The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-30
LOCAL AND

Grand.
l.. S. Bradley is among the Living
stonians in the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Mitchell of Lau-
rel are registered at the Grand.
Phil M. Gallaher returned this
morning from a visit to his stock
ranch in northern Wyoming.
AS is the usual custom of the order
the local lodge of Elks will give a
social session in their hall on the
evening of the last day of the year.
License to marry was granted this
afternoon to George E. Atkins and
Eva Minard, both of this city. A lit
tie later they were married by Judge
Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Clement and
children expect to leave tomorrow
for Seattle, where they will take ship
for San Francisco and after a short
visit there will proceed to Los An
geles.
The Rev. Mr.. Clark, pastor of the
Congregational church, was remem-
bered by his normal yesterday to the
extent of being presented by it with a
handsome, upholstered chair as a
Christmas present.
A lunacy commission was sum-
moned this morning to meet this af
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock to inquire into
the sanity of J. ]. Potts, who has been
giving evidence for sometime past of
being mentally unsound.
Whoever is the fortunate holder of
a ticket numbered 1888, issued by
Forester, the jeweler, can today count
among his earthly. belongings a large
chest of solid silver. The number
given is the one that drew the prize.
Although he came a day late to be
this morning to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Dunnigan was non the less welcome.
The youthful Dunnigan selected the
residence of Judge Mann as the place
Of his entrance into the world, Mrs.
Dunnigan, who is a sister of Mrs.
Mann, being temporarily domiciled
there. .'-.
Agent NJ. L. Hoyt, Of the Northern
Pacific, was the recipient of a gold
bno1oI aorn pncfnr1ou OF tho hon1o
of his companions in the passenger
and freight department of the road in
the city. The presentation speech
was made by T. E. Burke, in charge
of the ticket office. MI. Hoyt re-
sponded feelingly and concluded his
remarks by wishing all a merry
Christmas and trusting that the
pleasant relationship of the past
would continue throughout the in
coming new year. The cane. bears this
inscription: presented to M. L.
Hoyt by his companion workers, N.
P. Ry.'
The effects of the severe snow
storms to the east and west have
made themselves manifest locally
during the last two or three days in
delayed trains and badly disorganized
railroad traffic generally. Some Of
the trains. those from the west. have
been as much as "a hours behind their
schedule and reported having been
hung up by snowdrifts in the Cas-
cades. Yesterdays North Coast Lin
tied failed to arrive until this morn
ing and last nights local was about
IL hours late. All other trains were
also running wild and several days
will probably pass before there will be
anything like schedule time again.
Some lively hustling was done in
a number of households yesterday to
accumulate the essentials for the
Christmas dinner, not that the re-
spective heads thereof had been negli-
gent Or forgetful in providing, the nee
essary concimitants in ample time,
but because some other fellows eth
er through poverty or prompted by
dishonest desires had failed to make
the needed arrangements to insure a
feast for themselves. Family ice
boxes left where thieves might get
to them were found to have been
ri1ed over night of their contents and
where succulent turkeys, luscious
oysters, crisp celery and the various
other articles calculated to make a
dinner complete had reposed the ev-
ening before only large, yawning
voids existed. AS the markets had
been tolerably well cleared, some of
the victims of the marauding gentry
found themselves reduced to compare
lively plain fare on the day above
all others when the palate and stom-
ach ara catered tO