Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1911-08-11

IN crop, ana 1t Will 90 ANYBODY ROO0
to walk out there and look the farm
over. This item was written Sunday
after visit to the farm. The hail
Monsay did some damage to the crop,
possibly one-third.l
DON'T FORGET that every
Saturday" is Boosters Day-the day
to write your friends boosting MOn-
tana. 3S-4l
II. ID. Jones is again back on the
job at the Montana lumber yards in
this city, and it looks like old times
around that busy place once more.
AS lumber man or all around good
fellow, Jones cannot be beaten.
Misses Ruth and Helen Tenney
came in from Great Falls Saturday
and will spend several weeks on the
ranch near Oxford. Their uncle,
Thomas Tenney of DeSota. Wis, is
here on a visit with the family, and
is very mnch pleased with the corn-
try.
Steps will soon be taken in pre-
liminary way for the third birthday
celebration in Judith Gap to be held
that sufficient funds can be collected
to make this celebration the biggest
affair ever pulled off in Central Mon
tana.
Emil Bragg went to Helena Tues
day to pass the examination as engi-
neer Of II portable steam rig and went
through with flying colors, returning
home Friday. Mr.. Bragg will have
charge of the w. IL. Peck threshing
rig this fall.
G. e. Stayton has one of the finest
flax fields to be found in this part of
Montana, and the yield promises to
be 20 bushels or over. The hail
Monday did not do this field much If
any damage, as is evidenced by the
fine sample brought to the Journal
office Tuesday.
W. w. Brant, vice president Of the
First National bank Of Harvey. n.
d., was in the city Monday and Tues.
day looking over the country. He,
in company with j. A. Nickel, paid a
visit to Lewistown Monday, and was
very much pleased with the metropo-
lis Of the Judith Basin. Mr.. Brant
left on No. - Tuesday for his home
i'll North Dakota.
G. l.. Parsons was in town Monday
enroute to his farm west of the city,
where he attended to business mat
tiers, before returning to the Gregory
and Parsons ranch east of Straw.
Mr.. Parsons, who is one of the best
professional trap shooters OH the con-
tinent, is making arrangements to
participate in the shooting tourna-
ment that will be held in the extreme
southern states commencing the first
Of October.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. S. Stone and
daughters, Miss Edith and Mrs. Geo.
5. Haynes, spent June in Portland,
Oregon. attending the Rose carnival.
\ part of July was spent at Long
Beach, Washington, a very beautiful
summer resort. Miss Edith remained
in Seattle while the remainder of the
party arrived in Judith Gap on No.
"A, Sunday. MIR. and Mrs. Stone will
visit in this city for several weeks
before returning to their home in
COmstOck, Neb.
August Peterson, president of the
Security State Bank of Judith Gap,
arrived here Friday from Harvey,
North Dakota. Mr.. Peterson has nu-
merous banks in North and South Da-
kota all of which do an extensive
farm loan business through an east
ern connection. Every year Mr.. Pet
ersOn visits each bank and looks af-
ter the loans made in the interest Of
his eastern clients. The bank here
has loaned slOO,OOO ON farms in the
Judith Gap district and he is very
well pleased with the loans made.
He says this section of the country is
absolutely the best he has visited in
his travels this season, and is very
enthusiastic over it's future. He be-
lieves this is the coming agricultural
territory of the United States, and
will give the eastern investor a glow
ing account of its tremendous posi-
bilities. He does not believe the
Montana farmer will ever have any
trouble in raising money on his prop
erty now that its earning capacity
has been completely demonstrated.
Mr.. Peterson predicts great future
for Judith Gap as commercial GEN.
ter, and will do all in his power to
help make it grow.
TO illustrate the development in an
agricultural way of the territory tri-
butary to Judith Gap in the last two
wears Rooro g. Havnoc Loot voor