The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-13
LocA- NOTES.

from Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
j. B. Kempton, the Terry stockman,
was among yesterdays visitors in the
city.
The Ladies Aid society will meet
this afternoon 7at the home Of Mrs.
Segur, North Twenty-ninth street.
DR.. Johnson of Bridger passed
through the city yesterday en- route
home from a fishing trip to Fishtail
creek.
County Commissioner Parker has
departed for. West Berkshire, VT,
where Mrs. Parker has been visiting
for some weeks.
Miss Marion Goss leaves this morn
ing for Oberlin, Ohio, where she en-
tiers a young ladies' seminary to COM
plete her studies.
Mrs. w. Hansard, accompanied by
her daughter, Miss Ethel, left yester-
day morning for Tacoma, where the
young lady will attend school.
The washout on the Bridger branch
has been repaired and the first train
to leave IN the branch since a week
ago yesterday pulled out yesterday
morning.
Miss Edith Watson Of Red Lodge
passed through the city yesterday on
her way to Missoula to complete the
last year of her course in the state
university.
Mrs. M. Driscoll has returned from
her trip to the east and elsewhere
in this issue of The Gazette has an
announcement of interest to the
ladies of the city.
C. H. Thompson left for Red Lodge
yesterday to join Mrs. Thompson and
attend a farewell reception rendered
them by the people of that place, as
their future home will be in this city.
Landlord Kirk and O.. G. Berger,
both of Lavina, were in the city yes
l. IC1uOy I'll LAC1l way " Dl1O6ClE W
look at a ranch proposition which has
been submitted to them for their con.
s%ideration.
AFRO Battles has returned from his
vacation, which was spent at Hunters
Hot springs and in camping and fish.
ing along the Yellowstone. The out.
ing has resulted in a great improve.
ment in his health.
/. D. O'Donnell left yesterday for
Butte and Helena on matters connect
ed with the county fair and to see his
horse perform on the track Of the cap
ital city, where he is entered, in one
of the high class harness events.
''Piegan Jack" is the name given
by the police to a man arraigned in pc
lice court yesterday morning on the
charge of having committed a nuts
;ance. The gentleman of the abor
= igine appellation pleaded guilty anG
was fined SIS.
Joseph Kountz of Bozeman, WnG
spent last Monday in/the cityrfeturn
ed home yesterday mopdfng. Mr.
Kountz came dowh@ the purpose
of receiving a shipment of cattle con
sisting of seven car loads, which he
bought recently at Aurora, Neb.
Joseph Lamotte, better known a:
.LIE L..
t'Frenchy," was in police court yes
terday to answer to a complaint charg
ing him with having been drunk the
night before. He admitted his gull
and as it was not the first time that ht
appeared on a like charge, the cour
added a little to the usual fine ant
marked $40 opposite the gentleman.
name.
The marriage Of Miss Ida Lampor
to Mr.. Charles Wright, county treas
urer of Carbon county, takes plac,
at the home of the brides parents il
Carbon county tonight. Miss Lam
port is a daughter Of W and Mrs
George T. Lanport< and was reared il
Billings. Mf.-yffght has been a resi-
dent of the Red Lodge section of tn,
country since thy early eighties an
is regarded among the foremost younl
men of his county.
Uncle" James Stearns, who ~n
joys the distinction of being tke frs
white man to locate a ranch in tn,
territory NOW known Yellowston
county, has been Yguest Of chas. Z
Burton for tM days. Mr., stearn
located on the north side of the Ye'
lowstone between Billings and juno
ton City. Shortly after the massacr
of General Custer and his comman'
on the Little Horn in 1876. He live
in Carbon county now, having take
up a location there some years age