The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-28

Davis, Lena Brusett, Cara Brusett, Christen
Levien, Selma Swanson, Mary Neren and
Messrs. Oscar Stentstrom, Oliver Frederick,
Julia Ness, G. P, Anderson, Nel's Cure, Jake
Knutson and G. Z. Anderson, surprised
Mrs. O. johnson. at 625 Broadway. The
occasion was her twenty-eighth birthday
and several fine presents were left. After
supper the happy guests departed.
The ladies of the Christian church will
begin their sale of fancy articles for Christ
mas on Dec !. Apropos of this, we over
heard yesterday two little girl chums con-
fid ng to each other with great enthusiasm
and secrecy what they were expecting to
get next Christmas! Old Father Time
must be fairly squirming under the pulling
of his famous forelock!
The Encore club is feeling quite lost
without their conductor. Mr.. +. r. Wal
lace, whose business still detains him in the
east. Their rehearsal for tomorrow will
again have to be postponed, but this delay
will only have the effect of starting them of
with added vigor and determination, when
the owner of the baton returns to inspire
them with fear and enthusiasm.
Miss Bach returned Tuesday from three
weeks visit in Butte. We infer from the
enthusiastic reports which all returning
fair ones give of their sojourns in the Sui
phur City that its young men follow Scrip
strangers as "angels, unawares." We trust
they are not so unorthodox az to discrimin-
ate in regard to the age and sex Of the
strangers"
Some of the court house habitues wero
very much interested one day last week in
observing the use of heliograph by one Of
the members of the U. s. coast survey
party. The signals were passed between
the court house and Stubb's ferry twelve
v,,s1n vusL kNlx "a
years to complete the measurements and
maps of which the present work in Mon
tana is part.
were entertained in most agreeable man
ner last Saturday evening by Miss BERTHE
Wilson. After spending q pleasant even
ing in dancing and cardplaying, refresh
ments were served. Those invited were tbs
Misses Smith, Billiard. Simms,. Fox,
Horsky, Harry Langley, Bonnie Tom,
Tom Hill, Theo. Kinda. Toby Hedges.
A very enjoyable children's party was
given on Saturday at the residense Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. G. Mcclellan, 318 West Law
renee street. the occasion being the fourth
birthday of their little son, Addie. The
house was prettily decorated with ever
greens and cut flowers. and supper was
served at five p. M, after which the little
returned to their homes happy. The pres
ents were numerous, The little misses were
Elanor and Maudie Holbrook, Myra San
ford, Edith Harold, Emma Bartos, Nellie
Perrin. Mabel Mcclellan, Louise Kelsey,
Clara thinner and May Butter, and Masters
Ray Moncrief, Leigh Salisbury, Johnnie
Sanford. PENN McCornas, Freddie Al
BRIGHT, George Stadler and Herman Jer-
gems.
Those Who are inclined to make wry
face over q very small quantity of split
milk. or imagine that the fates have singled
them out for hard knocks, should listen to
occurred in real life in Helena q short time
ago. About thirty miles from the city there
lives q poor ranchman, who, to exc out the
returns of his frugal husbandry, thought
he would gather huckleberries. He took
his wife and child and camped in Avalanche
Rulch, at the foot of the hills where the
berries grow. Every morning they climbed
up the steep hillsides. and after long days
of patient picking gathered about thirty
lar per gallon. Putting these, together with
all the eggs carefully saved during the
summer, INTO the wagon. they started to
town. Arriving here. the horses were
hitched outside of q grocery while the
owner went inside. He had not been gone
long when the horses, breaking the rotten
rope used for hitching. started down the
street, scattering eRgs and huckieoerrles
right and left. Not only were the befl1cs
badly demolished that every spoke vas out
of ono wheel and the tongue was broken
into three pieces. The poor Ianchman vent
homo about twenty dollars out OF pocket,
instead Of h1 haxd-ssrned reward for hon
li4s -.