The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
BUTTE BRIEFS.


N J. Bielenberg of Deer Lodge is in,
| the city.
J. C. Mccarthy is in the city from
| Chestnut.
Fl. c. Robertson of Miles City arrived
yesterday.
| Charles L. Dahler, jr., of Helena is
| in the city.
| Mickey the Greek has appeared in
| brand-new suit of clothes.
| F. H. Cooney left for Chicago last
| night. to be gone about six weeks.
| A son was born Friday to the wife
| of J. V. Sullivan of III East Summit
| street.
Christmas trees are beginning to ar
| rive from the preserves of the wood
| chopper.
Born Friday to the wife of J. H. Null
cahy of No. 4 South Wyoming street,
daughter.
| There is a notable increase in The
| attendance at the several Sunday
| schools of the city.
| Tom O'Brien. the wel-known insur-
| ance hustler, has returned from bus
ness trip to Anaconda.
| The new iron and brick addition TO
the electric light plant on the Boule-
| ward is nearing completion.
There is more construction work on
| buildings right now in Butte than there
| was in the middle Of summer.
| There are two lady orchestras in this
| city and they are composed of must
! clans that don't have to take their hats
| off to any man.
Chinese services in the new chapel on
| Mercury street are held every Sunday
| under the auspices of the Chinese Rap-
| fist congregation.
| ,iob ioi of a
! jail, has been confined to his room by
| sickness during the past week. officer
McGillick served in his stead.
| In the case of Max f. Mayer against
| Sol Levy ct al. the defendant F. III.
| Cooney yesterday filed a demurrer to
| the complaint in the district court.
These are the days when the farmers
| of Deer Lodge valley come to town and
| show their city cousins how prosperous
| they have been since they last saw
| them, year ago.
Mrs Albert Heberlein and SON who
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. NJ
! s. Burns Of No. S22 West Park street
for several days, have returned to their
home in Tucson, Ariz.
The transfer companies are busy
these days moving the freight consign-
ed to Butte merchants. Front street in
South Butte is one of the liVeliest thor
oughfareS in the country.
Even the renegade Crees have entered
into the spirit Of the season. ana yester-
day a quartette of them went into a
store and bought a quarters worth of
candy and a red blanket.
Mrs. J. r. Bapty spent several days
in Helena, her former home. Mr.. Bapty
has been keeping bachelor quarters, and
his friends say that he is good cook.
but a failure as dishWasher.
Tn, w, M
lives on SO a month, works in mine,
and pays So a month for his cabin, Still
it is said in the East that Butte is an
expensive place in which to live.
Clerk Richards of the school board is
having the programme for the teachers
meeting printed in artistic style. The
programme includes the names and ad-
| dresses of all the teachers in the city
schools.
Brigadier Howell of the Salvation
| army who has addressed meetings in
this city on several occasions, was given
! a farewell reception in Spokane the
| other day. He goes to Winnipeg on a
| vacation.
AS a companion to the smallpox cpl
demic in this city, chickenpox is doing
| business on a small scale among the ris-
| ing generation of the community. 1t IS
not severe, however. and the little folks
are getting fat on it.
A deed was filed Friday conveying
the Ellwood property in East Broad
way from ]. A. Morse and c. L. Stone
of Dillon to Ellen Ducie of this city
consideration 100000. Mrs. Ducie will
re-christen the building THE Molina"
in honor of her daughter, Miss Molina
Ducie.
There is talk of getting up polo
match to take place in the Holland
| skating rink. There are many cracka-
| jack skaters in Butte and they are not
| all men, either. Some of the young Ia
dies are away up in G when it comes
to cutting ice, or rather figures on the
| ice.
| Charles Davidson of the Denver & Rio
| Grande railway office went to Helena
last week to see about it. There is some
thing in the wind, which probably won't
| be thoroughly understood before tne
| marriage license is procured. Chief Nc
! Bride of the office declines to be inter-
viewed. and that counts for much
Sandy Carter of Moose creek is in the
city purchasing a lot of Christmas pres
| ents He says there are two families in
the gulch and they have five children.
| He will carry to them the compliments
| of the season in the shape of $50 worth
| of presents, and this has not been a
very good year in the placer gulch
either.
| The Improved order of Red Men
held memorial services Friday night in
the wigwam of Shoshone tribe No l,
in K. of P. hall, and the attendance
was large. Rev. E. Q. Tilburn of the
| Church of Christ delivered the ad-
dress of the evening. 1t was in COM
memoration of the death of Washing
| ton.
The telephone building will appear on
| the new year with a new front which
| e 70 foly hn chi nff
thing on Broadway. 1t is cut stone,
| three stories tall and it is the
belle of the block. Manager Miller
! wears a smile which conforms to the
elegance of his new house. The tele-
! phone girls are all swelled up, too.
A hard luck story: A young man
hustled in the city for seven weeks, and
finally got a job in one of the large
| offices here. He worked two days, anu
| the other morning he awoke to find
| that he was roomng in a large house
upon which quarantine had been