The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-10
EVENTS IN BILLINGS
The People Over There Enjoyed Them
selves Last Week
DANCE OF THE ENTIRE NOUS
One Of the Prettiest Affairs Was
the Opening of the Beautiful
Opera House-Society Doings
and Personal Mention.


participated in the pleasures of the
dance on Thursday evening, when the
Entire Nous club gave an invitation
hop to their friends, in the dining room
of the Grand hotel Warmers orchestra
had been secured for the occasion so all
that could be desired in the way of mu-
sic was assured beforehand. Dancing
has been so little INDUCED in by the
Billings people this winter that the gid
dy whirl was kept up with unremit-
Ting enthusiasm until after midnight.
when the strains of the Home, Sweet
Home" waltz filled the air, and they
reluctantly responded to the warning
and departed for their homes.
Judge and Mrs. Goss, in their usual
hospitable manner, entertained a party
of friends on Friday evening, when the
fourth of the series of games played
by the Duplicate Whist club occurred.
The card playing was confined to the
gentlemen, A. G. Tompkins taking the
place of Mr.. Becker who was absent,
other social amusements being INDUCED
in by the ladies of the party. Tasty re-
freshments were served before the dis
persing of the guests.
That event towards which the people
of Billings have been looking with
pleasant anticipations for the past sew
eral months, the opening of our beau
tltul little opera house, has at last Oc-
Cured and the appreciation of the
citizens of the efforts the promoters
had made to make the Billings theater
the equal of any in the state, was
shown by the well filed house which
greeted the appearance of jolly Nellie
McHenry on Tuesday evening. The
prettily decorated interior presented Il
very brilliant appearance with its hun
dreds Of incandescent lights, and the
gaiety of the scene was much added to
by the many charming faces of the la
dies, who, tastefully and becomingly
gowned, graced the audience. The nu-
nerouS entertainments which Billings
MAJ now with safety look forward To
VIII give the ladies great scope TO dis
play their talents and cleverness i'm
making up bewitchng little head dress
es and all those pretty and dainty waist
garnitures of which, nowadays, there
is such a variety.
Miss Marion Johnston. Miss Blythe
) Johnston, Miss Alice Mccormick and
Miss Ida Mains, Tony Matheson and
Earl Morse composed a party of young
people entertained by Paul Mccormick
jr., very pleasantly at his home on Fri
day evening of last week. The amuse-
ments INDUCED i'm were cards and
dancing. Shortly before train time, de-
lfcious refreshments of ice cream. cake
ana coffee We're served, after partak-
AAlb VI NillGll Nllt tIllIe party escorted
Paul down TO the station, where he
took the IL o'clock west-bound train for
Salt Lake City, TO resume his studies
at All Hallows college at that place.
Miss Jones entertained the Entire
Nous club at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. Frank Church on Friday evening
Of last week The occasion was thor
oughly enjoyed by the members who
were present. Miss Mccormick was
again winner of the ladies' prize a
handsome souvenir spoon, Mr.. Sayer
carrying off the gentlemens prize, a
silver case containing a nail file. The
names of well known authors and the
most famous of their works were in
Scribed upon the score cards, the qucs-
ton Of who should be partners being
decided by the cards corresponding.
Refreshments OF shcrbet. cake and
coffee We're served. Those present were
the Misses Chapple, Fraser Graves,
Gruwell. Hayden, Annie Jones. Loa
Jones, Matheson, Beatrix Mathcson,
Mccormick, RiXOn. Roeser and Soule:
Messrs. Bailey. J. Chapple, GaEnon. j.
ii. Johnston. William Johnston. knight,
J. Recce. Reynolds, Saycr Settler r.
Chapple and Whitney.
After the theater on Tuesday evening
Mrs. p. NJ. Gallahc- assisted by her sis
Ter. Miss Dodsworth, entertained par
~ of friends at supper at her home on
Twenty-ninth street. The refreshments
served were very inviting. and the Oc-
casion proved "A very enj0yab finale
To the evenings entertainment.
Mrs. Gallaher's guests were Mr. and
Mrs. II. II. Allen. Mr.. and Mrs. Bah
cock. Mr.. and Mrs. ROwley, Mrs. Bair
and Miss Dodsworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sanford We're tho
guests OF Mr. and Mrs. Mills this week.
Mrs. John Mcintyre. who has been
very i'll for two weeks with mountain
fever, is now able TO sit up.
The family of II. T. Ramsey have 7
moved To town for the remainder of the .
winter.
p. F. Linton. L. II. Fenskc and NJ. VI. .
Curtain returned on Friday from Hunt F.
crs hot springs.
Dir. J. NJ. Fox spent a night in town .
last week, on his way home from Chi T.
caCo.
Cass Prudhomme Of Red Lodge spent .
a couple of days i'm Billings last week. F.
J. W. Chapman spent a day i'm town .
looking after his meat market here. /
Mrs. :. X. Deverill OF Park City. was .
in town on Tuesday.
W. J. Youmaus has returned from a t
soiourn al Hunters Hot Springs.
Ernest Boswell. who was up i'm Red .
Lodge. returned To- town last Saturday
night
Irb Bosworth 90 Farsythc. was in /
town on Tuesday.
W. Anderson ~ Livingston. has ae-
cepted the position of city editor IF the I.
Daily Gazette Mr. Anderson is a
bright newspaper man. and as LiyiuEs-
ton correspondent 81 the standard. has
attained a state reputation.
=. T. Sanford Of Laurel paid Billings
"a visit this week. Ills pork packing
he reports as f1ur.>hinE
the inadequate supply or hoes being I
the only difficulty
Henry ScovilIe # Joliet, injured his