The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORs.

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A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Shelby News: Drilling at the oil
wells is progressing favorably and
the we'll is now down 1900 feet and
said to be in genuine oil sand from
which results may now be expected at
any time.
Shelby News: The Meade sheep
company on Wednesday cold its clip
of this season. having q few days ago
sold its clips of two previous years.
This years clip was Is, OOO pounds and
the price is understood to be 81 cents.
Glasgow Independent: l.. F. Akin.
son was q visitor in this city from
Hinsd ale yesterda az. BE says that be
has never seen such crops as they
have around Hinsdale this year, that
they beat anything be yer paw even
down in Iowa and other eastern states.
Hsvre Plsindesler: Andy Moore, .
we'll known resident Of Warrick, was
perhaps fatally injured while return
ing from q dance in the mountains the
fret Of the week. The team ran away
and Moore was injured in some way
so as to be almost disemboweled. 1t Is
thought that he can recover
Carter Herald: The special school
election held last Saturday to settle
the bond question resulted In q vote
of 7 against and q for the issuance of
bonds. The bonds to amount to
$4,000 will be sold as soon az possible
and the building will be erected as
600 ss the contract 10 let. This will
be q great improvement to u fast
growing town and community.
Valerian: The biggest dry land
crop grown in the Waller country to
our knowledge was threshed this week
on the W. L. Hunter place east of
town. It was q 81. acre field of wheat,
which when cleaned, weighed out 43
bushels 70 the acre. The land was
broken in July, 1911 and this was the
fret crop. Thorough cultivation was
responsible for the high yield.
Choteau Acsntha: Work has
started on the big steel railway tres.
ties which will replace the present
wooden ones that span the Teton and
the Muddy at Collins. Much OF the
machinery is on the ground, and the
work OF excavation has been. started.
Tracks have been laid for some of the
machines to operate on. The work
will probably require two years.
Glasgow News: w. w. Mabee lost
the greater part of his crop of barley
the fret part of the week, by high
water. The field was among Cherry
creek, and the heavy rain Sunday
and Monday raised the creek so that
1t flooded his field, and the grain
doated away. He succeeded in recov-
ering some of the bundles along the
creek, when the water vent down.
Chinook Opinion: Judge John w.
Tattan will be here September 3rd to
open the next term of court. he will
hear petitions for final natur alization
papers at that time and all who have
their application papers in in the re-
quired time are required to be present
at that time with their witnesses.
Judge Tattan will call the calendar at
the same time and set the cases for
trial and decide when q jury Is to be
called.
Chinook Opinion: As q result OF
an opinion received yesterday from
the attorney general, there will prob
ably be no special bond election for
court house and other purposes. The
attorney general ruled that for such .
special election the registration books
must close 30 days before the election
and notice Of the closing date for
registration must be given for at least
30 days, making In all go days notice
for such an election. From the date
of the commissioners action to thu
date set is but SO days, 90 in the opin-
ion OF the attorney general, the cleo.
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