Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-04-09
GILT EDGE

Dus Ilcluh Nho tlttltu W Suttttu
himself as school trustee for the Nc.
ginnis district.
Miss Agnes l.. Hughes has been Sc
lected to teach the Post school for
the coming term.
Peter Morris. n of our most faith
full p~rospectors. returned Monday from
a brief s~ojourn in the metropolis.
Ii. w. F. Lakey returned Monday
from Helena, where he passed a sue
e ssful examination before the state
racuical board.
George p. Marsh, of the firm of
Dunn & Mclean, Great Falls, spent
Monday and Tuesday with us taking
orders for his firm.
Messrs. Robert Mccain, William
Bush and Robert Finley of Edgewater,
were up Friday taking In the sights
of the gold camp.
We regret 70 learn of Commission
err Washburn's resignation. He has
made an excellent representative for
the county and especially for his con-
~stituents on the east side.
L. NJ. DrinKard, we learn, has been
employed as teacher for the Stuart
school during the coming summer
term. Mr.. Drinkard has filled the po-
sition of teacher for the intermediate
grade in our school here for the past
two years with entire satisfaction to
both patrons and scholars.
C. z. Carlisle, our fellow townsman,
and Mrs. Short of Maiden. we're mar.
ried in Lewistown last Wednesday
Upon their arrival in town thev were
met by the Gilt Edge Junior Tin band
and after a series of serenad IS, the
groom was given his first degree in
wedlock. Both of the contra ing
parties are well and favorably known
in Gilt Edge and Maiden. We wish
them a long and happy life.
Ernest Kies, the veteran postmaster
of Fl. Maginnis, Invested himself OF
the official ermine of the TT. Maginnis
postoffice on Monday last and placed
the regalia upon Miss Sallie Ander-
son. With the change of postmasters
comes a change of site. and the last
emblem of authority of this erstwhile
populous city will be removed to the
Anderson ranch. The change will
shorten the mail route about three
and one half miles.
Fort Maginnis was the third post
Office to be established in what IS
now Fergus county. In the early SOS
ii was the business center for this
section of the country, being the on
ly town with telegraphic communica.
tons with the outside world. Three
delapidated buildings and a few chin.
neys are all that is left of this once
thriving town, denuded now of name
and importance. they stand as mile
stones to mark the progress of civil
ization.
James Tyler. the genial postmaster
of Wilder, and David Bush came up
from the Point tuesday. While here
they interviewed a number of our cit
liens in regard to establishing direct
mail connections with the Point. The
matter is one of merit and should be
taken hold of and pushed through.
At present all the lower part of the
county from Roy to Wilder is virtu-
ally cut off from the county seat as
far as the mails are concerned, as all
mail from those points has to go to
Harlem on the Great Northern and
around by Benton or Great Falls in
order to reach any other portion OF
the county.
Our town was in the throes Of two
elections Saturday. One being for
road trustees. which resulted in tha
election of r. VI. Dougherty for three
years, Jas. II. Connely for two years
and w. w. Badger for one year re.
spectively. There being no opposition
in this election 1t was a very mild af.