The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-01-15

ii. w. Peasley returned this week |
from trip to Spokane, Wallace and
other places.
| Quite number of the nearby ranchers
are hauling wood to town this winter and
disposing of it to local consumers. Prices
this year range from So to 81. 80 per cord.
Quite crowd of Whitefsh people at
tended the dance on Saturday night at
the Round Prairie school house, south ot
town. The trip was made with sleghs.
Every boy and girl in Whitetish who
is old enough to write should get inter-
ested in The Pilots news item contest
Prizes in this contest will be given every
week.
A bill prohibiting the sale of liquor for
25 years on the Fort Peck Indian reser-
walton has been introduced in the senate
by Senator Dixon at the request of prac-
tically every male adult on the reserva-
ton.
Whitetish lake froze over the latter
part of last week, during the storm.
Usually there is good skating when the
lake first freezes, but the snow storm
which prevailed while the ice was form
ing spoiled it for the lovers of this sport.
, Ed McConvile received a letter from
Judge Jos. Reed Monday, sent from st.
, Joseph, Mo-, and stating that the writer
was about to leave for Chicago, where he
would stay for IL couple OF weeks The
Judge did not state when he would re-
: turn home.
The Montana Larch and Pine Manu-
| facturers' association met in kalispcll on
Tuesday, according to the Inter Lake,
and among other business transacted a
resolution was adopted declaring in favor
of local option, aud pledging support to
the movement against the saloon.
Envoy F. C. Gardner was in town the
first of the week from Butte soliciting
subscriptions for the Salvation Army.
< Mr.. Gardner states that the army expects
/. to establish barracks at kalispell in the
near future to handle the work in this
. section of the country
Among the Whitetish people who at
, tended the funeral in kalispell on Mon
o day of little Bernice Doonan We're DR..
and Mrs. H. f. Houston, Mr.. and Mrs
r. W. Larter, Mrs. A. T. Lees, Mrs. w.
A. Jones, Mrs. c. H. Brawley, Mrs. J.
: G. Riach and Edward Tenner.
Mr. and Mrs. H. f. Doebler returned
Saturday from Cannon Falls, Mimi.
where they spent the holiday season witt
relatives and friends. On their return
d trip they We're unfortunate enough to be
s. in the wreck near Hinsdale, and receivel
severe shaking up.
N Fred B. Grinnell, president OF TIN
y Whitetish Townsite Co., went through
here Sunday on his way to his home il
~ Spokane after a trip to New York an'
N other eastern points. Mr.. Grinnell state
that prosperity is much more evident II
the west than in the east at present.
a. The depot lunch room and restaurant
private dining room, Chas. Schetter
manager Our place the cleanest; on
lie service excellent; our meals the best
y our coffee can't be beat; our prices ar
Is. right. We lead, others try to follow
at 81. 80 cash buys S.. 90 meal book. Civ
re us call.
IL Good progress is being made in tn
Whitefsh public schools, according It
at all reports, under the principalship c
tn Prof. II. l.. Gloyde, who is aided by a
he able corps of teachers. The district
also fortunate in having competer
=. school board, the members of which tax
Al, an interest in the work.
Ter Brother Frank Tallman, editor of tn
Miner, takes the wind out of The Pilot
~, sails this week by digging up and pull
u fishing an expression which this news
: paper once used, and which referred t
the Flathead valley as the banana belt {
the northwest With the thermomete
M 10 degrees below zero, this was stun
las ming blow.
of
70 All appearances indicate that White
fish will be "handed a bunch" in til
m county division plans at Helena, if tson
he of the schemers aud townsite booster
he have their way. 1t is reported that Tho,
'rk D. Long, senator from this county, hs
or largely influenced the naming of the con
to mittee on counties, and it is suppose
that he favors the Eureka plans, whic
. would put Whitetish in a corner.
II Ct. w. Avery has interested himself r.
81 Gently in securing government weath'
y reports for Whitetish, and the arrang
n ments have practically all been con