The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-05-15
]. w. Richardson, M. D. v
VETERINARY SURGEON
All Calls answered day or night
POWELL LIVERY BARN, MALTA

John Suter, who has been doing the
assessing for this district, resigned
the latter part of last week and the
work will be finished by Fred Tanner
who has the work in his district Just
about finished.
II. A. Broderson was in town last
week to see the milch COWS recently
purchased by Mr.. Shady. Mr.. Brod-
erson expects to get eight or ten of
them in a few days and will put in
his spare time milking,
There will be q large tract of land
opened to settlers in the north part of
Blaine county May oath. A large
portion of this land has been squatted
on under the 100 acre homestead act
and now that it is opened to 800 acres
those there will have a chance to
make an additional filing.
During April the cash receipts of
the Great Northern railroad business
at this point according to Agent
Schlllng WAS $32, 736.sS. In April of
last year the receipts were only about
one third as much, being 11,946.
This will give an idea of the amout
of new business created by the in
coming of the new settlers and the
workings on the irrigation ditch.
Word from Loyejoy states that
they are doing all IL their power out
there to make the road meeting next
Sunday a success. The citizens Of
Malta will have q chance to see the
kind of roads the farmers have been
hauling their produce over for the
past three yearsat least. Our citizens
are promised chat good crowd will
be at the meeting and the farmers
are enthusiastic and think q great
deal of good will be derived from the
meeting.
The Malta Commercial Club have a
very attractive cut that they intend
to run in two colors Oh the back of
their envelopes and will ask all the
citizens of the city to do the same,
1t shows all the land under the ditch
that will be tributary to Malta. 1t is
an economical way of advertising
and one of the best ways we know of
as it will reach people in all parts of
the United States. 1t will give Malta
and the Milk river valley some pub
LEFTY which it is entitled to. Be 6
booster and a live one.
Fourth class postmasters must bt
able to read, to count accurately thu
money they receive. to measure the
oil cloth on the floors of their offices
and to write at least deslfferable
letter once in while, in order to b,
taken under the wing of the civil ser
vice. In effect, they must have :
reasonable understanding of "read
in" "writin' and "rithmetic," az
cording to Instructions issued by tn
postof1ice department. Those VIII,
W ish to take the examination mus
be citizens of the United States, owe
q years of age and must reside in TIL
community they aspire to serve.
The campaign against the role
towel and the public drinking cup j
on in full blast, and county and cit
health officers have been notified t.
enforce the statute. AS u result
there will be wholesale disappear
ance of tinware in the vicinity Q
drinking tanks in hotels and res
taurants, and the substitution O
paper cups veneered with white wa
at penny per. At the same tim
the roller towel, against which tn
army of travelling men have wage
incessant warfare for years, will b
relegated to the rummage pile, an
paper towels substituted.