Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-07-03

r. A. Jellison of Philbrook was In the
city last Monday and said that he would
raise in the neighborhood of 125 BUSH
els of currants this year on his farm,
not to mention a large quantity of ma
tive plums and gooseberries. Mr.. Jelli-
sons fruit garden is a good example of
what can be accomplished in the way of
fruit raising in Montana by industry
and perseverance.
The first meeting of the seaso held
by the Montana Jockey club will take
place at Butte June 10Th and will o n
tinue until August 3rd, from there pro-
ceeding to Anaconda August 9th and
returning to Butte for the closing of
the season on August Goth, lasting until
September eth. The ARGUS received a
complimentary press ticket and an
extremely neat invitation to attend the
meetings.
w. T. Merrill, representing Luce &
Manning, the Boston wool commission
firm, is in town today and will spend
the season in northern Montana. Mr..
Merrill has just come from the Yellow
stone country, where the wool market
has been very quiet so far. At Miles
City, Gleudive and Forsythe not a clip
has been sold. so far. while at Billings
the only sales have been a few inferior
clips, averaging l0A cents per pound
River Press.
Stock Inspector Deaton made a trip
to Utica last week for the purpose of
examining a bunch of horses which
had been bought in that vicinity by v.
Anderson for shipment east. The
horses were in fine shape and Ill of the
bunch which were furnished by S. s..
Hobson were a splendid sample of
Montana horseflesh. This is Mr.. Dea-
tons first trip to that section in his Of
fetal capacity of stock inspector since
his appointment this spring.
w. A. Clark, Jr., before his departure
from Butte on his wedding tour, author
lied the officers of the Episcopal church
association to purchase a lot somewhere
in the city and erect a chapel at a cost
of between $1,000 and $4,000, the ex-
pense to be charged to himself and his
wife. Young Mr.. Clark also authorized
Rev. Mr.. Blackiston, the veteran rector
Of st. Johns church, to employ an
assistant, whose salary will be paid by
Mr.. Clark until such time as the chapel
shall become self-sustaining.
The recent sale of the Baldwin Sheep
and Lamb company's wool clip of Hay
Creek, Ore, including that Of 1900
and 1901, aggregating nearly LOCO, 900
pounds, is spoken of by Oregon ex-
changes as the leading event in wool
circles in their state. The wool was
put up at auction and sold to the high
est bidder, bringing l2K cents per
pound. Nearly all the great wool firms
of the United States were represented
ON the occasion, anne of many of the
representatives present being familiar
to the woolgrowers of this section.
A movement has lately been inaugu-
rated in Lewistown for the purpose of
forming a lodge of the Spanish-Alneri-
can war veterans of Fergus county and
last Friday evening those who signed
the application for a charter met for
the purpose of organizing. The num-
Der of the lodge is lG@ and the officers
were as follows: A. w. Stoddard, com
mander, E. j. Grindrod, adjutant, and
A. I. Harvey, quartermaster. A meet
ing for the purpose of formulating rules
and regulations will be held at the Office
of the county treasurer on July l2th at
) p. IN.
Governor Toole last week appointed
commissioners to represent Montana at
the South Carolina and Interstate and
West Indian exposition as follows: j..
Z. Morse, Dillon; DavidG. Browne. An
drew Jensen, Great Falls; n. W. Neon
nell, K. Lee Word, Helena; C. O. David
son, G. W. Stapleton. II. c. Sulzer. j. +.
Forbis. Butte; j. e. Steele. O. b. O'Ban-
nor. Deer Lodge: S. A. Robertson.
Boulder; Samuel Richie, Garnet; DIR.
Oliver Lesser, q. i Winston, Ana
conda: Samuel G. Pratt. Libby: Alfred
Meyers, George Bruigy, Livingston;
Frank d. 0'Neill, Miles City; II. Il. Mar
ceys, Forsyth; J. d. Losekamp, Billings;
o. p. Chisholm, Walter Cooper, Boze-
man: Powell Black, White sulphur
Springs; w. T. Allison, Ph%ilipsburg; j.
A. McGowan, Plains; Charles Buck,
Stevensville: IL. c. Keith, Kalispell:
Frank II. Woodb, Missoula; L. =. Evans,
Glasgow.
The local scribe and his wife were
present at a very jolly party given at
the home of Mrs. C.. w. Belden at Utica
LAST Thursday evening, when the guests,
who were numerous and included all
the youth and beauty of that vicinity,
east dull care to the winds and spent
the evening in social pleasures. Re-
freshments were served during the even
ing which reflected great credit OF Mrs.
Belden's culinary skill, and while that
pleasant expression was yet on the
faces of the assembled guests Professor
Horreldo, the flashlight artist, took a
picture of the crowd which will no
doubt be interesting. Mrs. Belden and