The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-17
Official Paper of Valley County
NEWS

man yesterday.
Today is st. patrick's Day and
many are wearing the green.
Raymond O. Osgood of Ashlieid,
was a Malta visitor Friday.
The X. z. Lodge will banquet
its members and friends tomorrow
night.
Miss Jeanne Spence of Glasgow,
is visiting relatives in this vicinity
this week,
See change in II. II. koke's adver-
tisement, also read the new "ad" of
Z. b. Chambers.
Attorney John A. Tressler was at
Glasgow Friday attending to profess
sional business.
Mrs. John Ebaugh will entertain
the Ladies Aid Society next Thurs
day afternoon, March 25th.
Miss Matte Crooks came from
her home near Ashtield Thursday
for an indefinite stay in Malta.
st. Mary's Guild will meet at the
home of Mrs. IL. e. Robinson next
Wednesday afternoon, March oath.
Virgil Naupel, a cousin Of Charles
SouthWick, reached Malta Saturday
and is visiting relatives in this city.
J. r.. Mccoy has recently erected
a substantial barn OH his lots i'll the
southern part OF the city in Cosner's
2nd addition.
Henry Holmes Of the Great Falls
outfit ranch near Ashlield went to
Great Fails Thursday last to attend
to some business matters.
The enterprising firm of Johnson
and Wolf have treated the interior of
t heir meat market to a coat of fresh
paint, thereby adding to it's clean
illness and attractiveness.
Miss Anna Courtney of Saco, is
conducting a sale of ladies suits,
Millinery and ladies' and children s
furnishing goods at the Great North
ern Hotel today and tomorrow.
Look over the complete line of
samples for wall paper and borders
at the Malta Drug Store. The large
va riety of designs, good quality and
low prices will be sure to please you.
Rev. ii. &. Cowan,. of Cowan, was
Malta visitor Tuesday while on his
way home from Nashua where he
attended the Valley County Holiness
Association meeting.
The time viii soon come when it
will be advisable for the local mer-
chants to double their efforts in the
way OF attractive and juUicious
advertising and i'll the exercise of
OF every legitimate effort to convince
the residents OF Malta and vicinity of
the advantages of patronizing home
merchants. 1t is reliably reported
by a st. Paul trade journal that a
number Of the eastern catalOg houses
are now training a large number of
bright statesmen who will soon be
turned loose in the west to engage in
personal solicitation of orders and
bring these gigantic trusts into closer
competitor with the small merchants
There is an effective way to meet
these people and the man conducting
business in the small town should
realize that it lies along the line of
constantly advertising his bargains
i'll TIE ENTERPRISE-the paper that
really, reaches the people, so that
these bargains will be known from
one end OF the country to the other.
The law has some relief measures
for the bachelors or the widowers
who can show that they have made a
reasonable effort to get wife, by
proposing three times to three differ
ent women or to one woman three
times.
1t provides that the tax shall be
collected in the same manner as poll
taxes and shall be disbured to spin
sters who have reached the age of
40 years who have not refused any
reasonable offer of marriage.
"Reasonable' offers are held to be
any proposal of matrimony made in
good faith by any man who is not an
inmate of an insane asylum and who
has not been convicted of felony OF
infamous crime
Names old maids are to be pen.
stoned at the expense of the bachelors
and WidOwers, if the act which has
been introduced in the legislature by
Representative Campbell of KingmaI
becomes a law, says the Chicago
Record Herald: "Mr. Campbell
proposes to mllct every unmarried
man Of 80 or over at the rate of SIC
year, the fund thus raised to be