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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
3
Cash Dunbar returns to town. Miss Daisy Daniels completes a successful term in Deep Creek. Epworth league marks Washington birthday. Whaley Bros sell Metropole whiskey. Townsfolk attend dances, church services, and social events. several residents plan travels and home purchases. local industry notes and repairs.
Deep Creek reopens after two week vacation with updates on Miss Nora Rardon returning from Helena with Mrs. A Rardon. Miss Stella Thompson visits Miss Zeal Hirt in Townsend. Arthur Dean makes Sunday calls. Clendenin couple attend Townsend sociable. Ella West guests Miss Vera Marks of Townsend. W S Thompson improves eyesight and vows to drop the nickname. Shoemaker's saw mill near Deep Creek nearing completion. Lottie Clendenin on sick list. Maud Ballard learns German translation. Irv Hawkins builds timbers for a mountain ranch house. A Witmer in Helena reports Frank Lindernith improving after hospital stay. Ballard loading a hay car. Pansy.
Frank Powers killed hogs Tuesday. Let Heath transported grain to Helena on Monday. Miss Daisy Daniels returns home after a four months term of school on lower Deep Creek.
W. E. Tierney & Co offers Schilling's Best coffee soda flavoring extracts and spices with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Full line includes baking powder and related products.
A school pamphlet from White Sulphur Springs mocks local services with a riddle about lacking water lights rails and literature. Odd Fellows gathering and a February teachers' certificate exam are announced. A local ranch ad notes 150 hens for sale by J W Tinsley at Town Eun and Rournes.
A satirical portrait describes Townsend’s inner circle of reformers as “Knights of the Star Chamber” who plot to shield townsfolk from unscrupulous leaders. The piece lampoons a math professor, a debauched custodian, the ghost of Peter De Funct, and others as they imagine a town board of trade to elevate Townsend into a metropolitan center while exposing printing bills as a peril to the people.
The town paper rails at Tammany Hall accusing it of seeking to overthrow county leadership and set up a rival regime. A petition is dismissed after clashing with law as a district judge is pressed to appoint allies. A public notice announces deputy county attorney J E Kanouse’s temporary role and other local sales and ads in Radersburg Montana.
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