Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-12-03

Cdsn pdiu ioi hiues ana pelt5 by
Bryant Bros. Main st.
Ruby and Gladys King visited their
friends in Kendall Friday and Sat.
urdey. returning home Sunday.
The week old baby of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Yard OF the Mountain View
! ranch, about three miles southwest
OF the city, died Monday morning
about 2 o'clock OF infant trouble.
Dainty and stylish ribbon accessor.
les in stock and made to order at
Madame Gleason's. Sets to match
evening gowns are a fashionable fad.
The will of Mary NJ. Sweetland. de.
ceased wife of Levi II. Sweetland,
was filed for probate Saturday. BY
the terms of her will all her personal
property goes to her husband. who
is also willed a life interest in her
real estate. consisting OF a 800 acre
farm, with remainder to the Montana
Wesleyan University of Helena. l..
II. Sweetland and the Rev. w. w.
Van Orsdel are nameL as the execu.
tors of the will.
To assist in starting a good cause
the fremen of Gilt Edge will give a
masquerade ball on Christmas night.
The movement deserves the assist.
ance and support of every citizen Of
the camp.
The bowling association has begun
on its championship schedule. each
of the four teams having rolled ten
games each. Team and individual
averages will be given in next weeks
paper. The Mavericks and Sham.
rocks bowl at the ladies' alleys to
night, beginning at 5 o'clock.
Another head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific occurred Saturday
morning three miles east of Nilsson
la, and Is a result tnree people were
killed and several injured; cause I'M
known but supposed to have been a
conflict in the orders, The n, 2. has
been having her share Of the head.
ons" lately and IL they occur many
more times some enterprising indi-
vidual will start a stage line from
st. Paul to Seattle.
A bowling party consisting ofMisses
Noble, Remington, Ladd. Alderman
and Graham, and Messrs. Davis. Zeig.
Ter, Armstrong, Stout and Hanke.
bowled four match games of ten pins
at the ladies' alleys Friday evening.
Captain Hanke's team winning oyer
Captain Zeigler's team by a small
margin. Supper for ten" at the
Ideal recuperated the party after the
strenuous exertion caused from
speeding the lignae vitae along the
alleys,
Thanksgiving passed OF unevent-
fully in Lewistown, the festivities us.
ugl to the day being observed. Ser
vices were held at the churches and
were attended by good audiences.
The business houses and schools we're
closed and turkey and cranberrIes
formed the principal diet at the din.
ner hour. In the evening the fire.
mems dance attracted those terpsich-
CREAMY inclined and when that was
over it was the next day and another
Thanksgiving was written in the book
of the days gone bv.
A general summary of the weather
for November shows that winter
weather has prevailed most of the
time. The mean average tempera-
ture was 20 degrees. The highest
temperature Of the month was on the
second, when the thermometer regis.
tered 5S degrees. and the lowest on
the 29th, when 1t fell to 1 degree be-
low zero. The snow fall amounted
to 6k inches. There were seven
clear days, nine partly clear, and
fourteen cloudy ones. OF twenty
seven days the temperature was be-
low &c degrees.
Waite & Elliot started from this
county to Custer county with twelve
thousand head of sheep several weeks
ago. and. in route. during a storm,
the herders lost 1900 head and were
unable to locate them anywhere. The
| owners offered 5000 reward for any.
one who would return 1000 Of them.
| Sunday Mr.. Waite received a mes.
sage that practically the entire bunch
had been found after almost two
weeks of searching. The number
| which the same firm. Waite & Elliot.
sold to Orwell of Billings is 10000.
they getting s2.75 for their two-year-
olds and s2.25 for yearlings.
II was a country school boy who,
upon being asked TO write an essay
on the newspapers. wrote: News.
papers is called vehicles of informa.
ton. Editors are men that knows
everything in the heavens above and
earth beneath. They is writers who
doesn't write anything whatsoever.
They is the biggest men you ever see.
Printers devils is the most important
persons in a printing office. They
does the hard work and gets the least
pay. II ever lstart a paper of my own
I'll call It the Umbrella. Everybody
will take II. A man was walking down
the street with a little boy at his side
when the little fellow cried out: Oh,
pa, there goes the editor Hush,
hush. said the father, Don't make
sport of the poor man. God only knows
what you may come to yet"