The Western news., 1902-09-03

| The special train of ten coaches that
eft here for Missoula Monday morn
ing was full to the steps before reach
ing its destination. The turn out from
Hamilton was over 200, who were anx-
ious to see the big show. and from all
, reports they returned we'll satisfied.
Miles Romney, the democratic COM
initteeman from Ravalli county, is out
of town this week, having left Monday
morning to meet with the state COM
mittee which was called for Tuesday,
Sept. 2. He will return Saturday even
ing with the press gang from Butte.
The Steyensville training school
| will open for its second years work
September IS. The Rev. D. B. Price
is superintendent and Prof. M. L.
Roach principal. Both are graduates
OF eastern colleges and have had many
years experience IN colleges and uni
versities.
A marriage license was issued last
Saturday, August 80, by Clerk of the
Court Cone to Willard H. Wickham
and Miss Ethel Sanders, both of Stev-
ensville. The ceremony took place at
home Of the brides sister, Mrs. J. v,
Burnett, on the west side, Saturday
evening, Rev. Smith officiating.
Moore & Wylie, the b1acksmiths.
have purchased the lot between the
Cottage Hotel and the Rich shop and
will at once begin the erection of a
com mmodious' shop. This will give the
firm much better location than they
have at present. They will tear the
old shop down and use the material in
the new one.
The next annual meeting of the
state trades and labor council will be
held in Missoula. In the contest for
the place of holding this meeting were
Helena, Missoula and Hamilton. Hell
ena was dropped after the first ballot,
the secon d showed Hamilton and Mis-
soula to be a tie, and on the third Mis-
soula won by one vote.
There were three schools of this
county that opened for the usual order
OF work Tuesday: Darby district No,
9 with Miss Nora Smytha as principal
and Miss Flora Mason as primary
teacher, Canyon Creek district No. 1s
with |. J. Jones as principal and Miss
Ethel Crooks as primary teacher, and
Bird Creek district No. - with miss
Lille Matthias as teacher.
Doninick Mcclure returned Satur-
day from trip to Livingston where
he was in attendance as a delegate to
the state meeting of the .rades and
labor council. Near Bonner on his
return Mr.. MCGUIRE left his seat in the
car to converse with friend and when
returned he found that some rascal
had broken the eighth commandment
and disappeared with his grip. Luck
lily, it contained nothing valuable.
With only limited supply of nj
trates in sight and available, the cheap
production of these necessary SUBJ
stances, to be used for manures and
other useful purposes, seems impera-
tive. Few people understand what
has been accomplished at Niagara in
extracting nitrogen from the atmos-
phere. The process employed there is
fully described in the Review of Re.
views for September by Mr., T. C
Martin.
AT the annual conference of the NJ.
f. church. South, held in Butte recent.
~, the following appointments were
made for the Bitter Root valley for the
ensuing year: Stevensville, J, B.
Parnall; Stevensville and Victor cir
cult to be supplied by G. r. Williams:
Hamilton and Corvallis, A. A. Wal
ker; Stevensville and Victor circuit. T |
W. Flowers supernumerary. d. B.
Price was appointed as financial Sec
retary and superintendent of the
Stevensville Training school.
AT the examination held last FRIDAY
and Saturday before County Superin-
tendent Miss Kitty Ostermeyer, the
following applied for teachers certi6-
Gates: Miss Flora Mason, Darby; Miss |
Mintie Andrews, Darby; Miss Helen !
LaCaaff, Hamilton; Miss Marguerite !!