The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-04
LOCAL ITEMS.

6WtGG 1IdSS ILlAlS.
Queen Mary cigars, finest in the land
at Medicine Lodge
Mrs. J.. A. Van Bus''ir k is expected
home soon from California.
We are informed that Mr.. and Mrs.
Cowgirl are now visiting with friends in
Lancaster, Missouri.
Religious services Sunday morning
and evening at the school house. Sun
day school at 1910.
Ralph Gordon has returned from Great
Falls, where be has been employed for
some time, at the smelter.
We wish our readers a Happy New
Year. and hope that they have formul-
ated the usual number of good resolu-
tions.
Rev. A. w. Hammer and wife expect
to spend two weeks in Choteau, assist
ing Rev. Cunningham, the latter end of
this month.
G.. w. Parnel spent the first two days
of the new year in Dupuyer and gather
ed in some orders for clothing. See his
ad in another column.
Call at tn Medicine Lodge saloon for
the hest brands of liquors. You will be
supplied, and will find all goods just as
represented. Bond and Lillard old
STANDARD Bond whiskey of 93 sold over
the bar.
The Dupuyer butcher shop has
changed hands, George Morgan having
purchased the business. The shop will
be supplied with everything that is car
ried by a frst-class meat market, and
Mr.. Morgan will doubtless receive. the
patronage that he deserves.
Hon. Narcisse Vallesux has peer cited
to appear in court on the 26th inst. and
show cause why he should not as admin
i~strator Of the estate, pay a board bill Of
S79 held by r. S. Culbertson against the
late adobe Jack" Brennan. says the
Benton Press. When asked by Mr..
Culbertson what should be done with
the bill the genial captain replied:
Burn it! Burn It'll"
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One OF our exchanges takes the floor
to remark that next year we may expect
to read something like the following in
the daily papers: "About ten O'Clock
this morning a horseless wagon loaded
with covless milk, collided with a brain
less rider on a chainless wheel. The
luckless wheelman was b&dly injured
and being homeless, he was taken to the
home for the friendless in a horseless cab,
where he died painless in an hour or
: less"
WilliamJackson, Of Browning, diedo
y tho 30th ult, a~d was buried last Tues
day. Billy's death will be regretted by
a large number of friends who remember
him as a man OF sterling qualities He
led an eventful life, having putin a good
: deal of time while yet a youth, as a scout
in the Government. employ. OF recent
years he has lived in the vicinity Of
Browning, where he had established {
comfortable home, and gathered quite {
bunch OF stock. His services were If
: great demand by hnRtiaG parties, whC
found in him. a faithful guide, and
boon companion.
''There died last month" says 9Th,
Chicago Tribune" "a man who had don,
much to shake belief in the legend o
Jonah. William Simpson devoted hi
life to d studyot the narrative, ana wrot
}. a book to prove tha5 the Biblical stor
is due to an ~initiatoYy ceremony con
,nected with the religion Of the Assyria1
fish god. whp was akin TO the D&gon o
the Philistines. Recent researches hGv
brought TO life hundreds OF pieces OF As
syrian sculpture containing represents
tions OF huma0 beings draped in ifs
skin or proirading head and shoulder
from the jaws OF the fish. A man VIII
clad himself in fish skin was supposed t
be endowed with the attributes Of tn
deity, and after undergoing the rite th
novice was supposed to be born again.
Simpson argued that IN course Of time
when the ceremony fell INFO disuse an
it's nearing was forgotten, the incident
Of the rite were developed into the mi
acl9 = story"
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