The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
CITY N STATE.

Banker Lince and Howard F. Cold
smith, of Great Falls, are visitors 10
the city today.
An application for a marriage H..
cense was received from UAvre tod ay .
by the clerk of the district court for
Edward Casey, OF Great Falls, and
Irene Bennett, of Cn'fax. Wisconsin. :
The license will be dispatched by to-
nights mail.
County Superintendent Daisy l.
Blackstone announces tn II the next
regular teachers examination will be
held at Fort Benton, Havre and Har-
lem on Friday and Saturday August
Is and 26. The eighth grade exami.
nations will be held on the same da,es
and at the same plac-s.
A postofice department bulletin au-
nounce the establishment If two new
postof1ces in Choutesu county. Oae
is named Buelows, with Mary Buelow
as postmistress, to be served from
Bison station, about ten miles ast OF
Chester. Another is Clear Lake.
twenty miles east of Fort Benton. with
Frank E. Fisher as postm aster; to be
served from Fort Benton.
Great Falls Tribune: Joe Kirch-
wing came in yesterday from the
Maurer & Kirschwing farm south Of
the city bringing with him some mag.
nifcent samples of winter wheat grown
upon that place. The wheat, known
as Turkey Red, is we'll beaded and we'll
filled and it il estim ated that go acres
of the 80 acres in winter wheat will
produce an average OF over 40
bushels to the acre. This wheat was
grown upon sod land broken for the
first time last year. Harvesting upon
this tract will be commenced next
week.
From Mondays Daily.
W. T. Cowan, of Box Elder. is
among the business visitors 10 town
Miss Jessie Hadley returned yester'
day from q visit with friends at Sand
point, Idaho.
Attorney W. S. Towner arrived
from Helena yesterda y or a visit with
Fort Benton friends.
Louis King, of Chinook, was re
ceived at the Sanitarium yesterda,
for medical treatment.
Miss Stocking left today for Butte
to attend the annual reunion OF Som
and Daughters OF Montana Pioneers
Attorney F. E. S%tranahan and fam
lily returned today from a vacation il
the Prickly Pear valley, nea Helen a
Assessor Phil Buckley, who ha
been spending the past week at AL
hambra hot springs, returned iron
that health resort yesterday.
The school trustees of this distric
have made a special tax levy Of fou
mills for the current fiscal year, &C
ton upon the matter being taken at
meeting held Saturd ay evening.
Richard Rya and Evert Stone, tw
men convicted in Justice Pyper's cour
on charges of petit larceny, were re
ceived at the county Jail yesterday
Each is under a sentence Of sixty days
The county commissioners were i
session today as a board of eqaliza
ton, all members Of the board bein
present. The session was devoted t
hearing protests from property own
ers whose assessments had bee
raised.
Announcement Of the marriage c
A. W. Merrifeld, county surveyor G
Chouteau county, and Miss Wand
Nohl, of Ripon, Wis, has been re
ceived by Fort Benton friends. Th
wedding took place Wednesday, {
Ripon, Wis.
1t is announced that the Great Fai
land Office has just received from Il
general land Office its acceptance
the REIMBURSEMENT by the state Care
land act board Of Ga 600 acres y
Teton county, near Brady, which wi
now be open to settlement.
A news item from Havre reports
severe storm Ia th at vicinity Saturda
in which the grain crops owned
several ranchers suffered serious dal
age. The Methodist church in Hav
was struck by lightning and a Giro
tent wrecked by the storm.
j. A. Hatch, cashier of the Fir
National bank at Harlem, return
yesterday from Lewistown, where
man is under arrest on suspicion tn
he is one of the bandits who attempt
to rob the bank about two weeks ag
The man has a gunshot wound in t
arm about which he has told conhit
ing stories, and in some respects a
swers to a description of q OF
fnoitive bandits, Mr., Hatch was u