Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-08-19

Charley Doherty and Liant Farnham
visited Utica over Sunday.
Blackford & BlacKford, attorneys,
office in Judith Basin Bank building.
Miles Gibbons returned Monday
from a visit with relatives and friends
in Butte and Great Falls.
Painting, calsomining and paper
hanging. See Creel & Briggs.
]. T. Andrus returned yesterday via
Benton from an extensive trip
through the east, where he has been
purchasing goods for the Lewistown
Commercial company.
Dishes for everybody at prices that
will suit anybody at the Montana
Hardware company. See ad. in this
issue.
Mrs. j. T. Andrus is visiting in Salt
Lake at the present time. She ex-
poets TO start for Lewistown within
the next week and will be accompan.
led by her sister, Miss Hughey. who
will have charge OF the kindergarten
department of the Lewistown school
for the coming school year.
The Lewistown base ball team or
dered a beautiful pillow Of flowers
to be laid on the conn OF Roy Her
rold, as il passed through Great Falls
yesterday. Roy was a general favor
lite with the boys here. who knew
him only on the ball field. where. as
on all other occasions. he always act.
ed the part of the inbred gentleman.
Roy Ayers, Of Grass Range. was in
the city Saturday on his way home
from Great Falls. where he sold the
wool clip Of his father, George Ay.
ers. Roy was rather inclined TO think
that he should have gotten more for
his clip. but he wasn't kicking much
and says that he is sure his fathers
wool will come to market in Lewis
town next year.
This afternoon, before Justice Me
Farland. May Stanton. who is the
proprietress of a house in the bad
lands of Lewistown. will be tried on
the double charge of permitting min
ors To frequent her establishment and
of selling liquor 10 minors. Two citi.
zens of the town. whose boys were
allowed to enter the place and given
beer TO drink, are the complainants.
and May stands an excellent chance
either Of spending the remainder OF
the summer season In a cool cell Of
the county bastile or Of paying a good
sized fine. She claims that she didn't
know il was an offense TO do as she
did. but another thing May is likely
to learn this afternoon is that igno'
rance of a crime does not excuse tn
offender.
A prominent woolgrower of this
city who sold his wool on the Great
Falls market says that there was a
great deal OF dissatisfaction among
the growers with the method Of hand
ling the wool at the warehouses In
that city. They were short-weighted
to start with and had a hard time ge;.
ting their clips re.weighed. The
shortage amounted to from % to 100
pounds to the sack. and n grower
with a fair.sized clip made 5000 lbs,
of wool by insisting upon a re.weighi,
The balers were very arbitrary and
resorted to what was practically the
worst sort OF extortion by making the
growers give them a bonus TO bale
the wool. One man from this county
waited around for several days and
finally gave the baler s25, after which
his wool was baled mp. The wool
grower Is used to getting the worst
of II. but the deal given them in Great
Falls this year was too much and
many Of them who are miles away
from Lewistown have expressed their
satisfaction at the probable establish.
ment of a market al this place next
year.