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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
8
Public notices announce Sunday School each Sunday at 1 p m and preaching at 7 50 p m in winter. Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m. Young Peoples Mutual Improvement Society gathers Friday at 7 30 p m. All are invited. Pastor Fred Clemo.
Townsend Lodge No 6 holds meetings on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays at Masonic Hall Broadway Townsend. Meets every 2nd Saturday in Masonic Hall with Mrs Anthony Suarez W M and Miss Anna Keigny Secretary Townsend Montana. Sojourning brethren invited. Also IOOF Hall meetings Monday nights with Wm McCorick N G and G Warr Secretary.
A. F. and A. M. lodge schedules gatherings on the fourth Saturday each month at the hall above Judge Weston’s Drug Store. All visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. Officers listed: A. E Spriggs W. M De G, W. Gillam Secretary.
The platform calls for broader federal power after court actions to evenly share government costs, protect American labor by limiting foreign pauper labor, and reform monetary policy. It urges stronger ICC control of railways, denounces wasteful taxation, backs economy, opposes federal injunctions, supports contempt trials by jury, and endorses honest pension administration and territorial expansion to statehood. It also advocates Alaska as a territory with local residency for officials and broader public land use for free homes, and supports improving public waterways including the Mississippi for inland states.
A political declaration opposes life tenure in the civil service and supports merit based appointments with fixed terms. It urges restoring prosperity through legislation and constitutional restraint. An accompanying ad touts Parks Cough Syrup as a cure for throat and lung diseases, sold by W. E. Tierney & Co.
Wills price promotion promises savings of twenty five percent. Winchester or UMC paper shells loaded with black powder or smokeless powder options available. Shot sizes 12 and 10 gauge with box quantities. Ansonia alarm clocks nickel plated and mantle clocks with black walnut cases and engraved glass. Prices listed with various amounts.
June Barcarns offers Hazelton sewing machine oak case and a three piece chamber suit for 20 dollars with full set at 35 dollars. An elegant silk plush sewing rocker 6.75, baby carriages below Montgomery Ward, 20 foot bamboo fish pole 53. Prices stated as daily cash values, not weekly, with trunks and valises at actual cost.
Time is money and a Burlington Route via Billings promises 10 hours saved to Omaha. Advertisements urge remedies for blood purification eczema scrofula and eruptions with De Witt's Sarsaparilla and Witch Hazel Salve, plus One Minute Cough Cure and Parks' Tea sold by W E Tierney & Co.
A recent notice highlights unaccompanied travel by children on the Burlington Route from Ellenburg Washington to Kansas City. It notes ages from five to eleven and directs readers to seek tickets timetables and service information from local agents or H F Roost Helena or W W Jonsros Billings Montana C A.
W H Brooking has taken charge of the Agency for this Laundry. Baskets sent on Tuesdays and returned on Saturdays. Good work guaranteed.
A One Dollar subscription to Starrores New Magazine promises a year of monthly issues and fifteen complete premium books sent immediately. The listed titles include Hawthorne, Braddon, Haggard, Dumas, Scott, Conan Doyle, Bulwer Lytton, and Dickens among others, with payment via P.O. order or registered mail to Stafford’s New Magazine, New York.
Travel faster and cheaper by choosing the Billings and Burlington line. Save from 10 to 22 hours to Omaha St. Joseph and Kansas City and 9 hours to St. Louis.
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