Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-09-04
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The regular monthly meeting Of the
Home Workers Society will be held at
the residence of Mrs. Charles Lehman
on Friday AFTERNOON at the usual hour.
The big sheep deal reported made by
Oscar Stephens with C. II. Merrill of
st. Paul, which involved the delivery of
$4,000 sheep, is off, owing to a misun-
derstanding in the manner of delivery.
The horses attached to the Democrat
float on Labor day waxed indignant on
their arrival at the Office with the load
and promptly dumped the whole outfit
into the alley back of the establish
ment.
Frank Lamb and wife were in Lewis
town last week. Mr.. Lamb is no longer
the boniface of the Judith hotel at
Utica, he having quit in favor of Charles
Grant, who will preside over the hos
telry in the future.
The ARGUS is in receipt of a letter
from b. NJ. Bean of Grass Range, in
which he says that he made the last
wool sale this season on the Billings
market to Elliott and obtained 1874
cents a pound for his clip.
Jack Smith of New Year was in the
city last week and said that the 1000
foot extension of the tunnel at the New
Year mine vas being surveyed and
work was being pushed on the tramway
from the mines to the mill.
w. w. Van Orsdel, long associated
with Montana Methodism and the pio-
neerof Methodismi in the Judith country,
will preach at the Methodist church
next Sunday morning and evening. He
will be glad to see you at the services.
j. b. Holmes will give a dance at
Grass Range Friday evening, Septem-
Der Goth, to which he extends a cordial
invitation to all. Music will be fur
nished by the Musselshell orchestra and
a good time may be confidently antici-
pated.
Notwithstanding the local in the
Democrat last week stating that Rev.
Van Orsdel's remains had been sin
tered in the Utica cemetery" that
genial divine reached Lewistown the
first of the week and was seen on the
streets shaking hands with his many
friends.
A very able letter appeared in the
Kalispell Bee of the Goth inst. which
was written by Prof. Silloway, and in
which he explains in a very interesting
manner the amount of game killed by
the residents at the biological station
on Flathead lake this summer, and the
reasons for killing the same.
The new building of the Lewistown
Commercial company is being rapidly
constructed. The iron piers and braces
are all on the ground and much of the
ironwork is already in position. Oper.
atoms have already been commenced
or the second story and the building
will be entirely completed by Novem-
Der LIST.
Victor l.. Hitter, who was a member
of Company F of the First Montana
volunteers, is destitute and extremely
i'll at C~entralia, Washington. This
information was sent to Governor Toole
by Governor Rogers of Washington.
The governor will endeavor to have
him placed in the Soldiers Home, near
Kalispell.
The Power Mercantile Co. has on ex-
hibition in its dry goods department a
magnificent Alaskan seal jacket, which
is valued at $500. Numbered tickets
are issued to purchasers Of two dollars
worth or more of merchandise and on
Christmas Eve a drawing will be held
and the fortunate possessor Of the lucky
number will secure the jacket.
A slight fracas occurred in the Occi.
dental saloon last Thursday morning
early, in which George Mann, the bar.
tender, was struck over the head by
william Liehe, who used a club on the
head of the mixologist in such a man
ner as to cause a severe scalp wound.
On Saturday morning Liehe pleaded
guilty to a charge of assault and bat
terry in the police court and was fined
S55, which he paid.