Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Doings in Billings.

w. j. Stratton left yesterday on a
business trip to Big Timber.
Mrs. NJ. M. Taylor is visiting friends
IN Red Lodge and looking after business
interests.
A Mr.. CLASSIFY of Alliance, Neb., is a
new employe at the Northern Pacific
freight house.
Mrs. r. Y. Slocum left last night for
ents. ~
c. M. Wolf, cashier at the Burlington
ifeisnl mousse, has returned from a visit
to Edison. Neb.
Rev. A. Carswell left his morning for
Red Lodge, where he will hold Episco-
pal services this evening.
"A. q. Redding left last week for the
Butcher Creek oil fields to take the posi-
ton OF engineer at the drilling works.
Fred H. Foster left Sunday morning
on a business trip to the national cap
ltal, expecting to be absent about a week.
Mrs. John l. Wilson and little dau ghter
OF OWatonna, Mimi, who have been Wis
iting the formers brother, W. J. YOU
mans of this city, left yesterday for Big
Timber.
Will NJ. Purvis of Wellington, Kans.,
has accepted a position as s~tenographer
with the first National bank of this city
and will arrive in the city in a few days
to enter upon his new duties.
charles Il. Abbott, a prominent young
man OF Big Rapids. Mich, and a friend
of $. G. Reynolds, arrived in Billings
Saturday and will remain here about a
year for t%hebenefit Of his health.
). Z. Marlng, cashier, and G.. w. Ham
1lton, bill clerk, respectively, at the
Northern Pacific freightdepot in this city,
betook themselves to Livingston and
spent Sunday in visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Walter H. Graves, formerly superin-
tendent of irrigation on the Grow reser-
walton, came in Sunday night from
Washington, D. c., leaving this morning
for Grow Agency. He is still connected
with the Indian department.
Chas. H. Gould, the bad lands poet
lariat and live stock agent for the Bur-
lington, with headquarters at Miles City,
who won fame on his production last
year Of New England, My New Eng
land" was in the city yesterday. Colonel
Gould has not tried his hand at verse
lately, but there is no telling when he
will break loose.
]. H. Johnston took his departure Sat-
urday night for Miles City, where he
goes to open an Office for the practice of
law. Mr.. Johnston has the we'll wishes
of numerous Billings friends and ac-
qualntances for success and prosperity
in his new location, and this paper takes
great pleasure in recommending him to
the legal fraternity of our neighboring
city.
Mrs. s. G.. Reynolds arrived home
Saturday from Big Rapids, Mich, where
she has been visiting her parents for the
past year and a half. She was accom-
panied home by her sister, Miss Lillian
Brown, who will remain here for quite a
protracted visit. Mr.. Reynolds and fam
lily are stopping at the Town hotel for
the present, but expect to occupy their
new home on North Thirty-second street
about midsummer.
Guy d. Mitchell. formerly of the Grand
hotel in this city, but who now has
charge of the state circulation Of the
Butte Inter Mountain, was in the city
yesterday calling on that papers pa
irons. Mr.. Mitchell was connected with
the circulation department of the Kan
sas City Journal for five years and is a
good rustler for business. He has sue
ceeded in building up the Inter Moun-
tai's list in every city in the state that he
has visited.
The A. L. Babcock Hardware company
has a new stenographer in the person of
c. B.. Taylor of Minneapolis, who arrived
in the city yesterday to accept the posi-
ton. O. w. Mickey, who has filled the
position so accpetably for the past three
years, has been promoted to assistant
b~Ookkkeeper, succeeding III. V. Bailey.
The latter has ben given a better posi-
ton, looking after retail orders in the
store, which was necessitated by the in
creasing business.
Several Billings sports are in Forsyth
this week bucking the horse races now
on in that place.
The Fourth Of July committee in Brid-
ger raised 1925 in one day last week for
the purpose of observing the Fourth, and
they expect to increase the amount to
81, 500. Here is an incentive for Billings.
Sam Salisbury is on the crippled list
from the effects of a strain received while
lifting a heavy barrel up the stairs to the
Billings club. Sam is a pretty stout fell
low, but for once he overdid himself.
A license was issued Saturday to Fer
nandO PortillO and Sarah c.. Scott for
the purpose Of being united in the holy
bonds of wedlock. The groom-elect is a
native of Mexico, while the bride -to-be
first saw the light of day in South Caro-
lima.