The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
MlSSOULA NOTES.


| Latest styles of engraved calling
cards at the Standard Office
'Davvy" is married Alleen Sale has
| lost one of her most promising victims
Harry Peirce has iob-lot of baseball
masks that he is selling to the vaccina-
ton victims as arm protectors
| Hon. Marcus L. Crouch is well post
ed in the law, but he knows a whole
lot about cigar cutting machines, be-
side.
The scavenger wag are busy. The
suggestions of the standard as to clean
alleys have not been entirely disre-
garded.
Contractor Peppard has completed
the repairs on the island bridge and
has begun work on the lower Rattle
snake bridge.
If you are going to build a house
TINS summer get a rarpenter engaged
at once. They will BE- scarce before the
season is very old.
1t is said that W. H. Davenport is an
example Of the successful homeseeker
The special rates of the railway are al
ready bearing fruit.
1t is unfortunate for the boys that the
city council decided that the pit is an
enemy to good morals. This is mighty
fine chicken weather
Spring is surely here this time. Three
marriage licenses issued Saturday and
more in sight for the coming week. That
is sign that never tais.
Entering the last half of the race for
appointment, the contestants in the Pie
stakes are running very evenly. Uncle
Rufe is selling favorite.
No new smallpox oises have been re-
ported to-day. TIE patients at the pest
house are reported as quite i'll, but not
IN dangerous condition.
The farmer is this year chasing the
snowbank back t. The foothills with
his pillow. 1t is seldom that winter
lends her lap to spring for such an
extended period.
Standard advertisements are profit
able investments. That is the testi-
mony of all MissOula merchants who
have tried them and the testimony is
cheerfully given.
The result of the deliberations of the
county commissioners in regard to the
free road to Bonner will be watched
for with much interest. The question
is an important on" and affects many
people.
Excuse me, MI. Dixon. I will see
you again in go days was the remark
of Secretary johnson as he babe his
attorney goodbye when he accompa-
MED the officer to the county Jail Even
the stern court smiled.
Missoula will have no boom this year,
but she will do more business and grow
more than she has in many years. The
city has had all of the boom business
that it wants It is solid growth and
substantial development that count.
The proposed university bridge would
be of great benefit to all citizens of
Nlissoula. The subscriptions to the
bridge fund that have already been
made indicate that the plan for building
the bridge VIII be successfully carried
out.
There is no apple in the world like
the Bitter Root apple. If the inspectors
of the state board Of horticulture do
their work properly and are given the
thorough cooperation that they deserve
the reputation of, this fruit will remain
above challenge.
Missoula is without a peer as place
in which to rear children. One Mis-
soula 4-year-old felt down two stories
of an elevator shaft last week and the
only effect that the fall had upon him
was to cause the measles to break out
the next day.
With the mineral land commissioners
in the field and the timber inspectors
of the railway company at work and
numerous surveying parties looking
over the country and the forest rang
ers ranging, Missoula and Ravalli
counties will be well patrolled this
year.
No visitor to Missoula who looks at
the surroundings can fail to be impress
ed with the natural advantages of the
town. If the street department con-
tinues its work of cleaning up the city
highways the impression will not be
confined to natural advantages.