The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-02

No. 6, east, at 6:3O a. m. u bur-
lington trains will be operated through
to the coast this season.
For several days past a committee
Of the lodge has been engaged In
decorating the new hall that the Elks
will formally dedicate next Friday EVIL
ening. Although still far from ccm-
pleted, SUFFICIENT progress has been
made to warrant the statement OF the
committee that a handsomer or more
artistically decorated hall has never
been seen in the city than the n
that will be- opened to the lodge and
it's guests Friday night.
No complaint can be made just now
of a dearth of amusements in the city,
Then, too, the variety should be SUI
fcient to please all. With a hypnotist
holding forth at the opera house, mus
ical prodigies at Gruwell hall tonight
and a dance in the same place tomor-
row night by the Magic City Bowling
club the measure Of pleasure seems
to be tolerably we'll filled. Then next
Friday night the Elks will dedicate
their new hall, when there Will pc
more music and dancing, with feast
ing beside.
The conductors on the Northern Pa
cific running between this city ana
Glendiye have about concluded that
they must maintain the latter as their
Mace of Headquarters for the present
AT, least. They desired to remove
here and had they been able to DO
. so it would have meant that all the
: crews on that division would estab-
> lish themselves at Billings. Ihey
found it impossible to secure suitable
!. dwellings and are in consequence
J. forced to contiue to make Glend1ve
their place of residence.
: Robert Roberts, who has beer there
: before, quite frequently, was arraign-
ed in police court yesterday on the
charge of being a vagrant and pension
y er Of a member Of the half world. ne
u denied the accusation and demanded
4 a trial and his hearing was set for las
:. evening. At the appointed hour ne
N was on hand with an attorney ano
'e intimated that he had a surprise II
. store for somebody: His W testl
ID monv was considered by h cour'
III sufficient to warrant a conviction ane
to when his witnesses testified they ou
nut a clincher onto the courts opln
10 ion and the surprise Roberts had prom
;sed materialized. He wal found gull
rt tv as charged and fined $25, In add
ton which he vas sentenced TO q
il TX DAVIS. work on the streets. N
he It is very evident that someboo
tn has acquired a sudden 10
xt &icLens, cooked, Is several owner
REL of Eallinacean pets in the city ar
brepared to testify, and unless q
ma ceases his nocturnal de%predatlons o
or hen houses the entire rasorial trln
Of the town is threatened with extln
ca ton. During the past few nights I
he fewer than four or five families NAV
Big been deprived of thei regg FACTORS
or nv someone who has invaded the
er, premises and stolen their chicken
he Whoever the thief, he steals for II
ng meat to be had, as is evidenced
he the fact that he kills he hlcKens y
ms fore carrying them of. He alwa!
. cuts off their heads and considerat
p a lv leaves them behind as memento'
of his visits. He is also a judge
i'm hen flesh, ~disdaining to disturb tho
= a that are setting and also leaves u
wi. touched old and battle SCARED roos
ers as too tough for his cultivated a
t is petite.
uri. Mrs. R. E. Hardness, assisted by d
ev- mother. Mrs. Moore, entertained I
- Woman's Missionary society OF t
), Congregational church yesterday
ternoon. The attendance was lar
o,is ar the meeting was n OF unus'
,,,n inte-est. Mrs. G. J. Anderson, W
with her husband has been engag
in mission work in China h p'
10 yeas, was present and gave
interesting talk on the women q
,,i+v children NJ northern China. Amo
,1,+,, other things she described q Chin
,n+s wedding which she attended, the &c
mony itself lasting four hours. !
X social life Of the women whose I
on are too small to permit of locomot
falo was discussed at length, as was
orn- home life of the children. The t
pre- was followed by a 10 minutes disc
zero sion, during which time Mrs. AM
sser- SON responded to the many questi
the that were asked by her auditors.
nere ter the close of the meeting retire
thus ments were served by the hostess
and -
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