The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-15

Let Mcintyre fill your orders for
Christas candies. 67.4
You can get cigars from 5 cents to
$500 at Miss Marie Sleeper's. 6s.2
Those Christmas candies will taste
doubly delicious il bought Mt McIn-
tyres. 67.4
Pure California wines and the Gel
ebrated Green River whisky, for family
use, at Yegen Bros. 8S.3
The Racket store, next to Lose.
kamp's. is showing a good line Of toys
and notions for Christmas. Don't over
look them. GA
Miss Marie Sleeper has some ele.
CANT Havana cigars, bought especially
for the ladies for Christmas presents for
their husbands. go
NO kick coming il you use Sheri-
dan screened lump coal. Orders left DIT
Mccormick Mercantile Co., will re-
ceive prompt attention. 88-2
-Hogue, Robinson Co., are doing
the poultry business Of the city. They
are prepared for it. Remember they
dress their own poultry. GA
Have you seen those new laundry
bags that Erickson & o.. have given
to their customers? just the thing to
keep your soiled clothes in. 87.2
The p%ostofice has already com
menoed to feel the affects of the holi.
day season. Postmaster Babcook and
his assistants will find themselves more
than crowded this year, their quarters
being altogether too small for the
amount Of business done.
The county commissioners adjourn.
ed Wednesday afternoon after an eight
days session. They will meet in special
session next Wednesday mornig to ap.
point a county treasurer to succeed w.
l.. Ramsey, deceased, who died Tues.
day. As the late incumbent was a re-
publican, it is only fair to presume that
his successor will be Of the same politi-
cal faith.
Charles s. Fell, until recently one
Of the proprietors Of the Bohemian
Chronicle, writes to a friend in his old
home to the effect that he has purohas-
ed a half interest in a patent and has
secured a bonus Of a plant from the Ia.
coma Business mems organization. Mr..
Fell expects to have operations und,r
way to place the product oil the market
in a months time.
The Gazette was III error in Tues.
days issue in stating that the election
for the county free high school cost the
county $7O6. rs. This is the amount
which the general county election in
November 1893 cost. The high school
election did not cost the county a cent,
other than the printing of the ballots,
as the judges and clerks donated their
services g%ratuitously.
BY a recent ruling Of Commission.
" Wilson If the revenue department.,
which goes into effect today, all stamps
Of the value Of 10 cents or more, shall
be cancelled or mutilated by cutting
three parallel inoisions lenRthwise
through the stamp, beginning not more
than one.fourth Of an incl from one
end thereof and extending to within
one.fourth Of an iroh of the other end,
in addition to the usual means Of can.
collation. with a stamp press.
The annual gather ing Of the Mon.
tana Shrinars was held in Helena yes
terday aud from all reports it was such
a hot time as might be~seen occasion.
ally on the Arabic plains. It was the
eleventh ANNUAL sexsion aud the event is
il which will five long in the mem.
CRY Of thos6 attending. Especially is
this SO Of the thirty novices who walk.
ed the burning sands Of the desert in
their bare feet and wearing o~veralls.
Among these were T. W. Humphrey,
DR.. J. H. Rinehart and a Northern
Pacific engineer from Billings.
-Carpenters' Union No. 345 elected
the following officers at their meeting
Saturday night: Fred d. Humlsel,
president: Jesse A. Barton, yioe.presi.
dent; William F. Warmers, recording
secretary; John Powersf financial SEQ
Rotary Frank Huber Treasurer; James
w. Reynolds, conductor Louis Elmer
Kipe, warden; SRobert H. Mckay. trus.
tee, long term; will install January 6.
1900. All members in good standing
in the order are requested to be present
Oh the occasion Of the installation cere.
mony and participate III the same.
3-F. A. Johnston has returned from
a couple of months stay in Wyoming,
where he has been engaged in con.
structing the long.distanoe telephone
line of the Red Lodge & Wyoming Tel.
ephone company. The lipe il 1860 miles
in length. tt is heIongest indepen-
dent line in either Montana or Wyom.