Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-29


he was almost unconscious and was
carried to the passenger train and
returned to his home in Billings.
The government is collecting $685.
900 from LewistOwn residents for
lumber purchased by them from To-
cal sawmills which secured the logs
from government lands years ago.
Murray Jaeger, the station agent,
and John V. Danielson, section fore
man, both Of Hedges, came to Judith
Gap Tuesday evening and filed OH two
fine hOmesteads near the townsite.
yesterday Old Winter tried hard to
assert his rights, but he showed UNI
mistakable evidence of having Il SER
iOus kink in his back, indicating that
his spinal column is pretty we'll shat
tered.
About a million pounds of wool
have already been contracted to be
delivered to eastern parties by the To-
cal wool growers from this seasons
clip. The contract price has been ~
cents.
SANKEY'S dray team became fright
ened at the approach Of the passenger
train Friday and started to run away.
The horses slipped on the ice at the
depot and fell OH each other, breaking
the harness, but otherwise no damage
was done.
Rev. John Ross, Of Sand Coulee,
Mont, and Miss Nettie Shells, Miss
Jennie Rodham, Miss Margaret Neill,
Mr.. and Mrs. Brewington and Mr..
Widowtield, all came down from Gar
nell Tuesday to enjoy few hours in
metropolitan Judith Gap.
1t is reported upon good authority
that Ill opera house will be built at
Judith Gap in the near future. Other
new buildings are being planned for
that live town which has an ambition
of becoming one of the distributing
centers of the state. = LewistOwn
Daily News.
On the first of the month the two
noon passenger trains OIL the "Jaw-
bone" will be taken off until the first
of March. At that time, it is re-
ported, the trains will be restored
but under a different schedule, arriv-
ing and departing out of Lewistown
during the night.
The Milwaukee railroad is boosting
the Judith Gap country by illustrated
lectures throughout the eastern states.
Reports from the immigration de-
partment of that road are to the effect
that tremendous immigration to the
Judith Basin can be looked for this
spring and summer.
The Milwaukee has decided to drop
the name of TIBET and substitute
therefore Judith Gap. This is the
first intimation Judith Gap people
have had that the Milwaukee has Il
friendly feeling for the town. Now
if the officials will make the connec-
ton at the Y, everybody will take a
trip to Lewistown, just to swell the
passenger receipts of that road.
William Agnew, the hot tomato
man, began his rounds last Thursday
night and the way he made the welkin
ring with his loud announcements
gave Judith Gapa metropolitan flavor
that wasn't expected SO soon. But
Bill is doing good business and
promises to erect Il brick block with
his profits, so everybody is eating
red-hOts all night long.
The crew that has been placing the
special machinery in the Great Nor
thern shops were called off Wetnes-
day to place mile and signal posts be-
tween here and Laurel. This work
will require several days, when their
work in the round house will be re-
sumed. The way the road is being
fixed up between Laurel and Great
Falls would indicate that the fast
trains will be put OH sooner than ex-
pected.
At the commercial club meeting
last Monday night, the constitution
and bylaws were adopted. A board
of trustees consisting of five members.
two of whom shall be the president
and secretary, was created and the
president appointed Messrs. Lackey,
Skeen and Hanson to fill the vacancy
until the next regular monthly meet
ing, next Monday night, at which
time the trustees will be elected by
the club.
AT THE COUNTY SEAT