The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-06-13
SHELBY NEWS.

hOCky nluSe anu lOcaCe. InlS means
much to Shelby as they will look to this
place for their supply point.
Father Smell was in town last week
and went to the Marias with Uncle Dan
Sullivan.
A severe frost visited the valley on the
night of the 9th and did considerable
damage to vegetables. 1t is probable
that the berry crop has suffered as the
berries had already formed.
William Simero was in from Willow
Grove. He is vet suffering from severe
pains in the head caused by a severe
attack of the grip.
Christian Hansen, who styles khimself
as the successor of Ole Bull, gave a
musical entertainment at the school
house, Monday evening, and those who
heard him pronounce the music we'll
worth hearing.
The rain which fell Monday night,
put a stop to sheep shearing. There
must have been a fall of at least two
inches, the country being flooded, and
railroad men are anxious about their
bridges.
Fl. E. S~toltenberg is delivering beef at
the hotels, but the price puts it beyond
the reach of the majority of people at
present.
Jim Gaines passed through town,
Sunday, with two teams he had pur-
chased from Pearson Bros, on the Dry
Fork. The animals were admired by all
who saw them, for they are beauties.
The dogie boys,-not cowboys pas
sed through town, Sunday, on their way
to gather another herd tor dipping, at
L~ethbridge.
Caspar Knoble was in from his Sweet
Grass ranch, Monday, and reports, in
common with all other sheepmen, a very
successful Landing.
Ii the stockmen do not avail them
selves of the unusually large crop of hay
that can be secured, they will have them.
selves, only to blame if they run short
during the next two years.
The G. F. & G. engine house, an old
land mark, has disappeared. The roof
fell in, a short time ago, and the bridge
carpenters completed it's destruction last
Saturday, tearing do n the walls and
burning the debris.
Willis Nichols of Robare is visiting
his old friend Dick Crockford, for a few
days.
Miss Minnie Miebach has just closed
an eight months tern of school.
Rube Stewart demanded a jury in his
trial before Judge Dawes for disturbing
the serenity of Pondera and e. D. Jones
and was found not guilty.
Notices are posted in town,
ing a sale of Hereford and grade bulls.
A subscription list has been circulated
and quite a large sum of money sub
scrioed for the Fourth of July celebra-
ton. The arrangements are in the
hands of a committee and a good time is
assured.
John Joiner was in from the Ridge
Sunday, having lost his team:
How the change in the ownership of
the e. F. & G. will affect Shelby, time
only can tell, but from the past policy of
Tim Hill, Shelby is liable to get the worst
of it.
Shelby is well represented in the list
of licenses collected by the county treas,
urer.
FURRY Sullivan came in Monday for
shearers, but found he vas a couple of
days late, as all shearers had been pre-
viously engaged.
Miss Florence Wamsley is suffering
from rheumatism.
Dick Roberts has repaired the Shelby
shearing sheds and has already booked
about 10000, sheep to be shorn there.
Upwards of 100000 feet of lumber is
being shipped to Steel, to be used in
the construction of dipping tanks for the
E dogies, which are badly affected with
scab.
w. w. Parrot is remodeling his house,
; enlarging the kitchen and building an
addition.