The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-12-17

Ira Whey and E. w. Bishop arriv.
ed yesterday from Highwood, On a
business visit.
Robert Thomson, a we'll known
resident of the Teton country, is
among the visitors in town.
A. Ludeman and Wallace Gray, Of
this city, have been received al St.
Glare HOSPITAL for treatment.
Every doll in the Benton Drug Co.
store will be sold from now on at one
half the regular price.-Adv.
Don't make the mistake of buying
your dolls elsewhere. We have cut
the prices on ours One-half.-BentOn
Drug. Co. Adv.
Petitions for naturalization have
been filed in the district court by Ger
| ret Koolhof, of Big Sandy, and Ferd
w. Hage, of Highwood.
Judgment by default has been en-
tered in the district court in the suit
of T. c. Power & Bro, Ltd, against
D. D. Pugh. the judgment amounting
to about $f20.
Arrangements are being made for
basket ball games between the high
school teams of Chinook and this city.
1t Is proposed to play the first game
at Chinook on or about January "a.
1t is announced that the state rail.
road commission will hold q hearing
December 80, at Dodson, upon a com.
plant of unsatisfactory passenger
service at Dodson, Saco and Hins-
dale.
A Good Fellowship club has been
formed by citizens of Missoula, for
the purpose of providing Christmas
cheer for children who might other.
wise miss the enjoyment of the holi-
day season.
Valley county has sent 26 convicts
to the state prison curing the past
year, according to the sherif's report.
There were SO convictions in the dis.
trict court, but ten of the defendants
were paroled.
Mayor Chas. H. Green is in receipt
of word that he is the winner of the
first prize offered in connection with
the sale of a number of pieces of real
estate adjoining the Bozeman hot
springs in which he made an invest
} ment. The prize consists Of hote,
property valued at about $4,000.
>, Great Falls Tribune: John M
Gray, IS years old, of Floweree, dice
at the home Of ]. c. Strang at Flow
cree, early this morning after an i'll
ness of several weeks. The bod,
! was brought in to Georges chape
, and probably will be forwarded t.
Canada, the time to De announced
later.
a Miss N. McCabe closed a very sue
cessful term of school Frid ay, in Dis
: trict No. SO, Frenchman's Ridge. Tn,
I ladies of the district surprised tn,
teacher and pupils by serving a de.
licious dinner at the school house
after which there was an excellent pro
!, gram of literary and musical exer
= cises.
Charles A. Ames, a prisoner await
ing trial in the district court on
charge of grand larceny, was examin
ed by physicians yesterday to deter
mine his mental condition. A pc
tition for the appointment of a guar
s dian for the estate of defendant ha'
been filed in the district court by hi
brother, Edwin H. Ames.
According to the Geraldine Review
several Fort Benton business mel
r will establish branch houses at Geral
dine. The Missouri River Lumbe
company will have yards and sale
4 room, Leet & Bergeson will engage il
n the merchandise business, s. F. Allel
is arranging to open a meat market
and T. c. Power & Bro. have an ele
= vator site.
The STEEL Quartette and Concer
company, coming on December 20 /
a combination of skilled musician
and entertainers. Vocal and instru
mental work of widely different char
!. acter forms part of a highly interest
y ing and pleasing program. It is inter
;. spersed with comedy and select read
= ings and there is in each Performance
!: genuine art, art that is worth Will
seeing and hearing.
The customs officers who went t
Harlem a few days ago, to investigat
reports of Canadian grain being shil
= ped. from that point, discovered Sc,
= eral cases of that kind. The elevate
men claimed to be innocent partie
to the evasion of duty on the grain
and paid assessments amounting t
1916. The duty of ten cents a bushe
s on Canadian wheat, and twenty cent
a bushel on Canadian flax, is still Il
y effect.
Trustees of school districts will b
' interested in an opinion recently 81,
. en- by the attorney general regardin
' the sale of bonds. The attorney ger
. eral holds that where a school boar
= makes an issue of $500 in bonds an
sells them for $3.50, the differenc
being an allowance of $3.50 for prin'
n ing the bonds, it is violation Of tn