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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1898
Page
2
Advertising rates are listed as $1.00 per month with Townsend post office being the official second class mailer. U H Caton is editor and proprietor.
Fragmentary notice lists postal hours and services. General delivery opens 7:00 am to 8:00 pm daily. Express mail and money orders available. Sunday delivery hours noted.
A Minnesota farmer and stockman extols Broadwater County Montana describing its climate soil and irrigation suitable for crops and ranching. He highlights Townsend as a thriving county seat and notes mining agricultural and grazing wealth plus ample wood coal and scenic prospects. Broadwater county is all right.
The text highlights that wage improvements come not from strikes or conflict but via peaceful convention and arbitration between employers and workers. It calls for annual January meetings to set wage scales for the coming year, praising these peaceful victories as advancing people's welfare.
In Broadwater county, critics accuse the county printer contractor of overcharging for blanks books and advertising. An examiner hired by the commissioners found specific overcharges totaling 3 dollars and undercharges of 8.82 dollars, leaving a 5.82 dollar balance owed to the county printer. The town is roiled in a newspaper war between the Star and the Messencer, with broader calls for an end to personal journalism feuds.
The article urges building ice houses now to store ice for next summer. It argues ice is a useful, even essential, item for dairy work and comfort, accessible to families who prepare, especially farmers with teams and wagons. Ice water and ice cream are noted as summer luxuries with health benefits.
One of the greatest gains for labor, a peaceable Chicago convention achieved a 10 cent per ton wage rise about 20 percent and eight hour day. The advance benefits 200 000 miners and families, aims to standardize shorter hours. leisure and self improvement matter as much as pay. The outcome is seen as permanent and likely to spread across industries.
Canton residents seek to replace the White Sulphur Springs route ending March 1 by establishing a mail line from Canton to Diamond and on to the Springs via Fort Logan. A $3900 telephony project is proposed to support the new service, to be funded and built in a single day if a united effort forms.
The vote shows little shift for or against the gold standard as bi metalism stalls. Administration Republicans largely back the single standard, while Populists and Democrats cohere to push their currency cause toward a final victory.
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