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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1900
Page
5
Local business report notes the Townsend Mercantile Co. engaged with Downsend Messenger in Tacrspay on February 22, 1900. The brief item highlights a commercial exchange or dispute between the two entities.
Rev Tower visits Helena. Miss Nettie Williams of Crow creek visits Mrs Tim McCarthy. Catholic ladies meet March 1 at 2. A dance March 2 at Deep Creek school with basket supper and Lenahan music. Mining man John Keating sees promising mine developments and an April 1 mill start. Lecture by Rev Pool on Nature's Wonderland tours Townsend March 1 2 Hassel March 5. Deer hunt notes from Avalanche gulch. Birthday party for Ray McCarthy with contests and prizes. Pythian ball March 16 with supper in Tierney's hall. Celebration of Deep Creek cemetery history and Rosa Sharp lineage.
Mr and Mrs G C Ballard celebrated their 25th anniversary on February 14 at their home. Weather kept guests away but the event was praised as a social highlight. A list of gifts appeared and the era dated marriage of George C Ballard to Rosetta A Sharp on February 14 1875 was noted with ceremony at the Kanouse residence.
John Bardon hauls wood while B H West and George Ballard put up ice. Irve Hawkins visits town for a tooth extraction. Miss Minnie Lewis visits Townsend friends. Mrs W W Harvey and son Will ill. Miss Mary Andrew visits sister Mrs Thos Thompson. Helen Erickson visits sister Christene of Townsend. Dick Clendenin improving after illness. Maude Ballard Mrs W S Thompson and son Berton attend Episcopal services in Townsend. Mr and Mrs G C Ballard celebrate silver wedding on the Mth last. Cold weather reduces guests. dinner decor shows fine china and silverware and many gifts. Guests depart by eight o’clock after best wishes for longevity of married bliss.
Mrs Leaf of Townsend works as nurse for Joseph Kolterbronn in Hassel. Leader Duff watches strays. Tower and DeCamp bring sleigh party from metropolis. Lillie Roberts attends Townsend masquerade. Sampson Schreiner finish ore haul from Sutter mine. Kolterbronn injured by dynamite blast. five fuses lit, one stuck. John Dougherty hurries to Towns end with Dr Gilham. Patient bruised, not moved from bed.
O A Tibbits left Winston for Helena on Saturday. Godfrey Kuhner visited friends in Weasel Gulch over Sunday and Monday. Peter Reess praises his baby as the best girl he ever saw except its mother. Ben Hepner stores up Jack Frost’s handy work for summer. James Whitehead, Jack Newell and other locals noted.
Uncle Josh Slates secures lease at Freyburg mine in Weasel Miss Cordy Haley travels from Tron Age gulch toward Helena but stays for Winston ball. Miss Rosa Devitt visits Maggie in Missoula. The hotel boarders praise Maggie for meals. Ike Snodder forms a Young Men's Christian Association to entertain discharged miners at the E P mine. Ball aids miners awaiting a boarding house dispute settlement with homegrown music and a lap supper after midnight.
Our school reports normal progress though some pupils are absent due to illness. Dora Maxwell is absent with a severe attack of lagrippe while Chas Cotter returns to studies after a week at home. Mr and Mrs Ringleberg of Radersburg visited Wednesday and the school formed a literary society named Up-to-date. The UT Ds will meet biweekly with a program including singing and minutes.
Private infirmary in Bozeman Montana offering care for diseases of women and lower bowel with a trained nurse on site. Address C M Chambliss MD for further information and details on facilities and surroundings.
The program features vocal solo by Carrie Holloway and readings by Mamie Bucher plus a string of debates on steam engines versus printing presses and universal suffrage. It showcases a large cast including Hal Daniels, Tom Lenahan, and many local performers with orchestra interludes. A beverage ad touts Bell of Lexington whiskey and Dodge's Foot Comfort advertises sore feet relief.
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