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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
8
Local notes report residents and visitors from Ismay Miles City Billings and Baker. People attend church and harvest events while business projects advance including a new drug store and brick kiln. A Terra post office delay hinders growth and Land Agent Malmin notes high yields before returning to Baker.
The North side XUP ship to Saugus next week with LA outfit. J W Motherhead and L Melean ship cattle with XIT outfit of LA. Ben Braye visits XIT ranch while traveling J W Motherhead’s ranch to buy a milk cow. A Reynolds at XIT to meet stage, horse fails on return, walks ten miles. Martin Maney builds reservoir for next year’s dry farming. Sk W Thomas builds dams on a creek bottom for hay meadow. R Morris, XI wagon boss, loses a 2 pet possum in snow. George Agen finds it on Custer creek. Morris buys McCaugh cattle. I McLean visits XI ST ranch. hog trouble at Motherhead’s. Snow drifts linger in Bi Sheep mountains from storm 25 26 27.
Dr Butler visits Ekalaka as locals report cattle dipping completed and sheep losses from night strays due to snow. Indiana's Mr Goi considers moving here with two brothers. Denver youths send many postal cards. Gillman Maxwell roundup hindered by poor weather. Mrs Sharp killed in a Belle Fourche runaway. three Sharp daughters and Willie survive. William Armstrong dies in North Dakota. Lions becomes new landlord at Hotel Taslor Jay Bh. Wilson adds sidewalk. Barber misses Friday ride due to storm.
Spring and Gabin Greeks Janet Williams ill for a week as nurse Miss Christenson attends. Louis Thorson opens Fallon school with Miss Shepnerd arrival next month. Fall dances planned in new hall. Coyote hunt excites Bullard Nichols and Luther Wells. James Whaley visiting from Miles City to help with threshing. Thorson from Hamlin Wisconsin compares Flat to Wisconsin. Cameron pets hawks and frogs noted. Bill Fight opens Four Lazy H Ranch post round-up homesteading chosen. Tom Hackney builds rock house on homestead near Cabin Creek. Jack Clevenger and Claude McCracken offer to trap wolves. Mrs Graff to prove up next month. Accident on Fallon creek as Williamson injured. hospital in Miles City. Mrs J D Johnson visiting Miles for 8 weeks. Thad Williams notes family.
Local notes report heavy rains delaying potatoes while a late frost spares one pumpkin vine. North Dakota threshing trips, visitors, barn construction, and a well digging project are mentioned along with minor thefts, railway work, and farm expansion plans. A station agent position is offered for Mildred.
Subscription notice lists J A McKinley Folker and publisher L A Conser as local editor and manager with payment terms for one year and six months in advance.
State Senator H N Sykes leads slate with Representatives S W Kelsey and Jos Hunter. County officials include Jos Bateman Sr as Commissioner, Otis Haynes as Clerk, A H Sword as Treasurer, Sharpless Walker as Attorney, W N Hawkins as Sheriff, W B Clarke as District Court Clerk, F S Gray as Coroner, George Robins as Assessor, H E Fearnall as Surveyor, J E deCarle as Public Administrator, and Miss Mary Lee Wilson as Superintendent of Schools.
Democratic State Senator O Cato. Representatives W W D Terrett J A McKinley. County Commissioner R T Furnish. Sheriff Hugh R Wells. County Clerk William Truscott. County Treasurer R Deibel. Clerk District Court J G Ramsey. County Attorney George W Meyers. Assessor J C Holt. Superintendent Public Instruction C W Grantley. Coroner Dr L C Bruning. Public Administrator Walter H Martin. County Surveyor W E Roberts.
C. R. Dixon of Chicago, Mrs. Sother's father, visited Mildred and praised the area. He survived a narrow escape in the Northern Pacific wreck near Billings and discussed upcoming telegraph wire installation in the near future.
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