The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-05
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

AMONG OUR NEIGHB0RS.
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Havre Promoter: The local postal
savings bank was officially opened for
business last Monday morning. There
were q number Of patrons the fret day
and from all indications this depart
ment will become very popular.
Harlem News: BY unanimous vote
the taxpayers of Harlem on last Sat
urdsy voted to issue bonds 10 the sum
of e33. 800 for the purpose OF installing
. municipality owned waterworks sys'
TEN in Harlem. The city council 10
now making preparations to q advertise
and sell the bonds, after which con-
struction work will begin Immediately.
Inverness Index: One Of the worst
storms of the season appeared about
twenty miles northwest Of Iverness.
along Sage Creek last Thursdsy It
Was . cloudburst aud the water came
down In great quantities. The coulee
and low places were filled, gardens
and grain we're badly beaten down
and one or two dams along Sage Greek
we're broken.
Choteau Acantha: A week ago .
we'll known rsncher stated to the
Acautha that q rain would mean .
difference of ten bushels per acre in
the winter wheat crop. Well, the rain
came Saturday and showers have fol.
lowed nearly every day since. 1t is
up to the rancher to show that extra
ten bushels, and he will have no
trouble in doing 80.
Conrad Observer: There is every
indication of horse thieves in this sec.
ton. Last night about Is head of
stock among which were two young
mules, were taken from the pasture
field of Reden brothers living about
three miles west of town and last Sat-
urday morning q team OF horses be-
longing to r. A.. Earhart was found
missing from q pasture field near
Solid.
Harlem News: The blowing outfit
which constructs the fire guards along
the Great Northern right OF way every
summer passed through Harlem
Thursday, having travelled q distance
of 20 miles that day. Two sets OF
teams and plows are used, one on each
!, side of the track. The outfit is owned
!, by b. N. Nelson Of Wanda ALA, who
has q contract of blowing from
Glasgow to Cutbauk.
Malta Enterprise: Some OF the
finest samples of fax it has been our
pleasure to see this spring were being
shown by Post Master Garland last
Saturday. They were taken from q
fourteen acre field which promises to
J yield abundantly on his Roseda ale
! ranch near town. From the blossoms
, on the plants to the roots some of the
, stalks measured nineteen inches and
, all were very strong and thrifty.
, Shelby News: If We had rain up tc
last press day, We have certainly had
some since. Beginning Friday even
! ing and continuing far into Saturday
night, with but q brief respite or two.
a the flood gates are again opened and
+ the country completely flooded. Tht
rain was quite general over the coun
try and conditions for the seeding o
fall grains will certainly be all tina
, could be desired. In the canyon lead
ing to the Marias bridge, all OF tn
email bridges we're washed away.
Conrad Observer: John W. Shield
is confronted with q quandary that II
hard to solve. He has q dne stand o
wheat at his ranch east of town ani
the perplexing question is "Is It fal
= or spring wheat?" It was plantet
last fall, all right, but today chow
n every indication Of being spring wheat
. The heads are smooth, something MIR
Shields says he saw before II
fall wheat and the further fact tina
others who are supposed to have SOW,
the same kind OF seed had their cro]
r killed out.
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