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PROPRIETOR

Fre.h MeetsSausages

and everath'ng usually keptin a first-class and up-to-

date Meat Market.Evertything cool

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Si,. Paul, Minn.C. J. Dougherty, Agent, Plains, Mont.

First National- BankPLAINS - - MON TATA

Draws dr..fts and letters of CreditAvailable in all parts cf the World

Interect Paid on Time Deposits

BOARD OF DIRECTOR

J. A. McGowan

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C. W. Powell •

C H. Rittenour,

President

.. Vice President

Cashier

Anton Zebish

Dr. W. P. DeMIS

DentistPLAINS MONTANA

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'We Guarantee, the hest materials,

the best materials, the best rock

inanship, modern methods • and

reasonable feesSomnaforme administered for pain-

less extraction and preparing teeth

for Crown seal Bridge-work.

HENRI .1. 6URLE1GH _

Mtereyaill coollsellor:at lawUnited States Commissioner

Office next door to First;Nael Bank

Practice in all the-State and

Federal Courts

Plains Montana

J. J. FischerProprietor of the

Palace ShopExpert horseshoeing and

wood work.

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110T SPRINGSM. E. Queue Prcprielor

Regular stage to and from Plains Wed.

°essays and Saturds)s. Hound trip 92

Rates per week at Springs 1()

which includes board, room, meals andall prI•ilrgeo at the Springs

Post Office Address

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!STUDENTSINTERESTED

TINTPLAINS, SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA, THUR3DAY, ...TANUAlY 3. 1007.

BID ADIEU TO 1906 i ORDER OF O. E. S.

Enjoyable Gathering anti A New Order:Justitnted inDinner at the Home of

Will Attempt to Have

Plains School on

Accredited List

Wednesday of this week the pub-

lic schools of Plains opened for the

winter term, after the holiday vaca-

tion. Both teachers and pupils en-

10-Ye4.t.he rest ancLaro-ruuu, fitted

cope with the arduous duties of the

school room that are before them.

Efforts will be put forth by the

teachers and their charges to have

this school placed on the accredited

list of high schools and in this they'

have the best wishes of 'those inter-ested in a higher education.

It is a lamentable. fact that theschool last winter for sonic causedid not come up to expectations,but a different Wise has been given tothe work this year, and by close ap-plication the students will ,end theschool year with credit to themselvesand honor to their instructors. Prin-cipal Clothier has ,submitted thefollowing report: ."Plains, Montana, Doe. 29, 190G.

Report of school Dist. No. 1,for the first three , months enflingNov. 30, 1906: •No. pupils enrolled 121Nu, ' '• ' 1se1origing- -.117Average daily atteadauee 118Percentage of attendance 96.xNu. of days attendance 6707

-Noetif- tineei tardy „tat -No. of days absence ;;.:' 192

"As a whole, the school is pro-gressing fairly well. The daily at-tendance could be improved, andthe number of tardy marks couldand should be lowered to a 'mini-mum during the rest of the term astilff dayuwttl-te-gettthg --"Multi interest is shown, general-

ly, by the pupils in their workBoth teachers and pupils are laborsing under disadvantages because ofthe lack of library facilities, as wehave practically no reference Woke:nothing but the dry text. However, we hope to remedy this dur-ing the next few months by giv;nga cantata for the benefit of the li-brary, as the little made front, theMiss Psitter recital was nearly allused in buying the necessary sup-plimentery readers for the lowerrades."It is our intention to bring the

school up to .the level of otherschools of its kind in the state. Todo this we shall expect all pupilsgraduating from the eighth grade topalm an average of 80 per cent,with a minimum of 70 percent, onIke examivation questions sent outby the state superintendent of put-lie instruction. In the ninth andtenth grades we hope to get on theaccredited list of the Missoula highschool it possible. This will nec-essitate taking their examinationsfor this year at least.

.A. CurruISR."

Death of 'Mrs. Drews

Sunday morning, C. H. Drews,

who had act ep'ed a position as of

floe man for W. B. Russell, receiv-

ed a telegram stating that his wife

had died that morning jn Missoula,

and he left on a freight to attend to

the funeral arrangements. „ Mrs.

Dretis hail been nts-invalid foi sev-

eral years, althp the severe attack of

heart trouble had been of a few

day's duration. .The deceased. was the daughter of

William fitolte,' of 'Silver Bow, a

pioneer of the statt. She leaves a

son Cart, 8 yeIrs old, and a sister

at Silver Bow, where the body was

interr&I. Mr. Drews until recently

was with the circulation departmentof the Anaconda Standard and hasformed many friends thruout the

state who will 'deeply sympathize

with him In the lose of his wife.

At the nome of Mrs. Blaimlell

New Year' eve, Mrs. Blaisdell and

We. Withal were hosteieses of a

"watch" petrty.

James Willis

For a sort of a last, contemplativelook upon the good end enjoyablethings that had come to them dat-ing the year 1906, Mr. and Mrs.James Willis, Sunday, gatheredaround them at their spacious farmhome a little group of their friendsfor a good turkey'dinner and social'ebny'erse.

A big sleigh-ride had been con-templated but the Storni King ruledotherwise, and the day was spent insmall talks about the eventful hap-penings of the past year and largehopes launched for 1907. It wasone of those gatherings which aCarlton or a Lowell would havettined to song at the Meadow BrookFarm, but if poetic genius was lack-ing there were yet hearts i that nocial group which could eel thewarmth and cheer only to,e foundin the rural home, and when theydeparted the visitor and the visitedwere better citizens for having mettogether.Those present were Hart Willis,

who is home on a visit from theWashington university at Seattle,Rev. and Mrs. P. B. Jackson, Louiseand Mamie Glenn Jacksotti CountyAttorney and Mrs. H: V. Schultz,Marion Scultze MillifICIdarg. Smith,Mr. and Mrs. John Monagha,George Monaghan, Mrs. C. B. Leb-cher, Master Chester Lebeher, andM. H. Pierce.

Plains in BriefJames Mills has returned to Mis-

soula afier a week's visit with Plains.friends.

__MitteltEt...Abbey Andy daug hterFlerenee came down from Missoulaand visited with Mr. Abbey a fewdays this week, and while here at-tended the organization of the Order of Eastern Star.

Joe Meany is on his way to NewYork an I Boston. After visitingrelatives he will takileaions inear-toon work. Jee has done severalpie :es of cartoon work for the Sig-nal and was engaged during the latecampaign to furnish prodnetions.He got up several splendid cartoonsbut unfortunately they were receiv-ed from the engraving house toolate for use. Mr. Me my his anatural talent for that particularkind of work and this paper withhis large circle of friends predict abright future for, the young man.

Agent Dougherty of the N. P.office takes pride in showing to hispatrons the huge safe that was re-ceived last week. It has all of thelatest Improvements and is an anti-dynamite affair.

Mr. and Mrs. John Means- havereturned from Missoula.. The judge'shealth is considerably improved.

Xa'_.ielie Love has turned publicbenefactor. He has the thanks of ,the people for using the snow . plowon the place where the side walksought to be.

Advices received from the countysuperintendent of schools state

that the December apportionment

for this district is $1,793.10, an in-crease of $616. 10.

Miss Ovlia Dorris has "%ma en-gaged to teach the new school atEddy, this county. She will take

charge next Monday.

W. S. Peckins was a visitor from

Sittte Monday. Ile holds a posisi-

tion with the McKee Engraving

company of that city.

Assessor D. IV. Brown of Trout

Creek was greeting friends in town

Monday.

• A. J. King, an insurane‘ agent

of Missoula, was in town this week.

Friday night Miss Jackson and

the Mimeos Pendergrass gave an in-

vitation 'softy in Avery's hall tO a

large party of their friend4 Dane'ing was the principle amusement.Refreshments were served.

Mies; Louise ltlertzig has returnedto Anaconda after a visit with her

sister Mrs. Chas. &birth.

I'lains WednesdAy Nightby Grand Matron]

A lodge of the above order wasorganized in Odd Fellow's hallWednesday night by Grand MatronMM. E. G. Pomeroy of Kalispell,assisted by Mr. and Mrs. If. E. Day,Mrs- Sanford Weak. • Mrs.. -Frank"Woody, and Davis, all of Mis-soula. The new organization wasChristened-Weal Chapter No. 40,U. D. and starts off with a splendedmembershrp. The Order of EasternStar is an auxilliary tO the MasonsFollowing the preliminary work ofinstituting and installing, a Inchwas served by the ladies. The chap-ter will be officered as follows forthe coming term:W M—Delia McGowanW P—D. S. McLeodA 31----Mary J. McLeodSec.—Gertrude BonedickTreasurer—Ethel G. ToulminCon'tress—Addie E. AbbeyA. Con'tress—Emolyn BowmanChaplain—.L E. AbbeyAdah—AtnylCrugerRuth—Helen BlaisdellElecta—Florence AbbeyWarder—Alice tlarkSentinel—G. A. Toulinin

Union Exereisei

The following program was render-ed at the M. E. church Christmaseve by the children of the Congrega-tional and Methodist churches, anaccount of which was given in theissue of last week.Music, Violin SoloScripture Reading, Birth of Christ,Vesta 13enedick-Music, Joy to the World—Rise—iiiii-o-n,-Christmas Bells, LillieFellowsClass Exercises, ‘et the AngelsRing the Bells, Rowena Garber, IvaBenedick, Alean iVagner, Ada Ba-ker, Harvey BakerDeclamation, Things I Want, Ilar-vey BakerMusic, When Sail a the SilverMoon-boat, SchoolRecitation, Nobody's Child, Nellie

OstlieDialogue, Large Hearted LittleOnes, Erma Wagoner, Sylvia Deno,Charles Dildine, Harvey Baker, Le-lia Deno, Henry Baker, Alum Wag-ner, Carl BowmanRecitations Writing to Santa Claus,Rum 7Tailitery -Reading, The Kingdom of Heaven,

Lucile GarberSolo, Selected, t'llester LebcherRecitation, Christmas Day Has

Conic at Last, Helen ScottRecitation, Christmas Problem,Howard BradshawDevotion. Nearer My God, to Thee,

Lucile Garber, Rowena Garber,Nellie °stile, Ade Baker, AleanWagner, Lillie Fellows Helen SeetDialogue, Contentment BetterThan Riches, Tom Dougherty, %Vet-don BowmanRecitation, Santa and Ilia Rein-

deer, Lewella GravesMusic, Ring Out the Olden Story,

SchoolSolo, Selected, Mrs. C. W. PowellClosing Address, Hiram Baker

While sleigh riding Miss GreenBurrell was thrown out but not in-jured. The team ran away andcrippled the sleigh some.

Joseph Pardee, son of Postmasteranti Mrs. Pardee has returned to hishome in Steveneviile after a pleas-gent visit with his parents duringthe holidays.

Sheriff-elect Nlasei and familymoved to the county seat Wednes-day. The new officers will takecharge next Monday.

"No one will be diesaphinteel whoengages Williams' Original DixieJubilee Singers for a concert. Theywere greeted enthusiastically whenever they appeared upon the plat-teem at Colfax, Iowa, assembly.Bishop McCabe. The. companywill appear in Plains, under the

!atufpices of the local Christain union

ion Monday, Feb.

1:10ME NEWSIN BRIEFS

Short Items Gatheredfor the Benefit ofSignal Readers

George Good was a visitor fromThompson Saturday. Mr. •Goodspent the greater part of the ammo-in Plains working on a lumberingcontract with his teams. He hookshail and hearty anti was given theglad hand by a host of friends who areitTways pleased to see him.

It is rumored that Assessor-electEd Knott will appoint Hugh Steph-ens as his deputy. Mr. Stephenswill not retire front the treasurer'soffice until the first of March. The

appointment will undoubtedly bereceived with general satisfaction forhe has made a splenid public ser-vant.

Services will be held in the M.E. church on Sunday, Jan, 6, ateleven o'clock in the morning andseven-thirty in the evening. Sundayschool at 10 a. ne Everyone cor- IMPROVEMENT COMPANY<Bally invited.

I. J. Ross has been hauling fin-ishing lumber this week for the OddFellows hall. The building was toutup last winter and only the secondstory completed, which has beenused for.lodge purposes by the dif •ferent orders. The first floor willbe finished up and prepared l'or ren-tal.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Self werevisitors in town Wednesday fromtheir pretty home on Lynch creek.

The Ladies' Aid society expetedto be entertained January 10.by Mrs. John Meany, but owing tosickness in the family.

J. _P. Hinehlewood was downlast week from -the Hiftehle Of Jd

Lewis saw mill Auld—spent severaldays in town. 'Ile said that indi-rectly he had been informed thatMrs. Skyle Lewis, who recently un-derwent an operatiorritrone of theMinneapolis hospitals, was improv-ing and he thought that she wouldsoon regain her health. This willbe pleasing news to her Sanderscounty friends.

Camile, or as friends are pleasedto call him "Jimmie" Vanderateedethe gentleman who slicks up yourface at so much per, went to Mis-soula Tuesday to attend to businessmatters. .

W. T. DolSon and daughter, MissGrace. attended the New Year'sdance at Thompson.

Mies Della T. Mackey, the teach-er at the Lynch creek school, spenther holiday vacation in Plains withher father and brother.

Miss Ruth May has been visitingwith her family here during theholidays. She has charge of the4choul at Dixon, and the trusteesgave here vacation of two weeks.

George Helterline, one of thethrifty framers near town, was look-,ing after business in the county seatthe first of the week.

Mr. and Nits. E. P. Day movedte their farm on Swamp creek thefirst of the week. Mr. Day built ahousa on the plaeo this winter.

C. C. Willis and family mewed intheir new farm resilenee Mon lsy ofthis week.

Monday L E. Blackman, bountyinspector, was in town early its theweek and inspected about 80 coyotehides. Ile said he would like tohave a rush like that every day andthen he could wear a plug hat anda bald faced shirt.

Ed La Rue, who has a wood eon'tract, had one of his eyes bandagedit few days this week as the resultof coming ie contact with a pieceof wood.

Rev. W. S. Bell of Helena willhold services in the Congregationalchurch next Sunday, morning andevening.

Snow to the depth of five inchestoday. The cold weather that pre-vailed' over the Mate the first ofthe sear did not reach Mins. The

I lowest the thermometer registered!last week was 20 above zero.

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Lodge No. 1890 meets every first andthird Tuesdays in DJ,' Fellows hall atS 3.) o'clockelo the evening. Visitingmembers are cordially Invited at'tend any of the meetings.Jolts Prr.lient,

tns EMOLTri BOWNIAE,grvretery,

Insurance, Fire, A ccidei it, I eLive Stock Insurance. Call On A'K. Willis,

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