The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-27
AMONG OUR NEIeHBoRS.
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Havre Promoter: Geo. II. Stevens,
the bonanza farmer of Fort Benton
was Ia the city renewing s%cquaintan.
ces, and attending to business mat.
ters the fret of the week. Mr..
Stevens will crop something like 1000
acres Of land on the bench above Ben.
ton, this season. II our good wishes
count for anything he will have q
bumper crop
Chinook Opinion: The county SUI
perintendent has her troubles as we'll
as the rest of the officers. There are a.
the result of county division ten joint
school districts between Chouteau and
Blaine and Hill counties. One dis.
trlct is in all three counties. The
Havre school district, in which the
county seat Of Hill county is located,
extends into Blaine county.
Havre P~laindealer: A large num-
Der of residents of Havre and vicinity
met in the city hall Tuesday evening
and organized the Hill County Fair
aud Racing Association. The OBJ.
jects of the association are, first, to
encourage agriculture and horticul.
ture, and second, for the purpose of
constructing, operating and main.
tanning fair grounds, rae track and
athletic park.
Chinook Opinion: A deleg alton of
business men of this city waited on
the commissioners Thursday and
offered to pay tba oApsnsrs of q spec.
ial election on Gu h,ase bonds II
the election we're called right away iu-
stead of waiting until the general cleo
ton this fall. Their idea was that the
county could In that way get buildings
erected in time for occupancy before
the next winter and save the paying of
rent for about q year.
Glasgow Independent: Pete Stein
Oou ASAuOu oIOS.S VI 0ouerkC6uV
valley near the Canadian line arrived
in this city Tuesday with several
sleighloads Of fax. They found the
roads in very bad condition owing to
the deep snow. They had quite q time
tipping over with their loads every
day while on the road and between
camping and reloading every time
they tipped over they were not able to
make many miles q day.
Glasgow Independent: The people
of Glasgow should look forward to
the establishment of q large suga ar
factory at this place. After the bot
tom lands shall have been provided
with irrlg alton water the beet grow
ing industry will become one of
the principal products OF the soil be-
cause It is one of the most profitable.
With q beet sugar factory at Glasgow,
this place will become one of the
largest feeding stations in northern
Montana for livestock.
Culbertson Republican: The Gull
bertson county division committee IL
hard at work this week getting things
in shape to promote the county divi-
sion campaign with all possible x
petition. In the past the Culbertson
people heve gone to q great deal Of
expense aud they are now prep airing
to take a bigger Stephan eve before,
in order to get the petitions from the
east end signed up and before the
commissioners before the west end
does, aud thereby tie up division of
this end for an indefinite time.
Choteau Acantha: Word from VIM.
Van De Riet, who now has q big ranch
IN the Arrow creek country east of
Fort Benton, ia that the weather down
there has been very favorable, the
farmers having been able to get In q
solid month of work before the be.
ginning of the present bad spell,
which stopped operations. Mr.. Van
De Ret recently bought o thresh-
ing outfit, and is threshing his dax
crop of last year, which he was un-
able to get threshed by the custom
threshers, owing to bad weather.