The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-10
CITY AND STATE.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
q. Jappe, q we'll known resident of
Big Sandy, was among the arrivals
today.
Oscar Johnston, who has been busy
harvesting his dry land farming crops
on Arrow creek, is among the visitors
in town.
J. a. Patterson and bride returned
today from an eastern trip, and are
receiving the congratul atoms of their
friends.
M. F. Pugsley, who has extensive
livestock interests in the northern
part Of the county, arrived today on
q short business visit.
The high school football team has
accepted an invitation to play the
Chinook boys Saturday, November
6, the game to be played at Chinook.
The opera house management 40.
nounce that three rows of seats in
the rear of the hall will be 75.cent
seats At the entertainment tomorrow
evening, and seats in the gallery at
so cents.
Declarations Of their intention to
become American citizens have been
filed in the district court by James
Robertson, Of Chester, q native of
Scotland, and James Mcintosh and
P. Claustre, natives of Canada.
The report of Observer G. W. Ling,
for the month of October, shows q
normal temperature for the month
and q shortage of precipitation. The
rainfall during the month was only
one.fourth of ar inch, or about. one.
third Of the average for October.
Among the documents fled in the
county clerks Office today vas q sher-
IFS deed to E. G. Ramsey for the 81.
b. Nelson ranch property, which is
located partly in Choutesu county and
partly In Cascade. The property con.
sists Of about 1000 acres, and was
sold under foreclosure proceedings.
In compliance with q law enacted by
the eleventh Legislative assembly,
Friday, November s, will be observ. d
as Pioneer Day by the public schools.
1t will not be a holiday, but exercises
will be held at 2 O'Clock Friday after.
moo ia the assembly Don of the
school house. At the close of
the program the children will
march to the Old Fort park, where an
address and flag raising exercises will
be given under the auspices of the
Ladies' Improvement society. The
public is invited to attend and assist
In paying tribute to the work Of Mon
tana pioneers.
From Thursdays Daily.
Harry B. Dickinson, of Knerville,
is among the visitors in town.
A marriage license has been issued
at Helena to Marvin P. Jones, a we'll
known resident Of Chinook, and Har-
riet 2. Gelder, of Helena.
The marriage Of John E. Kane and
Inez c. Bodley, of Ravre; took place
at Great Falls yesterday, Justice w.
II. Stafford performing the ceremony.
Mrs. Peterson Of the Shonkin, is
under the care of a physician for in.
juries sustained in a runaway acct,
dent. The patient suffered a broken
leg and other injuries.
There have been heavy shipments of
northern Montana beef to the Chicago
market the past few days, seventeen
traiuloads having been billed over the
Great Northern the past week.
The public ~aag.raising ceremony at
the Old Fort park will take place to-
morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The
general public 10 invited to take part
in this feature of the Pioneer Day cell
ebration.
Charles r. Kleber and George Bur
roaghs, of Garden Prairie, Ill.,, who
we're among the arrivals from the
a today, are looking over govern
ment land in this vicinity with a view
TO locating homesteads.
The Fort Benton high school foot
ball team is being kept busy with chal.
lenges from various quarters. It will
play the Chinook team on November
6: the Great Falls team on November
l3: and is arranging for a game with
the Havre boys at an early date.
A Washington dispatch says the
secretary of the interior has approved
the plat of a survey Of the townsite OF
Poplar in Fort Peck Indian reserva-
ton in Montana, under the act of
congress of May 80, 1908, providing
for the survey and the allotment of