The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-04-07
LOCAL NEWS.
From Mondays Daily.


ena and Bozcman to-day.
Mrs. Leith and daughter, .of Helena,
are stopping at the Park for few days.
Mr.. Taylor, agent of the Helena Inde-
pendent, spent Saturday in town and
then passed on eastward.
4. NJ. Wardwell has left town to as
sumo a position on the engineer corps
| Of the Park branch.
We notice by the Miles City Press that
"Squid" Rice is in that town en- route
from st. Paul to Puget Sound.
F.S. Mitchell, late agent for Crockett
& Shotwell, has gone east. He made
many friends during his stay in this
town.
Thomas Flanagan will sometime this
week open saloon and billiard hall in
the building lately vacated by John
Smith.
Jas. Ferguson and VIM. D. Webb,
democratic candidates for sheriff and
county commissioner, respectively, are
rustling votes up the valley.
A stage curtain with the names of the
Democratic candidates handsomely
painted upon it will be displayed in the
Opera House this evening.
5. Il. Ainslie, superintendent of the
Yellowstone division of the n. 2. r. r.,
and Col. Pike, of the construction de-
partment, are in town and stopping at
the Headquarters.
The squad Of Republican candidates
and "strikers" who raided the upper
country last week report that at their
meetings and private Interviews they
were received with fairly patient hear
ing. 1t would be pity to let them
down too hard.
Stebbins, Post & Mund, the Billings
bankers, are about to open branch es-
tablisIment at Livingston, to be called
The Bank of Livingston. A. L. Love
will probably have charge of the busi-
ness for time, but we are pleased to
learn that he will not absent himself
from Billings permanently.
In exchange for specimens Of fossil
fish sent to friend in Morris, Illinois,
Col. Whitney has received some most
beautiful petrifed ferns, found in the
coal regions of that State. Any lover Of
the curious in nature should obtain the
privilege Of examining these ferns.
From want Of support the centre of
the courthouse floor has marked
downward tendency and in consequence
thereof the audience and enthusiasm at
the next political meeting is liable to
meet with a fall. Those who have the
building in charge-the county commits
sioners we prcsume-should give this
matter their attention.
The Montana Lumber company have
purchased Messrs. Crockett & Shotwells
entire stock, This, in addition to what
they had OH hand before the purchase,
gives them the largest yard of lumber
between Fargo and the Pacific coast.
They are about to erect large shed for
the storage Of dressed lumber and two
story Office building.
Bogus kilograms, nicely tied up par
cells containing nothing but empty air,
and tobacco bags we'll packed with saw
dust were among the devices to catch
the unwary which were lying around
town Yesterday. 1t was All Fools day
and those who had nothing better to do
celebrated the day at the expense Of
such of their neighbors as were not on
the lookout for jokes.
A. C. Logan, Custer county's superin-
tendent of schools, paid his first, and
We presume his last, official visit to Bill
ings on Friday and Saturday of last week.
Better late than never. He was we'll
pleased with our school and its manage
ment, and issued to Miss Lee teachers
certificate for two years. He says there
are within the former boundaries of Gus
ter county $50 school children, of whom
about 500 are in the present Yellowstone
county. This means a pretty fat thing
for the FIRST superiute ndent of schools
all of $500 per annum.
Three gentlemen from Des Moines,
Ia., who came into town on Friday ev-
ening reported that when they left home
a notice was posted UP in the Offices of
the Rock Island r. Il. stating that the
then temperature in Billings was % de-
grees below zero. The same story was
told them in st. Paul when they reached
that place, and was publicly posted n
some of the railroad offices. This story
would seem incredible were it not
vouched for by these gentlemen. In
the face of the fact that during those
days and for weeks previous our ther-
had registered an average of
more than so degrees above zero it is
difficult to believe that stories such rs
the above are systematically circulated.
The object is of course the injury Of this
town, and the instigators are-we will
leave the readers to guess.
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