The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-03-23
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SOUTH BENCH

Several South Benchites went to
Crow Agency, Monday.
Mark Ferguson hauled hay for
the Kennedys, recently.
Adolph Schaak was calling on
friends in Hardin, Sunday.
Mrs. Jake Koebbe was a late
Saturday visitor in Hardin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Ferguson
were in town, last Tuesday.
Dan Mcdowell was transacting
business in Hardin, Monday.
DIR. and Mrs. w. A. Russell
called at L. N. Kennedy's, one day
last week.
Mrs. James Plummer called on
Mrs. Chas. Ferguson, a week ago
last Thursday.
MI. and Mrs. l.. N. Kennedy
and John Torske were shopping
in Hardin, Monday.
MI. and Mrs. Mark Ferguson
moved to the Boone Kennedy
place, Last Thursday.
MI. and Mrs. Adolph Schaak
visited with Mrs. Mark Ferguson,
last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. James Plummer and Betty
Joyce called on Mrs. L. N. Ken
needy, n day last week.
Mrs. Kate McEvoy of Hardin
was a dinner guest of Mrs. L. N.
Kennedy, last Monday night.
MIR. and Mrs. John Faw were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. L.
N. Kennedy, Thursday, March 9.
Several of the farmers from
here we're in Hardin attending the
corn-hog meeting, last Saturday
afternoon.
Everything is beginning to take
on a green appearance since the
recent SHOWS. Dandelions are
popping up.
Several South Benchers are
planning on working on the Two
Leggin canal when they start
work on it.
A Mrs. Barker from Custer, who
now resides in Hardin, had some
of her South Bench friends call
on her last Saturday afternoon.
Several South Benchites attend
ed the M. E. Ladies' Aid meeting
las Thursday afternoon, which
was held at the home of Mrs. B.
H. McCarty in Hardin.
The reporter has just recently
learned of the passing of Mrs.
Boone Kennedy, sister-in-law of L
N. Kennedy of this community
some time ago at Eugene, Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Brown
and Mr. and Mrs. John Faw' at
tended the M. E. church services
in Hardin, Sunday, March IL, Rev
and Mrs. E. H. Wendland's silver
wedding anniversary.
MIR. and Mrs. Adolph SchaaI
have as house guests, this week
Elder McConnaugh of Bozeman
Elder McConnaugh is an Advent
lst minister and is here for a
while holding services in differ
ent places.
South Bench community has
the possibilities of developing into
an oil field, some day. There have
been indications of oil found here
some years ago a company drilled
Tor Oil in the Woody creek district
and brought in a sulphur waite,
~artesian well.
Recently Alfred Hammer, son oil
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hammer ano
grandson of the late Alfred Nv
ers, pioneer resident of this COM
munity, won first prize for Bic
Horn county in the recent high
school essay contest, and placed
second in the state,
Recently there appeared in the
Billings Gazette an article con
nected with a MI. Alvin Ferguson
o6, Of Kentucky, who had been
slain by his housekeeper, so. Per-
haps this Alvin Ferguson is either
a distant or close relative of the
FergusonS in this South Bench
community as Granddad Ferguson
hal from Kentucky.
The Jack Candies are living at
S725 Drummond ave-, Portland
Oregon. Mrs. Candee writes that
she IS going to make a big garden
this spring. Fruit trees are all in
bloom. The reporter of the South
Bench news has seen and viewed
Portland from a History apart
ment house. Portland is a very
pretty place, and this view was
very pleasing to the reporters
eyes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Johnston
of Beehive, and son-in-law of Mid
west, Wyo., passed through South
Bench, not long ago, on their way
to Midwest for a short visit with
their daughter Clara and baby
Beehive has been the Johnston's
home since last May 12th-Moth-
er's day, when Mrs. Johnston,s
mother was buried. Their son
Wallace is in a c. C. c. camp in
Santa Fe, New Mexico. They in
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