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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1893
Page
3
J C Kerley Justice of the Peace at the Mrasexask office handles deeds mortgages and acknowledgments. Agent for Standard Accident Insurance Company offering weekly total disability benefits and insurance amounts from 1000 to 5000 dollars. Nearly all classes insured with low farmer rates.
Local items advertise life insurance policies for miners and workers, banking notices from First National Bank, social visits of Dr Louis Rotwitt, town news from Townsend and Meagher county, upcoming dances, theatre posters, and local business promotions. Mentions World’s Fair visits, marriage in Helena, pasturage for sale near Townsend, and regional weather cues with deer and elk reports.
Mining notes reveal James Anderson of Winston with a promising Crown Point gold prospect in the Spokane mountains. Pay ore about 15 inches wide and high quality. Thompson bonds the Freyburg near East Pacific. 20 plus men to work. East Pacific and H. and H employ 90 and 30 plus men respectively.
Local advertisement praises Helena Parsian Steam Laundry for spotless results and fresh scent, contrasting with Chinese laundries. It urges patrons to obtain price lists from J. C. Reiley, agent at Townsend House, who covers transport both ways.
Free copy offered by Price Baking Powder Company Chicago to any lady sending name town and state by postal card. The 400 plus pastry and home cookery receipts cover table setting dining room hints and economical kitchen tips with options for German or Scandinavian language versions.
An army of Deep Creek residents contributed generously last Saturday afternoon to pastor E. L. Lee and his family. Collectors received the best fruits of the earth and flocks in abundant offerings, which the pastor will remember as a timely act of support for the Master's cause.
Quotations from customers praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla as the trusted remedy over competing substitutes. The ad notes consumer insistence on the original product and warns against inferior imitations. Local merchant J. KR Weston claims top selling records for Dr. King’s remedies, with guarantees and refunds offered.
The piece lists several officers for Masonic and allied orders including Jacob Loeb and G K of R for K of P, Cornelius Hedges for A F & A M Masonic department, Dr B Irvine Stone for S O O F, Judge John W Eddy for A O O W, W S Wotan for Lone of Veterans, Ed B Walker for Grand Army, and Massena Bullard for Independent Order of Good Templars. It also promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds with free trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Store, large size 5c and $1.
The Florid Italian hall of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows invites Sojourning brethren to attend weekly meetings at Judge Weston’s drug store. Meetings held every Monday night. W. C. Whaley and T. N. Aventtt serve as officers.
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