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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1894
Page
4
Notice states J H McKune and John R Stout dissolved all partnership. Stout assumes all responsibilities and debts. Joan H McKune listed. Published weekly at Townsend with editor John R Stout.
The Big Timber Pioneer highlights Sweetgrass county’s push to form a new county, expressing support for local residents’ effort and their entitlement to success in achieving formal establishment.
G. G. Warr, candidate for County Clerk, was defeated by 16 votes in a tight race. The brief notice notes the close contest and offers best wishes for Warr’s future campaigns.
The notice warns that the tax payment period is ending soon with a December first deadline. It threatens a ten percent surcharge after that date and urges readers to secure funds to meet obligations.
The grandest celebration in Montana history took place in Helena on Monday as thousands of visitors joined locals in a record celebration. Townsendites numbered roughly 125 to 150 as part of the sizable turnout.
The piece urges trimming trees and planting new ones now to prepare for spring and summer work. It notes better interest in fruit growing than ranchers and claims the Missouri valley climate suits hardy fruits as well as Montana.
Strone wins a 44 265 plurality in a 270 000 vote mayoral race becoming the first Republican mayor of New York City and will lead the first Republican board of aldermen in years. The outgoing board is dominated by Tammany. the new board will be 18 Republicans to 12 Tamany with a Democrat president who opposes Tammany.
A post election address urges Montana voters to unite for Meagher county and the Treasure State. It credits citizens with ending misrule and promises pure legislation, renewed investment, and labor rights under a new era of prosperity.
For the fiscal year ending last June the army enlisted 7818 men, 4912 of them native Americans. Desertions were at a record low. Additionally two thirds of those nearing term expiration signaled plans to re-enlist. Salt Lake Tribune.
President Cleveland's strike commission issues a sweeping report condemning the Pullman system and the Railway Managers Association as illegal. It supports Olney's Reading case letters and signals a shift toward recognizing labor rights equal to capital, while praising the American Railway Union despite critical findings about others.
The speaker warns against issuing fifty million dollars in new bonds amid no war or plague. He recalls wartime fears and predicts the Treasury chief would seek to prop up credit by bond issue. He argues such action would destroy value and harm the nation.
Doctors long dismissed catarrh as local but science shows it is constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio is marketed as the only constitutional remedy to be taken internally with a stated dose. The firm offers 100 dollars for any failure to cure and invites requests for circulars and testimonials.
Mr A W Schreiber of Diamond traveled to the capital. J C Thomas remains ill with pneumonia at the Commercial Hotel. Tom Gauntt fractures a leg while cutting cattle after his horse hit a badger hole. Fick McCormick crushes hand but no bones break. Nearby ranchers visit for the weekly school exhibition as elections nominate Jas Jobb for Assessor, Wm McKnight for Sheriff, and A E Spriggs for Legislature.
GE of Herlin plans a von Hefner Alteneck clock that runs with incandescent lamps in the same circuit. It would wind at low cost and sync all clocks by briefly lowering voltage daily. Separate item notes a war department letter stating Captain Lockwood faced threats during the Livingston strike and troops actions were deemed a necessary suppression of insurrection.
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