Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-02-20
Hugh Green is in from Gilt Edge

D. ]. Burr was in from Kendall yes
terday.
/ J. c. huntoon, lawyer; telephone No
rs. Office opposite Day House,
| Wear pair Power Mercantile shoes
for comfort.
Hugo A. Raw, Of Philbrook, was in
town this week.
Complete restaurant outfit for sale
Inquire at Abel Bros.
c. c. Foster, Of Utica, is visitins
the county seat.
J. c. Huntoon, lawyer; telephone No
rs. Office opposite Day House.
Mrs. Winnie Radley was in from
Kendall Saturday.
DR.. l. M. Beatty, osteopath; office
IN Bank Of Fergus County building.
Will J. Cruise, Of Helena, is in town
on business trip.
c. L. Wentworth, of this city. was
III Great Falls yesterday.
Have your watch repaired at Wag
ner's.
Mrs. Nahalie Belanger, of Maiden
Is in the city on business.
When in need Of spectacles or eye
glasses see Wagner.
Benton Norris and wife, of Forest
Grove, were in town yesterday.
New hat pins at wagner's jewelry
store.
Phil Lang, the well known Rogers
rancher, was in town at the end of the
week.
For camping parties, herders, pros.
pectors. nothing so handy as Shaw's
already prepared -four. Try it. T
Manager H. M. Rae, of the Gold
Reef mines. was in from Gilt Edge
yesterday.
One hudred and sixty acres within
u of mile of Lewistown. Price ST..
100000. Hilger & Busenburg.
Thomas Graham and Mrs. James
Shaw, of Grass Range, were in the
city Saturday.
Worden & Scott. lawyers, telephone
1877. Offices, TELEPHONE Building over
U. S. land office.
If pair of shoes do not fit right
they will not wear, neither will you
get any comfort. Try our kind. Pow.
err Mercantile Co.
DR.. Myron E. Curtiss, dentistry, now
located in the Murray building, Main
street.
The Ladies Aid Society will hold it's
monthly meeting at the home of Mrs,
NJ. L. WOOdman on Friday afternoon at
O'Clock. Feb. 23rd, 1906.
A large shipment of the familiar
Hamilton pianos just received at w.
s. Smiths.
The installation of the newly elect
ed officers of the Eagles will occur to-
morrow, Wednesday evening. All the
members are urged to attend. g. w.
| Taylor, secretary.
| Hugh Wagner, the matchmaker and
jeweler, last week sold to Flatwillow
parties two of the finest watches ever
sold in Lewistown.
| w. G. Jenizen and party arrived
here Sunday from Shawmut for at
tendance at the Jenizen-Sims trial in
the district court. The others are
E. M. Jenizen, James Mcintyre, Chas.
Jenizen. Tim rowley and John Ross.
American Bonding Company of Bal
timore, twill go on your bond" Sure.
ty bonds, fidelity, court, constructing,
fraternal and public officials. Hilger
& Busenburg, agents.
A party of four Fergus county men
left Saturday morning for the Blue
mountains. in eastern Oregon, where
they expect to engage in mining at
a new camp. They are Tom Girls
dale, the former stage driver, Marion
Knight, of Grass Range, James Lyon,
of Flatwillow, and Tom Playford. of
Lewistown.
American Bonding Company of Bal
timore, will go on your bond" Sure
ty bonds, fidelity, court, constructing,
& Busenburg, agents.
Shoes that fit, wear and satisfy at
Power Mercantile Co.
Within the past two weeks the boys
OF Lewistown have become addicted
to the bean shooter" habit, and now
half the boys in town are provided
with this weapon, which Is simply a
modified clipper" the rubber band
being stretched over the thumb and
forefinger. instead of being tied to q
crotch. Nearly all the boys use beans
as missils. and exercise their skill
upon each other which is, perhaps
all right, but recently some of them
have adopted the practice of shoot
Ing Unfortunately at pedestrians,
and men, women and children have
been the targets for these mysterious
pellets. In addition to this, some of
the lads have fired their singing mis-.
sis at teams from the country, left
united in front of stores, and several
runaways have been narrowly avert.
ed in consequence. Yet worse than
all, some. of the boys, in whom the
hoodlum instinct is Unborn, have adopt
ed lead shot instead of the compare
| lively harmless beans, and in their
hands the "bean shooter" becomes a
dangerous weapon. Naturally, the
boys who are actuated by pure fun
come in for the general blame intend
ed for the hoodlums. and they are
all classed together which does many
OF the little fellows an injustice. The
use OF shot in these modified flippers
has caused many accidents in various
parts of the country, and has made
serious trouble for several boys. who
have destroyed the eyesight of vic.
tins by hitting them in the eye with
the missils. Surely no boy in Lewis,
town would be guilty Of such an often
Sc Intentionally and yet if some OF
them caused such an irreparable in
jury. it would give them very little sat
isfaction to say they did not intend to
shoot out anybody's eye No such &C
cident has occurred here, but only
luck has prevented it. Last week q
| bow named Cline was shot throu oh