Fergus County argus., 1901-08-07
JeWeIer

A marriage license was granted this
week TO George Mcdonnell and Jeunette
Murray, both of Philbrool
George w. Cook and family paid a
visit TO John Stephens at Kendall last
Saturday and stayed over Sunday
See ad. of Cook Il IIilger of bulls for
sale. They are registered one and two
year-old IIerefords and Shorthorns.
Rev. Robbins will hold services in the
Episcopal church next Sunday, August
10, at the usual hours. Communion
service at $50 a. m.
j. l.. Nielsen, the tailor. has moved
to Kendall. DIR. Attix will rent the
building formerly occupied by Nielsen
and will fit it up for an office.
Mr.. John L Murta of Butte has been
seriously i'll through the effects of
some drug, which was self admins
tered, though whether with suicidal in
tent or not has not been learned. Mr..
Murta who has been until lately head
boollkeeper at Hennessy's store. is
son-in-law of Colonel j. A. Wall.
formerly of Stanford.
Many old-timers who knew Timothy
Wilcox will regret to learn of his death,
which occurred in Helena last week.
lie crossed the plains in 1854, Judge
Cornelius Hedges being the only sur
vivor of the party of which Mr.. Wilcox
was a member. Mr.. Wilcox resided
south Of the Snowies for number of
years and was manager of the Galloway
Cattle company.
Dave Shaw. who has been working
on the Norris house at Judith, informs
us that on last Tuesday evening ranch
hand employed by Mr.. Norris went
swimming alone in the Missouri mile
above and across the river from the
ranch. He did not return and no trace
of him was found during a careful
search the next day. The man, whose
name is unknown here, was a recent
arrival from Lewistown and had few
dollars coming to him when he disap-
peared.-Friday's Benton River Press
An accident which might have had a
seriour termination happened on the
Great Falls and Lewistown stage line
Sunday evening. The coach bound for
Lewistown had reached the lane before
crossing Ross Fork when the driver
had occasion to get down from his seat.
.fhe horses got frightened and started
to run and on the driver, Frank Wal
lace, attempting to stop them, one of
the lead lines parted, allowing the
leaders to jackknife and upset the
coach. Roy Haywood, the sole passen-
ger, was inside the coach and sustained
severe though not dangerous injury to
his head. The wheelers got tangled up
pretty badly and were skinned up in a
manner which necessitated the driver
turning them loose and pulling the
coach to Odenwalds with the leaders,
which were not hurt.
The local weather observer reports a
mean temperature for July of 6s de-
grees. The minimum was upon the
first day of the month when the tenn
perature fell TO "a degrees, while the
maximum.was the last day of the month,
81 degrees being recorded. As the
thermometers from which these OBJ
servations are taken are entirely en-
closed and not subject to either the
glare of the sun or to direct draughts.
the heat is always greater in the open
that is recorded and it is safe TO state
that the one hundred mark was passed
on Wednesday last. The month was
remarkably clear only one cloudy day
being noted. twenty clear and ten part
ly cloudy making up the total. The
precipitation was two inches. Through
out the month an east wind prevailed,
the breeze being from that direction
upon sixteen of the thirty-one days.
The highest mean temperature upon
any single day was Il degrees on the
2ith of the month.
The new plant of the Citizens Electric
Co., is ~ fn'l working order and the
residents of Lewistown are enjoying a
much moro efficient electric service
than in the past The new machine
which has capacity of ?o50 10 23OO
volts or in other terms 1000 1G candle
power. is called a compensating reyolv-
ing field alternator. a good deal of
trouble was experienced in putting in
the new plant owing to the fact that no
diagram or instructions were sent with
it and the fact that the machinery is of
the latest improved pattern, the local
electricians were at "A considerable loss
Of time putting it together. IL was de-
cided TO call on Mr.. II. w. Fellows the
electrician at the Kendall mines, who
responded to the call and arrived in
Lewistown at S o'clock on Sunday
evening. After working on the ma
chine all Sunday night 1t was discov-
cred that the trouble lay in the excitor
which was out o. order Anime o'clock
Monday morning the plant was in good
working order and giving satisfactory
service.