Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-04-01

surance Co. of Brooklyn, y. Y. Kelly
a. Moulton. Agents.
r. s. Hamilton has returned home
from Helena, where he has bepn Wis
iting relatives for seyeral weeks mast
Before sowing your wheat use for.
maldehyde on ii, the sure preventive
for smut in wheat. For sale by Nc.
Kechnie & Allan.
August Wendt, the efficient clerk
in Hopkins grocery store. left Lew
istown Monday for his old home in
Illinois. He gives II as his intention
to return about the first of Nav and
candidly admits that unless one of his
well laid schemes gang a'glee, he will
be accompanied TO Lewistown By Mrs.
August Wendt. Gus is an immense.
ly popular young fellow and his many
friends hope he will carry out his ex.
pressed intention of returning.
If you have ground thar no ordinary
pillow will scour in get a Good Enough
Sulky Disk Pillow of the Judith Hard.
ware Co., and your troubles will cease.
Beginning with today the black.
smiths and wood workers OF Lewis
town will do a strictly cash business.
William Deaton sold his farm, con.
sisting of $40 acres of decided land and
a desert claim, located on Cotton
wood, to James Benesh, Of Tyndall,
S. d., the latter part Of the week.
The consideration was $500 and the
sale was made through vaclav Pulec,
real estate agent. Mr.. Benesh will
not move his family out for several
months yet.
Liant C. Farnham, of Sedalia. Mis-.
souri,. has been employed in the shoe
department OF the Power Mercantile
company, He is an experienced man
in the business and is socially a very
pleasant gentleman.
j. T. Andrus returned Thursday ar.
ternoon from the east, where he went
about two months ago to buy goods
for his store, the Lewistown CONNER.
cial Co. He was accompanied home
by his wife and Mrs. ID. b.. Morris.
who came to join her husband in this
place. Mr.. Andrus expresses himself
as glad to be at home and says that
his trip through the east has bettered
his most excellent opinion of Lewis
town and her future. He stopped off
at many of the smaller cities of the
east, those ranging from 5000 to 49,
600 in population. and none of them
could surpass and few could equal the
mercantile establishments of our own
town.
II you want a nice carpet for your
parlor, made up nice with a border at
Chicago prices, see w. S. Smith.
Business is picking up in all lines
in Lewistown and business men are
expecting this to be one of the most
prosperous years in the city's history.
The coming of the railroad. prosper
Gus stock and range conditions and
IN increase in the volume of mining
business all form a combination of
favorable factors. which is sure to
have an appreciable effect on the bus
mess interests in this place. The gen.
eral feeling of prosperity Is shown by
the number OF houses which are said
to be contracted for. From the best
information obtainable from the con-
tractors there will be no less than
fifty houses go up during the coming
spring and summer.
Harness made of solid, pliable leath.
er, no stretching, spongy stock, no
ripping, and warranted in every way.
You will find II at the Judith Hard.
ware Co.'S.
Sheriff Williams. of Glendiye, ar.
rived In Lewistown Sunday and left
Tuesday for home, having in charge
Davis. the fellow who was arrested
here by Deputy Stock Inspector Mich.
OILS upon the information of Stock In,
spector Hall, which charges Davis
with stealing a horse from the 80
outfit in Dawson county. This was
Mr.. Williams first visit to Lewistown
and he was much impressed with the
progressiveness which he saw on
every side. Stock conditions in Daw.
son, he said, are not so very promis
ing at the present time, the sheer
men in the northwestern part of the
county being particularly hard hit by
the long winter and small amount OF
feed.
The announcement made last week
that Attorney General Donovan would
pay Lewistown a visit this week.
though, to all intents and purposes
an innocent item, had a most peculiar
effect on the sightless tiger, which
does some times stalk abroad in Lew
istown. No sooner did he hear Of the
coming of the gentleman from Hell
ena than he sheathed his vicious
claws, closed his mouth, which was
wide open and ready to devour any
hapless victim who might chance tc
fall therein. and meekly went away
back to a very dark r and laid
down. The distinguished gentleman
from the capital city came to Lewis
town to appear as counsel in the cas-,
of Ammon-Stiyers Mining Co. VS.. tn,
Great Northern Mining Co.