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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger carries an editorial on the coal strike with strong labor advocacy. It argues labor must unite against concentrated capital and seeks greater rights and fair rewards for workers, urging public sympathy and legislative backing amid the nationwide dispute.
The regional scene shows timely rains aiding haying in alfalfa while barley and wheat look strong. W.S. Thompson tends timothy and red top with fruit trees heavy with apples, currants, goosberries, and strawberries. Col. Boone and Geo Dexa plant large grain fields. Herman Starkweather grows substantial alfalfa as a future feed crop. A. A. French expands sowing to alfalfa, totaling seventy to eighty acres this year.
Co. BE 8 meets every 2nd Saturday at the Masonic Hall. All visiting members of the order are invited to attend. Miss J. Winstreep Powers W. M. Miss Ansa Keene, Secretary, Townsend, Montana.
Reports of new gold finds along Alaska raise expectations that may dwarf earlier discoveries. The Helena assay office reported $200000, and Townsend residents eye an Arctic spring rush. Yet high wages, scarce work, travel costs, and a short season temper optimism with doubt.
Defendants in the Ninth Judicial District of Montana Broadway County face a foreclosure action filed by the plaintiff to enforce a mortgage note dated June 25 1892 payable September 25 1892 with interest and penalties. The suit seeks sale of mortgaged premises to cover 761.78 dollars plus interest and costs, with possible deficiency judgment against Thos Crahan and Viola G Crahan and a lien priority ruling for J R Marks. Defendants must answer within twenty days or face default. Clerk Lambert notes the action date as July 24.
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