The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-15
TOPICS OF THE TOWN
Haying Will Be in Full Blast
Next Week.
A GOOD CROP EXPECTED
A Banner Week for Dealers in Cool
Drlnks-A Heavy Passenger Ire fac
on the N. P.-Impossible to
Make the Time.

Missoula, July 14.-Haying is well
under way in many parts of the Mis-
soula and Bitter Root valleys and in
another week will be in full blast. The
crop this year promises to be good in
most parts of the counties of Missoula
and Ravalli. There are some places
where the long continued high water
spoiled the crop in the river bottoms.
but most of the hay land will produce
a good crop this summer. A force of so
men went up to Hamilton this week 10
put in the harvest season on the Bitter
R3ot stock farm, where the cut will be
heavy one. Farmers in the vicinity
of Missoula are getting ready and the
dealers in farm implements are doing
their usual good business. The sales of
farming machinery this year have eX-
ceeded the record of any previous sea-
son and the shipments are still con-
tinuing. Reports from the Palouse
country that have been received here
this week are to the effect that the hay
and grain crops there will not be as
heavy as usual this year.
This has been a banner week for the
dealers in cool drinks and ice cream.
The soda fountains and the beer pumps
have been working double shift most
of the time and their owners have reap
ed harvest that will be equal to the
day crop. Joe Steiger has done an i'm
mense business at the brewery and is
glad that he came to Missoula from
Anaconda. There has not been a soda
fountain that has had an idle minute
this week and the white aproned gen.
tlemen who dispense the mint Julep and
the Webster" have had all that they
could conveniently attend to. 1t has
been such weather as is likely ito break
pledges and common report has it that
several pledges that have stood severe
tests have cracked since this latest
wave of Professor Hicks struck the
camp. Each season usually produces its
new beverage and the new drink this
summer is the "reviver." How it is
made is not divulged to the public but
it's effects are well known to most Of
those who are inclined to look upon the
wine when it is red. 1t is described
as the sort of a beverage that makes
one forget from the first sip that the
weather is uncomfortable and the sec
ond drink causes the imbiber to see
rainbows. The third drink and the
drinker hears the swish of eagles
wings. The fourth-but, then, nobody
who is respectable would work good
thing to that extent.
There is always a grateful crowd
when the overland trains reach Mis-
Soula these afternoons. The long, hot
dusty ride over the plains of Eastern
Montana and the equally hot climb OF
the eastern slope of the range have
produced that tired feeling in most of
the passengers and they are glad of
the sight Of green trees and the whiff
of river air that they get here. All of
them enjoy the ride down the canyon
from Garrison and all of them speak
enthusiastically of the ride that has
just ended as they reach Missoula. The
1O-minute- wait here is spent in walking
up and down the platform. All classes
of passengers all ages and all condi-
tons, rush for the ice wagon that
trundles along the train with its cool
ing load for the water tanks of the
close, dusty cars. Each chip of ice is
bounced upon and for few minutes
each passenger sucks happily at the
bit of CONCEALED water that is his part
of the plumber.
Seldom have the trains that come in
from the East brought larger loads
than they do this month. 1t is impossi-
BILE for them to make the time that Is
scheduled for them. unless the trains
nearly as heavy as il was in the klon-
dixie rush and approaches the travel in
the famous year of the EndeaVor pill
grimage. The railway people say that
most of the business is local and that
the through travel is not as heavy as
il has been in other seasons. Whatever
it is and wherever the people are going
the cars are well filed and the passen-
gers are enjoying the ride in spite OF
hot weather.
The hot weather has put a damper on
the smallpox scare. Aside from tbs
cases at Clinton, which are said to be
getting along well, and the single case
at Thompson, there are none in the
county. The reported cases at White
Pine have developed into something
harmless and there is now nothing ii
sight for the alarmists to talk about
IT is noticeable fact that all of the
cases that MisSoula county has had tC
attend to this year have originated from
Washington. The first ones came from
the man who brought the disease from
the coast-the dining car waiter-and
the second was the man from Seattle
who should have been put off the trair
at Spokane Then came the case a
Clinton, which developed from the Sc
attic case, and then the one at Thomp
son, which came from Spokane. County
SItlin dl SoliS mas ltttiNSu a iSttNi
from the city physician at Spokane, who
writes that the disease came to thai
city from the camps in the Clearwater
country. where so much railway work |:
being done.
Along with the beer man and his as
soCiates, the strawberry man is haVins
| his busy time Just now. From 800 tt
| 900 cases d day have been shipped
! from Missoula and Bitter Root points
! TO the Montana markets. There have
| been days when the shipments have
| exceeded the latter number and there
| have been shipments to points outside
! the state, but the range given in the
| paragraph above are about the limit
The green goods men have had a lot Of
| business, too, and their trade is juS
getting good. This class of green goods
| is the line that is wanted and the rad
| ishes and lettuce and onions and othel
green stuff that is grown here is in de
| mand all the time. The corn season
/ will soon be here and the later small