The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-08-01
BILLINGS POsTOFFICE.
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.
There will be no band concert
this week.
The bill collectors are making
their monthly rounds today.
DIR. W. A. Allen will close his
office from Aug. 10 until Sept. /.
Real estate aud insurance is W. B.
Georges hobby and he knows how to
work it. n
Peters, the tailor, is still leading.
See his suits to measure at $15, pants
at So, and up.
The county commissioners will
meet tomorrow to hear kicks against
the raising OF tax assessments.
If you bave any real estate you
wish to dispose Of, just call on W. b.
George. He can sell it for you. 4
The Billings Water Power COM
(pany, in order to meet the demands,
7 is adding Il new 00.horse-power engine
to it's plant.
+Ths~ilew residence Of S.. G. Rey.
AoldFo on North Thirty second street
WIN be completed this week, when the
family will take Immediate possession.
-Lost-A plain gold ring in Or
about the grand stand at the fair
grounds Saturday, July 20. Finder
will be suitably rewarded by returning
to this Office.
The foundation work for David
Fra It's new residence is about complet-
ed/ Mr.. Fratt has let the con.
tract for the completion Of the house
to r. R. Grove.
Two wool sales were made Satur.
day. A. w. Elliott, for Jeremiah
Williams & Co., bought from Geo.
Pirrie $4,000 pounds and from S. E.
Wimsett 80. 900 pounds.
l-It may be news to tile people of
Billings to learn that 20, 600 barrels or
800, 600 gallons of water are used daily
Yin this city, which goes to show that
' our people are not wholly impartial to
aqua pura.
The Woodmen of the World will
hold a social session Oh Thursday
evening, August 10, at the close Of the
regular lodge meeting. Dancing and
card playing will form the amusement
for the evening.
Several boys Of the city have start.
opened Lemonade, ice cream and pop
" corn stands on the residence streets.
The boys seem to be doing quite a
thriving business.
1.-The Congregational Sunday school
will hold a picnic Thursday in the
grove near Mr.. Cardwell's home. The
children will meet at the church at 8
o'clock and "Gonveyances will be III
readiness to take them to the grove.
,zE. M. Hungerford has gone to For
syth again to complete the Forsyth
Lame Deer Agency telephone system.
He will return to Billings in about a
week and start to stretching the wire
on the Billings Musselshell telephone
system.
Ia. G. Logan, wife and children
and Mrs. A. Graham and children are
spending a month camping on Rock
creek, near Red Lodge. The Logan
family gave a concert in Red Lodge
last week on their way to the camping
grounds.
dick Hicks, who, for a number of
yehrs has been a stock detective for the
Custer Cattle company, was last week
appointed a deputy sheriff of Carbon
county, with headquarters at Bridger.
Mr.. Hicks left this morning to enter
upon his new duties.
The state arid land commission has
concluded a contract for the Ieclama.
ton of the Sweet Grass county lands
with Rev, A. Wormser of the Holland
Irrigation company. Mr.. Wormser IL
to give q SEA, 900 cash bond and $780,.
600 additional personal bond,
"A telegram was received by Clerk
/, l.. Whitney Saturday afternoon from
Miss Eta A. Robinson OF Cedar Falls,
H., stating that she would accept the
position Of teacher of the eighth and
ninth grades IN the Billings public
schools, and will arrive here the latter
part Of this month TO enter upon her
duties,
Early yesterday morning DR., Sci.
brede received q telegram from Mrs,
Selbrede ut Cottage Grove, Oregon, IN.
nounoing tho death of her father, Mr..