The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-01-01

A.sFPy AN\" VAAs
George W. Taylor, Esq, goes to Helena
today.
Get your smoked glass ready for the
eclipse today. -=-
The Arion's entertainment last night
was great success.
Paris Gibson arrives today on the noon
train from Minneapolis.
MIR. q. II. Stanton is acting in the capa-
city Of book keeper at c. p Thomson's.
Messrs. Wren and Atchso,, have moved
into their new quarters OH First avenue
North.
f. d. Hastie, the commissioner from
the West side, is in the city OH official
business.
DO not forget the New Years social ut
the Methodist church this evening at half
past o'clock.
A Boston young lady defines love as
tan inexpressibility accompanied with
outward alloverishness."
E. II. Clingan, Of Belt, has been in town
for day or two attending the meeting of
the board of county commissioners.
Mr.. G. 4. Grove is going out of the
grocery business. Please refer to his
announcement in another part of this
paper.
Mr.. G. P. Thomson, the popular dry
goods man, expects to start soon on a trip
to Chicago, New York, and other cities
in the East.
MIR. Roehl, one Of the proprietors ofthe
Milwaukee hotel, returned short time
ago from his trip to Germany. lie said
Says cynical old bachelor: "Never
marry a woman unless she is so rich that
yon would marry her if she were homely
and so beautiful that you would marry
her it she were poor"
Mr. A. Nathan will combine his two
mammoth stocks Of clothing, and hence
forward his customers will find him and
his complement of clerks in the new
brick, on Central avenue.
"Why, Mrs. Delaney, what is tho mat
ter with your daughter, Florence? She
looks completely used up and done for"
ooh, she's MI right, Mrs. Van Tykc. She
has just graduated from u finishing
school,"
The Helena Record must be asleep; it
speaks of Great Falls expecting to incor-
portate and Of Jerry Collins as a candidate
for mayor Bless your soul Great Falls
has 200 pound mayor, full board Of
aldermen, lots Of ordinances, u system Of
licenses and plenty Of kickerH
Mrs. James G. Ford, of Otter Creek,
mother Of Miss Bessie Ford, County
Superintendent Of this county, and also
Of our excellent friend, Arthur w. Ford,
left OH this afternoons Manitoba train for
Boston, where she will spend the winter
among her relatives and friends.
The school board met yesterday after
noon and heard the petition of Sam Dodd
and others on the West side OF the river
and voted to pay the West-side teacher
$50 month for three months provided
the people would furnish school room
and pay all other expenses except salary
OF the teacher.
The Helena correspondent OF the Pio-
| neer Press is terribly off when he says
Jake Harris is bully and mentions his
! shooting a man here as Ill instance. He
! is known to be a quiet and peaceable
| man and was attacked three times by Il
tough with It razor and was finally com
| PEELED to shoot in self defence. Not Il
person in Great Falls condemned him.
He took the best care of the wounded
man and paid all the expenses of his ILL
2nss.
1t is not often il, this age Of steam that
one meets with an unsophisticatcd, and
always will-remain-so woman; but the
writer met her yesterday. She was told
of the eclipse that obscuration usually
prognosticatct! with absolute certainty.
20, yet out she said, ''your giv'n ne
taffy. there won't be no clips tomorrow =
She was informed, that beyond /. shadow
of doubt, it would occur. "Dont you
ever read the ,s'lnanacs," we said, "Ycs
but don't believe them-~thcy only
guess She wa, admonishad to watch
for the eclipse this afternoon, and if ''otr-
ing is believing" Mrs. Bunghole will he
convinced, o,nino,l, ;,s the event lny he
/ For New Years Callers.