The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-05-23
PERSONAL OINTS

A Mr.. Clasby Of Alliance, Neb., is a
new employee at the Northern Pacific
freight house.
Mrs. E. Y. Slocum left last
night for Jamestown. N. D., OF a
visit to her parents.
G. M. Wolf, cashier at the Burling-
ton freight house, has returned from a
visit to Edison, Neb.
Rev. A. Carswell left this morning
for Red Lodge, where he will hold
Episcopal services this evening.
A. G. Redding left last week for the
Butcher creek oil fields to take the posi-
tion of engineer at the drilling works.
Fred Il. Foster left Saturday morn
ing Oh a business trip to the national
capital, expecting to be absent about a
week.
Mrs. John 1. Wilson and little daugh-
ter of Owatonna, MIMI, who have been
visiting the formers brother, W. j.
Youmans of this city, left yesterday for
Big Timber.
Will M. Purvis of Wellington, Kan,
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 R. Abbott, a prominent
young man of Big Rapids, Mich, and
a friend of S. &. Reynolds, arrived in
Billings Saturday and will remain here
about a year for the benefit of his
health.
! ID. @. Maring, cashier, and G. W.
Hamilton, bill clerk, respectively, at
the Northern Pacific freight depot in
this city, betook themselves to Living
ston and spent Sunday in visiting
friends and relatives.
Walter H. Graves, formerly superin-
tendent of irrigation on the Grow reser-
walton, came in Sunday night from
Washington, D. G., leaving this morn
ing for Crow Agency. He is still con-
nected 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
England" 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.
J. H. Johnston took his departure
Saturday night for Miles City, where
he goes to open an Office for the prac-
tice of law. Mr.. Johnston has the we'll
wishes of numerous Billings friends
and acquaintance for success and pros
peritv in his new location, and this
paper takes great pleasure in recon-
mending 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
accompanied home by her sister, Miss
Lillian Brown, who will remain here
for quite a p%rotracted visit. Mr.. Rey-
holds and family 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, vas in the
city yesterday calling OF that papers
patrons. Mr.. Mitchell was connected
with the circulation department. Of the
Kansas City Journal for five years anc
is a good rustler for business. He ha!
succeeded in building up the Intel
Mountains list in every city in thu
state that he has visited.
HThe A. l.. Babcock Hardware com
pany has a lev ~stenographer in thu
person of G. B. Tyler of Minneapolis
who arrived in the city yesterday to &C
cept the position. o. W. Mickey, VIII
has filled the position SO a~cceptably TO
the past three years, has been promoted
to assistant bookkeeper, succeeding H
V. Bailey. The latter has been givel
a better position, looking after retail
orders in the store, which was necessi
tated by the increasing business.
Yellowstone Journal: Mr. j. e
Johnston, who has been heretofore men
toned as intending to change his resi-
dence and professional field from Bill
ings to Miles City, is now here $50
good" as the saying is, although no
ready to open his office for a week o
so. Mr.. Johnston comes to us from
Billings with an excellent reputation a
a lawyer and a citizen and with ever,
assurance on the part of the Billing
people that if they could keep him w
would get none of him. On behalf o
the people of Milestown. the Journa
extends to MI. Johnston a cordial wei
come, accompanied by the hope that b.
may never regret his action in switch
ing from ..'Alkali Flat" to the metro
polls of the Yellowstone.
Bernhard Rydberg, a former residen
Of Billings. who was engaged in tn
jewelry business here for three years
was in the city owe Sunday, having