The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-01
I T AND STATE.

store.
Glenn Lauer and wife left today for
Tacoma. WASH. on a visit of several
weeks.
Miss Atkinson, county s~uperinten.
dent, returned today from an official
visit to the schools in the northern
part Of the county.
II you want to buy pianos, organs
Or graphophones, you can save money
by writing Stackhouse Music Store,
Great Falls, Mont.
A p%ostofice bulletin a
regular mail service of once a week
between Lloyd and Riedel. Charles
Green, of Lloyd, has contracted to
carry the mail.
The new forms of quartz location
blank required under the new law can
be obtained at the River Press Office.
The new form must now be used In
making quartz locations.
Claude E. Embleton, who returned
today from q western trip, Is reported
to have purchased some ranch prop.
er,y near Spokane, Wash, and will
remove to that locality at an early
date.
A call has been issued for q meet.
Ing OF the republican state committee
to be held in Helena on Saturday,
April 4, to name the date and place
for holding the republican state con.
vention.
The snowfall of last night is vel.
coined by stockmen and ranchers as
the best thing that could happen at
this time. It will supply some OF the
necessary moisture, and put the range
good shape.
The anne of several new towns
will be added to the map Of Montana
% q result of government irrigation
projecte. A dispatch from Washing.
ton says eleven quarter sections have
been withdrawn from public entry and
segregated for townsite purposes in
connection with the Sun river irriga-
cation project. This segregation is
for the purpose of carrying out the
reclamation service farm village idea,
which provides for q village about
every six miles on the whole Sun river
project. There will be about twenty
OF these little towns. No settler will
be more than three or four miles from
one of these villages.
From Thursdays Daily.
W. p. Turner, of the Marias, is
among the business visitors in town.
DR.. Stephens is agent in this vi
entity for REQ and Ford automo.
biles. \
J. A. Stauffer, the government live.
stock inspector, was among the ar.
rivals today.
A marriage license has been issued
81 Great Falls to +. A. Littlefield, of
Lloyd, and Catherine A. York, of
Meaderville, Mont.
A large fiat boat is being built by
Hagen & Fry, to be used as a ferry
cross the Missouri river at the
O'Hanlon company ranch.
The recent snowstorm appears to
have been general throughout north
.ern Montana. Advices from Chinook
report about a foot of snow in the
Milk river country.
q. N. Ragland returned today from
the Belt creek country, where he has
made heavy purchases OF grain the
past two weeks for 7. c. Power & Bro.
The contracts made with ranchers in
that locality call for the delivery Of
about 6 ,OOO bushels of oats.
Word comes from Havre that the
license of the Montana concert hall
has been revoked by Mayor Newman,
of that city, and that his action has
been sustained by the city council.
The proprietor OF the concern is said
to have persistently violated the city
ordinances.
1t is reported from Boulder tina.
SO14 1sO0CAV oOoS az ~ SAuS uO"Spo
per man, was recently injured in a
runaway, and will be- taken to the sol.
diers' home at Columbia Falls. Mr..
Robertson was a resident of this city
IN the early eighties, and has many
friends in this part of the state.
The teachers Of ST. Paul's Sunday
school will hold a home cooking sale
Saturday afternoon, AT the Great
Northern hotel building, commencing
a. , o'clock. 1t will include cakes,
COOKIES, cream puts, d%oughnuts,
homemade bread. rolls and candy.
There will also be a %postofice, with
packages for all its patrons.
The number of prisoners in the
county Jail was increased TO twenty.
three today by Constable Geo. Bickle