The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-11
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PEKoOlNAL &
reported that the grasshoppers, which
heretofore had overlooked that local
ity, were getting to be decidedly nu-
merous there.
J. X. Moore, who a few months ago
bought the Hoose jewelry store, has
decided to leave the city. Yesterday !
he sold out to a recent arrival from
Colorado, possession to be given
September l..
w. D.. Grieve, prescription clerk
with the Chapple Drug company, left
last night for Humansville, Ont, hav-
ing been summoned thither by a
telegram announcing the serious sick
ness Of his father.
License to marry was granted last
Saturday to Charles Nelson and Lena
Scharen, both of Basin, Wyo. They
were married later in the day by
the Reverend G. B. Miller, pastor of
the Baptist church.
The Reverend Father van Claren-
beck of st. Joachim's. church left for
Butte Sunday night to attend the fu-
neral of Father Allaeys, pastor of one
of the Catholic churches or that city,
who died last Saturday.
Notice has been received by the
local looge of the Lady Maccabees
that August 10 they will receive an
official visit from Mrs. Lillian M.
HOLSTER of Detroit, Mich, supreme
!, commander of the order.
NTemporarily the coal mines at Ches-
nut have been shut down, throwing
about $50 men out of employment.
A washer is installing and when com
!. pleted the mines will resume opera
!, tidb6 with a larger force. Z
Hromorrow night a meeting Of the
; Pioneers of Eastern Montana will be
held in the council chamber of the
!, city hall for the purpose of effecting
} d pei OlSOAAAnC1oA. II AASSN
: ing is called for 8 O'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. CHM 81
4 Antelope station and Miss Jessie
!. Clark Of Twenty Mile left by private
conveyance yesterday morning for a
tour of the Yellowstone park. They
= expect to be absent about a month
Sunday afternoon a westbounC
, freight train was partially wrecked al
Reeds Point, west OF Columbus. Sew
eral cars left the track, causing :
delay of almost two hours to train:
headed eastward. Nobody was in
jured.
G. T. Norris and F. l.. Travenel
!. of Bozeman are making a survey O
), the land irrigted by The canal OF The
Big Ditch company. They are doing
the work under the direction of the
y experiment station of the agriculture
- college.
Several of the local members o
the order are expecting to go~t'
Butte, where next Thursday and Fri
~ day a state reunion of Elk lodges will
= take place. Great preparations hav'
= been made for the event and SOM
Y lively times are expected in the bi4
= mining camp.
NAmong the many who have gone t
y Yellowstone National park from thi
" city were w. w. Anderson and fam
lily and the Misses. Moss, who ar
u visiting Mr.. and Mrs. P. B. Mos:
II The party returned last Friday, an
like all that have made the trip wer
Re highly delighted.
IL Lillian Moran, a young woman {
u this city, who has gained more 9
II less notoriety in various ways, bu
y whose principal claim to flames col
sideration lies in having married an
n divorced a Chinaman, has turne
is aeronaut and is now engaged in tn
Ut hazardous occupation of ballooning.
a. The Reverend Mr.. Miller. paste
III of the M. E. church, left this mornin
for Livingston to attend the annus
p conference of the church for Montan,
lie If the conference abides by tn