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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Will Be In Malta July 26th

Twenty-Five machines entered i'm
the Dispatch Trophy Tour from the
Twin City to Helena left Minneapo-
lis this morning at 700 O'Clock for
the long overland trip to Helena,
which they are scheduled to reach
Friday, July 2s.
The tour is made up of many feat
ures which will make it unique in re-
liability run history of the country.
The arrangements for the trip are
elaborate and all are perfected. For
the first time hotel train will be on
hand to care for the tourists, the
plan has been thought of before but
never tried. a Great Northern train
of sleepers, diners and baggage cars,
carrying with it $50 passengers at
regular rates, will follow the route
of the tour and will serve as q cafe
and sleeper to the tourists at con-
trolls. The tourists and speci ial
train expect to be here July 26.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

Millen Lodge

If you will travel ten miles to the
northwestward of Malta you will find
a part of the wilderness is rapidly
responding to the inroads of progress
and cultivation. There a number of
courageous people coming from COM
Portable city homes of refinement
have ventured to brave the hardships
and deprivations of pioneer life and
establish new homes, less comfort
able than the old ones, with a deter
mination to cheerfully adapt them
selves to environment and to grow
with the country-to win out i'm the
race for health, happiness and prom
inence in this "great inland empire" :"
DR.. Jas. D, Millen, and Mrs. Mill
en-, their two sons, Wilford and Regi-
nald, and Mrs. Millen's father,
William Redmond, all from Winona,
Mimi, who were attracted to mar
velous Montana Il year ago, located
OH four homesteads, comprising an
area Of 1880 acres, have four claims
of 320 acres each. With them it is
not to be simply satisfied with large
number of acres, but they have al
ready number of substantial i'm
provements made. Besides the four
houses. there has been five miles of
fencing made, the rocks have been
cleaned from many acres, barns built
and two hundred acres OF ground
broken up, and an expensive effort
made to tap the veins of Mother
Earth and secure water but in this
they were unsuccessful and are haul
ing water distance of two miles. a
gasoline plowing outfit has been used
to good advantage Oh the claims.
One hundred and fifty acres of flax,
fifteen acres Of oats, ten acres of corn,
and a few acres each of alfalfa,
timothy. potatoes and garden truck
tell the story Of the effort made this
| season and everything soWn has put
forth a luxuriant growth and promises
a good yield. Is there not a wealth
OF snggestiveness for others i'm
crowded cities should they learn of
this colony at Millen Lodge?
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Watch Malta Grow

II. ID. CoonS southwest Of town, is
building a house on his homestead; :;
j. b. Grimsley is building an addi-
ton to his dwelling on Sun Prairie:
p. O. Field is erecting a cottage on
his honest cad on the North Bench;
and Miss Kenyon is improving her
homestead northeast of town by
building a house on it. The Thomp-
son Lumber Co. has supplied the
material for the above mentioned
improvements. This is an indica-
ton of how the country is grow ing.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Gun Club Organized

Pursuant to notice a number of ell
thusiastic sportsmen assembled at
Malta last Saturday afternoon and
organized The Milk River Valley
Gun Club. A motion for temporary
organization was made and carried.
Harry Cosner was elected temporary
chairman, and L. E. Crutcher, tenn
porary secretary. On motion Il. E.
Crutcher, A. G. Arnot, and G. E.
Braoadbrooks were appointed COM
mittee OH bylaws and permanent Or
ganization. On motion the meeting
adjourned until seven O'Clock p. m.
! At eight o'clock p. M, the meeting
re-conyened, at which time the by
laws prepared by the committee
were read and duly adopted.
| The committee also recommended
that Harry Cosner be elected as
president and John A. Tressler as
secretary of said organization for the
ensuing year, which recommendation
was put in the form of motion, and
carried, Harry Cosner being elected
president and John A. Tressler,
secretary.
| Mr.. Wallace of Saco, was duly
elected as treasurer.
The president was authorized to
appoint one member of the club in
each town to solicit members and
collect the membership fee, and the
following named persons were ap-
pointed: Ed. Sweatman, Glasgow;
G. E. .Broadbrooks, Saco; E. Sklower.
Malta; DIR. w. M. Williams, Harlem,
and DR.. Mckenzie, Havre.
Harry Cosner, II. +. Eline and j.
NJ. Brayton, were elected as a build
ing committee, with full authority to
prepare plans and specifications, let
contracts, and have entire super
vision of the erection of any and all
buildings for the use of the club, also
to have power to equip the said build
ings.
Harry Cosner, G. Il. Broadbrooks
and Mr.. Wallace were chosen as a
committee to select the site upon
which the buildings Of the club are
to be erected.
Mr.. Wallace, was instructed to
have 200 membership cards, and 2O(
visitors cards printed for the club.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
New Babies

The stork after lowering about the
Munson Hospital alighted Sunday
and presented Mr.. and Mr.. Ira +. l..
Coggeshall of Brookside, with II
pound boy. The boy, Ira Francis,
Jr., is thriving, Mrs. Coggeshall is
getting along nicely and Mr.. Cog
geshall looks a tritle taller.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dyerdahl of
Lovejoy are the happy parents of a
boy which arrived at their home last
Sunday.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

Glacier National Park. to Lake NIcDon-
aid.
From the station the road leads across
the Flathead River and through virgin
forest of pine, spruce and cedar. to the
foot of Lake Mcdonald, where Sl5 .OOO. 90
administration building is being erected.
A force of about sevcnty-tiv five men are
now at work cutting down the timber
and blasting out the stumps on the trail,
preparing the way for the graders This
work will be commenced within week
and will be followed by the macadamiz-
ing and surfacing 1t is proposed to have
the road completed by July 18th, when
tourists begin to arrive at the park.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Don't forget the celebration-July

Don't forget the celebration-July
&C.
William Gordon, Of Saco, is visit
ing in Malta this week. Mr. Gordon
finished shearing last Friday.
Shoes, good, better, best-s2.75 to
5000 at Edwards & McLellan's.
Try a so lb. sack of Occident flour.
Your money back if it does not prove
all we claim for it. Malta Mere. Co.
Miss Marie Tunelius, one of the
$40 homesteaders south of town, is
the new stenographer at Attorney
j A. Tressler' office.
Keen Kutter Hardware at Edwards
& Mcclellan $.
Mrs. Tom Mcdonald returned
Sunday from Helena where She had
undergone an operation at the hospi-
tai. She is much improved.
Keen kutter Pocket Knives at Ed
wards & McIellan's.
Mrs. r.. Y. Tucker and daughter,
Miss Grace, left Saturday for St.
Paul, where the latter who has been
i'll for so me time, viii take medical
treatment.
"Chore Boy" Gasolene Engines
are winners at Edwards 4 Nc
LeIlan IS.
If you are contemplating thres.
ing outlt, let us tell you about the
Avery ndermolmted Engine and
yellow Fellow Separator. Malta
Mercantile Co.
Charles J. Hickman returned sat
urday morning after two weeks
stay in Glasgow. lie left Malta
again Monday morning to trail some
horses to Swift Current, Canada.
The kind for comfort-Leader
Shirts and Underwear, at Edwards
e. McLellan's.
Henry Rhode of Baeth, heir of Ru-
dolph Rhode, deceased, made final
proof on desert land entry last Fri
day, before U. s. Commissioner II. +.
W. BrockWay,
Obituary-We lost a customer for
Keen kutter tools. He died. Ed
wards ana Mcclellan.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Autoists in Malta July 26.

AUtOiStS III Malta July 26.
Mrs. M. Greenman Of Wagner, was
in town last Saturday.
Mrs. OFT Casady was at Hinsdale
the latter part of the past week.
Buy your pumps, pipes and fitting S
from Edwards & Mcclellan.
The best fitting and wearing corset
made is the Memo Sold by Kill
duff.
Sincerity Suits for men $3.50 to
$50 at Edwards & Mcle]lan's.
Mrs. M. j. Larson and little
daughter, Helen Of Dodson, visited
friends in our city Saturday.
Hardware-The Keen Kutter Kind
at Edwards & Mcclellan S.
Mrs. John Iund of Hinsdale, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Tom
Mcdonald, this week.
FIorsheim Shoes for men at Ed
wards & McLellan's.
A complete stock of Edison phono-
graphs and records. Malta Drug
Store.
Ask us our price on a Curtis
Stacker. We will surprise you.
Malta Mercantile Co.
Talk with Carruth at Hayre for
your land office information. He
can get it for you on quick time.
Mrs. Eugene Laird and little
daughter left Saturday for Seattle
where they will visit indefinitely.
Paints and Oils-The famous
Minnesota" at Edwards & M G.
Lellan's.
E. M. Prouty, who has been at
Scanlon, La, for some time past, has
gone to Campbell River, B. c., and
requests The ENTERPRISE sent to his
new address.
M. ID. O'Neal of Wagner, was in
Malta Monday. He returned from
Fort Benton Saturday where he had
been district court juror for the
week, stopping off there on his re-
turn home from Boulder Hot Springs.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

forest at this point that it is impossible
to get a view of the lake until within
200 feet of shore.
Major Logan is giving the work his
personal attention and states that when
the road is completed, it will be one of
the finest roads in any national park in
the country.
The Government has recently installed
a high speed 25foot power boat on Lake
Mcdonald, which enables the Custodian
and his assistants to get in quick COM
munication with the various camps work
ing at different points along the lake on
the many roads and trails which are
under construction.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Good Roads for
Glacier National Park
Government Spending $4,000 Road from Bolton, Mon
to Foot of Lake Mcdonald

The first official entrance to Glacier
National Park Montana. is now being
constructed. Major w. r. Logan, Gus
todian of the Park. is hard at work
With large force of men constructing
about two miles of road from Bolton,
Montana. a small station on the Great
Northern and nearest railway point to
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Don't Trust To Luck

Nor expect Something to Turn
Up'' in contest" Act in the Liv-
ing Present. and don't loaf on the
job if you expect to win a $3.50. 90 pia-
10.
When the poet said, "Trust no fu-
ture, howe pleasant" hemust have
had in mind those procrastinators
who are forever putting things off.
1t was MicaWber in Dickens' DAY.
id Coppertiield, WHO was always
waiting for 'something to turn up
The only way to make things 'turn
up" in a voting contest is to go out
and DIG THEM UP. If Il person
expects to win, they must not expect
to win without some diligent effort.
'"The streets of Bye and Bye lead
to a house called NEN R"-and if
You keep on thinking about getting
busy--the logical outcome will be
that you will think While some wise
candidate is working and getting the
results that will make her winner.
Time is feeting" and time IS the
stuff the contest is made Of, and any
Winner-any one who expects to win
a prize worth while, will have to be
up and doing, and will have to be up
early and doing all the day.
"The dead soul" is the one that
slumbers, and the candidate that is a
real live wire, is wide awake to her
possibilities every minute, and trusts
no future, hoWe'er pleasant, and
goes on the axiom that she has just
so many days, weeks, or hours be-
fore the finish, and wants to make
the best of that time. Act, act. in
the living present-and if you ex-
pect to be winner of the $4,000
Krause Piano, you must act, and act
quickly. TO win in any thing, con-
tests, or Gin the worlds broad field
of BATTLE" you must pay strict at
tention to your job.
Following was the standing of the
several contestants at o'clock p. m.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

Mrs G.. M. Wilkinson and children
and Mrs. Thomas Pierce returned
Tuesday from Saco where they had
been visiting for the past two weeks
at the home CT Mr. and Mrs Harry
Woodard. They left that evening for
Boise, Idaho, where Messrs. Wilkin-
son and Pierce are located and where
they expect to reside in future.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

The timber clearing will be sixty feet
wide; the roadbed proper will be twenty
four feet wide, consisting of a coarse
crushed rock foundation. a fine crushed
rock sub-surface and fine screen gravel
surface.
The road winds and twists through the
forest, following the windings of the out
let Of Lake Mcdonald. So dense is the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
First Thresher Arrives

Hewitt & Pierson shipped j. l.
Case traction engine tIlreshing outfit
into town last week and had an in.
terestiug time unloading it from the
cars. The thresher is now ready TO,
the grain which will be harvested d
a few weeks later.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

The day we celebrate-Ju]y 26.
Harvester whips for sale at b. H.
Koke's.
Atty. Thos. Dignan was in Malta
Saturday as council in the Gorton VS..
Byllesby case.
Lost:-Last Wednesday, between
town and Lyman Barnes ranch, a
]ady's red sweater. Finder please
return to Post Office.
Judge F. n Utter is presiding at
the present term of the district court
at Fort Benton during the temporary
absence of Judge Tattan. Judge
Tattan is at Alhambra Hot Springs,
q we'll known health resort, taking
the first vacation he has enjoyed in
ten years.
Us Commissioner Brockway. J.
M. Brayton,. j. II. Limerick, Robert
McEwen. Miss Hulda Lindgren, j.
Moore, G. S. Rowden, H. M. Kirton,
and W. Waltman wen; to Helena
Monday night as witnesses in the
case of the U. S. Government VS.. r.
M. Reichel.
J}. Z. DEWEY, d. ID. S., of Farm
ington, Minn., who is q graduate of
the Chicago College of Dental Sur
gerry, has decided to locate in Malta
and will have his office in the Ed
ward & Mcclellan building. DR..
Deyney expects to be in readiness
for patients the latter part of next
week,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

Nice. new, nifty neckwear at Ed
wards & McLellan's.
Walter Anderson, lately at Lewis
Wedum' s at Glasgow, is the obliging
young man who has taken position
in the Malta Drug Store.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
YOUR DEBT

You beauty OF
Of your heart
worry the Of
Pay up
You Of r, a+ oo,n,,o* e. a 4
J., u,a,t uo, .o ~ ;ua
80 n,,
- - f"'
- | The pay
You =. ;
AS yo" pay chy rchy snail you
live:
You owe all help that loving be Pay up Pay up!
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

July 26-ss notable day for Malta.
If you buy Sincerity clothes you
get hundred cent run for every
dollar spent. Edwards Il Mcclellan.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Increase of $l,074,685

County Assessor Fox and his depr-
ties have completed their report of
the assessment for 1911 and have sent
a general statement of the assess
ments for the years 1910 and 1911 to
this office. The report shows an i'll
ment for 1910. This increase indi-
Gates q substantial growth of Valley
county.
A few facts in the totals of the as
sessment are worthy Of considera-
ton and the attention of our readers
is called 10 these
No road tax has been placed on the
assessment roll by the office.
The valuation of sheep is 80 cents
per head less this year than last
year.
There is no showing in these fig
ures for this year Of the amount Of
insurance premiums,
Ihe valuation of land per acre ay-
eragas about 80 cents less than last
year.
The Railroad assessment is not in
cluded except for their depots, etc.
The state board completes their as
sessment, The amount assessed by
the state board is by far the largest
amount.
There has been no increase in the
schedule of prices except on some
town lots.
Va luation of property in Valley
County for the y ears of 1910 and 1911:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Isn't He About Right?

An editor of a paper not more than
two thousand miles from our city,
refuses to publish obituary notices OF
people, who, while living, failed to
subscribe for his paper. He states
that people who do not take their
home paper are dead, anyway, and
their mere passing away is Of no real
news value" If this is really the
test there are only two "dead ones
in Malta.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20

Harvest festival and gala day July
,G.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-20
Van Alta Out On Bail

The case of the Town of Malta VS..
Frank Van Alta was tried on the
18th. The jury found him guilty and
fixed the penalty at twenty-five dol
lars. The court rendered Judgment
ON Saturday at the same amount and
committed the defendant to the town
Jail until the fine was paid at two
dollars per day. On Sunday his at
torney, G. Fl. Stevens started for TT.
Benton and on Monday secured a
writ of habeas corpus from Judge
Utter, which will be heard OH the
Goth inst. at Glasgow. In the mean-
time defendant is out on bail. The
contention Of Mr.. Stevens IS that the
ordinance under which the complaint
was made was irregularly passed
and is therefore void. Secondly,
that the ordinance involved does not
prohibit minors resorting to or fire.
quenting saloons.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21
r. B. & B. G. RAILROAD
TIME CARD -
Effective October LIST, 1911.

BELLINGHAM TO LYNDEN
1880 A. NJ. daily except sunday.
1870 p. M. daily except Sunday.
4:3O p. NJ. daily.
500 A. NJ. Sunday only.
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Walter Elder: "Bellingham's Intere st
in our Agricultural School, Mrs. Hy-
ate: Need of Modern Methods and
Equipment for Housewives, MIS-. Har
ry Elder; Recreation vs. Work" Mrs
Bessie Cline.
Professors Blanchard and Nystrom
and Miss Ashby each responded with
lmpromptu and appropriate remarks.
METH. Smith gave che closing coast
THE Fair and the School" His
remarks were we'll chosen and of
great importance, as Lynden is now
the home of the Whatcom county
fair. Mr.. Smith urged the necessity
of the farmers giving the fair and
it's management encouragement and
support He showed that the holding
of the fair annually in our midst is a
! splendid demonstration school Of it
self, as through it the resources nf
the farming communities could best
be brought to the attention OF the
people at home as well as visitos.
And thus did our first Agricultural
school come to a fitting colse. From
the first day that arrangements for
holding the same We're entered in
to between the people of Lynden and
to between the people of Lynden and
the Agricultural College, all took II
deep interest in the same and contrib
uted time and effort to make it n
success. Especially is credit due the
newspapers of the Nooksack valley
for the valuable space given to propa-
ganda work for the school. The
moulders of public opinion at Nook
sack, at Everson. at Ferndale, at SUI
mas, at Blaine, at Acme, all share in
the honor of being helpers in maxi
ing for the Success of the undertaking
And now with hearty and unit ID
c',ort, let us begin to plan md work
the second agricultural school in
| ynden in 1912.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21
F. P. Cruikshank

lation involving heavy appropriations.
Fourth, besides the cost Of the ses-
sion the proposed primary would cost
$4,000 for its operation.
Fifth, the people can express their
preference for president under the
present system by attending the party
caucuses and primaries.
Sixth, while the sentiment in favor
of a presidential preference primary
is almost universal, a great majority
of the people are nevertheless oppos-
ed to an exrta session to provide
such primary.
Seventh. the chairman of the county
central committee have no legal
power to appoint delegates to the
state convention and there is no
danger that they will assume such
power.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21
The PALACE HOTEL
rvunEN WASHINGTON

First Glass Accommodations for the
travelling public. Everything hea
and clean. Centrally located, phone
Rob-,
n. n. STONE, PROPRlEfoR
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LIGHT, HEAT ANDPOWER
Continued from page three.

Continued from page three.
day would come when he could offer
a better service, but that at the pres
ent time he is giving all that the ell
ectric light trade warrants, as many
of the people have not supported the
company by installing and using the
electric lights.
The matter is up to the council, and
will. of course be looked into very
I. oroughly, and considered from an
impersonal and unbiased stand point
Some of our citizens believe thatan
electric light franchise for more than
% years should not be granted any
one, and that provision should be
made whereby after a certain term of
Years, when the system is placed on a
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paying basis, the city receive from t G
corporation a certain per cent of Its
net earnings, as without the use IF
the sttets and alleys no public service
corporation could do business,
Both of these franchises should be
gone over carefully, and both appli-
cants given fair and equitable hear
ing, and this will be done by Lynden'
city council.
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NO EXTRA SESSION

Governor Hay has declined to call
special session of the Legislature
and eiyesthe following reasons for hi;
action:
First, there is no assurance thatthe
legislators would pass a prasidenta
primary Dill in the extra session OF
that they would not take up other
legislation.
Second, a presidential primary bill
was killed at the last session.
Third, the extra session would al
most certainly result in general legis
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21

a, w. LORING. Agent
w. H. sOMERS, Traffic Manager
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21

''Who gets the rest asks Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson in his
annual report to congress and refers
to the differences between what the
farmer gets for his food products and
what the consumer has to pay. The
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21

secretary AYERS that of every dollar
less than fifty cents. IF the Secretary
is offering any prizes for answers he
is likely to have some mall, says
an exchange.
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Dante's Inferno, at the Lynden The
alter next Wednesday and Thursday
nights, December q and 2S, Is sure to
be an exceptional treat.
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r.vrnEf, TO SUMAs

$40 A. M. daily except Sunday.
2:4O p. NJ. daily except Sunday.
9:O5 A. Nj. Sunday only. .
5:35 p. M. Sunday only.
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rvADEr TO BELLrNaHAM

s.Ao NJ daily EXCEPT Sunday. "
1I.o5 A NJ daily except Sundays
sal p. M. daily except Sunday
9:O5 A. M. Sunday only. -
5:35 p. M. Sunday only. ~