The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-10
BILLINGS IS QUITE BUSY
The Farmers Institute Was Pro-
DOunCed Success.
PLEASANT LITTLE PARTIES
The People Seem TO Be Enjoying
Life as Well as They Did i'm
the Days When Silver
Was Away Up.
LEASANT LITTLE PARTIES
spseial Correspondence of the standard.

specIal Correspondence OF the Standard.
billings, Jan. S.-The Yellowstone
Farmers institute which adjourned on
Saturday night was a very successful and
interesting meeting and Will have very
beneficial effect upon tho agricultural IN
tercsts of the county. The papers read
were practical and to tho point, and
tho intelligent discussion of them by
tho assembled farmers showed the deep
interest that was aroused. In addition to
excellent papers by local citizens much
assistance was rendered by Director
Emery of the United States experiment
station, DIR. Williams and President Reid
of tho Montana Agricultural college,
Walter II. Graves, superintendent OF lrri-
CATION on the Grow reservation, WIZ
Sutherlin of White Sulphur Springs and
w. w. Wylie of Bozeman. Mrs. Emery,
tho brilliant wife of Director Emery, read
a very able lecture on "Home Life on the
Farm" The exercises were enlivoned by
music by the Billings male quartet and
tho Sunny Side quartet, tho latter an or
ganization of young colored men. Tho
following was the programme:
Thursday Morning at 10. Introduction
Address ................ Director ;. NJ. Emery
The Horse.............. w. l.. Williams, '. ,.
Irrigation. Walter II. Graves
Thursday Afternoon at >. Question Boz
Diversified Farming ............M. o. Parker
swine. ........... -. W, " "yllo
Marketing ...................E y. hungeriord
Alfalfa Seeds ............ YELLOWSTONE Farmers
Thursday Evening at 1880. Question Box
Labor Liens ......... Judge G.. X. Mlburn
Song ............ Billings Male Quartet
Friday Morning at 10. Select Reading
Good Roads ................O. c. Finkelnburg
Babcock Milk Test............ Director Emery
Selected Topic OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Friday Afternoon at .. Question Box
The Ten Acre Farm. INV. IL. Suthern
Fruit .....................Di Director ;. NJ. Emery
Horticulture .................... Miss j. Panton
Friday Evening at $50. Question Box
Water Rights. ............ Judge Jas. r. Goss
Song .....................S sunny Side Quartet
Agricultural Education. ......... Dr. Jas. Reid
Saturday Morning at 10
Wind Power. 1. G.. Armitage
Dairying. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IToI. Emery
fouiry. ..'''...'OI' NIlldnls
Saturday Afternoon at .. Question Box
Farm Structures ........D Director ;. NJ. Emery
Seepage Question. Yellowstone lrrigator>
Selected Topic. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Saturday Evening at 1880. Question Box
Lecture on Home Life ...... Mrs. 5. NJ. Emery
Legal Lore. Hon. o. L. Goddard
song ................... Billings Male Quartet
Poem. ........................... j. i. sanford
st. Luke's church has been beautiflod
by elegant hangings, tho generous gift of
Mrs. b. b. Kelly. They are of white
tapestry on which tho passion flower in n
conventional pattern is eXquisitely
painted. Mrs. Kelly presented the Sun
day school with large banner tastefully
designed.
Thomas Doane of Boston and I. L. Cal.
vert, general superintendent of construc-
ton of the Burlington were in town on a
III IL Il
of the original incorporators of the North
ern Pacific and took part in the construc.
ton of the Hoosac tunnel.
Last Thursday evening a large party OF
Mrs. L. Schad's friends surprised her by
coming TO spend the evening at her new
home. A most enjoyable time was spent.
Miss Florence Snyder spent several
days in town last week and left for beI
home on the Musselshell on Monday.
DIR. and Mrs. Chapple gave party last
week in honor of their brother, Charlie
Chapple, who intends shortly to leave for
Canada where he will enter college. Those
present enjoyed most delightful even
ing. They were Misses Tessio Fisch,
Lois Fagaly, Marion Goss, Maud Cru
we'll, Jessie Hirsch, Ruth Lowry, Alice
Mccormick and Winnie Nixon, and
Hugh Babcocl, Lewis Babcock, Charles
Chapple, Jay Mccormick, George Thains
Fred Nixon, Arthur Ramsey, VIII Nixon
Roy Wilkinson and Harry Woods.
Mrs. j. w. Fish has gone East FOR the
benefit of her health.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Bean and little
Louie have gone TO their old home in
Massachusetts. Mrs. Bean will be very
much missed from musical circles.
While Paul Mccormick twas enter
tanning his friends in the Daniel Boont