The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-06-23
NEWSY ITEMS OF MALTA
AND THIS VICINITY
RAIN, THUNDER, LIGHTNING, HAIL AND WIND VISITED
THIS PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING AND DID SOME DAMAGE

Come to Malta to celebrate July
4th and be assured of a good time.
Mrs. DR.. Williams of Harlem, was
in Malta between trains on Saturday.
Miss Mabel Peck visited with
friends in Glasgow the latter part of
last week.
Norval Wallace and Joe Reynolds
of Leedy, were business visitors in
Malta last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Butts ofLeedy,
visited at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
OFT. Cassady last Saturday.
E. M. Prouty of st. Paul. reached
Malta last week and will spend his
vacation on the Lazy p ranch with
his brother, Macy Prouty.
Representative of the st. Paul
Jobbing Houses and manufacturers
are day late on their trip and will
not reach Malta until tomorrow some
time.
Andrew Erickson, an aged resident
of Dodson, died of general debility
in that city Monday night. Mrs.
SWANSON a daughter of the deceased
living at Wagner, had recently
brought her father from Minneapolis
where he had been on visit in very
poor health, hoping change of climate
might benefit him, but he lived only
a few days after reaching Dodson.
Up to the time of going to press we
are unable to learn when the funeral
will be held.
For a number of weeks past, FRANK
Lampman's store building on Front
street has been undergoing marked
improvements. The interior has
been entirely changed, new floors laid,
the walls and ceilings newly finished
and decorated, and altogether, it pre-
sents an attractive aud up-to-date ap-
pearance. AS soon as it is ready for
occupancy, Edw. White will move
into it with his saloon business from
the North Side, having leased the
property for a number of years.
Last Wednesday night Malta and
vicinity was visited by one of the
worst electric storms experienced in
many years. The heavy rain accom-
panying the storm did no damage, but
the lightning played havoc with the
lives of some live stock. 1t killed a
saddle horse belonging to r. V.
Tucker, killed one of c. w. PoWell's
best cows, frightened a bunch of
| Ed. pierson's s horses so that num-
Der of them ran into a barbed wire
fence and were badly cut and torn,
and also killed a couple of horses be-
! longing to ranchers at Saco. 1t was
not, however, until Saturday night or
early Sunday morning that the worst
storm came, when the elements united
in an ecstacy of reyelry in sending
rain, hail, lightning and wind with
such violent force and in such guam
titles as to cause considerable dam
age 10 crops ana SdlutllS. III Solnt
parts of the county the amount of
rainfall resembled a cloud burst, low
lands were submerged, coulees were
filled and the waters of Milk River
reached Il high water mark. A num-
Der of gardens were completely de-
molished with the hail and the wind
that followed. Generally, growing
crops of grain and corn were not
damaged. However, it is reported
that Wilfrid Primeau, living about
six miles east of Malta, had about
ninety acres of grain destroyed and
it is estimated that twenty-five acres
of grain on one of Professor AtWood's
ranches was also cut down. Aside
from the loss sustained by a few, the
rainfall which has been followed by
warn, sunny days, has done an ines
timable amount of good, and vegeta-
ton in the entire Milk River Valley
is very luXuriant and promises a
greater yield than for many years.