The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-01
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
IN HONOR OF MRS. KENYON
Burning OF Hay Stack and Farm
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
the Old Hand Fire EnG>ne--
Long String Of BIlI.Roerds.
Special Correspondence Of the standard.

Special Correspondence OF the standard
Bozeman, April 29.-Zona Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, met Monday even
ing and worked in the seventh degree,
which is the highest degree open to
this lodge to work in. iona Chapter
was formed a year and a half ago, the
chapter being named after the wife of
the head of the chapter at the time OF
its organization. 8. c. Kenyon In this
way the members of the chapter hon
| ored their leader as well a. uaming
their chapter after true nobls wom-
an. After showing three members,
White Caldwell. ]. d. Pattee and d.
A. Morrison into the mysteries OF the
seventh degree the chapter adjourned
to the w. c. T. u. coffee house, where
a banquet had been prepared, and
full Justice was done to the splendid
supper which had been prepared by the
ladies'. Besides beautiful flowers down
the center of the long table there was
dainty button-hole bouquet, tied
with the white ribbon of the w. c. T.
u, lying besides each platei Every
| thing was delicious, and among the Ia
dies who helped in the serving was
Mrs. Kenyon, for whom the chapter
was named. iona Chapter now has 80
members and will long remember the
delightful meeting of Monday evening.
j. w. Mardis. prominent ranchman
of this valley, living two miles south
of Bozeman, set fire to some brush a
few days ago, and after seeing to 1t
that 1t could not spread, II bei4e bor-
dered on one side by a creek, with open
fields on the other sides. he went home
and left it. When the fire reached the
creek, however, ii jumped across, and
before any one discovered this fact
stack or hay containing 10 tons had
been burned, besides some fencing and
the barns of e. d. johnson we're Just
catching. Had the barns caught fire
they would have communicated the
flames to the house and Mr.. johnson
would have lost his home. AS 1T was
the fire was stopped and put out, Mr..
Mardis having to pungle the price of
the hay G aasna
H. L. Rainey and John Anderson of
Chestnut gave a dance in the school
house at that place Saturday evening.
The Timberline band furnished music
and supper was spread at Mrs. Ha-
gems hotel. ..,,t as go
James H. Kidd. the city bill poster,
is putting up more than $50 feet of
new bill boards on Main street. They
are built 10 feet high and there will
not be vacant lot between the city
hall and the Benepe owen house COR
ner which is not closed by one of these.
A vacant lot is not thing Of beauty
anyhow. 90.
Maj. ]. w. brennan came up from
Belgrade the last of the week, visiting
his friends here for few days
The first thunder storms of 1895 Wis
tied Bozeman on Saturday and Sum
day. They were not at all severe, but
enough rain tell to freshen Everything
green. giving TO the crops o. fresh start.
Mrs. @. M. Pennoyer Of chicago has
been the guest of Mrs. H. sA.Y Fielding
the past week. Mr.. Pennoyer lis gen
eral salesman for J. v. Farwen &c Co.
Of Chicago, and will join his wife here
in few days. ON his way East
Theodore Norman was discuseing the |
prospects of the hay press" With his |
Bozeman, friends Saturday. ..s
Elias Story left the last Of the week |
for Chicago. where he goes to place a
bid for the government hour Contract |
for. supplying the Indian agencies with |
flour. a.l9 - So
The Bohemian Gun club had its first |
shoot Sunday. The record made was
nothing extra. but IT showed good ma |
terial. which viii be heard from when |
this club gets into practice. .a
Feron Mack. one Of Bozeman's butch /
ers. was kicked In the stomach by a |
horse Sunday. and is laid up as a re- |
suit, although there seems TO be no |
serious injury internally. ~.
j. r. Palmer. an elder whose life /
here is In the interest OF the Seventh /
Day Adventists, was out on the Fort |
Ellis reservation looking for some
horses the last of the week, and short
ly after returning he found he had lost
a roll of bills from his pocket. The
loss was In the neighborhood of 5000.
diligent search has been
made. no trace of the money has yet
been found. st,.9ee. 80.
The hand engine belonging to the fire
here. which was sold to the
citizens of Boulder a few weeks ago,
was loaded on a Northern Pacific car
to-day and shipped to that place. Nine
years ago. when that same fire engine |
reached Bohemian. IL was a gala day
Tor this city. The band met the train
which brought IL here. The engine was
covered with flowers. and a long prof.
session was formed. headed by the
band. which escorted the wonderful
I. 900 pump to the engine house. To-
lay Chief Alexander got an express
nan to haul the machine TO the de-
pot. he going along to superintend the
oading, and the old hand engine left |
Bozeman without the knowledge of its |
departure becoming known to more
han a dozen people. ,ts /.
b. Z. Vail is again spending a few
lays at Red Lodge in the interest Of
he new Carbon County bank. which |
5 to be- started there Mays.