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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1901
Page
5
Local and Personal notes recount New Year events in Townsend Montana including a watch night at the M E church and other houses, a century change ceremony, and reflections on the cold weather. Mentions Miss Flo Foster and friends reception, deaths from scarlet fever, and social visits. Includes local updates on schools, business moves, and community happenings.
My blacksmithing business with lease of building is for sale or rent. Will sell or rent tools. Parties owing me are requested to settle accounts as I intend retiring from the business. Thos. Downey Townsend, Mont., Dec. 26, 1900.
Purported advertisement states putrefying food in the intestines causes symptoms like arsenic. It claims Dr King’s New Life Pills expel poisons from clogged bowels gently and surely curing constipation biliousness sick headache fevers and liver kidney bowel troubles. Only 25e at Dunbar Drog Co's.
Postmaster in Winston may be replaced by C W Dodge soon. Odd Fellows officer installation postponed to Saturday. Social dance marks year change with residents James Coyle and James Lenahan attending. A six horse load of supplies to Cannon property near Stray Horse. Wilson Fletcher digs 600 foot tunnel to tap Martha W lead. Nelly McLaughlin ill with grippe. Helena visitor Miss Norman visits Joe Gravelle. Erick Johnson may marry. Billy Robbins ill. Mining notes report carbonates continue at Peter the Great on Eagle Creek with ore good at bottom. J J Warrens mill idle until February pending ore supply. dim Hargrove returns from Towns end to the Park. Never Sweat company remains active.
All parties knowing themselves indebted to us are asked to call and settle before January. After that date accounts will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. Signed Veter J. Meloy.
Property listing by H. Baldwin offers a residence with five lots on Front Street for sale at cash price far below cost. Inquiries directed to the MIV office. Townsend date December 27 1900.
Giant Hill society reports that operations restarted on the last day of the old year after initial hesitation. Mr William Roberts is actively representing Giant Hill on the lower tunnel while Charley Lowery and his wife departed for Marysville to visit Mr Airey and family.
Local items report a reward for a lost young man and plans to bid on a road from Charley Bruce's place to Hedge's ferry. Mentions visits, recoveries from illness, mining activity on Dueck creek, a new buggy, and a carload of ore from the Nancy mine. Jesse James is named as a county contender.
Mrs. Ulm and daughters Lola and Ada and Beecher Bentham attended a New Year gathering at Phantom Hall in Townsend. Lola Ulm will return to the state university in Missoula on January 6. T.O. Plunkett remains hospitalized in Helena since Christmas. Mrs. Olin and Laura Sherlock departed for California for the winter. Mrs. W. B. Lorentz has been ill.
An old ad offers a wide assortment of samples of suiting with honest dealing and good fit. Clothing altered or rework possible. Low prices highlighted to attract buyers.
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