The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-18
SCHOOLS OPENED AGAIN
Agricultural College Starts With
Bright Prospect.
BARLEY CROP EXCELLENT
The Yield Will Probably Be the Heavi-
est on Record-A New Street
Railway Track Up Grand
Avenue.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard
Bozeman. Sept. 16.-The city of Boze-
man is lively once again. Twice a day
the bells ring out from the school
houses calling the pupils to school, and
the college students can be seen wend-
ing their way to Capitol Hill at all
times and hours. The public schools,
through an able corps of teachers, COM
menced to instill the three RS" and
other necessary component parts of a
latter day education into about 800
children week ago. On Monday of
this week the county high school made
its bow to the people with Professor
Shaw at the helm and Misses Mckee
and Farr as able assistants. The old
Academy building" is used for the
present and answers the purpose well
as a high school building and saves,
for the present at least, the taxpay-
ers putting their hands in their peck
cts to pay interest on the bonds nee
essary to be sold to enable the county
TO erect structure suitable for the
purpose. About so students were en-
rolled the first day. The college starts
out with brighter prospect than ever
anu an eIFUlltnSEI OF more imam IuD
students the first week. The profess
sors this year are the same as last
year. with the exception that Profess
sor Brewer has resumed his chair and
Professor Cobleigh is at his old place
in the chemical department.
The teachers in the public school this
year are as follows: West Side school,
Superintendent Harmon, Misses Olive
Jones, Matte Chapman, Addie Bran
denburg, Eleanor Patterson, Josephine
McCloud, May Bull. Alice Lewis, Jen-
ME Cowan, Anna Woodruff, Alice Will
Jams; East Side school, Professor Nc
Elroy, Mary Hickman, Ola Ferguson,
Emma Stranton, Sarah Holmes, Ell
leanor Ferris, Letta Mason, Mary Mat
teson.
There have been quite a number of
frosts of more or less severity during
the last 10 days, some of which have
done considerable damage to those
crops growing on low lands and damp
ground. However the majority of the
grain crops now uncut can withstand
quite a severe frost without much
damage. The barley crop is in ex-
cellent shape and the yield will be
the heaviest on record. The fall wheat,
which is now being threshed, yields
but little more than half a crop, or
from 20 to rs bushels per acre on an
average The oats are heavy in many
places, and spring wheat is better than
usual. Outside of those farmers who
raise winter wheat exclusively, the TIL
lers of the soil will reap an abunda mt
harvest, and from the present pros
poets the prices will be even higher
than they We're year ago, although for
some time this year all nature appeared
to be against them
The BoZeman Street Railway COM
pany are pushing the work on their
t,.pl Ill ~
college and will soon have the extern
sion completed. The roadbed has been
graded out to the loop on Ninth street
and the track laid up to Anderson
street. The track has been laid flush
with the street instead of on grade,
as formerly. An ordinance was passed
at the last meeting of the council to
have the company lay its track on a
level with the street on Church street.
AS soon as the improvements now in
course of construction are completed
Superintendent Mendenhall is going
to give car party to the city council
and others, taking them over the new
route in the cars. which cars will be
decorated very gayly for the event.
The new bridge across the West Gal
latin river was completed this week.
This bridge Is to replace one built
across the West Gallatin last year
when the road was constructed to the
park line by the county commissioners
When the high waters came this
spring the bridge went out, together
with several others in the vicinity.
The new bridge is a handsome wooden
suspension structure, costing several
hundred dollars, and is put in this
time to stay, The trouble with the old
one was that crib was placed in the
middle of the river, which caught
every piece of drift wood that came
along, and when it came in, such large
quantities as it did the past spring
the strain was too great, and the
whole thing went down the river to
the Missouri, or somewhere else, to
parts unknown.
The Lutheran ministers have been
holding a conference the last two days
The sessions were secret on Friday and
Saturday and devoted to discussions
concerning the welfare of the church.
On Sunday services will be held morn
ing and evening in the church on
Bozeman street, and the conference
brought to a close on Monday evening.
There are two Norwegian ministers and
four Germans in attendance The fol-
lowing are attending the conference:
Rev, Martin, Mertz, Rev. Breivick of
Helena, Rev. Wachsmuth of Kalispell,
Rev. Zimmerman, Rev. Carlson of
Great Falls, Rev. Hudtlof of Butte
and Rev. Lobitz of Bozeman
Preparations are being made to give
hearty welcome to the returning vol
unteers who went from the Gallatin
valley to the war. Several committees
were appointed last Tuesday by Mayor
Award. and. is soon as the boys ar
rive in San Francisco definite arrange
ments will be made with reference to
the reception.