The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-29
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of necessity elapse before it will be
sey1iceable again.
Hast Saturday the Misses Mary and.
Bertha Calhoun entertained a number
of their friends at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. E. S. Holmes. The enter
tainment was a decided novelty and
might be called a "song party" each
guest having been asked to represent
some song. The place cards were
quotations from popular songs. n
Last Friday and Saturday Mr.. and
Mrs. H. B. Segur enjoyed a visit from
Mr.. and Mrs. George Spohr Of Cordova,
ILL.,, who we're ON their way home
| from a tour of the coast. Mr.. Segur
and Mr.. Spohr may be said to be boy
hood friends, having worked together
in the service of railroad companies
in the days when both were at the
foot of the ladder.
After trying it a short time, Charles
l.. Faust decided that as a field for
young lawyers, especially strangers,
Billings, while a first-class city in all
other respects, was not what he had
hoped for and last Saturday returned
to his former home in Kansas. Dur
ing his brief residence here Mr.. Faust
favorably impressed all with whom
he came in contact and it was hoped
that he would become a fixture..
In honor Of his birthday, his 10th,
which occurred on that day, Everett
Birely was made the recipient OF a
pleasant little surprise party
Saturday evening, gotten up in
honor of the event by his mother,
Mrs. William Birely, who invited a
number of his friends to spend the
evening and partake of a luncheon.
To add dignity to the event several
Of the young ~gentleman's older friends
VT also present.
:NMany finding it impossible ITO leave
for so long, the plans which a been
maturing to send a large delegation
from this city to the tiremen's con
vention at Great Falls had of neces'
sity to be abandoned and four men,
all delegates have gone. These are
Chief Bond, C. d. Taylor, Fred Rixon
and William Mcdonald, who left yes
terday morning. They were Joined
here by F. Sparkling, William Gebc
and Thomas ]. Ross, delegates from
the Red Lodge department.
After tomorrow night ]. G. Mckune
Twill not be at his present stand, al
he has been ordered to vacate. Thu
Northern Pacific evidently considers
> that there is money in the bushes!
and will hereafter conduct the depo
restaurant, which has been unde,
lease to Mr.. McKune for severe
years. The change is in line will
others the company instituted whel
it caused the insistent "candy butch
\ er" to vacate its cars and undertook
to traffic in pop corn and chewinl
itself.
K1ewis Neate, father of the Neat
boys, who are engaged in the livestock
business in the northern part of tn
county, was here this morning, re
turning to his home in the state Q
Washington after paying a visit t
his sons. Mr.. Neate is n of tn
oldest pioneers in the northwest, hay
ing resided in the country which !
now Montana nearly As years agt
He witnessed the landing of the frs
steamboat at Fort Benton and aide
in the construction of the Mullan WI
gon road, which first established con
munication between settlements Q
the west coast and the interior.
A dispatch received by The Gazett
this morning from Sheridan, Wye
announces the marriage of Benjaml
H. Hogan and Miss Annie Schubel
of Sheridan, which happy event toe
place at that city last evening at q;
o'clock, the Reverend Albert Menk1I
" officiating. The groom is a well know