Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-08-05

d, E. Hemphill. the watch maker
has returned and is now prepared
to do your fine watch work.
Miss 10 Remington left Monday
morning for a few days visit in Hell.
ena.
Hair Work made to order-Mrs. A.
Mcleod, Boulevard. near Third Ave.
Mrs. L. L. Leese left Monday norm.
ing for a visit to Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan.
Painting, calsomining and paper
hanging. See Creel G. Briggs.
The Manchester Cooperative Wool.
en- mill. with a capitalization of 800.
600, has been Incorporated in Great
Falls.
Milwaukee moving machines and
rakes are the best. See Geo. M. Stat.
ford.
Don Davenport, the genial insur.
ance man from Helena. is in the CITY
talking premiums and profits To the
people this week.
DR.. w. a. Allen, the dentist. is 10.
Gated in room 3 at the Hoffman house
on JeneauX street and requests all
who desire to have some dental work
done to call on him at that place.
Charlie Belden, of Utica. will move
into Lewistown and occupy his resi-.
dence on Fifth avenue in September
apd send his children to school in
this city.
If you wish to buy a house. a lot, a
ranch or a gold mine, or loan your
money on real estate mortgages at 4
good rate of interest. call on Kelly 4
Moulton, Electric building, Lewistown.
Ben b. Briscoe, a popular business
and society young man of Helena.
Is in the city this week the guest If
Miss Alice stephens.
Creel & Briggs handle the finest line
of window shades and room mould.
ings.
Lawyer NJ. l.. Gum, OF Helena. was
in this city the latter part of the week
transacting business for the Montana
Railroad company, he being their
head attorney.
Strength and vigor come OF good
food, duly digested. Force, a ready.
to-serve wheat and barley food. adds
no burden, but s~ustains, nourishes,
invigorates.
Walter G. Gleason, a mining expert
of Toronto. Canada, arrived in this
city Saturday morning on his way 10
Gilt Edge, where he will have charge
of the new roasters recently INSTALL
ed by the Gold Reef Mining company.
Cheap for cash, a secondhand
phaeton. Enquire at this office.
Miss Jessie Gudgell. who has been
visiting for the past month with
friends and relatives in Iowa and
Missouri, returned to Lewistown Sat
urday and has resumed her position
as cashier of the Power Mercantile
company.
The railroad officials announce that
passengers can come up to Garneill
or the railroad beginning with today.
No regular passenger coach will be.
put on until the road is completed.
but accommodations of some sort will
be offered TO travellers.
r. A. Harlow. of the Montana rail-
road company, was the only railroad
man who has a line in this state, TO
appear before the state board of
equalization and say that his assess
ment was satisfactory and that a de-
crease was not desired. While the
statistics have not been searched TO
determine definitely, it is believed
that President Harlow's case is the
first of the kind on record.
Swend Holland. of Gilt Edge. was
in the city Monday On his way home
from Great Falls. where he disposed
of his wool. His clip weighed 1876
pounds and he was at first offered
14& cents for it, but upon being open
ed the wool was found to be damp
from a rain which fell while it was in
transit and the buyer backed out.
compelling Mr.. Holland to ship it
away and take the best price he could
get, which was 13 cents.
James NJ. Croft returned Friday
from a trip to his ranch. where he
superintended the shearing of his
sheep and the shipment of his wool.
He will leave soon for Great Falls,
where he will place it on the market.
He states that owing to the incompe-
tency of his foreman his losses in
lambs this year were unusually heavy,
500 of them perishing in one night
of the May storm, when they might
have been saved had the foreman
done his duty.
At another place in this issue may
be found the notice of Chas. Wright.
proprietor of the Lewistown hotel.
stating that the dining room of that
popular hOstelry will be closed for I
month or six weeks pending extensive
repairs. Charlie says that he will be
ready to open up before the railroad
gets in and will have one Of the finest
dining rooms in the country when he
does again throw open the doors to
the hungry public. Although the doors
of the dining room are closed the rest
of the house Is running as usual.
Very little reliance can be placed
upon The water system for fire pro-
lection If the water be allowed to run
out of the reservoir as frequently As
in the past month. when. according
to an accurate record kept. water was
short parts or the whole of nine days.
And this condition cannot be charg-
ed always either to accident or to ir-
rigation. Neither street sprinkler nor
lawn sprinklers were in operation yes
terday morning. for instance. II ought
to be possible to keep water in the
reservoir when It rains ten hours out
of twenty-four.
Twenty-four dozen quail we're ship
ped to Kalispell from Nebraska three
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