The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-09-10
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges

A Grist OF Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges
Carter Chrouctyrc: The best crop
yield this yea: m frrm the Knee
country. Adam and Carl Hamman
had 80 acres Of wheat that went 40
bushels and n peck to the acre and
their volunteer went IA. Last year
these gentlemen harvested 100 acres
that averaged 37h bushels.
Geraldine Review: A number of
the settlers are growing field corn
successfully, and while tho acreage
is necessarily small because of the
experimental stage of the venture.
many are sanguine that this will be-
come n of the important and valu-
able crops of the district.
Big Sandy Mountaineer: The big
gas tractor and road grader Icing
used by the county for road work ar
rived from Fort Benton Welne Stay
evening and will be used for some
them in the vicinity of Big Sandy for
the purpose of road hull | lg. 1Iis
means better roads N this neck of
the woods.
Shelby News: The Lyon Bros
traction t%hreshing outfit passed
through town on Tuesday en- route to
the Grissom-Troute neighborhood.
They had cleaned up in their own
district and found yields lighter than
they had expected, the wheat running
f.c,, q IN = h,,cbolc o,I %ko a.. .f
the earlier sowing but 3 or 4 bushels.
Some of the oats were pretty fair,
running close to 40 bushels.
Great Falls Leader: Alleged to
have knocked Gown" a considerable
iropo,ti ton of the cash taken III on
his rum, and more specifically with
taking $157 on The last run between
Helena and Havre. JOHN Nelson, who
has been employed by the Great
Northern railway as dining car con
ductor, was this morning, taken into
Judge Safford's court for a~rraignment.
The prisoner declined to enter a plea
and is being held in the county Jail
awaiting further investigation Of the
case.
Conrad Observer:A few minutes af-
ter the south-bound Burlington pas
senger train left Conrad this morning
a dense smoke was seer near the
Luce ranch about five miles south.
east of town. With a very strong
southeast wind the flames were soor
started on their way northeast and
o1-,ilol1o o,to~,oL;10 ,ro COO,
pressed into service to take men out
to fight the flames. 1t is estimated
that there were fully 100 men at the
scene in a short time.
Shelby News: Cascade farmers
have started a crusade for better
prices for grain. They are now forced
to sell grain on a basis of freight dis
count to Minneapolis, and buy flour
On the basis of Minneapolis prices
with freight added, which they allege,
catches. them both ways. The leaders
in the movement are prominent men
and ask for the cooperation of the
farmers of adjoining counties.
Chinook Opinion: The threshing
oCdooA 10 ou III AuIA OIdoI ION dAu CIlo
bench land farmers are getting their
grain out of the way as rapidly as
possible. The grain is coming in
fast these days, especially flax. The
bench crops are not averaging as
high as last year by perhaps a fourth
but some good yields are reported.
In the valley the alfalfa seed crop
promises to be very good. The work
of cutting the alfalfa for seed has
commenced and there are several
farms where a big killing is expected
in this crop.