Fergus County Democrat., 1911-07-25

Anderson & Miller were last week
awarded the contract for excavating
for the new Presbyterian church
building on the corner of Fifth avenue
and Watson street. They have had
big force of men and teams at work
for several days and nave the job
about completed.
Wheat, bran, wheat middlings, at
all Montana Elevator Co.'s elevators.
The cheapest and best feed. 5-9-tf
Anyone desiring one of the catalog
and premium lists of the eighteenth
annual county fair, to be held in
Lewistown August IA to 18, can get
same by applying at this office.
Ewes on Shares-We have young
breeding ewes to put out on shares
for one year from October 1, 1911,
with responsible parties. Write us
for further information. ]. B. Long
e Co., Great Falls, Mont Taft
D. G. Payne, who has an office at
the Hoffman, is advertising a large
line of engines and machinery at very
low prices, and anyone desiring any
thing in this line will do well to see
him.
For Sale-One 35-horsepower Ad-
vance engine, with three 4-bottom IL
inch double plows; in excellent con-
dition; will sell cheap and give rea-
sonable terms. o. w. Belden, Lew
istoWn, Montana. Aft
German Lutheran services will be
held at the Presbyterian church, In
this city, next Sunday at 8 o'clock p.
m. The Rev. Henry T. Rauh, of Bill
ings, will preach, and all Germans in
the city and vicinity are cordially in
vited to be present.
The Christian churches of the
Basin held picnic near the Sam
Powell place, on Ross Fork, last Sun
day. A number Of interesting ad-
dresses were made and most
pleasant time was enjoyed by the
large crowd present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Weaver will
leave Lewistown Immediately after
the county fair for California by auto.
They will go through Washington and
Oregon and take their time for the
trip, until they land in the southern
end of the flower state, where the
winter will be spent.
H. J. Kelly, of the Democrat office,
and son, William, left last Thursday
morning for the Bitter Root Valley
where Harry will spend few days
visiting old friends. William will re-
main over there during the summer
and when he gets action on tree
full of those famous sweet cherries,
expects to demonstrate the fallacy of
the scientific statement that the
!, human stomach has capacity of only
one quart Mrs. Kelly and the other
children will go over later in the sea.
son.
The big canvas wall 10 feet high
. and 1900 feet long, which was re
Gently ordered by the Lewistown
Colts base ball team, is expected tc
, arrive the latter part of this week
and when it is put up, the Colts will
have capacious grounds almost in the
: heart of the city. Seats are being
: put up and the diamond will soon be
in first-class condition. The Colts
have been practicing faithfully anG
are now about ready to show the peo
pie of Lewistown just what they car
do on the diamond. 1t is highly prob
able that they will arrange some sor
of a game for next Sunday. Thu
Colts are endeavoring to get five
year lease on the Scott block o
ground on Buckskin Flat and if the.
succeed, Lewistown may be able t
support a fast ball team, as the hun
dreds of fans are now kept away from
the games owing to the distance o
the fair grounds from the city.
Barney Hedigan, who, in 1906, wa
sent to the state penitentiary from
this county to serve a sentence Q
eight years for horse stealing, me
with a fatal accident while workin
with a prison gang on a public roa
in Sanders county last "Wednesday
Hedigan left his place of security to
| quickly after a big blast of dynamit
had been exploded and rock struc
him in the head, fracturing his skull
| from which he died few hours latel
Hedigan recently applied to the boar
of pardons for pardon and his al
plication was to have been heard q
August 4. He has been mode
prisoner and would doubtless hav
soon secured his liberty, an additions
six-year sentence having already bee
remitted by the governor. Despit
his wayward career, Hedigan ha
many acquaintances in this vicinit
who regret to hear of his untimel
and tragic death.