The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-10-12
CITY AND STATE,

From Wednesdays Daily
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
A. W. Miller and Chas. Brown, OF
Standpoint, Ida, we're among the ar.
rivals today.
H. J. Toomey, the Deer Lodge live.
stock dealer, is among the business
visitors in town.
Mrs. H. L. Russell was taken to the
Fort Benton Sanitarium today, for
medical treatment.
The public schools will take q vaca.
ton until Monday, the teachers being
required to attend the county institute
which meets at Hsvre tomorrow.
Among the departures today were
Mrs. E. Nj. Porter and Mrs. E. Frank
Sayre, their destination being Ocam.
pc, Mexico, where they will make an
extended visit.
w. T. Bowles, of the Bowles Live.
stock Commission company, is inter.
viewing q of beef and mutton
shipments that are being loaded for
the Chicago market.
There vas q busy time at the local
etocky ards today. several outfits of
beef and mutton being loaded for the
Chicago market. The shipments in.
Guided fi%fty.three cars of cattle and
several care of sheep.
The town of Hinsdale was threatened
with partial destruction by fire Mon.
day, but considerable property was
saved by the skillful use OF a small
chemical engine. There was q loss of
about S15, 600. in the burning of q
livery stable, general merchandise
store and hotel.
A delegation of local residents will
leave tonight for Chinook, to attend
the Chouteau County Fair, tomorrow
having been designated by the man.
agement as Fort Benton day. The
party will be accompanied by the
newly organized town band, which
will assist in i~mparting gayety and
melody to the occasion.
A news item from Twin Bridges says
several ranchmen in that vicinity have
recently lost dairy cows from alfalfa
bloat. The trouble occurred after the
animals had partaken Of q quantity Of
damp erase which had been frosted,
dry grass having no bad effect. The
animals blosted up almost immediate.
ly and unless relief was at hand died
within q short time. About thirty
head Of dairy stock valued at from
$50 to $75 a head have been lost from
this cause.
From Thursdays Daily.
Born, at Carter, Mont, on October
S, 1910, to the wife of w. S. Earle, q
daughter. .
Hans Engellant left yesterday for
Chicago, where he will spend several
weeks and then go to Germany for the
winter.
w. K. Harder and daughter, Nora,
are among the large crowd of Fort
B%entonites who are today taking in
the sights of the Chinook fair.
Mrs. James Hansen, wife of the
popular teller of the Stockmen's Ma.
tional bank, and daughter arrived
this morning and will make their home
in this city.
Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Frank
of Zortmsn, was brought to
the Fort Benton Sanitarium this
morning to receive treatment for q
shoulder.
A railroad employe by the name of
E q atz Horvath, was u over in the
railroad yards at Havre yesterday
and sustained fractures of the hip and
nose. The injured man was brought
to the S%anitarium this morning.
A big bunch of beef cattle belong.
ing to several Highwood ranchmen
we're forded across the river from the
south side this afternoon, and driven
10 the stocky ards, from where they will
be shipped to Chicago tomorrow.
There 10 about a trainload in the ship.
w. E. Moore, of Phillips burg, hav.
ing failed to qualify, Albert J. Galeu
has appointed w. S. Towner, of Fort
Benton, as his third assistant, says
he Helena Record. Mr.. Towner is a
veil known barrister OF the former
head of navigation, and is we'll known
Helena.
Superintendent j. w. Lenning, of
he Fort Benton public schools, has
occurred the services of Miss Bertha
Roberts, of Kansas, as an additional
escher for the eighth grade. Miss
0herts ia a graduate of the Kaneos