The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-10-13
I T AND STATE.

W u CVOIo lCAu tOU 0y lOr OQIC8ROs
on q short business visit.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's iewelry
store.
Joseph Hirshberg, of Helena. q for.
mer resident of this city, was AMONG
the arrivals from the west last even.
ing.
Pat Scanlon, the Milwaukee rail-
road business booster, is interviewing
local stOckmen in regard to beef ship.
ments.
A marriage license was issued by
cork Of the district court today to
Roger J. Ewalt, of Havre. and Lydia
Long, of Danville, Ill.
A beef shipment of about 700 head
from the Hollywood country was load
ed at the stocky ards this afternoon,
and will be on the Chicago market
Monday.
F. A. Flanagan, who was recently
taken sick with appendicitis, under.
went an operation yesterday after.
noon, and is reported to be progress.
ing favorably.
Hagen & Fry have purchased from
George Sherry the machinery and
molds used by the latter in the manu-
facture of cement blocks and pipes,
and will add the plant to their present
facilities.
John tombstone has returned from
a trip to Alberta, during which he
visited with his sister, Mrs. Richard
Stanton formerly of the Shonkin. Mr..
Stanton has come fine ranch property
near Preddis, Alberta, and is doing
we'll.
Jack Hamilton, stock tender for the
Center Meat market, has reached the
conclusion that using q newly con-
structed cement sidewalk as q promen.
ade is not worth what 1t costs. He in
dulged in that kind of diversion last
evening, leaving impressions of No. 10
shoes on the new walk in front of the
postofice, and was called upon to dig
up IS as the amount of damages.
From Thursdays Daily.
Rev. W. A. Morgan, of the Metho.
dist church, left yesterday on q trip
east.
c. D. Miller left last evening on q
trip to Seattle and other points on the
Pacific coast.
Jack Strain, of Havre, q we'll known
Great Northern passenger conductor,
arrived today on a business visit.
Miss Mabel Culbertson, who has
been teaching school at Hill, north of
Chester, arrived today on a visit with
her parents.
An application for letters of admin
~istration in the estate of Albert G..
Klappstein has been filed in the dis
trict court by Kathryn Klappstein,
widow of the deceased.
Andrew H. Lawrence, of Inverness,
has filed in the district court a decla-
ration of his intention TO become an
American citizen. Mr.. Lawrence is a
native of Scotland.
A collision between two Great Nor
thern passenger trains is reported
from Durham, a station a few miles
west of Browning. One locomotive
was derailed, and several passengers
we're injured, but so far as known
there we're no fatalities.
The report of the Helena assay Of.
fee for the month of September shows
a large increase in gold receipts, com.
pared with the corresponding month
of last year. Fergus county leads the
list OF contributors with S51, GAL, and
Chouteau county comes second, with
S47,
Emil Schmid, of Chinook, was con-
sulting with the county authorities
yesterday regarding the action of new
settlers in fencing up public roads in
the vicinity of Chinook. The new ar.
rivals appear to be Indifferent to the
Inconvenience caused by such action,
and it may require official regulation
by the public authorities.
Miss Blackstone, county school su.
p~erintendent, has been notified that a
special round trip rate of one fare
and one-third will be made by the
Great Northern for teachers attending
Der Is, 10 and 20. Selling dates will
be October 10 to 20 inclusive, final
return limit October %. Teachers will
purchase full fare tickets to Havre,
taking a receipt for same, and upon
the receipt being endorsed by the sec.
rotary of the institute it will entitle
the owner to return trip at one.third
fare.
From Fridays Daily