The Anaconda standard., 1895-06-09

| son, at the Crow agency, will get up
| an Indian entertainment for the guests.
| The officers at the post at Fort Custer
\ will also do the agreeable. The occa-
sion is looked forward to in Billings
| as a pleasure they may not again ex-
| pect to enjoy for several years to come
and they are preparing to make the
| most of IL.
| The directors of the Yellowstone Fair
| association are preparing for the ran
| exhibition,t which will be held from
| September IL to 90 f. n. Jones, one
| Of the Burlington contractors, who
| wintered here, has been at work this
week on the track at the fair grounds,
| putting ii in shape for working ths
flyers. 1t is now in fine condition. To
! enable the wheelmen to speed them
| selves and enjoy racing without inter-
foring with the horsemen, Jones has,
| at the expense of the wheelmen. built
| a bicycle track sixteen feet wide inside
| the railing. The directors intend To
| have a better fair than ever this year.
! OF course, they cannot afford To offer
| big purses as last year to attract the
! fastest horses in the west, but they
will put up fairly liberal purses and
| VIII get in some pretty fast local
horses. There will be lots of fun for
| those who attend, but ii will be. on the
! whole, distinctly a farmers fair. The
display of agricultural products and
live stock will eclipse that of any
| former year.
Mrs. =. b. Moss held a reception at
her home on % street last Friday aft
! ernoon in honor of her friend, Miss
Laing, of kansas City. Mo. The fol-
| lowing are some of those invited Mes
DANES Chapple, Child, Crenshaw Gar
ven. Goss. Goddard. Hays, Jackson,
| Matheson. Paul Mccormick. Rails
| back, Smith. Tompkins and Williston,
Misses Chapple. May Mccormick,
Edith Matheson, Beatrix Matheson,
Murphy, Panton and Minnie Panton.
| Mrs. Schadd gave a very enjoyable
little party on Saturday evening, in
| honor of Mrs. Hungerford, who was
| spending few days in town. The
! guests were Mesdames Fields, Harry
Fish, Hungerford, Gerald Pan,on,
| Soule, Toole and Wilkenson.
Last Saturday p. Il. Lowell of Mer-
| rill was in town.
Mrs. Frank Mattison of Spokane and
| her daughter, Miss Jennie Mattison,
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ.
| Child for several days this week. They
started on Thursday morning for the
East. where they will remain all sum-
mer. paying Billings another visit on
| their way home in the fall.
The Billings baseball club will go to
| Sheridan next Sunday to play the To-
| cal team there. The following will be
the Billings nine: Gran, captain and
| catcher; Messck, pitcher: Flemming,
first base; Birdsly. second base; Bah
| cock, short stop; Wells, third base;
| Sloey, left field; Mains. right field and
! either Fagen or Reagen center field.
| Among the passengers on Saturdays
| east bound train were six children of
| from to 10 years old and each bearing
| a tag addressed to Chris Meyer, Inde-
| pendence. Mo The children We're hap
! py and contented and appeared to see
! nothing peculiar in their mode of trav-
| cling.
The family of w. w Johnston re-
! turned on Thursday nights train from
| a visit of several weeks to Mrs. john
| ston sfather, DR.. Fulton of Beatrice,
! Neb They were accompanied by
sister-in-law of Mrs. Johnston's with
| her two children. Mrs. Fulton, also of
! Beatrice. Neb. She will remain in Bill
ings for couple of weeks.
G. w. Bailey of West Virginia spent
Monday in town on his way to Red
! Lodge, where he has accepted the posi-
! ton of cashier of the new banking
| house of Meyer, Chapman q Bretecher.
+. ID. Mccormick and sons are ex-
| pected home from the roundup on sat
! urday.
| Paul. accompanied by Tony Matheson,
! went out last week TO the roundup of
/ the OK Yoke outfit at the foot of the
| Prior mountains, where they spent
several days.
This week II. r. Philips received six
! train loads of Texas cattle.
Judge and Mrs. Goss enjoyed a visit
| of several days length this week from
Miss Mary Mattison of Red Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs II. T. Ramsey returned
from a visit 10 the Wardwell ranch III
Wyoming last Saturday.
c. w. Winch. who was formerly
taxidermist in Billings. has been wolf
ing all winter in Yellowstone and Fer
gus counties. He came into town on
Wednesday night with about 40 wolt
skins.
J. II. Calhoun. II. Grant and Joseph
Kerns were all down from Columbus
this week.
q. w. Aash was in town this week.
I r. Herford paid a visit to his wife
and family at the ranch last week;
Mrs Herford and the children intend
remaining in the country until their
town residence is completed.
Charles O'Neal of Miles City was in
town on Thursday visiting his brother
in-law, NJ. B. Rademaker.
Mrs r. w. Stanley and son of Hot
Springs, S. D., spent Wednesday night
in town and started Thursday morning
for St Paul over the Northern Pacific.
! w H. Donovan and A. j. Sayers
are out in the Judith country working
for their respective firms, Mr.. Dono-
van for the firm of Donovan d spear
grocers, and MIR. Sayer representing
the A. l.. Babcock Hardware com
pany.
w. w Johnston, who returned last
week from a trip among the WOOL
growers Of the north, predicts a great
/ amount of wool for Billings this year.
| Mr.. Power of Chicago spent Wednes-
day in town. He was one OF tLe de-
layed passengers in Billings during
the strike last year. when the west
bound passenger train was sidetrackad
here for a couple of weeks.
Miss Laura Laing arrived from Kan
sas City, Mo. on Tuesday evening
last and will remain all the summer
i'm town the guest of Mr.. and Mrs T..
. B. Moss.
]. O. Dalzell returned the early part
of the week from a trip among the
| northern wool growers and stocknlan
/ and spent several days in town before
, starting for st. Paul.
Charles u. Greenfield of Helena, cd
itor of the Montana Stockman and
Farmer. spent a day or SO in town
last week Mr.. Greenfield expressed
Z great sllrprisc at the Improvement in