The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-24

From Tuesdays Daily Gazette. !
T. ]. Bouton returned yesterday J
morning from a business trip to Den (
yer. :
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Sims of Lav1na :
were among yesterdays arrivals at
the Grand. )
The home of DR.. and Mrs. Chapple
has been gladdened by the arrival OF !.
a boy baby.
w. F. Meyer, the Red Lodge attor-
ney, was in the city yesterday on pro
fessional business.
Paul Mccormick, Jr., is at nome
from Salt Lake to spend his ~vacatlonN
with his parents and Billings friends.
Professor R. H. Daniels and Miss
Edwards left yesterday for Fattlg
creek to spend the holidays with Mr..
and Mrs. E. B. Carter.
Portus Williams, son of Mr.. anQ
| Mrs. H. G.. Williams, is home irony
the Shattuck military school at Fa1rl-
bault, Mimi, to spend Christmas
with his parents.
Mrs. J. H. Johnston, nee Miss Mathe-
son. has come up from Miles City to
spend the holidays with her parents,
Judge and Mrs. j.. D. Matheson.
sJim" is expected to arrive today.
Judge Kelly, city treasurer, was be-
ported as being seriously ill yester-
day of a complication OF ailments,
principally rheumatism and malaria.
Friends were with him and he was re-
'ceiving every possible care. -
Christmas night the officers n
members of the Salvation Army will
entertain the little folks at the armys
headquarters. The entertainment
will be largely for the benefit OF the
poorer class of children OF theNclty
Billings is now in line with ~fSe
other up to date cities of the country
in that it has a bowling alley. From
the liberal in which it is
patronized the inference is to be
drawn that the sport is proving as
popular here as elsewhere.
Sheriff Furey of Silver Bow coueS
made his first visit to the Magic, City
yesterday, having come down in &C
cordance with a promise made tt
:, Sheriff Hubbard to take a run doW1
- this way "some day" to see for him
:. self if all the good things he hae
heard of Billings were really true.
Mrs. G. l.. Harris left Sunday morn
ing for a protracted visit to herlform
err home, North Yakima, Wash.s Tn
;, d%isconsolate Charles is receiving tn
! coincidence and sympathy of the man.
- other enforced bachelors who's
spouses have seer fit to leave then
- temporarily for the pleasures OF
~ visit with the "old folks"
The Cody Enterprise announce
that it has official information OF
II change soon to be made in the tral
schedule of the ~Toluca-Cody brancl
!; According to that paper in a few day
the present mixed trains will Civ
- way to regular passenger and freigf
- trains. The latter are to run tri-weel
ly, while the former will run dali
Sundays excepted.
rs Chris Swanson again appeare
as Smiling and happy in police court We
no terday and answered to the m o.
complaint. He had been picked I
the night before in a helpless
IN drunken condition. In view of tt
ho fact that the glad time of year W
so near when charity and good fet
Hing should prompt all men in the
dealings with one another, the JUDI
- decided to let him off easily and il
p posed the minimum fine, IS. Chr
~ was given until last evening to "pr
duce,' saying that if permitted
do so he could secure the need
cash by that time. +,
NJ The "oldest inhabitant" was RENT
ing the cobwebs from his memo
,rn yesterday in a vain endeavor to
h;s call another instance when rain +
tho in these parts two days before Chri
-, mas. Although he thought hard a
WAS able to recollect other unjust
~ climatic phenomena in c%onnecti
with past Defenders, he had to
knowledge himself beaten when
came to remembering rain storm
For the guidance of future historic
it is here set down that it rained, a
,un. 49, h..a ~ e,nd.u niob+ !.
again yesterday morning and that
vas most the last vestage of 'snow h
disappeared last evening. 1t is a
; IL a further fact that some of the tr'
)me -. ~. o;+u . hooinn;no tn h
few
ave