The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-02-11

for the State Poultry association meet
ing at Stevensville, followed by bans
quet in the evening. Hotel Stevensville
Is big, rambling wooden structure, not
new by any means, and resembling some
of our New England country hostelries in
many particulars. There we had very
good, clean. if small, room, and there
the banquet was served, about 10 p. M,
after the meetings of the Association.
The banquet was very good-not quite a
la Waldorf-Astoria, perhaps, but still an
enjoyable occasion, followed by speeches
from members of the host association
and by numerous guests. ss.
The next morning we had an opportu-
nifty to visit the show, which was said by
impartial judges to be the best ever held
in the State. Certainly even novice
could admire the handsome birds, while
Billie was completely enthralled with the
large exhibit of rabbits and hares, to
which he fed alfalfa, apples and cab
bage industriously as long as the sup
ply permitted. Geese, ducks, few pig
cons, added variety to the display, which
included all colors and sizes of feathered
fowl. Before we left the numerous
handsome silver cups were awarded, and
one went to an old Scotchman, D. l..
Doig, who brought his knowledge of
poultry breeding with him from the "old
country" and whose brown leghorns are
thought to be second to none in the West.
We left Missoua again Sunday morn
ing for home, ard enjoyed the wonder
full trip by daylight over the Helena di-
vision. We had very satisfactory Gimp
SEES of the old Helena fort, of the State
Fair Grounds, and of the State Capitol,
and noticed at the top of the divide sign
that announced we were 5,548 feet above
the sea level. The ever-different and
always wonderful mountains along whose
sides the tracks wound, snake-like, the
broad and fertile valleys, the recovered
Missouri, all gave US new series of pic
lures of the well-named Treasure
State.'
At the entrance to our own valley,
where the sentinel mountains seemed like
old friends, we passed through the uni
que little town of Trident. The cement
works located there are it's only industry
and the whole town-rows of little cot
tages, the hotel, stores, schools and all, are
made of cement. A little farther on we
saw, lat the junction of the Madison, Jef-
ferson and Gallatin rivers, which there
form the Mississippi, the famous Fort
Rick, selected as site for a fort by
Lewis and Clark in their wonderful ex-
ploring expedition, which is without
parallel IN history, and which later was
the site of Manuel Lisa's fur trading
post, soon abandoned because of the
hostilities of the Blackfeet Indians.
We pulled into Bozeman on time at
2. So p. m. and Billie babe his friend the
porter-even bigger, blacker, and burlier
than on his first acquaintance-farewell,
after vainly trying to bestow on him his
entire cash capital-uhree pennies. We
found Bozeman snugly tucked under a
snow blanket, and sleighs out in force,
and were glad to be at home again after
a very pleasant weeks rest and change.
Before closing l must mention the de-
lightful call we had on our return to
Missoula Saturday night from two Maine
ladies'. Mrs. Drake and her sister. Miss
Woodbury., from Auburn. Mrs. brakes
husband is with the forestry department
at the University, and they are recent
corners to Montana from Arizona. They
have a cousin in the Junior class at
Maine, and, of course, we discovered any
number of common friends and spent
a delightful hour talking of them.
Tuesday afternoon was the fifth birth
day of the Bozeman Woman's Club, and
at the special social session held in the
wonderful grain room of the GallatinVal-
ley club we were privileged to hear an ad-
dress from Mrs. Nellie Kedsie Jones of
Wisconsin, who is here as Domestic Sci
ence expert for the college during Farm
ers' Week, now in progress. Mrs. Jones'
was one of the pioneers in her line, and
is worth going any distance to hear. In
the course of her most interesting adj
dress she used the word horse-but the
way she pronounced it oss''-fell on
my ears in a very ''homey" way. She
spoke of having been brought up in Kan
sas, however, so what was my surprise,
when at the tea following the program,
to be introduced to the lady by Mrs.
Gould. an almost neighbor of ours, who
was born in Liberty, as ''another repre-
sentative from our State" Upon in
quiry, learned that Mrs. Jones was
born in Madison, Maine, and is connect
ed by marriage with the Skowhegan
Stewards! Although she left Maine
when a tiny girl she has been frequent
visitor there. The last time, she told
me, was six years ago, in October, when
she journeyed across the States to ad-
dress the Federation of Women's Clubs
in Bar Harbor The glories of the foliage
coloring, she said, had never faded from
her mind She is charming woman