The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-19
LOCAL DIARY

MIS-. JONI SuIVdllC Will cIlUcIldlu
the Ladies' Aid Society tomorrow
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. George Clark and baby, of
Zortman, are visiting relatives and
friends in this city.
Mrs. Edward Kirby and Mrs. East
man of Zortman, visited Mrs. John
L. Merchant during the past week.
Lee illegal of Devils Lake, N. d.,
reached Malta Sunday and is visiting
with friends in and about Malta this
week.
H. H. Holmes of the Great Falls
outfit near Ashfield was in Malta
Tuesday buying supplies and attend
ing to other business matters.
FOR SALE
A large heating stove, almost new,
for wood or soft coal. Inquire of the
ladies of the Altar Society of the
Catholic Church,
E. Miller of Madison Lake, Mimi,
arrived in Malta Tuesday night and
will soon file ON land near town. Mr..
Miller, who is friend of Charles
Southwick, is blacksmith, and for
the present will be found the North
Side Shop.
DR.. j. A. Stauffer, the government
veterinary inspector for Northern
Montana, with offices at Havre, died
at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls,
May 18th, his ddath resulting from
an operation performed about a
month before his death.
On account of the heavy down pour
of rain last Sunday afternoon, Rev.
II. G. COWan did not hold services
at the Straiter school house northeast
of Malta. Now the date for holding
services has been postponed to Sun
day afternoon, at 200 O'Clock, June
Both.
Quite reception was rendered
Bishop Brewer and Rev. Leonard J.
Christler by st. Mary's Guild last
Wednesday afternoon at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. r.. V. Tucker.
There was an unusually large number
present and the time spent in de-
lightful and profitable manner.
Ms. Chas. Morton and little daugh
OF
worth, Wis, who have been visiting
Mrs. Edw. White for several weeks,
left Malta for home last Friday morn
ing. They will go as far as Fergus
Falls, Mimi. where Miss Huber will
visit for awhile. Mrs. Morton will
be met by Mr. Morton at Minneapo-
lis with his new auto and they will
motor across the country to ELS
worth, Wis.
The news that prices advanced in
the London wool market the past
week had stimulating effect upon
the Boston dealers, and their agents
in Montana and other western states
were instructed to get busy and make
as many contracts as possible. The
result of this activity is the closing of
several deals, in Northern Montana
in which there was a deadlock be-
tween the buyers and sheepmen, the
price showing an advance over that
previously offered.
Most of the wool clips in this sec
ton have been contracted to Boston
buyers, at prices ranging from 20 to
81 cents.
A recent dispatch from Boston says
a buying fever in wool is apparent
1t is more in evidence in those sec
tions where wool is to be obtained in
quantity than seabOrd markets, where
only casual supplies are available
reports from the growing sections in.
dictate that the competition of buyers
is greater than at any previous perio(
since the enactment of the DINGHY
duties on WOOL
The election Of President Mckinley
in 1896 was followed by a scramble
for wool because of the certainty OF
tariff tax upon the product. The
present fever is due to threatened
shortage in supply at the mills. II
necessarily indicates greater de.
mand for manufactured goods than
generally has been supposed to exist.