The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-02
LOCAL NM PERSONAL


XA station is being built on the line
oh~the Billings & Lewistown stage
company, IL miles out from Billings.
where in future changes of horses will
be made.
A party of Gebo visitors, composed
of Miss Edith Holland, Miss Clara
Morris, George Arlington and w. r..
Booth, were arrivals in the city last
evening.
This morning the Misses Melissa
and Nellie Snyder, residing a short
distance up the valley, left for Dillon,
where they will enter the state nor
NAL school.
Mrs. w. J.. Scott departed last Wed
nesday on a visit to her sister, who
resides in the upper Boulder valley
and with whom she expects to remain
several weeks.
A son was born last Tuesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Behrendt. AS it
is their first, the happy father is posi-
tive that not another such boy is to
be found anywhere.
H. H. Hill, we'll known in the city
because of his long connection with
the local business houses, left this
morning for Missoula, where he will
enter the employ of Murphy, Green
ough & Co.
Mrs. H. E. Armstrong and her niece,
Miss Murphy, one of the teachers of
the public schools, who returned a few
days ago from the east, left yester-
day morning for a tour Of the Yellow
%tQne National park.
= After an absence of six years, Rob-
ert Holly, we'll and favorably known
on the range IN this part of the state,
is back from the interior of Alaska.
where he operated in mining. Mr..
Holly intends to remain.
John Dwyer will have his prelim-
mary examination tomorrow before
Justice Mann, who will decide wheth-
er to hold him to the district court to
answer to an information charging
him with attempted Jail breaking.
George Savage, a son of C. w. Saw.
age, residing at Miles City, was in
Billings yesterday, en- route from his
home in Wyoming to the bedside of
his father, having been summoned by
q message announcing the dangerous
siekpess of his parent.
This morning the Reverend George
Barnes, who was in the city a few
days bidding farewell to his friends.
returned to Helena. After a short
sojourn there he will leave for Eng
land to enter Oxford, having been one
Of the successful competitors for the
Rhoades scholarship.
No doubt it will be pleasing to the
Billings friends of the enterprising
and successful official to know that
the republicans of Carbon county have
renominated M. w. Potter for sher.
if. Several other good men wanted
the nomination, but the convention
concluded to let we'll enough alone
and not try an experiment.
| Next Monday will be. Labor day, a
legal holiday. All public afices will
remain closed and business generally
will be suspended in the city. The
local unions have made no arrange
ments to observe the day otherwise
than to refrain from work. In the at
ternoon the Its and the Eagle bal
teams will meet at the fair grounds
and decide the question of supremacy
or the diamond.
UExtensive improvements have JUS
been completed in the Yellowstone
Valley mills. Nothing has been over
looked calculated to aid in turning on
the very best products, as it is the de
sire of the Babcock company to main
tain the reputation of the establish
ment and continue it in the front ranl
of such concerns. AS soon as tn,
! bins shall have been filed with whea