The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-27
BELT NOTES.

Belt. Aug. 23.-Mrs. John l. Cook and
daughter have returned from visit 10
Lewiston.
John Gray, Ed Krog and Charles Ed
monds were in Neihart this week or
ganizing a Scandinavian brotherhood.
DR.. Buck and Frank Polutnick are
out on 10 days hunting trip for large
game on Running Wolf creek.
Sam Mathis and Mr.. Ingham are out
on Little Belt cunning for bear and
grouse.
Mrs. Harry Miller has been quite sick
this week.
DR.. Lawyer has been absent from his
store several days on account of sick
ness.
H. w. Willard, owner of the Willard
mine, is temporarily laid up for re-
pairs, having strained himself at lift
ing at the mine.
Miss Marie Toohill has returned to
Great Falls.
Robert w. Cashier of Pennsylvania
is visiting his brother, John K. Cashier
Several Belt people intended to go to
Neihart Sunday on the proposed eXcur-
sion, but at the time to leave it was
found out that the excursion had been
declared Off For the past month ex-
cursions have been contemplated to the
mountains, but none have materialized,
and it is now too late in the season, for
it is now cool enough at home. Snow
has fallen on the Neihart mountains
and Tuesday morning the early risers
saw snow on the Little Belt, five miles
away.
Huett Clingan and d. w. Burnett will
engage in the hotel business at Stan
ford
Madame Hayford of California has
opened up millinery store on Cashier
avenue.
Frank Polutnick is building a large
oil ha1J with
across the street from the Cashier resi-
dence.
J. G. Bartlett of the Glass Block store
has gone to Minneapolis and Chicago
to buy winter goods and will return
Sept. l.
All of our merchants as well as the
company store carry large stocks of
goods. and that Belt is a good market
is demonstrated by the large number
Of well-to-do ranchers who do their
trading here.
Mike Sado was taken to Great Falls
this week to be operated on for appen-
dictis
Mrs Lawyer is in Butte attending the
grand lodge of the Degree of Honor.
Miss Agnes Zick has returned from
Missoula.
Miss Annie McAnelly has closed her
summer school at Yuleville and will
teach in the public schools at Belt.
Their and sister, Mrs" Martha Kearns,
have arrived from Red Lodge. Mrs.
Kearns will teach in Belt
A few of the ladies met at Mrs. r.
Alber's residence Wednesday in the in
terest of the Episcopal guild. 1t was
decided to send out invitations and Sc
cure a good attendance from which to
organize and elect officers for the COM
ing year.
John Quick of Riceville is danger
ously sick at the American house under
the care of DR.. Anthony. Mr.. Quick is
an old timer in these parts. In the
early days he was in California and in
1860 came to Montana. For half CEN
fury he has been through the gold ex-
elements in the West and was we'll
known figure at the Last Chance mine
where Helena now stands. His has
been varied experience and he knows
much of the West as it used to be.
Miss Elliott's kindergarten school has
a fair attendance and in the near fu-
ture Miss Elliott may give an enter
tainment to demonstrate to the parents
the accomplishments of their little ones
Some of our citizens have returned
from a trip to New Year camp and re-
port it thriving and with good pros
poets.
John McGurk and Dennis Wantham
made business trip to Stockett this
week Stockett is a clean looking lit
tie camp, with nice well painted resi-
dences and a company store with clerk
who parts his hair in the middle like
any other well regulated city.
Belt is not altogether a coal camp
and is old enough and sufficiently well
established to draw a considerable
trade from the country. But, viewed
in the light of a coal camp, she has
her ups and downs. Some time ago
several dairymen We're soliciting trade,
but now only one mlkman is to be
found and instead of being indifferent
to this important parsonage, you think
of him as Mr. Milkman and ask him
please to call
One of our laundries was absorbed
by the other and now one man has
monopoly in that line. The housewife
has to smile upon the milkman and the
young man has to look pleasant and, in
cidentally, put up the cash when he
gets his linen. But the people take it
all philosophcally and think that such
is life in the far West. In the mean
time, steady work is promised us and
it is not the substantial citizens who
are discouraged.
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