The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-16
AROUND TIE TOWN.


William Vandeveer, of Columbia
Falls, was visitor in the city yester-
day.
george r. Mcmahon who has been
quite i'll, is again attending to business
affairs.
Mrs. Frank Adams. of Great Falls.
has closed visit with friends in
Kalispell.
Mrs. f. B. Mount and her daughter
Mrs. c. H. Warner, of Smith Valley,
are the guests of friends in the city.
f. HERMAN of Fargo, N. d., is in
the city looking for location. 1t is
said he and his brother are dealers in
ladies furnishings.
were in Columbia Falls Tuesday night,
where they attended the mask ball
given in the Mains building.
j. F. Pervin, friend of James Nc
kenzie. has returned to his home,
north of the international bound
airy line. He was agreeably surpris-
ed with the Flathead valley.
E. G. Bjorneby, who has been ser
iously i'll, suffering from dysentery is
again able to be out Although he
has been quite sick he is recovering
as rapidly as could be expected.
At Christ church there will be SER
vices as usual on Sunday next at II
a. m. and 1880 p. m. The Rev. A. Cars
well will preach. Sunday school will
meet at p. m. in the Parish house.
r. w. Porter, who mas the logging
camp below Holt was in the city yes
terday. He has been awarded a
contract to get 100000 additional
feet of logs for the O'Brien lumber
company.
Ex-Superintendent Connolly, of the
local division of the Great Northern,
is reported to be ill at his home at
Melrose, MINI. The grippe and a re-
turn of rheumatism. from which he
suffered last summer, are given as the
cause of his sickness.
Lige Mount, one of Flathead coun-
tvs earliest settlers and who has a
fund of early day "reminiscences, Was
in the city yesterday. Mr.. Mount
was a cousin of the late James A.
Mount who did a few days after
his retirement as governor of Indi-
ana.
Bert Vanleuven has relieved Miss
Funk as stenographer to Mr.. Newman,
chief clerk of the Kalispell division
of the Great Northern. Mr.. Vanleu-
ven comes. to this city from Havre,
where he was in the employ of the
company. Miss Funk has been trans
ferred to another department.
The west bound passenger train on
the Great Northern Wednesday even
ing was run in two sections, which
were heavily loaded with eastern tour
lists, who are taking advantage of the
hOmeseekers excursions. Fifteen or
twenty passengers from eastern cities
stopped off in this city and will look
over the valley for locations.
Mr.. David Hunt has assumed man.
agement of the Kalispell hotel which
was closed number of weeks owing
to the fire Mr.. Hunt is one of the
pioneer hotel men of the county, hav-
ing owned and managed the Cliff house
at Demersville when that all but de-
serted village was one of the most
thriving towns in the state.
John Mack who was formerly train
dispatcher in the employ of the Union
Pacific stationed at Green River, Wyo-
ming has been employed as a train
Northern in this city. Mr. Mack is
now out learning the road and it is
expected that he will relieve Mr.. Lit
tell upon his return. Mr.. Littell will
probably be transferred to the COM
mercial wire running into the Office.
Two of the early settlers of the
ago discussing the early days of the
county. The subject of incorporation
was brought up and the strange but
sad fact was developed that the first
two mayors of Flathead county's first
two incorporated cities are both con.
fined in the state prison at Deer
Lodge. The first mayor of Demers-
vile was J. E. Clifford, who was sent
to prison for robbery from Silver
Bow county, and Ben D. Hatcher who
was the first mayor of Kalispell, is
serving sentence as bank wrecker,
the crime having been committed in
Cascade county.