The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-01
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS,

HWUVO UUn VLIOr10UnCs
! A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our |
Northern Montana Exchanges
Chester Signal: That we can raise
corn is fully demonstrated by the
; yield on the farm of A. ]. Layton,
! about eight miles south of town, who
has just husked his crop and found it
F., went forty bushels to the acre. The
, variety was the yellow dent.
: Glasgow News: Among the jaw
breaking names recorded during the
recent registration was A. H. Scha-
minackehinberg. We will not under
take to pronounce it. One of which is
a close second to it is A. p. Papanas-
tasopulos, who also registered for
land.
Havre Democrat: A killing frost
occurred Saturday morning and the
temperature fell four degrees below
freezing. The United States weather
bureau records show the last killing
frost in spring this year occurring May
16, and the first killing frost in fall,
on September 10, making a period Of
ia days between killing frosts.
Big Sandy Mountaineer: Mercer
Hill Seacoy dropped dead at his home
in the north part of town last Sunday
morning at nine o'clock the cause be-
ing heart failure. Mr.. Seacoy came
here about two weeks ago to make his
home with his son, F. B. Seacoy, who
came from Medicine Hat, Canada, last
spring and took a claim and is run
ming a feed mill in Big Sandy.
Harlem News: DR.. w. M. Williams
has just finished threshing a field of
Grimm alfalfa which produced better
thar 5000 worth of s.,ed per acre,
with a total expense of sE.15 per acre.
Taking into consideration that abou:
three.fourths of the alfalfa was badly
lodged, producing not more than one
bushel per acre, the part of the field
not lodged averaged between z and 8
bushels per acre.
Carter Chronotype: Fred Thomas,
who has been in the employment Of w.
c. Dohetry for a few weeks, met with
a painful accident On Thursday after
noon which may result fatally. He
was engaged in helping build a wire
fence and was attending the spool of
wire which worked from the wagon
when the wire became fastened and
in some manner became over-balanc-
ed and fell to the ground, the spool OF
wire striking him on the pit of his
stomach.
Chinook Democrat: Kenneth Smith
baggageman and express messenger
on the Great Northern railway, and
we'll known In Chinook. was killed in
a wreck near Everett, Wash, Monday,
The little son Of Mr.. Smith was with
him and had his leg broken. An un
| usually sad feature of the case is the
:. fact that Mrs. Smith and the other
children left Chinook on the same
!. day of the fatal accident to join Mr.,
Smith on Puget Sound, and they were
r to have made their home in Seattle
Chinook Opinion: Blaine county
swept the boards at the state fair or
alfalfa seed, first, second and third
q places all went to the Blaine exhibit
ors. The rest of the state wasn't in
it. The Blaine county seed has fol
years had a high reputation and it is
no exaggeration to say that the best
seed raised in the United States
comes from this county. Roberts &
Browne won first premium on theil
1 seed, John Clark won second and Jas
Griffin third. 1t is a big record fol
Blaine county.
Conrad Observer: Veterinarian
Hull was called to the Jas. A. johnson
ranch on the Marias river last Fri
. day where he found hog cholera ir
e a nerd of about 70 head. Nine of the
pigs had died and a number of the
8 others had contracted the disease. DR.
Hull has v~accinated the bunch and ad
20 miles to vaccinate at once, as the
q disease is spread by birds migrating
Q through the country. While hos
0 cholera is prevalent in the east, this
is the first instance of it in this sec
ton so far as known.
Chinook Opinion: w. D. Smother
man, the prominent valley farmer
a patch of Canada field peas for seed
The peas made a yield of 40 bushels
n to the acre, worth about So a bushel
n The yield shows again as has Otter
been demonstrated the possibilities o
raising very profitable crops in Thu
valley outside of grains. The valley il
we'll adapted to such crops Is pea
and beans and there is undoubtedl.
great possibilities here in the way o
raising high grade seed crops that will
be in demand because of being north
ern grown.