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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1894
Page
3
The notice states Ekerley, Justice of the Peace, is found at the Messenger office. It mentions deeds mortgages and acknowledgments. It also lists an agent for Accident Insurance Company paying the insured for 52 weeks and insurance coverage up to $5,000. It references farmers insured at low rates.
Local notices announce Father Palladino preparing a History of Catholicity in Montana to be issued in an attractive form. The 700 page work aims to document Catholic history with scholarly rigor and broad access for church members and history students alike.
A fragmentary report lists subscriptions and disbursements on Indian Creek Road including payments to Silvers Neville and others for labor and services. The item references a Murray contract and cites mining law expert Copp with promotion of Copp's Mining Code and local dress goods offered by A M Sayre Co, plus a brief ad for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy by J R Weston.
A notice extols the Helena Business College under Prof. H T Englehorn noting near 100 pupil enrollment and a homey boarding house supervised by the principal's wife. It also mentions local graduates and a few names, plus saloon plans, Schreiner produce sales, Cosmopolitan ads, weather bureau contact, and Montana soap and flour offers.
White Sulphur Springs will publish the first issue of The Junior World on March 15. Editor Butte H lipton with Carl B Hard and KE L Miller as contributors plan an amateur journalism focus for Montana and North America. Rev E G Alderman will write two columns for the Pioneer Epworth League. The Schreiners in Helena run a large grocery and hardware store with a full stock of foods, utensils, fruit, candy, nuts, and vegetables.
Court sheriff advertises to pay eighty five cents per hundred for twenty five thousand pounds of oats. Montana Union Railway promotes three thousand mile books for travel from Portland to San Francisco with baggage allowance, featuring Pullman dining and sleeping cars and tourist sleeper. Tickets sold at 28 North Main Helena by H C Wilson, freight and passenger agent.
The committee asks ladies to wear calico gowns and gentlemen to appear in Hard Times Suits. Management hopes for full compliance with these attire requests.
The bulletin lists Northern Pacific and Union Pacific excursion tickets to San Francisco for the Midwinter Fair. NP offers a four dollar pass including five fair admissions with 30 day return validity. Union Pacific lists 62.50 round trips Helena to San Francisco with five admissions and 875.00 for six months, plus optional stopovers and through sleeping car reservations.
The Sixth Judicial District sets terms for Park and Meagher counties with fixed Mondays in January April June October February March September and November. A prior order dated December 28, 1801 is revoked. Judge Frank Henry signs the order dated January 24, 1804.
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