The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-04-08
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana EXCHANGES

Shelby News: Quite a number of
cur d~rvianders are leaving for Glacier
park where they will work during the
s;.nme months. There will be con-
Siderable work going on there this
summer in the way of building and
road making.
Havre Promoter: Clarence Tow Of
Box Elder, Hill county, won third
prize in Judging dairy cattle in the an
! nual stock judging contest held at
the close of the school of agriculture
at Bozeman last week. Raymond Tow
won third prize in sheep judging. !
Francis Woodley of Scobey, Sheridan
county, won the grand prize as the
best judge of all classes Of live stock.
Chinook Opinion: Work on the
court house was resumed with a force
of brick layers this week and the walls
are now being rapidly put in place. !
The crew of masons is to be increased
as soon as the men can be secured.
The commissioners met here Monday
and accepted the terra Gotta trim.
mings and ordered the contractor to
go ahead al fast as possible with the
work.
Big Sandy Mountaineer: J.. E..
Vaughan has been selected as dele
gate to represent this section of the
state at the meeting before the state
railroad commission, to be held in
Montana on the 18th of this month for
the purpose of lowering, if possible,
the freight rates in Montana. MI.
Vaughan is a capable man and will
make a good representative, and If
there are any suggestions to make to
help the matter along, make them to
the delegate before that time.
:. Conrad Independent: The machin.
) cry for the flax fibre mill arrived this
week, and is being installed as rap
) idly as possible. Some of the import
ed machinery has not yet arrived, but
is expected most any time, and as
soon as it comes and can be assem-
, bled, the mill will be ready to start
operations. The company also ship
ped in several cars of fax straw from
Cascade, which is now at the mill,
and which will be used to start Oper.
ations with.
Chinook Democrat: Judge Utter
;, this morning sentenced Lemy Brick
ley to five years in the pen at Deer
Lodge for forgery. A jury found
Brickley guilty of forging the sigma.
ture of Emil Guertzgen to a number
of checks which he and Wallie Pres.
kie passed on local merchants. They
obtained about 5000 on the worthless
paper and fled to Indiana. They were
brought back by Sheriff Neibauer and
Preskie va given a suspended sen.
tence after pleading guilty.
Denton Recorder: The Barney
|" meat company made another ship.
ment of hogs to Chicago last Satur.
!. day, consisting Of 254 head, which will
u give the people some idea of the
amount of hogs that are being raised
in the Denton country. 1t is a banner
year as most every farmer is getting
a good start and they realize that
there is nothing that will bring speed.
> Ter returns and more cash in a short
space OF time thar the raising Of hogs
:, for the market.
Havre Promoter: Joe Ling, con
Il ductor on the Great Northern railway
left here last Saturday with q train
II OF 81 cars, making a train three-Quar
q tiers Of a mile long. These cars are
known as the gOndola work cars. They
are used for hauling gravel and were
n taken to the various gravel pits be
J. tween here and Williston, North Da
kota. They will be used. to haul the
gravel for the road bed improvement,
work that the Great Northern is cor
. templating for this summer.
'r Havre ~Plaindealer: City Engineer
q Samuel Hanley will install an up.to
% date, modern, improved septic tanl
a at the mouth Of the Havre sewerage
mains where they empty into the Mill
st river. This work will be done as soor
Is as possible. Owing to the prevalence
n of typhoid fever in Chinook and othel
towns east of Havre on Milk river
claimed to be due from sewerage con
N tamination from this source. the mat
ter was duly discussed in the recon
meeting of the health officers meet
ing of northern Montana.
a. Conrad Observer: Veterinarian
- 11ull, VIII dUOul IWO WcchS 3 ITlO(
the experiment OF incubation of go
t. pliers on a section of 40 acres on til,
le Withee farm south of town. is yer!
re much pleased with the results. Thi.
ID week he visited the land and fount
,e dead gOphers lying on the ground ant
Is saw very few in the field. At tn
IS time of the experiment the docto
caught eight gOphers and nenned then
If up, %incculating four of them and al
. lowed the others to become infected
ii Up till yesterday three of these ha,
or died and all but II show signs O
le having contracted the disease from
p those i%noculated. The doctor de
H. scribes this gopher as a fair specimen
n, of the human race-"Some are to-
H. mea to catch anything"
nj oeal Grain 0na%a<;o~.