Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-06-03

that the citizens believe it is better to
conine their celebration efforts to
! September Is, IL and 17-Judith Gaps
big days of 1910.
The Missouri commissioner of labor
has issued statistics that the "show
me- state last year turned out "Mis-
souri, meerschaum' corn cob pipes
valued at $3.50, pos. 1t took l4.OOO,-
Oon cobs to make the bowls, and about
l4,ooo, GOO feet Of reed for the stems,
\. y. Nelson made business trip
to llarlowton Monday, returning
! Tuesday. Mr.. Nelson reports bust
hess as increasing from week to week
/ For example, he is using three times
the amount of provisions now as he
dld two months ago when first open
lh2 the restaurant.
During the past year hundreds of
/ act tai settlers have filed on land south
OF the >nowies, which they discovered
t" be Il decidedly rich territory
1 equally as fertile as land nearer the
Great Northern. In Il few years that
district will either have through
railroad or !, branch line, making it
! possible to easily market the diff erent
products.
Rev. j. $. StroWell. congregational
pastor for Dorsey. Martinsdale. New
>IaWmut and Ryegate, was ia Il
city the first Of the week visiting with
! his friend and former scnoomate.
Etv. b. Il. A,,elian. Monday even
ing these eStimable gentlemen decided
t. st.oll over to the Little Belts. IN
! walking rapidly they accomplished
the trip in slightly more than three
/ hours.
\ President Selvidge Of TIE Billings
Chamber Of Commerce has received a
letter from the Montana Railroad
commission il which they state that
\ the rail connection between the Mil
i Wauker and the Great Northern Al
, judith Gap will be made 1T once. The
I connection has been delayed on ac-
4 y
tails between the two railroad com
I panieS, which is now settled.
\ journal reporter overheard the
4 following conversations: ~ never
4 saw a prettier stretch Of country.
! Why, that bench must be four miles
wide and twelve miles long, and it is
dotted with The homes OF hundreds of
progressive settlers. OF course the
comparative area Of plowed land is
small, but what is in crop looks like
a tat bank account" The gentleman
4 III question was speaking of the bench
commencing about two and Il half
miles southwest OF the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Hanson arriv-
ca in the city Wednesday from their
ranch near Mill, returning yester-
day. Hans reports his twenty acres
OF flax all up and on the way To the
granery.
4 Texas congressman eulogiZing his
state the other day said: "Gentlemen
believe me, if all the hogs raised in
Texas in one year We're made into one
hog, it would dig the Panama Canal
with three roots. and without single
grunt. Ii all the cattle raised in Ten
as in one year We're made into one
| great steer, it could eat all the her.
bage Oh the continent at one mouth
! full, dlslodge the stars in their heav-
enly armament with its horns and side
swipe the aurora borealis with its
tail
Mrs. Gertrude Davidson of Ada,
Mimi, who during the past week has
been visiting at the home OF her
! brother, II. l.. Bills, left yesterday
for Casselton, \. D., where she will
spend several weeks with relatives.
Mrs. 4. Engberg and daughter.
Miss Thora Lowner, Of Great Falls.
visited the first of the week in this
city with Miss Ethel Engberg, Il
daughter of Mrs. Engberg.
Misses Norma LutZ and Helen Nc
Laughlin visited friends at the Gap
! Wednesday,. Miss Mclaughlin has
just returned from Helena, where she
has been attending the Wesleyan uni
versity.
Albert Peterson wore an unusually
broad smile during the week. An in
vestigation disclosed the fact that Il
boy was born to Mr.. ard Mrs. Peter
son at the home OF Mrs. Peterson's