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

HAMILTON HAPPENINGS.

Hamilton, Aug. 2S.-Miss Maggie Fer
rell and Miss Carrie Hork gave a very
enjoyable party to some of their young
friends Thursday evening at the home
Of Mrs M. Flaherty, a sister of Miss
Terrell. on South Seventh street.
Joe Degananis, the popular young
drug clerk of Stevensville, came up
Thursday night and spent yesterday
in town.
Robert Nelson, Ravalli county's old
assessor, has gone to his former stamp
ing ground at Victor and may make a
trip into the mountains before coming
back to Hamilton.
The camp meetinsLheld at Woodside
by the Seventh Dependencies was a
very successful one and resulted in 35
converts being baptised.
A. l.. White rode up from Stevensville
yesterday morning. He reports that
business is thriving in that town and
the hotel is full, while there is not va
cant house in town.
The Copper City Limited ran into a
thoroughbred COW and bull a little
north of Lo Lo on Thursday evening
killing THE COW instantly and managing
the bull so that he died in a few min
utes. 1t is not known here who owned
the animals.
George Waldron of the A. c. NJ. Co.
office force has purchased the neat cot
tage on South Fourth street now occu-
pied by Sheriff Chaffin and will move
into it the first of next month.
About two weeks ago this column
recorded the fact that a movement was
on foot towards the establishment of a
public htching post by the city The
matter is now a go and the city is put
ting up the posts on the vacant ground
just north of McMurry, Cooper & Grill's
store on North Second street. not quite
a block from Main, and the hitching
posts in other parts of town will be
taken out. The move is a good and
progressive one.
There was filed yesterday in the coun-
ty clerks office deed from j. H. Brad
ley ito H. l.. Myers for 100 acres of land
near Riverside.
A deed has been filed conveying from
Townsend Edwards and wife to Percy
II. Edwards 40 acres of land in Ross
Hole.
DR.. Lehman. assistant state Veter-
marian, who has been making a tour
of this valley, returned from above and
went home to Helena yesterday.
A dance was held in the Stevensvlle
hotel Thursday night, the occasion be
ing the birthday of Mrs. Little, wife of
the hotel proprietor. The attendance
was large and the dance was a good one
and much enjoyed by those present.
Charles Tidwel has taken the place
of Arthur Sperry as night clerk a the
Ravalli hotel. Mr. Sperry will leave
for Butte on Monday and will enter a
business college there.
crew of some 60 men are busy set
ting the Harper & Baird mill on the
land of Hon w. ]. Kennedy, on the
west side, opposite Stevensville. and
viii proceed to cut the timber on the
place.
Hon. Charles NJ Crutchfeld has re-
turned from Helena, where he spent
several days on business. He has re-
ceived an invitation from Governor
Smith, of whose staff he Is member,
to accompany him to San Francisco to
welcome home the Montana volunteers.
and will accept
Rev. ]. A. Martin, pastor of the NJ. +.
church in this city. arrived home on
Thursday evening, bringing with him
a bride. who was formerly Miss Lille
Lewis. daughter of Commissioner Lewis
of ChOteau county, and to whom he
was united at Fort Benton Tuesday.
The many friends of the good pastor
gave him and his bride a reception at
the parsonage the same evening.
Hon. r. A. O'Hara returned last night
from attending the grand lodge A. o.
L. w. at Butte.
John Scott and family. who have
been outing at Lake Como for nearly
three weeks, came in from there yester
day and "ScOtty" was around town
calling on his friends. They leave for
their MissOula home this morning.
Wednesday Lucky joe" Robert VOL
pert and a couple of boys were out see
ing the country, and when coming
back, near the flour mill. the whistle
of the freight engine startled the
horses and one of them made a jump.
broke loose and Joe was thrown out
of the rig and against the fence VOL
pert. who was driving. was pulled out
over the dashboard, while the boys fell
out in the rear. The whole party es-
capped with a few bruises. The horses.
after getting loose, ran in the swamp
near the mill, where they were secured.
Damage about 800 to the rig.