The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-12
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store.
The Ladies' Aid society will have a
sale Of home cooking, candy and fancy
articles in the Flanagan building De
cember 10.
A marriage license was issued at
Great Falls yesterday to Ira Z. Bur.
ley aud Effie Virginia Farmer, both
of Highwood.
Miss Frielde and Miss Florence
Morrow left this morning for a visit
of several days at the Frields ranch
at Square Butte.
Mrs. D. G.. Browne entertained a
number Of her married friends at a
card party last evening, in honor of
Mrs. w. w. Breckenridge, OF Great
Falls.
A notice of location for the King
George quartz claim, in the Little
Rockies, has been filed in the county
clerks Office by George Mullen and
Phil Casselberg.
4. marriage license was issued by
the clerk of the district court today to
Samuel L. Hawley and Jessie NJ.
Wade, both of Havre. There have
been eighty marriage licenses issued
in Chouteau county during the past
eleven months.
Chouteau county is beginning to
occupy a prominent place in the list
of gold producing localities in Mon
tana. The receipts of gold at the Hell.
ena assay Office last month included
$4S,277 from Chouteau county, which
stands third on the list as a Montana
gold producer.
John G. Sullivan, county treasurer,
reports that tax collections for the
current year have been better than
usual. the list Of the delinquent taxes
amounting to only SO 1000 out Of a to.
tai Of some $3.50, 600 that is charged
on the tax list. A delinquency OF
less than 1 per cent. is a remarkably
good showing.
Great Falls Tribune: A. w. Coily,
q GreatINorthern car inspector, has
been brought to this city and placed
in Columbusihospital, suffering from
injuries sustained while inspecting
some ears in the Havre yards. While
engaged atsthis work a freight train
bumped into the cars upon which he
was working and in the subsequen,
mixup one of his legs was fractured in
two places.
from Thursdays Daily.
D. L. Blackstone has applied to the
judge Of the district court for the pur-
chase of two lots in block 81. towusite
of Chinook.
The cold spell OF the past two days
appears to have been general through
out Montana, below zero temperature
being reported from various local.
tiles.
A Washington dispatch states that
Congressman Dixon has introduced a
bill creating a new land district in
northern part of Montana, with a land
Office at Glasgow.
Parties who arrived in town this
morning on the delayed westbound
train report a heavy fall of snow
through the Dakotas and in north
eastern Montana as far as Havre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. d. Patterson en-
tertained about thirty of their friends
last evening at a whist party at their
home on lower Main street. At the
conclusion of the game. Refreshments
were served.
Men and teams are again at work
hauling stone from the depo, to be
used in constructing the found alton
Of the Catholic church building, upon
which work has been delayed several
weeks until the arri al Of material.
4. L. Sutherland. who IS in town
today from his ranch on the Marias.
reports sever winter weather in that
locality, and that owing to a light
rise in the river, which is filed with
hoa.ing ice, it is almost Impossible TO
ford.
Several stockmen in the Belt, high
wood and Teton country are holding
beef shipments in the expectation of
being able to reach the Chicago mar.
ket some time before Christmas. They
are among the victims Of the car
shortage.
a marriage license vas issued to.
day to John Smith and Myrtle Pruitt,
the prospective bride being under If
teen years of age but whose parents
consent to the marriage. A license
was also issued to Lawrence Czyzew-
ski and Augusta Kirk, both Of Fort
Assinniboine.
Judge Tattan and Stenographer
Russell returned today from Glasgow,
,rbora district cOnrt has heen in 900.