The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09
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John Faw was in town, Tues
day afternoon.
Sven Dyvig was a guest OF John
Torske, several days OF Last week.
Mrs. A. v. Kent has returned
from a several weeks visit In Los
Angeles.
DR.. and Mrs. w. A. Russell
called at L. N. Kennedy's, Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ferguson
entertained John Torske at din
ner. Monday.
John Torske and Sven Dyvig
visited at L. N. Kennedy's, Friday
and Sunday.
We are sorry for Mrs. Ottun in
her hour of sorrow and grief over
the death of her aged father.
Maxine LivenSood went h 0 m e
from Sunday school and church
with Lena Mae Peck. last Sunday.
Grandma Ferguson has been on
the sick list, this week. Mrs: Mark
Ferguson has been the attending
nurse.
Grandma Wagner was in Har-
din, Thursday. to see the doctor
as to the source Of her recent
illness. =;
Juanita Ellis. who resides with
her parents on the old Chicken
Smith farm. had an aunt from
Reed Point come. to visit her re-
Gently.
Mr.. and MRS. S. D: onstein
we're host and hostess to a Roose-
welt radio party. Tuesday. Jan.
80. Among those present were
MI. and Mrs. Ohas- Corbin and
two girls and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Ferguson and Baby Gene.
Mrs. H. E. Vance, who also Is
an old South Bencher. Sheriff
Vance having farmed the old
Foley place. quite a number OF
years ago, says she is feeling bet
ter since her treatments at Elk
celsior Hot Springs in Missouri.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Y. Ferguson
celebrated their 63rd wedding an
niversary. Friday, Feb. 2. Self
invited guests. exclusive OF their
three sons here and their fam
lilies, were Mr.. and Mrs. L. N.
Kennedy. old -time Gallatin valley
friends and neighborS, and Mrs.
Kate McEvoy and Miss Stella Fer
guson.
MI. and Mrs. J. w. Rowland
went to Sheridan, Wyo., last Sun
day, to visit Mrs. Rowland's sis
ter, Mrs. Irene Chambers, who is
i'll in a Sheridan hospital. Mrs.
Chambers is the mother of the
small son Of Ike Chambers, who
spent his New Years vacation
with his father, at the Henrik
sen home.
Mrs. John Reno, one of the
real pioneers of South Bench who.
with Mr.. Reno homesteaded the
place where the Chas. Ferguson
family now live and which was
later purchased by Dad Ferguson,
was in town, Tuesday. from their
Soap creek farm, where they have
been residing for some time since
moving there from Nine Mile,
where they resided for many
years after leaving the South
Bench community.
Twenty-Five or more years ago.
Geo. Kent. L. N. Kennedy. Boone
Kennedy and the Ferguson broth
ers came down from Bozeman
and filed on homesteads in the
South Bench community. The
Fergusons came overland in the
early spring and started improv-
ing their claims. One night, after
work, they turned a prize team
of work horses loose there were
no fences, for the night. During
the night some Indians drove
them off. After about a weeks
search for them the horses we're
found in an Indian corral near
Billings. The pioneer homestead
ers who remain here in this COM
munity are L. N. Kennedy and the
Ferguson brothers. Boone Ken
needy was accidentally killed nearly
a dozen years ago. Geo. Kent
farms with E. L. Kelley near Crow
Agency. on a dryland wheat farm.
The Doanes have departed and
the Carks have moved away,
leaving mostly new corners here.
Many of the community farms
have changed hands several times
in twenty-five years.
New Corners to the South Bench
community. would you believe
that our beloved South Bench
was as bare and desolate as they
make them, two dozen years ago?
With the exception of a few one
room homestead shacks scattered
here and there, the Weldon Clark
dwelling was about the only real
home here. There were no fences,
no real roads or highways as