The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-06-08


teacher can secure position unless
she is normal or college graduate
who has had two years. experience in
teaching since graduation. Thus the
Malta teachers are eligible to secure
state certificates and are specialists
in their respective departments.
Professor Elliott is a graduate OF
Lawrence College and has taken
post graduate work at Missoula, or
the state university. He has been en-
gagged in teaching for the past four
years, three of which he has been
principal of the Malta schools.
The Varney block on Sixth aveune
$4,000 and furnishes Phillips coun-
ty with its court room and Jail, the
city of Malta with a council chamber,
the city engineers Office and house
for the Malta Fire company's fire.
fighting apparatus.
With the passing of the cottonwood
log buildings, within whose warped
and time-honored walls the earliest
settlers passed many happy hour,
there was created demand for other
and more lasting building material
and lumber yard was opened in
Malta by the Imperial Lumber COM
pany of Minneapolis, and for a num-
her of years this company handled all
the lumber business. Coincidentally,
with the great influx of homesteaders,
the Malta Mercantile company and
the Tressler Lumber company entered
the field, and were followed in 1910
by the Thompson Lumber company.
The Malta lumber dealers carry
everything in building materials
from the proverbial CROOKED stick''
to the finest of finished woods and the
grade of materials carried are a
means Of stimulating the architect or
contractors inventive power as evil
denced by many handsome business
blocks and beautiful residences. By
the city's growing demands
and catering to the needs of an i'm
naense country territory the lumber
industry has grown and prospered.
Frequently may be seen four-horse
team drawing e. wagon piled high
with building material yT7licli is being
ayen being taken to CaA44ada The
country tributary to the town has
had It's pulse quickened by prosperity
and building operations have trans
formed primitive habitations, and to-
day, many a large and comfortable
Tarm house or spacious barn grace
the premises where erstWhile a log
cabin, board shack or straw covered
stable answered every purpose. The
oroprletOrs and mana gers Of lumber
concerns i'll Malta include john Sur /
Fant, VIM. Tressler, G.. l.. Thompson. |
Wm. HI. Chase and the Imperial Lum-
Der company
The Motor Inn. Standard, Moore
and North Side garages with their
skilled mechanics in connection are
yeritable oases for citizens and tray-
sler swhen their machines are dis
'bled or need sheltering. The large
lumber of buzz wagons in city and |
'ountry is another interesting story
II Father Times transition for it has
'nly been seven brief summers since
Malta citizen purchased and
brought the first automobile to the
lty. Now they are thick as bees in
Minnesota clover field, one dealer
lone selling 81 machines this sea-
on. Those managing garages and
representing automobile companies
re John Shady, T. V. Sharp, c. H.
lcCready, O. F, McKone, VIM. Cul-
ert and j. F. Murray.
The Moore Telephone company of
'lasgow, not only supplies the city
1lth a most satisfactory local SER
ice but it's lines furnish a quick
leans of communication with rural
istricts, the Little Rocky region,
eighboring towns and distant cities
In approaching Malta two eleva-
ors are conspicuous features and at
est to the agricultural productive
ess OF the country. In former years
'hen the herds of the great cattle
ompanies numbered from 1000 to
0,000 head, "cattle was king" but
nth the retirement of the cattle
lagnates and the turning of the ,
ange into agricultural areas, the ,
sad djustment called for elevators
nd the St. Anthony & Dakota Ele-
ator company of Minneapolis, erect
! a capacious building here in
BIO. This was sufficient for sea- :
IN or two but the ever increasing ,
'op products induced the Imperial :
levator company in 1913 to build
elevator in this CITY, Railroad
lcillties are ideal for grain ship +
ents as both elevators are on the !
ain line of the Great Northern rail- \
ay and during the past year ship !
ents from this point materially 7
yelled the figures of the states !
op returns. The St. Anthony & .
akota Elevator company is man =
sed by e. e. Reiner, while the in
rests of the Imperial Elevator =
'mpany are looked after by Sam
lnkenweder. Mention should also G
made Of Senator John Suraynt's f
wv elevator, which opened for busi- .
sss last fall. -
Another of the 1915-16 industries !,
be launched in the city is the Sur !,
mt Flour mill on Milk river. The n
i'll is a commodious, substantial f.
Hiding fully equipped with latest "
ld best machinery for milling pur- q
ses. Milling operations were COM -
enced as recent as April and it's g
ltput of 60 barrels of flour daily a
lbs ready market and the mill is !,
the greatest convenience to farm f.