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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1891
Page
4
Advertising rates announced by Townsend Messenger editor J C Kenney. Paper published every Friday morning from Townsend with post office delivery and secondclass mailing name and address.
Town and Valley reports rising Townsend population, new hospital plans by Dr. Belcher and Gillham, road improvements to the park, a winter of shifting weather, a Butte death, and local business notes including coal sales and a canal stock offering. The piece mixes community uplift with personal notices and local commerce.
Tim McCarthy is much improved after a several day illness. Baby Patchen has recovered from a severe sore throat. A February masquerade was a success with orderly management by Oar F and Social Five. Mr and Mrs Patchen hosted a pleasant evening with guests including Mr Dan McCarthy and others. Dr C A Wilder, a local dentist, has settled here with family arriving yesterday. W J Sutherlin and Mrs F E Lee registered at the Hotel De Townsend en route to White Sulphur Springs. Judge L A Lace traveled to the Springs for a dip. Hugh S Tague, formerly of Townsend now in Helena, visited the masquerade and sister Mrs Dan McCarthy. Mrs E F Smith of Sheep Creek area left for home after a week in Townsend. Mrs James Smith of St Louis and her mother Mrs Towmbly returned from a Missouri visit.
Mr Geo A McLean, superintendent and builder of the new wagon bridge across the Missouri, has swung two spans free of ice and aims to finish the last by week’s end to open by March 1. Road Supervisor Wine directs piers of log cribs seven feet high filled with stone, advancing rapidly.
Townsends grapples with building a first class wagon road to the Park as subscriptions grow among business and real estate stakeholders. The drive shifts from talk to action with twenty miners arriving to start rock work, the committee promising full kickoff Monday despite awaiting cabins and tents.
A lively 17th century themed masquerade at Tierney’s Hall drew a mixed crowd despite bad weather. The event featured elaborate costumes from sailors to jesters, with a long list of participants and a Duck Creek Literary Society program including dialogues recitations and a debate on whether animals act by instinct.
The state weighs how to fund Montana's Chicago World's Fair exhibit with a special levy on mining profits above operating costs. Caleb E Irvine, a pioneer and former Probate Judge, was laid to rest in a large Western Montana funeral. Castle strikers were fined while more trials loom. A. M. D'Arcey & Co. advertises furs and ladies wear.
General merchandise listing from Placer Montana promising stock for farmer miner or prospector needs. Claims in stock groceries tobacco gum boots operators and other supplies with very reasonable prices.
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