houten vas for
merly n resident OF Washington and
a very prominent man in our neigh
boring state.
Since our last issue we have been
furnished with the following list of
those omitted from our announce
ment of candidates for county Offices:
For senator ON the Democratic ticket,
Il. j. Johns; for county treasurer on
the Democratic ticket, Martin Mess
ner. For assessor on the Republican
ticket. John Bebb. For clerk and
recorder ON the Republican ticket,
John Rauch. In the ~shrievalty cam
paign Mr.. Thomas Shaw is over
coming W. ID. Deaton's lead for the
Democratic nomination, and if Mr..
Shaw will pledge himself to pay not
less than 81, 900 toward the campaign
expenses OF the party, the honor CD
of leading the party to ig~nominious
defeat will be his.
Thursday evening last n meeting of
the stockholders of the Citizens Elec-
trio Co. was held at the office of the
president, G.. w. Cook. Additional
subscriptions of nearly $4,000 to the
capital stock were received, and
Messrs. Hilger and Symmes, who
have since gone east, were instructed
to negotiate for the purchase of a
plant. Advertisement for furnishing
of poles will be found in this issue.
The ditch will he completed about
Sept. 10, and it is expected to have
the new plant in operation before Sc
we're weather sets in. Opportunity
has been offered for the company to-
dispose of a majority of the stock to
one individual, but this will not be
permitted, the desiring to
reap the profits themselves.
As will be seen by thecall published
in another column, the Republican
county convention to select delegates
to the state convention, and also to
nominate a county ticket, will be held
on Sept. Il, the primaries to be held
one week previous. Thecentralcom-
mittee met Thursday last, II mcm-
beers being present. After discussion
il was deemed advisable to set the
date 400 the Convention without any
reference tn the Democrats, ' no had
shown their weakness in refusing to
take the initiative, us demanf i by
the fact that they are in power in the
state. Every committeeman felt the
Republicans could well afford to be
aggressive and that, unless a mis-
take were made in the naming ofcan-
didates, the ticket would be elected
from top to bottom. Two years ago
the party captured a large majority
Of the offices, and it Is universally
conceded to have been after the hard
est battle the party yer had or ever
will have in Fergus county. Voters
have not SO soon forgotten t ex-
..eriences of three and four yee go.