The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-01-22
CITY AND STATE.

fFen Saturdays Daily.
You car get Blacklegoid. for black
leg, at Lockwood's drug store. See
our adv.-Adv.
Albert Virgins and Miss Susie
Rackham have been received at St.
Glare hospital for medical attention. |
Otto Painter, OF Hawsrden, is among
the business visitors 10 town.
H. Zanto and wife, OF Missouls,
arrived today on q visit with friends
in this vicinity.
j. Ritter, manager of the T. G.
Power & Bro. department store, left
today on a business trip to Chicago
and other eastern cities.
Arthur Walker and wife, OF High
wood, who we're married Thursday at
Havre, we're among todsy's arrivals.
The bride is . daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. German, of Havre, aud
has recently been teaching school At
Kremlin.
The use Of electricity for power pur-
poses is becoming more general in
this vicinity, the supply coming over
the Great Falls Power company line
from Rainbow falls. The machinery in
the River Press Office is now being
operated BY an electric motor that
was installed q few days ago.
The heavy snowfall is making some
OF the country roads almost impssss.
bic, and the stage business on local
mail routes 10 being conducted on
go-ss-you.csn schedules. The Ha.
warden incoming stage due here last
evening had not arrived at q late
hour this afternoon.
Little Msribeth Stevens, youngest
daughter of Senator and Mrs. Geo.
H. Stevens. Of this city was awarded
first prize by the Stanford Art institu.
ton of California, in the 1912 Art
and Beauty contest. The prize was
won by q Photographic composition,
the work of Il. c. Eklund, of the Elk
lund studios of Great Falls.
According to the Great Falls Lead.
er. business at the Great Falls land
Office Is experiencing q substantial
boom at 'present, that IL as far as
homestead entries are concerned. In
the past month the entries have aver.
aged about IL each day, but this week
has seer q substantial increase over
that record. On Wednesday 20 appli-
cations for tracts were recorded with
Register Peters, aud yesterday the
business was equally heavy. The
officers in charge o. the Office have the
affairs of the department we'll 10 hand
and contest hearings will soon be
started. In the past week = number
of scheduled contests have been with.
drawn, and the hearings will not now
be as numerous as expected,
From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. J. q. Cummings, Of Big Sandy
Is among the visitors in town.
Attorney j. N. Theleen, of Grea
Falls, arrived today On professional
business.
Mrs. C. H. Barton, of Harlem, wa.
among the arrivals ca today's west
bound train.
P. Il. Moser, who arrived today
from Havre, reports O temperature o.
Al below At Havre this morning.
A fret term of district court for thi,
year will open tomorrow, when Judg,
Tattan will hear applications TO-
citizenship.
Among the documents received q
the county clerks Office today wer'
several annual reports of corpora
lions. Today is the last day for films
these reports.
The Fort Benton Amateurs are re
hearsing q farce comedy, which the!
will present Tuesday evening, Febru
airy 4, at the opera house. 1t promis
es to be one Of the best entertainment
ever given by local talent.
The funeral of the late Oscar Peter
son, who was killed in Do accident q
the Captain Stevens ranch Thursday
took place yesterda y. Services wer
held by Rev. J. N. Chestnut, of th
Episcopal church.
The cold wave that reached thi
part of Montana Saturday brought
temperature OF 80 below zero last night
according to the government ther
mometer. The minimum temper tur
Saturday night was "a below.
A dispatch from Havre reports tn
suicide of Geo. Bruce, q we'll know.
resident OF that locality, who va
formerly cashier of q bank at Hing
ham. Dependency yer domesti
and business troubles is supposed t.
have been the cause of the suicide.
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